Farther south along the canal, where, during my Saturday visit, the urgent strains of a baritone sax issued from some lone studio, a turn on the Lange Rozendaal leads to the Zeven Steegjes (Seven Alleyways), an idyllic complex of small rowhouses on tight, cobbled streets.
Reuters reports that the surviving Sex Pistols have entered into a deal with Universal, which is preparing a 35th-anniversary edition of the group's lone studio album, "Never Mind the Bollocks," and is organizing other events to mark the occasion later this year.
Duran Duran's next album was Arena -- a mostly live album that's best known for spawning "Wild Boys," its lone studio track.
Motorbass's lone studio album, Pansoul, arguably remains the highlight of their recording careers, though.
Her recording, "It's My Thing (You Can't Tell Me Who to Sock It to)," released in 1969, became the title track of her lone studio album.
Band members had worked with Sonic Youth and Rhys Chatham, but Interference's lone studio album went unreleased on disc until now.
In an unlikely pairing, the gallerist-cum-flower-and-scent designer is creating a site-specific installation of purple dahlias and custom scents in response to a new collection of Moffit's sculptural furniture, which he made by hand in his lone studio on the high-altitude slopes of Mount Baldy.
"I live in Italy," he says, walking with a cane toward a lone chair in the recording studio.
What's most impressive about Mr. Beatty is that while always being an L. A. person (he has lived there for decades), a national figure, a real movie star and, in the 60's and 70's, at least, a proverbial ladykiller, he has stayed a lone operator, prepared to use big studios and negotiate them to a point of frenzy and frustration.
They're all rhythm and riffs, studio assemblages of isolated instruments in which a distorted guitar, a lone piano note, or an eerie synthesizer effect can suddenly perforate the mix from any direction.
They pointed to Mr. Ross's recent standoff with Gore Verbinski over the budget of a "Lone Ranger" remake as evidence that he can stand up to strong-willed directors — and jolt the studio out of its rut — when necessary.
