SILVERTONAPPEAL.COM ❚ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2019 ❚ 3A Music Stenberg displays a record he acquired from Garland Records. Chuck Stenberg acquired the archived musical tracks from Garland and rebuilt a 4-Track Ampex tape machine to play them. Continued from Page 1A producer Gary Nieland. Nieland, born in Canby,used to be a drummer for The Champs, the band known for the song “Tequila.” A few years later, he moved to Salem and opened Garland Records at his Rose Street home in 1967. He focused on local talent, producing thousands of songs before he closed the studio in the 1980s. Now, decades later, the long-forgot- ten music is being distributed on CD and vinyl by the Nashville-based label Sun- dazed Music. Two volumes of the catalog have al- ready been released with two more slat- ed for 2020 organized by genre: garage rock, psych, soul and country. The first two, “Pacific Northwest Fuzz Box“ and “Pacific Northwest Stash Box,” were released in September featuring groups like The Other Side, Smack, The Zero End, The Ultimate, The Wild Side and Inner Circle, among others. “Pacific Northwest Juke Box“ and “Pacific Northwest Snuff Box“ will be re- leased next year. Jay Millar with Sundazed Music said there will likely be more than four vol- umes. The whole process — from acquiring the tapes to Sundazed releasing them — took Stenberg, of Sublimity, a little long- er than two years. Train “It was a lot of fun to just play those tapes,” he said. “(I) never knew what the next one was going to have on it.” Recovering decades-old PNW music Stenberg is a self-proclaimed music history enthusiast. His binder overflow- ing with old newspaper articles, con- tracts and promotional materials for Garland Records is a testament to that. It just so happened Nieland used to be a patient at the office where he works as a dental hygienist in Salem. Both men were drummers, and they would often talk about music. Over the years, Stenberg learned of the recording studio and tapes. Nieland said Stenberg Regulating the railroad Continued from Page 2A condition of the trestle but after seeing a large force of men at work on it and re- ceiving assurance from the manager that it was being properly repaired, made no official inspection.” Even if it had been inspected, there were plenty of other dangerous places along the Southern Pacific line. The company took control over the former O&C around 1887 and wouldn’t have been able to repair everything in need within three years. “There would have been a lot of work crews stretched,” Austin said. “They in- herited a very poorly maintained prop- erty. O&C didn’t have money to main- tain the property as required. It was not a safe property.” Industry regulation was in its infant stages at the time. Oregon established its first railroad commission during the 1887 legislative session, according to Bob Melbo, state rail planner for the Oregon Department of Transportation. The board was composed of two commissioners appointed by the gover- nor with approval from the Senate, ex- panding to three members in 1889. That three-member board investi- gated the Lake Labish disaster and didn’t waste any time. It began hearing testimony just five days after the wreck. Thirty-seven witnesses testified over four days, and their testimony con- sumed nearly 170 pages in the railroad commission’s biennial report to the 1891 legislative assembly. Despite what Southern Pacific man- agers and employees believed, the board found no satisfactory evidence in asked if he could digitize them so they wouldn’t deteriorate. “I had pretty much written them off,” Nieland, 77, said. Stenberg collected the tapes from Nieland’s warehouse in July 2017 and the 4-Track Ampex tape machine — the one originally used in his studio — a month later. It took a few months to clean, find re- placement parts and restore the ma- chine, but he completed the task in No- vember 2017. Transferring the tapes to digital took about eight months. “Halfway through the process, I was like, ‘this is really great music and good talent,’” Stenberg said. He decided to try to find a company interested in releas- ing it. support of the proposition that a rail had been removed or misplaced near where the engine was thrown off. What the commission did find was that the trestle was not sufficiently strong to sustain the weight and impact of moving trains “on any railroad and at any time.” It listed the following faults to the structure: ❚ The bents, considering the boggy and spongy nature of the ground, were too far apart; ❚ The ties were too widely spaced; ❚ The guard rails were in a state of decay and improperly fastened; ❚ Much of the timber in the bents, es- pecially caps and sills, were decayed; ❚ The bents were not securely sway- braced; ❚ Some of the piles supporting the bents were unsound; ❚ Many of the stringer-bolts were loose. He contacted Sundazed in January 2018 and shipped them the tapes in March 2019. Nieland, who is retired and living in Las Vegas, said finding out the music was being released was a “pleasant” surprise. “I never envisioned he would submit them to a record company,” he said. “It’s been this whole new adventure.” Preserving a part of the past Stenberg’s passion project ended up preserving a part of Pacific Northwest music history that could have been lost forever. Tapes that sat for decades in a Polk County storage warehouse — in danger of being damaged beyond repair by the elements — can now be heard in a varie- ty of ways. “Pacific Northwest Fuzz Box” and “Pacific Northwest Stash Box” can be heard on streaming platforms like Apple Music and Spotify. Both volumes can be purchased lo- cally at Ranch Records in Salem and on- line at sundazed.com. Abby Luschei is the arts and enter- tainment reporter for the Statesman Journal and can be reached at alus- chei@statesmanjournal.com or 503- 399-6747. Interested in telling at one of the up- coming Salem Storytellers Project events? Submit your story: www.storytellersproject.com/tell. Southern Pacific was quick to clear the wreck, without cranes or other hy- draulic lift equipment, and make the trestle passable before the conclusion of testimony. Trains were crossing Lake Labish, on that very trestle, within a week. The structure eventually was re- placed by an earthen fill. About 1,300 feet was completed by the following No- vember. Remnants of a wooden trestle are still visible underneath the current steel and concrete structure, which according to ODOT was installed within the last five years by Union Pacific, which merged with Southern Pacific in 1996. “Forward This” taps into the heart of the Mid-Valley — its people, history, and issues. 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