Westbeach Recorders
| Industry | Music (recording) |
|---|---|
| Genre | Punk rock |
| Fate | Dissolved |
| Founded | 1985 in Culver City, California |
| Founder | Brett Gurewitz |
| Defunct | May 12, 2010 |
| Headquarters | 6035 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, United States[1] |
Westbeach Recorders was a recording studio in Hollywood, California famous for recording punk rock groups, such as Bad Religion, NOFX, Rancid, The Offspring and Pennywise. It was established in 1985 by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz in Culver City, California after he attended recording school,[2] and re-located to Hollywood, California in February 1987. They moved for the final time in 1988 to the former location of Seymour Heller's Producer's Workshop studios on Hollywood Boulevard.[3] In a back room closet at this location, Epitaph Records had its first office.[2][4]
Donnell Cameron became a partner in 1988 and was the studio owner/engineer. On May 12th 2010 Westbeach Recorders went out of business.
List of clients
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Bad Religion
- Blink-182
- Creedle
- Corrupted Ideals
- Dag Nasty
- Drive Like Jehu
- face to face
- Guttermouth
- Jughead's Revenge
- Lagwagon
- Less Than Jake
- L7
- Melvins
- Millencolin
- Miriamplace
- Monsterbazz
- MXPX
- NOFX
- The Offspring
- Outer Circle
- Parley
- Pennywise
- Pezz
- Propagandhi
- Rancid
- Rocket from the Crypt
- Rx Bandits
- Scratch Bongowax
- Shrinebuilder
- Strung Out
- Sublime
- Ten Foot Pole
- Union 13
- Voodoo Glow Skulls
- Walk Proud
References
- ↑ Recording Industry Sourcebook, Ascona Communications, 1998
- 1 2 Buhrmester, Jason (November 1, 2010), "Against the Grain: the oral history of Epitaph Records", Spin – via Highbeam (subscription required)
- ↑ "Rothrock and Schnapf find dual purpose as producers, label owners", Billboard, p. 41, May 4, 1996
- ↑ Diehl, Matt (2013), My So-Called Punk: Green Day, Fall Out Boy, The Distillers, Bad Religion—How Neo-Punk Stage-Dived into the Mainstream, St. Martin's Griffin, p. 171, ISBN 9781466853065
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