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 Forbes - August 9, 1999 One-stop record shop Wide Hive may be the first record store, recording studio, label, club and cafe. If you catch the latest music act at San Francisco's Wide Hive this fall, you won't have to wait long after the curtain drops to snag the group's new album - say, an hour. A freshly burned CD of the concert, recorded while you danced and swayed to the music, can be tacked on to the price of admission and will be waiting at the door when you leave. In September, when owner Gregory R. Howe opens shop, Wide Hive could become the first record label, recording studio, record store, event space and cafe all under one gib roof. Last fall he bought the roof and the rest of the 70-year-old American Trust building, which was moldering in the Bay Area's hip Mission District. He polished the lobby's marble floors and set up five vintage TV spotlights and a simple stage. In the back, Howe splurged on a recording studio and a DS 7000 CD Duplicator. The $6,000 beauty can crank out 40 CDs in an evening. Howe plans to pick up two more so he can burn 120 CDs a night - enough, he reckons, for a capacity crowd. He hopes to break even on his first year of live recordings, which will cost about $2,500 a night. Studio sessions are underway, and Wide Hive's catalog will be available on-line in September. Sounds cool, but Wide Hive's CD-burning capabilities may not ignite a hot trend among jazz venues just yet. As Lorraine Gordon, owner of the venerable Village Vanguard in New York City, puts it: "We don't need those kinds of gimmicks here." - B.P. For interviews, photos, or more information about Wide Hive artists, please contact: press@widehive.com - (415) 282-9433.  © 2004 WIDE HIVE RECORDS PO BOX 460067 SAN FRANCISCO CA 94146 |