Beebe Gunn Studio

07/18/2023

Tracking some tunes with Maggie Shaw. Kyle Duggar on drums.

06/22/2023

Final Beetle Thursday show is tonight. It was supposed to put down rain today and everyone said it would be too hot, so it’s inside, but it will not be your usual Beetle. Come down tonight and be a part of it, it’s all going down tonight.

04/13/2023

Tracking some vocals for the 1968 project today. Swipe right to see what the doorway in the background looked like a year and a half ago.

03/28/2023

Will from Grand Old Grizzly playing some acoustic tunes in the studio. Gearing up for fill band recordings soon. Shaking out some bugs in the setup.

03/20/2023

My first foray into masonry! Reusing the old brick from a chimney I removed to make a façade for the hideous concrete front porch.

Also, I know there are secret handshakes, truths about conspiracy theories, and world domination, but so far masonry just seems like a lot of physical labor.

03/16/2023

Allen Hill on the inaugural vocal session in the new studio!

02/25/2023

Playing at the newly reopened Dan Electro’s Guitar Bar tonight at 9pm with my good friend Charlie Harrison. Come on down!

02/11/2023

This was a fun project for Oliver Penn recorded and filmed here and at Edgewater Music Group with Moontown Sounds

Official music video for Oliver Penn's "All I hear is ringing". Launched from Houston Texas.Moontown Sounds is excited to release Oliver Penn's latest single...

02/05/2023

The back of the new studio with brand new deck. Studio will be open by March.

Anyone want a working refrigerator from ~1980? Pictured on the left.

12/14/2022

The outside transformation is complete! Finished painting after new roof, windows, doors, house leveling, lots of repairs to siding, and new pillars to make the porch level. The blue is how the house looked when I bought it, but it’s important to note that it was vinyl siding from the 80’s and was peeling up and falling off the left side of the house (not visible). It did serve to protect the original cedar siding for 50 years though, so it wasn’t all bad.

10/28/2022

So. Much. Painting.

10/27/2022

This week we got the glass doors and windows installed which feels amazing and surreal. Will this project actually get finished someday? The sound proof sliding doors between the rooms were one of the biggest single expenses in the project and weigh about two hundred pounds each, but were one thing I really wanted for my final studio build out.

10/21/2022

Growing up, my parents always talked about how it was sad that everything in Houston gets torn down. As I got into this project, I decided it was important to try to preserve as much of the original architecture of the house as was reasonably possible. As a result we have reused the original trim and baseboards in two of the rooms which was really all that was left of the original stuff. Most of it has been removed and replaced long ago. I also removed several lowered ceilings and badly done renovations.

10/19/2022

Floor finishing part 2: 1) I trowel filled the entire floor since the boards have gaps and low spots after 109 years of use. 2) Continued sanding down to 100 grit 3) Stained 4) three coats of satin polyurethane. Done! They aren’t perfect, but nothing is in a 109 year old house!

09/28/2022

Only sixteen months behind schedule they finally opened the tunnel under the track on Lorraine St. New Beebe Gunn Studio is on the right where the grass has been cut.

09/28/2022

Redoing 109 year old floors that are incredibly worn. Filler is coming (actually done but no pic yet) and then more sanding and stain etc. stay tuned. Note: The guy who sold me the house said the floors were not salvageable and had absolutely hideous synthetic floors in here. I aim to prove him wrong.

09/22/2022

The property owners on either side of me are not big on lawn care.

08/05/2022

Just doing a little tiling…

07/16/2022

Playing with Beetle tonight at 10:30 for no cover celebrating the 22nd anniversary of the best club in town!

06/02/2022

Bathroom. Tiled.

05/16/2022

Cool things are happening at the new studio…

03/29/2022

Front porch repaired and back to original siding, not the odd vertical panels. (Swipe to see the before) All of this was underneath vinyl siding since probably the 80’s. The ceiling has rotted out due to a leaky ancient roof.

02/13/2022

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02/11/2022

One of the more entertaining aspects of remodeling a 108 year old house is the number of rat’s nests you uncover. 🐀

02/05/2022

This is the bucket that catches the rain that drips through the ceiling in the new studio building. A new roof is coming soon along with HVAC, because, as you can see there is ice in the water… inside the house.

01/26/2022

Things are getting hot at the new studio space!

12/28/2021

Replaced some joists in the kitchen on the apartment side of the house. After leveling the house, I had to pull up the floor to remove the shims that had been put in in a bad attempt to level the kitchen the floor without fixing the real problem. In the process it became clear that four of the joists had mostly rotted out where there had been a drain pipe leak and it would be better and probably easier to just replace them altogether.

11/26/2021

Got to do some work on this Oliver Penn tune along with Moontown Sounds and the gentlemen over at Edgewater Music Group, it’s a fun one, and a whole bunch of Beetle fans are in the scene in Shoeshine Charley's Big Top Lounge!

Oliver Penn · Single · 2021 · 1 songs.

10/15/2021

Trish’s new album is out! Supernova was really fun to record and work on and really rubbed out great. I’ll be playing with her at the Continental Club tonight!

10/08/2021

This little guy came to work with me today. I didn’t even know tree frogs were a thing in Houston.

09/22/2021

Vintage wallpaper in the back of a closet behind some faux wood paneling. This is best I’ve seen in this place.

09/21/2021

80-100 year old wallpaper

09/17/2021

There was a ton of bricks in that chimney. I’m super tired today…

09/16/2021

Removing a stove pipe chimney. 25 ft tall. Almost done…

09/10/2021

Demolition is getting pretty serious…

09/08/2021

Got into some poison Ivy while cleaning up the back yard last week. Funny enough, it didn’t even involve the giant poison Ivy tree! 😳

06/30/2021

Blaggards!

is arriving ahead of schedule!

Order the CD at >> https://blaggards.com/store/blagmatic-cd/

06/24/2021

Last working day in the Fannin Beebe Gunn Studio location. New location under construction so I’ll be mostly shut down for a while, but exciting things are coming!

06/15/2021

Rad new video for Allen Hill’s new tune recorded and filmed (partially) at Beebe Gunn!

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! is a power pop nugget from Allen Hill that celebrates loving, laughing, living, and dreaming.Video shot and edited by Jason Yu in Houston, ...