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Sarusan · 29th March 2010

Sadly I happened to pass the Radio Recorders building this evening. The real estate signs have finally come down and there are now signs for another business that has moved in and taken over the complex. The building was given protected status a few years ago when they changed the name back to RR but that only applied to the outer structure. Very sad. No more music there.

That said, when I worked there 9 years ago when it was still Studio 56, there was very little of the original studios still intact. The control room for Studio E (formerly Studio B) was used for tape storage and there was wall treatment that you'd see in a soundstage- chicken wire over white padding. There's a picture of this on the Scotty Moore page. The front room was good but it was modernized with no history in sight. Elvis was celebrated and talked about but the rest of the history there was kind of lost on everyone. For me, just the Charlie Parker records that were done there would be enough to make it a monument. But of course even that was just a drop in the bucket.

29th March 2010	#171
Sarusan Gear maniac Joined: Jan 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 282	Radio Recorders Sadly I happened to pass the Radio Recorders building this evening. The real estate signs have finally come down and there are now signs for another business that has moved in and taken over the complex. The building was given protected status a few years ago when they changed the name back to RR but that only applied to the outer structure. Very sad. No more music there. That said, when I worked there 9 years ago when it was still Studio 56, there was very little of the original studios still intact. The control room for Studio E (formerly Studio B) was used for tape storage and there was wall treatment that you'd see in a soundstage- chicken wire over white padding. There's a picture of this on the Scotty Moore page. The front room was good but it was modernized with no history in sight. Elvis was celebrated and talked about but the rest of the history there was kind of lost on everyone. For me, just the Charlie Parker records that were done there would be enough to make it a monument. But of course even that was just a drop in the bucket.