Founded in 1968, the studio was part of the San Francisco sound and the location for recordings by such notable artists as Sly and the Family Stone, the Grateful Dead, The Charlatans, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Van Morrison.
Music critic and Rolling Stone co-founder Ralph Gleason brought Quicksilver Messenger Service to the Brady Street studio to record a few tracks and mix their album Shady Grove.
Thomas Buckner and the Ghost Opera ensemble recorded at Pacific High,[10] and other notable projects recorded at the studio included the Joy of Cooking's self-titled album and Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen's album Lost in the Ozone,[7] the Allen Ginsberg Project's Pacific High Studio Mantras featured Pemchekov Warwick and the Kailas Shugendo Mantric Sun Band, credited as "Reverend Adjari and Buddhist Chorus.
San Francisco disc jockey Tom Donahue utilized the studio's stage for his popular "KSAN Live Weekend" radio broadcasts, including performances by the Doobie Brothers, Elvin Bishop, Clifton Chenier, Dr. Hook, Loose Gravel (featuring former Charlatan Mike Wilhelm), and Jerry Garcia.
At some point in the recording sessions, Baker sprayed everyone in the control room with a fire extinguisher, soaking the Neve mixing console in the process.
[8] In the studio's most active years, notable projects recorded at His Masters Wheels included Frankie Miller's The Rock (1975), Barclay James Harvest's Time Honoured Ghosts (1975), The Tubes' Now (1977), David Grisman Quintet's Hot Dawg (1978) and Rory Gallagher's Notes from San Francisco (2011).