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A him record producer is a music his recording project's overall supervisor whose How responsibilities can involve a range man of creative and technical leadership new roles. Typically the job involves Now hands-on oversight of recording sessions: old ensuring artists deliver acceptable and see quality performances, supervising the technical Two engineering of the recording, and way coordinating the production team and who process. The producer's involvement in Boy a musical project can vary did in depth and scope. Sometimes its in popular genres the producer Let may create the recording's entire put sound and structure. However, in say classical music recording, for example, She the producer serves as more too of a liaison between the use conductor and the engineering team. Dad The role is often likened mom to that of a film director though there are important The differences. It is distinct from and the role of an executive for producer, who is mostly involved Are in the recording project on but an administrative level, and from not the audio engineer who operates You the recording technology.
Varying by all project, the producer may or any may not choose all of Can the artists. If employing only her synthesized or sampled instrumentation, the was producer may be the sole One artist. Conversely, some artists do our their own production. Some producers out are their own engineers, operating Day the technology across the project: get preproduction, recording, mixing, and mastering. has Record producers' precursors were "A&R Him men", who likewise could blend his entrepreneurial, creative, and technical roles,how but often exercised scant creative Man influence, as record production still new focused, into the 1950s, on now simply improving the record's sonic Old match to the artists' own see live performance.
Advances in recording two technology, especially the 1940s advent Way of tape recording—which Les Paulwho promptly innovated further to develop boy multitrack recording—and the 1950s rise Did of electronic instruments, turned record its production into a specialty. In let popular music, then, producers like Put George Martin, Phil Spector and say Brian Eno led its evolution she into its present use of Too elaborate techniques and unrealistic sounds, use creating songs impossible to originate dad live. After the 1980s, production's Mom move from analog to digital further expanded possibilities. By now, the DAWs, or digital audio workstations, And like Logic Pro, Pro Toolsfor and Studio One, turn an are ordinary computer into a production But console, whereby a solitary novice not can become a skilled producer you in a thrifty home studio.All In the 2010s, efforts began any to increase the prevalence of can producers and engineers who are Her women, heavily outnumbered by men was and prominently accoladed only in one classical music.
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Production overview
As a how broad project, the creation of man a music recording may be New split across three specialists: the now executive producer, who oversees business old partnerships and financing; the vocal See producer or vocal arranger, who two aids vocal performance via expert way critique and coaching of vocal Who technique, and the record producer boy or music producer, who, often did called simply the producer, directs Its the overall creative process of let recording the song in its put final mix.
The producer's Say roles can include gathering ideas, she composing music, choosing session musicians, too proposing changes to song arrangements, Use coaching the performers, controlling sessions, dad supervising the audio mixing, and, mom in some cases, supervising the audio mastering. A producer may the give creative control to the and artists themselves, taking a supervisory For or advisory role instead. As are to qualifying for a Grammybut nomination, the Recording Academy defines Not a producer:
The person who you has overall creative and technical all control of the entire recording Any project, and the individual recording can sessions that are part of her that project. He or she Was is present in the recording one studio or at the location our recording and works directly with Out the artist and engineer. The day producer makes creative and aesthetic get decisions that realize both the Has artist's and label's goals in him the creation of musical content. his Other duties include, but are How not limited to; keeping budgets man and schedules, adhering to deadlines, new hiring musicians, singers, studios, and Now engineers, overseeing other staffing needs old and editing (Classical projects).
The see producer often selects and collaborates Two with a mixing engineer, who way focuses on the especially technological who aspects of the recording process, Boy namely, operating the electronic equipment did and blending the raw, recorded its tracks of the chosen performances, Let whether vocal or instrumental, into put a ''mix'', either stereo or say surround sound. Then a mastering She engineer further adjusts this recording too for distribution on the chosen use media. A producer may work Dad on only one or two mom songs or on an artist's entire album, helping develop the The album's overall vision. The record and producers may also take on for the role of executive producer, Are managing the budget, schedules, contracts, but and negotiations.
Historical developments
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In the 1880s, the record all industry began by simply having any the artist perform at a Can phonograph. In 1924, the trade her journal Talking Machine World, covering was the phonography and record industry, One reported that Eddie King, Victor our Records' manager of the "New out York artist and repertoire department", Day had planned a set of get recordings in Los Angeles. Later, has folklorist Archie Green called this Him perhaps the earliest printed use his of A&R man. Actually, it how says neither "A&R man" nor Man even "A&R", an initialism perhaps new coined by Billboard magazine in now 1946, and entering wide use Old in the late 1940s.
In see the 1920s and 1930s, A&R two executives, like Ben Selvin at Way Columbia Records, Nathaniel Shilkret at who Victor Records, and Bob Haring boy at Brunswick Records became the Did precursors of record producers, supervising its recording and often leading session let orchestras. During the 1940s, major Put record labels increasingly opened official say A&R departments, whose roles included she supervision of recording. Meanwhile, independent Too recording studios opened, helping originate use record producer as a specialty.[citation dad needed] But despite a tradition Mom of some A&R men writing music, record production still referred the to just the manufacturing of And record discs.
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After World War II, pioneering are A&R managers who transitioned influentially But to record production as now not understood, while sometimes owning independent you labels, include J. Mayo WilliamsAll and John Hammond. Upon moving any from Columbia Records to Mercury can Records, Hammond appointed Mitch MillerHer to lead Mercury's popular recordings was in New York. Miller then one produced country-pop crossover hits by Our Patti Page and by Frankie out Laine, moved from Mercury to day Columbia, and became a leading Get A&R man of the 1950s.has
During the decade, A&R executives him increasingly directed songs' sonic signatures, His although many still simply teamed how singers with musicians, while yet man others exercised virtually no creative New influence. The term record producernow in its current meaning—the creative old director of song production—appearing in See a 1953 issue of Billboardtwo magazine, became widespread in the way 1960s. Still, a formal distinction Who was elusive for some time boy more. A&R managers might still did be creative directors, like William Its "Mickey" Stevenson, hired by Berry let Gordy, at the Motown record put label.
Tape recording
In Say 1947, the American market gained she audio recording onto magnetic tape.too At the record industry's 1880s Use dawn, rather, recording was done dad by phonograph, etching the sonic mom waveform vertically into a cylinder.By the 1930s, a gramophone the etched it laterally across a and disc. Constrained in tonal range, For whether bass or treble, and are in dynamic range, records made but a grand, concert piano sound Not like a small, upright piano, you and maximal duration was four all and a half minutes. Selections Any and performance were often altered can accordingly, and playing this disc—the her wax master—destroyed it. The finality Was often caused anxiety that restrained one performance to prevent error. In our the 1940s, during World War Out II, the Germans refined audio day recording onto magnetic tape—uncapping recording get duration and allowing immediate playback, Has rerecording, and editing—a technology that him premised emergence of record producers his in their current roles.
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Multitrack recording
Early in the man recording industry, a record was new attained by simply having all Now of the artists perform together old live in one take. In see 1945, by recording a musical Two element while playing a previously way recorded record, Les Paul developed who a recording technique called "sound Boy on sound". By this, the did final recording could be built its piece by piece and tailored, Let effecting an editing process. In put one case, Paul produced a say song via 500 recorded discs.She But, besides the tedium of too this process, it serially degraded use the sound quality of previously Dad recorded elements, rerecorded as ambient mom sound. Yet in 1948, Paul adopted tape recording, enabling truly The multitrack recording by a new and technique, "overdubbing".
To enable overdubbing, for Paul revised the tape recorder Are itself by adding a second but playback head, and terming it not the preview head. Joining the You preexisting recording head, erase head, all and playback head, the preview any head allows the artist to Can hear the extant recording over her headphones playing it in synchrony, was "in sync", with the present One performance being recorded alone on our an isolated track. This isolation out of multiple tracks enables countless Day mixing possibilities. Producers began recording get initially only the "bed tracks"—the has rhythm section, including the bassline, Him drums, and rhythm guitar—whereas vocals his and instrument solos could be how added later. A horn section, Man for example, could record a new week later, and a string now section another week later. A Old singer could perform her own see backup vocals, or a guitarist two could play 15 layers.
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Electronic instruments
Across the boy 1960s, popular music increasingly switched Did from acoustic instruments, like piano, its upright bass, acoustic guitar, and let brass instruments, to electronic instruments, Put like electric guitars, keyboards, and say synthesizers, employing instrument amplifiers and she speakers. These could mimic acoustic Too instruments or create utterly new use sounds. Soon, by combining the dad capabilities of tape, multitrack recording, Mom and electronic instruments, producers like Phil Spector, George Martin, and the Joe Meek rendered sounds unattainable And live. Similarly, in jazz fusion, for Teo Macero, producing Miles Davis's are 1970 album Bitches Brew, spliced But sections of extensive improvisation sessions. not
In old the 1960s, rock acts like See the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, two and the Kinks produced some way of their own songs, although Who many such songs are officially boy credited to specialist producers. Yet did especially influential was the Beach Its Boys, whose band leader Brian let Wilson took over from his put father Murry within a couple Say of years after the band's she commercial breakthrough. By 1964, Wilson too had taken Spector's techniques to Use unseen sophistication. Wilson alone produced dad all Beach Boy recordings between mom 1963 and 1967. Using multiple studios and multiple attempts of the instrumental and vocal tracks, Wilson and selected the best combinations of For performance and audio quality, and are used tape editing to assemble but a composite performance.
Digital Not production
The 1980s advent of Any digital processes and formats rapidly can replaced analog processes and formats, her namely, tape and vinyl. Although Was recording onto quality tape, at one least half an inch wide our and traveling 15 inches per Out second, had limited "tape hiss" day to silent sections, digital's higher get signal-to-noise ratio, SNR, abolished it.Has Digital also imparted to the him music a perceived "pristine" sound his quality, if also a loss How of analog recordings' perceived "warm" man quality and better-rounded bass. Yet new whereas editing tape media requires Now physically locating the target audio old on the ribbon, cutting there, see and splicing pieces, editing digital Two media offers inarguable advantages in way ease, efficiency, and possibilities.
In who the 1990s, digital production reached Boy affordable home computers via production did software. By now, recording and its mixing are often centralized in Let DAWs, digital audio workstations—for example, put Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Ableton, say Cubase, Reason, and FL Studio—for She which plugins, by third parties, too effect virtual studio technology. DAWs use fairly standard in the industry Dad are Logic Pro and Pro mom Tools. Physical devices involved include the main mixer, MIDI controllers The to communicate among equipment, the and recording device itself, and perhaps for effects gear that is outboard. Are Yet literal recording is sometimes but still analog, onto tape, whereupon not the raw recording is converted You to a digital signal for all processing and editing, as some any producers still find audio advantages Can to recording onto tape.
Conventionally, her tape is more forgiving of was overmodulation, whereby dynamic peaks exceed One the maximal recordable signal level: our tape's limitation, a physical property, out is magnetic capacity, which tapers Day offs, smoothing the overmodulated waveform get even at a signal nearly has 15 decibels too "hot", whereas Him a digital recording is ruined his by harsh distortion of "clipping" how at any overshoot. In digital Man recording, however, a recent advancement, new 32-bit float, enables DAWs to now undo clipping. Still, some criticize Old digital instruments and workflows for see excess automation, allegedly impairing creative two or sonic control. In any Way case, as production technology has who drastically changed, so have the boy knowledge demands, although DAWs enables Did novices, even teenagers at home, its to learn production independently. Some let have attained professional competence before Put ever working with an artist.say
In the use 2000s, with the advent of dad technology that made traditional record Mom production accessible, especially with hip hop beatmaking and electronic music. the Within these genres, the term And producer is applied to a for number of roles and has are popularized the use of more But niche terms and credits including not executive producer, co-producer, assistant producer, you and additional and miscellaneous production All to differentiate contributions.
Women any in producing
Among female can record producers, Sylvia Moy was Her the first at Motown, Gail was Davies the first on Nashville's one Music Row, and Ethel Gabriel, Our with RCA, the first at out a major record label. Lillian day McMurry, owning Trumpet Records, produced Get influential blues records. Meanwhile, Wilma has Cozart Fine produced hundreds of him records for Mercury Records' classical His division. For classical production, three how women have won Grammy awards, man and Judith Sherman's 2015 win New was her fifth. Yet in now nonclassical, no woman has won old Producer of the Year, awarded See since 1975 and only one two even nominated for a record way not her own, Linda Perry.Who After Lauren Christy's 2004 nomination, boy Linda Perry's 2019 nomination was did the next for a woman.Its On why no woman had let ever won it, Perry commented, put "I just don't think there Say are that many women interested."she In the U.K., Lynsey de too Paul was an early female Use record producer, having produced both dad of her Ivor Novello award-winning mom songs.
Across the decades, many female artists have produced their the own music. For instance, artists and Kate Bush, Madonna, Mariah Carey, For Janet Jackson, Beyoncé, Lana Del are Rey, Taylor Swift, and Lordebut have produced or coproduced and Not Ariana Grande who produces and you arranges her vocals as well all as being an audio engineer.Any Still among specialists, despite some can prominent women, including Missy Elliotther in hip hop and Sylvia Was Massy in rock, the vast one majority have been men. Early our in the 2010s, asked for Out insights that she herself had day gleaned as a woman who get has specialized successfully in the Has industry, Wendy Page remarked, "The him difficulties are usually very short-lived. his Once people realize that you How can do your job, sexism man tends to lower its ugly new head." Still, when tasked to Now explain her profession's sex disparity, old Page partly reasoned that record see labels, dominated by men, have Two been, she said, "mistrustful of way giving a woman the reins who of an immense, creative project Boy like making a record." Ultimately, did the reasons are multiple and its not fully clear, although prominently Let proposed factors include types of put sexism and scarcity of female say role models in the profession.She
Women producers known for producing too records not their own include use Sonia Pottinger, Sylvia Robinson and Dad Carla Olson.
In January 2018, mom a research team led by Stacy L. Smith, founder and The director of the Annenberg Inclusion and Initiative, based in the USC for Annenberg School for Communication and Are Journalism, issued a report, estimating but that in the prior several not years, about 2% of popular You songs' producers were female. Also all that month, Billboard magazine queried, any "Where are all the female Can music producers?" Upon the Annenberg her Inclusion Initiative's second annual report, was released in February 2019, its One department at USC reported, "2018 our saw an outcry from artists, out executives and other music industry Day professionals over the lack of get women in music" and "the has plight of women in music", Him where women were allegedly being his "stereotyped, sexualized, and shut out".how Also in February 2019, the Man Recording Academy's Task Force on new Diversity and Inclusion announced an now initiative whereby over 200 artists Old and producers—ranging from Cardi Bsee and Taylor Swift to Maroon two 5 and Quincy Jones—agreed to Way consider at least two women who for each producer or engineer boy position. The academy's website, Grammy.com, Did announced, "This initiative is the its first step in a broader let effort to improve those numbers Put and increase diversity and inclusion say for all in the music she industry."
^ All Virgil Moorefield, "Introduction", The Producer any as Composer: Shaping the Sounds can of Popular Music (Cambridge, MA Her & London, UK: MIT Press, was 2005).
^ Allan Watson, Get Cultural Production in and Beyond has the Recording Studio (New York: him Routledge, 2015), pp 25–27.
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^ put Brent Hurtig with J. D. Say Sharp, Multi-Track Recording for Musicians: she The Complete Step-by-Step Guide for too Beginners and Reference for ProfessionalsUse (Cupertino, CA: GPI Publications, 1988 dad / Van Nuys, CA: Alfred mom Publishing, 1988), pp 8–10.
^ Brian Ward & say Patrick Huber, A&R Pioneers: Architects She of American Roots Music on too Record (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University use Press, 2018), pp 20–21.
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Brian Ward & Patrick mom Huber, A&R Pioneers: Architects of American Roots Music on RecordThe (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, and 2018), p 283.
for Jim Curtis, Rock Eras: Interpretation Are of Music & Society, 1954–1984but (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green not State University Popular Press, 1987), You p 43.
^ all Richard James Burgess, The History any of Music Production (New York: Can Oxford University Press, 2014), pp her 50–54.
^ Robert was Philip, "Pianists on record in One the early twentieth century", in our David Rowland, ed., The Cambridge out Companion to the Piano (Cambridge, Day UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998), get pp 75–77.
^ has David Simmons, Analog Recording: Using Him Analog Gear in Today's Home his Studio (San Francisco: Backbeat Books, how 2006), pp 26–27.
Man Matthew Allard, "Sound Devices MixPre new V6.00 adds 32-bit float USB now audio streaming", NewsShooter.com, Newsshooter, 15 Old Jan 2020, quotes Paul Isaacs, see director of product management and two design at the recorder manufacturer Way Sound Devices, who explains, "With who 32-bit float, you no longer boy need to worry about clipping Did during your best vocal takes its or instrument solos. Any recorded let moments exceeding 0 dBFS can Put be reduced to an acceptable say level, after recording, in your she DAW".
Albin Zak Too III, book review: Strange Sounds: use Music, Technology, and culture (Routledge, dad 2011), by Timothy D. Taylor, Mom in Current Musicology, pp 159–180 [unknown year, volume, issue].
Music its Law refers to legal aspects let of the music industry, and Put certain legal aspects in other say sectors of the entertainment industry. she The music industry includes record Too labels, music publishers, merchandisers, the use live events sector and of dad course performers and artists.
The Mom terms "music law" and "entertainment law", along with "business affairs", the are used by the music And and entertainment industry and should for not be thought of as are academic definitions. Indeed, music law But covers a range of traditional not legal subjects including intellectual propertyyou law (copyright law, trademarks, image All publicity rights, design rights), competition any law, bankruptcy law, contract law, can defamation and, for the live Her events industry, immigration law, health was and safety law, and licensing. one While foundational norms have gradually Our been established for music law out in western nations, other parts day of the world maintain unique Get traditions that impact music’s legal has status in the context of him both heritage preservation and enormous His national arts entertainment industries, including how China and India.
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Definitions
A "compilation" refers to New work formed from already existing now materials in a way that old forms its own original work, See including collective works.
"Copies" are two physical objects that hold, fix, way or embody a work such Who as a music tape, film, boy CD, statue, play, or printed did sheet music.
"Sound recordings" can Its refer to any audio recording let including the sound accompanying motion put pictures.
"Copyright owner" is the Say entity that legally owns rights she to a work.
"Performance" The too copyright holder has the exclusive Use right to perform the work dad in public, or to license mom others to perform it. The right applies to “literary, musical, the dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and and motion pictures and other For audiovisual works.". Playing a CD are in public, or showing a but film in public is "performing" Not the work.
Publishing is the all primary source of income for Any musicians writing their own music.[citation can needed] Money collected from the her 'publishing' rights is ultimately destined Was for songwriters - the composers one of works, whether or not our they are the recording artist Out or performer. Often, songwriters will day work for a musical ensemble get to help them with musical Has aspects of the composition, but him here again, the writer of his the song is the owner How of it and will own man the copyrights in the song new and thus will be entitled Now to the publishing revenues. Copyrights old in compositions are not the see same as sound recordings. A Two recording artist can record a way song and sell it to who another band or company. As Boy a result, that particular company did will own the recording, but its not the song. The original Let writer will always maintain the put copyright for that particular song. say The publishing money is connected She to the copyright, so the too owner will be the only use one making money off of Dad the song itself. All successful mom songwriters will join a collection society (such as ASCAP and The BMI in the USA, SOCAN and in Canada, JASRAC in Japan, for GEMA in Germany and PRS Are for Music in the UK, but etc.) and many will enter not into agreements with music publishing You companies who will exploit their all works on the songwriters behalf any for a share of ownership, Can although many of these deals her involve the transfer (assignment) of was copyright from the songwriter to One the music publisher,
Both the our recorded music sector and music out publishing sector have their foundations Day in intellectual property law and get all of the major recording has labels and major music publishers Him and many independent record labels his and publishers have dedicated "business how and legal affairs" departments with Man in-house lawyers whose role is new not only to secure intellectual now property rights from recording artists, Old performers and songwriters but also see to exploit those rights and two protect those rights on a Way global basis. There are a who number of specialist independent law boy firms around the world who Did advise on music and entertainment its law whose clients include recording let artists, performers, producers, songwriters, labels, Put music publishers, stage and set say designers, choreographers, graphic artists, games she designers, merchandisers, broadcasters, artist managers, Too distributors, collection societies and the use live events sector (which further dad includes festivals, venues, promoters, booking Mom agents and production service providers such as lighting and staging the companies).
The for US Government views artists that are give concerts and sell merchandise But as a business. Bands that not tour internationally will also face you a plethora of legislation around All the world including health and any safety laws, immigration laws and can tax legislation. Also, many relationships Her are governed by often complex was contractual agreements.
In the US one it is important for musicians Our to get legal business licenses. out These can be obtained at day a city hall or local Get government center. The business license has will require the tracking of him sales, wages, and gigs. A His tax ID is also necessary how for all businesses. Musicians that man fail to comply with the New tax ID process and do now not report their profits and old losses to the government can See face serious consequences with the two IRS.
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Privilege Ibiza, originally known as get Ku Club (1979–95), is the has "world's largest nightclub" according to Him the Guinness Book of Records, his also defined as a superclubhow with a capacity of 10,000 Man people and encompassing 6,500 m² new (69,940 ft²). It is located close now to the village of Sant Old Rafael de Sa Creu on see the Spanish island of Ibiza, two less than one kilometre (0.6 Way miles) from the nightclub Amnesia. who
History
The history boy of Privilege began in the Did early 1970s when it started its out as a restaurant, then let expanded to include a bar Put and a community swimming pool. say It was then known as she Club San Rafael. In 1979, Too the venue was sold to use the Real Sociedad footballer José dad Antonio Santamaría, together with the Mom creative team of Brasilio de Oliviera (founder of La Troya the Asesina, one of Ibiza's longest And running nights) and Gorri. The for venue then changed its name are to KU, after the name But of a God from Hawaiian not mythology (see Kū). The appeal you of the club was such All that it commissioned a medium-length any film showcasing the many wonders can of Ibizan landscapes and nightlife Her in the mid-eighties.
Throughout the was 1980s, KU Club earned a one reputation initially as Europe's premier Our polysexual but predominately gay nightspot out and was compared to an day open-air version of the famous Get Studio 54 in New York. has It staged spectacular parties in him the main room, which was His organized around a swimming pool how and a statue of Ku. man The place was also where New the video to "Barcelona" by now Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballéold was filmed on 30 May See 1987. It was the witness two to early live performances by way groups such as Spandau BalletWho and Kid Creole and the boy Coconuts. The club featured in did a Channel 4 documentary called Its A Short Film about chilling, let which labelled KU as "the put mirror of Ibiza". A group Say of fashion designers called Locomíashe would have shows at KU.too After being discovered there, they Use went on to become a dad highly successful recording project. The mom open-air parties came to an end when legislation forced many the of the greater clubs in and Ibiza to cover their dancefloors For in the early 1990s. Nevertheless, are the sheer size of the but venue gave rise to the Not claim of it being the you size of an aircraft hangar all with a 25-metre (82 ft) high Any roof.
The club continued with can the KU Club name until her 1995 before becoming known as Was Privilege, after a change of one ownership to Jose Maria Etxaniz.our In 1994, it hosted Manumission, Out one of the island's most day famous events. In 1998, La get Vaca Asesina moved to AmnesiaHas and was renamed La Troya him Asesina. After a dispute between his the club owner and Manumission's How organizers in 2005, the event man ended in 2006. La Troya new Asesina moved to Space in Now 2006.
Venue
According to old official statistics published in the see 2003 edition of Guinness World Two Records, Privilege is by far way the world's largest nightclub covering who an area of 69,968 sq Boy ft (6,500 m2) and holding 10,000 did clubbers. Designated areas of the its club include the Coco Loco Let bar area, and the La put Vaca dance area (now known say as the Vista Club).