WGNS was initially started by Gray Matter's Geoff Turner in Maryland in the early 1980s as a cassette label.
[citation needed] In the summer of 1991, Scream drummer Grohl went into WGNS Studios and recorded four songs, playing all the instruments himself.
[2] A tape of the songs, given by Grohl to Simple Machines co-founder Jenny Toomey, became a candidate for the label's Tool Cassette Series.
[4] Simple Machines released the songs on the Pocketwatch (album) using Grohl's pseudonym Late!
[5] Grohl recorded again at WGNS Studios in December 1996, when it was back in Washington, DC.