Townhouse Studios history, being the first studio in the UK to install one of their B-series consoles. The 1000th console produced by SSL was installed in studio one. The SSL B mixing desk still exists. Studio One originally was home to a 72-input Helios console with an Alison 64K computer mixdown system, which now resides at Shorefire Recording Studios, Long Branch, New Jersey, United States. In July 1984, Townhouse 3 was opened, this being the old Ramport Studios in Battersea, purchased from the Who, the Helios from Townhouse 1 eventually being installed there, replacing a Neve, the Helios later giving way to
British folk rock on later albums, but reduced as the band returned to a hard rock sound from "Presence" (1976) onwards. As Led Zeppelin moved away from electric folk, one of other long term survivors of the British blues movement Jethro Tull began to move towards it. Ian Anderson had produced Steeleye Span’s album "Now We Are Six" in 1974 and first demonstrated a clear interest in more traditional sound on "Minstrel in the Gallery" (1975), but it was in 1977 with the release of "Songs from the Wood" (1977) that Anderson took the band into electric folk territory. All the songs on