{"id":437,"date":"1986-01-15T23:27:13","date_gmt":"1986-01-15T22:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/?p=437"},"modified":"2024-06-16T19:10:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T17:10:11","slug":"richard-long-rla-richard-long-and-associates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge\/Power &#8211; Richard Long, RLA (Richard Long and Associates)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-441\" style=\"margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px;\" title=\"Richard Long (RLA)\" src=\"https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/longrichard-90.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Long (RLA)\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/longrichard-90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/longrichard-90-36x36.jpg 36w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/>Long, Richard <\/strong>(1933-1986) Founder of <strong><em>RLA (Richard Long and Associates<\/em>)<\/strong>, dance club sound designers during the disco heydays of the &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s. Richard&#8217;s success grew out of his experience working as the sound engineer for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disco-disco.com\/clubs\/paradise.html\">Paradise Garage<\/a> in Greenwich Village during the mid-seventies. After developing his chops at the Paradise Garage, Richard designed many famous dance clubs including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disco-disco.com\/clubs\/studio54.html\">Studio 54<\/a>, Annabel&#8217;s (London), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkmetro.com\/nymetro\/nightlife\/barsclubs\/features\/883\/index.html\">Regine&#8217;s<\/a> (a chain of 19 clubs scattered around the world from Paris and NY to Cairo) and many others that were the vanguard of the disco era. Indeed, continuing years beyond Richard&#8217;s unfortunate death in 1986, his designs flourish today in such icons as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ministryofsound.com\/\">Ministry of Sound<\/a> (London). Further information available at <a href=\"https:\/\/garystewartaudio.blogspot.com\/\">GSA<\/a> and see Richard and Alan Fierstein&#8217;s seminal paper &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/aes2.org\/publications\/elibrary-page\/?id=3682\">State-of-the-Art Discotheque Sound Systems<\/a> &#8212; System Design and Acoustical Measurement,&#8221; presented at the 67th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, New York , 1980.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-447\" title=\"RLA Console\" src=\"https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/RLA_console_19790026.jpg\" alt=\"RLA Console\" width=\"518\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/RLA_console_19790026.jpg 647w, https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/RLA_console_19790026-300x98.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Richard Long DJ Console<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-450\" title=\"Richard Long Speakers - Levan Horns\" src=\"https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/townsendstack1amx6.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Long Speakers - Levan Horns\" width=\"465\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/townsendstack1amx6.jpg 465w, https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/townsendstack1amx6-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stacks from the old Club Townsend in San Francisco, later moved over to Mighty SF in the mid 00&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Paradise-Garage-SS-Diagram.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"491\" height=\"605\" src=\"https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Paradise-Garage-SS-Diagram.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Paradise-Garage-SS-Diagram.png 491w, https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Paradise-Garage-SS-Diagram-243x300.png 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long, Richard (1933-1986) Founder of RLA (Richard Long and Associates), dance club sound designers during the disco heydays of the &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s. Richard&#8217;s success grew out of his experience working as the sound engineer for the Paradise Garage in Greenwich Village during the mid-seventies. After developing his chops at the Paradise Garage, Richard designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[749,425],"tags":[75,794,793,792,71,72,74,78,73],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deepblak-archive","category-deepblak-podcasts-and-mixes","tag-3-way-crossover","tag-club-townsend-sf","tag-larry-levan","tag-paradise-garage","tag-richard-long","tag-richard-long-and-associates","tag-richard-long-dj-console","tag-richard-long-soundsystem","tag-rla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4888,"href":"https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/4888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepblakmusic.com\/db2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}