Caribou Ranch Guercio was building a new studio, visited the in-progress barn conversion at the ranch, and concluded that it would work for their project. They used the new studio to finish "Barnstorm". Szymczyk next made Rick Derringer's "All American Boy" and the hit single "Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo" there. Elton John's 1974 album "Caribou" was recorded at and named after the studio. (John also recorded the single "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" there, as well as his next two albums, "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" and "Rock of the Westies".) Simultaneously in 1974 The Beach Boys attempted
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy terms with failure—or trying desperately not to be one. We lived that story." John, Taupin and the band laboured harder and longer on the album than perhaps any previous record they'd ever done to that point. As opposed to the rather quick, almost factory-like process of writing and recording an album in a matter of a few days or at most a couple of weeks (as with "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"), the team spent the better part of a month off the road at Caribou Ranch Studios working on the recordings. Producer Gus Dudgeon was apparently also very satisfied with