‘Wicked’ Music Producer Greg Wells on Losing a World-Class Studio as Well as Family Home in the Fires — and the Sorrow of Saying Goodbye to the Palisades
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic For most of the film and TV industry, the devastating L.A.-area fires of the last week have at least avoided scorching the studios where the work largely occurs.
But there’s no such consolation for many of those who work on the music side, as the professional-grade home studios of untold numbers of producers, engineers and musicians have gone up in flames alongside their actual residences.
That’s true for music producer Greg Wells, who lost his state-of-the-art Dolby Atmos mixing room and studio along with his family home in Pacific Palisades.
He’s far from alone in suffering that double-whammy; producer-mixer Bob Clearmountain is another renowned Palisades resident who lost both his home and a seriously tricked-out studio, and seemingly countless musicians in Altadena suffered the dual loss of personal and professional structures.
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