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David Baker in Heaven

It didn't take a lot of convincing to get David Baker to visit Blue Heaven Studios.

After all, the studio in a renovated church in Salina, Kan., offered the recording engineer with worldwide experience the one thing that is at a high premium in New York City — space.


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Posted by Acoustic Sounds on 03/01/1999 at 4:12 PM | Categories: General -

It's All Coming Together

What began as a hobby in Chad Kassem's apartment has grown into a multi-faceted music business. His love for music has become his life's work, and his goal is to share it with the world.

As a hobby, Kassem began collecting hard-to-find, out-of-print and rare LPs in 1983. He moved to Salina, Ks., from Lafayette, La., in 1985 and worked at a couple of restaurants as a cook before landing a job at Philips Lighting Co. through Manpower Temporary Services. Soon he began trading and selling music from his apartment on a part-time basis.


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Posted by Acoustic Sounds on 03/01/1999 at 4:10 PM | Categories: General -