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    Tony A.

    This is a nice little piece of history. Tours are atv9am and 4pm and they are recording all the time. To get to hang out in the studio where some of the greats had gotten their start or cut their 2nd and 3rd albums was just a really cool experience. We got to listen to some recorded music in Studio A where Aretha and many others cut some tracks. It would be really cool to get to here some live music on the tour, but maybe that can just be a suggestion for now

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    Terri F.

    Saturday was when the tours are. The tickets were $15/ each . It was a very informative tour and questions were answered. It was great I would recommend it. We also went to Alabama Music Hall of Fame and muscle shoals music studio. We did all three tours in one day it was well worth the time. Then we had dinner in Florence down town. Fun day!

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    Laura M.

    Fame Studios is what brought us the north Alabama and it didn't disappoint. The tour guide was a Fame engineer and ended with us in a control room sitting and listening to tracks from the Small Town Big Sounds album.

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    Farrah D.

    I'm pretty surprised that FAME (I didn't know it was an acronym until the tour) has so few reviews--the way the staff talked, they do a pretty steady tour business. A couple of the people in our group were visiting from Saskatchewan! We had a great hour here on a Saturday morning. The young woman working the front and answering the phones, Abby, was a total delight. She clearly loves being around such an important part of American music history and was really fun to talk to. I can't recall our tour guide's name but she was great. She has worked at FAME for several years and had a very casual style as compared to what you might be thinking of for a paid tour. For one thing, there are really only two rooms--studio A and studio B--so it's not as if you're zipping around from place to place. She was not scripted at all. Rather, she just talked informally about how FAME came to be, who has recorded there, and how the company has evolved over time. We started our tour in what was basically a break room; there were pictures on the wall all the way up to the ceiling, and the tour guide pointed out a few of the pictures and told anecdotes about those musicians. At the end of the tour, we went into the control room of Studio A, where the son of FAME's founder, who has gone into the family business, was working on a track that had been recorded in the studio earlier this year. He took questions from our group and showed us some cool stuff about how the sound board works--taking different components out, changing the volume of certain components, etc. And did I mention that you get to stand in the room where Etta James recorded "I'd Rather Go Blind"?!?! Overall, my husband and I thought this was a super fun way to spend a morning. It's not fancy. You're not getting a slick experience created by marketing consultants. FAME is a working studio that hasn't changed a whole lot since the '60s. The experience is best for people who have at least some awareness of the history of the music scene in the Shoals area--the staff assumes that you know your stuff already, at least a little bit--you're not going to get an orientation here. That said, Muscle Shoals/Florence are not close to much of anything else--we went 2.5 hours out of our way to get here (we were in Nashville for a long weekend)--so hopefully the folks that come to the studio know exactly what they're coming for.

    Gordon M.

    In Muscle Shoals, a small town in North Alabama, history was made FAME studios. Some of the artists that recorded here were; Aretha Franklin, Duane Allman, John Hiatt, Little Richard, Bobbie Gentry, Otis Redding, Spooner and the Spoons, Otis Clay, Ella Washington, Soul Survivors, Alabama, Jamey Johnson, Wilson Pickett, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Drifters, George Jones, Ray Stevens, Billy Ocean, Bill Haley & The Comets, John Paul White, Billy Currington, Darryl Worley, Waylon Jennings, Bobby Womack, The Ramrods, Drive By Truckers, Jason Isbell & the 400 unit, Iron Horse, Civil Wars. They offer tours M-F and sell t-shirts. This place doesn't have the ambience of the breakaway Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, but is still a must visit for music enthusiast.

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    Drove 2 hours out of our way to experience the studio and studio tour. Amazing tour and studio. This was the highlight of my trip!

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