“Working with bands is what I do, what I’ve been doing,” Fury stated. “It’s certainly going to make the summer more fun. “Almost all the work I do at my Troy studio is with Capital Region bands, and that’s where I want to give back,” he said. It provides him with a chance to give back to the area, as well as allow him to get back to pursuing his musical passion, something he wasn’t able to do for most of the past year. If it takes off, as he hopes, Fury would like to continue to offer these sessions under a different name in the post-pandemic world.įury’s enthusiastic about the opportunity to offer his abilities and studio time to local artists. With Pandemic Busters, he’s expanding upon the idea.
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Area rockers Va Va Voodoos came in and banged out three tracks in a couple of hours, and Fury has been privately offering free one-off sessions. In the fall, Fury was able to reopen and he’s been back at it. His studio was shut down for most of 2020 due to pandemic restrictions. Chris Cuomo acknowledges groping ex-ABC colleague.Disaster strikes again for celebrity chef Rachael Ray.TU Center scrambles to host last-minute concert switch.At least one injured in shooting on I-787 in Menands.Abandoned cars pile up on city-owned lot in Albany.“I wanted ownership, I didn’t want to be in a commercial situation where someone else has their thumb on my life. “I didn’t want to go too far from Albany and I found this two-floor, 10,000 square foot buildings with tall ceilings in Troy,” Fury noted. He found what he was looking for in Troy, home of hard-core mainstay Brick by Brick and other bands he’d worked with in the past, and Don Fury Studios opened its doors locally in 2008. And after being forced out of past studios due to escalating rent and shady commercial interests, Fury wanted to be able to control his own destiny. In looking for a new location, he needed something near people and, having broken into working with international acts, accessible from major transportation hubs. Along the way, he recorded legendary hard-hitting New York acts like Agnostic Front, Gorilla Biscuits and Helmet direct to-tape and developed a reputation for capturing a band at its most elemental.īut living in the city grew pricey and by 2007 he was facing a 25-percent increase in rent. It’s the type of session he specializes in, first at his Manhattan spaces in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s and later in his Cyclone Sound studio in Coney Island. These live, analog, two-track recording sessions will be available through the rest of 2021. Bands can get one or two songs, maybe three if they’re really well-rehearsed.” “It’s a two-hour deal we’re going to hit it and quit it. Sound check is about an hour, then about an hour for recording takes and burning CDs,” Fury explained. So, how does the Pandemic Buster session work and what can bands expect? Third is the session itself it’s two hours, you got to bust in and bust out like lightning.” Two: the entire scene, venues, bands, bars, studios have all been locked up in COVID jail and now we’re starting to bust out of jail. “One: we hate the pandemic, we want to give it a beat down, bust it in the nose. “There’s three reasons I chose the name ‘Pandemic Buster,’” he explained.
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And Fury has just the name for these two-hour recording sessions: Pandemic Busters. He’s opening his Sixth Avenue studio in Troy to produce local rock bands for free.