Wally Heider

One of them is the classic album Live in Concert by Ray Charles, captured in 1964 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

[9] Heider recorded the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1966 and the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967;[10][11][12] its many musical acts and the increasing importance of high-quality sound for a concert film signaled a major shift in scale and importance for the remote truck operator.

After working with Bay Area musicians and doing remote recording at the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Monterey Pop Festival,[10] Heider recognized that musicians involved in the San Francisco Sound were having to travel to Los Angeles or New York to record.

[14] Many of Rolling Stone magazine's Top 500 albums were recorded in Heider's studios including Volunteers by Jefferson Airplane, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere by Neil Young with Crazy Horse, Déjà Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Electric Warrior by T. Rex, Tupelo Honey by Van Morrison, American Beauty by the Grateful Dead, Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Amazing Grace by Aretha Franklin, Procol Harum Live: In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, and Abraxas by Santana.

Heider's remote recordings of Big Bands broadcasting via radio from the middle 1930s into the 1950s are a treasure trove of "live" recordings performed by a wide assortment of some of the most notable, (as well as lesser known), big band, jazz and popular artists of the entire period.