List of recording studios

The El Ralpho recording studio

The Residents have used (and created) a number of **recording studios** during their long career, beginning with their earliest recordings made in their San Mateo apartment through to the far more professional studio set-up the group use to record today.

## San Mateo apartment (1969-1971)

The Pre-Residents recorded many reel-to-reel tape items at their apartment in San Mateo, resulting in the composition of four (largely unheard) demo tapes.

#### Albums recorded at this studio

* *The Ballad of Stuffed Trigger* (1970)
* *Rusty Coathangers for the Doctor* (1970)
* *The W\*\*\*\*\* B\*\*\* Album* (1971)
* *B.S.* (1971) (partial)

## Sycamore Street studio (1972-1976)

El Ralpho was the name used by The Residents for the recording (and film) studio they set up at their headquarters at 20 Sycamore Street in San Francisco, after leaving their apartment in San Mateo.

#### Albums recorded at this studio

* *Meet The Residents* (1974)
* *Not Available* (1974) (partial)
* *The Third Reich 'n Roll* (1976)
* *Fingerprince* (1977) (partial)

## Grove Street studio (1976-1983)

The Residents and their newly-minted management company The Cryptic Corporation moved from the Sycamore Street studio to the much larger space at 444 Grove Street in San Francisco in 1976 and remained there until John Kennedy's resignation from The Cryptic Corporation in 1983.

#### Albums recorded at this studio

* *Fingerprince* (1977) (partial)
* *Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen* (1978)
* *Not Available* (1978)
* *Eskimo* (1979)
* *Commercial Album* (1980)
* *Mark of the Mole* (1981)
* *The Tunes of Two Cities* (1982)
* *Title In Limbo* with Renaldo & The Loaf (1983) (partial)
* *Assorted Secrets* (1984)

## Clementina Street studio (1983 - 1992)

After The Cryptic Corporation separated from Ralph Records in 1982, the two moved out of their shared space at 444 Grove Street. Ralph moved to 109 Minna Street, whilst The Residents moved 5 minutes away to Clementina Street.

* *Title In Limbo* with Renaldo & The Loaf (1983) (partial)
* *Whatever Happened To Vileness Fats?* (1984)
* *George & James* (1984)
* *The Big Bubble* (1985)
* *Stars & Hank Forever* (1986)
* *God In Three Persons* (1988)
* *Buckaroo Blues* (1989)
* *Freak Show* (1990)
* *Our Finest Flowers* (1992)

## Different Fur Studios (1989)

The Residents briefly recorded at Different Fur Studios in 1989, before returning to their Clementina Street studios. In 1985, The Cryptic Corporation mixed The Residents' *Eyeball Show* LP at Different fur.

## Folsom Street studio (1993 - 1999)

566 Folsom Street was The Cryptic Corporation's headquarters from 1986 to 1999. It is unknown when The Residents first used it as a recording studio, or if they ever did, but in a recounting of a 1993 visit, Ondřej Hrab, creator of Freak Show Live described it as an art atelier, a music studio, or a computer office.

* *Gingerbread Man* (1994)
* *Hunters* (1995)
* *Have A Bad Day* (1996)
* *Wormwood* (1998)

## Haus Des Rundfunks (1999)

The Residents recorded their live in the studio album *Roadworms: The Berlin Sessions* at Haus Des Rundfunks in Berlin, Germany between July 1999 and March 2000.

#### Albums recorded at this studio

* *Roadworms: The Berlin Sessions* (2000)

## San Anselmo studio (2000-2010)

The Residents recorded at a studio in San Anselmo between 2000 and 2010.

#### Albums recorded at this studio

* *Demons Dance Alone* (2003)
* *Animal Lover* (2005)
* *The River of Crime* (2006)
* *The Voice of Midnight* (2007)
* *The Bunny Boy* (2008)

## Romanian studio (2005-2006)

The Residents took a trip to record at a mysterious benefactor's studio in Romania between 2005 and 2006, resulting in their 2006 album *Tweedles!*

## Cole Street studio (2011-present)

Since 2011, The Residents have operated out of a recording studio on Cole Street.

#### Albums recorded at this studio

* *The Ghost of Hope* (2016)
* *Intruders* (2018)
* *Metal Meat & Bone* (2020)

## 25th Street Recording (2021)

In 2021, The Residents recorded their streaming TV special *Duck Stab! Alive!* live in the studio at 25th Street Recording in Oakland, California.

## References

1. ↑ https://youtu.be/OqFA6tgMDPg?t=1468
2. ↑ http://2002.archatheatre.cz/english/archiv\_a/freak\_show\_a\_01.htm