Van Halen entering Sunset Sound in 77' from studio owner.

Paul Camarata, the owner of Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood, talks about how Van Halen, a young band, arrived at their studio in 1977 and went on to record a total of 5 albums.

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[MCBrainpower]

Great upload. Thanks. RIP Eddie. Much love & respect from Amsterdam

[DIOSpeedDemon]

This guy should write a book on his experiences with the bands and great stories.

[e.a.l]

This studio has tracked my top favorite albums, Prince. Zeppelin 4. The Doors 1 .Van Halen 1. Tom Petty Full Moon Fever. So glad you started a Youtube page ❤️❤️❤️

[jasonhall]

This is such a great YouTube channel. Wow guys, you are the best. Love, love, love this.

[letmeadow]

Love you Paul and Drew!! Can't wait to hear more!!!

[seanclancy]

STUDIO 2 at Sunset Sound is the best sounding room in the world. Great Talk Guys!!

[The_G_FACTOR]

Hello form Italy, thank you very much for this lesson!

[Azfun]

A legendary great stories there I'm sure.

[onetruthmediacompany]

I just found your channel today, and love it. Great content !

[diannecarey]

Any photo's of the gorgeous Eddie, that are out there, I can not get enough! 😙😙😙💕💕💕

[robertwalls]

To be a fly on the wall in that place would be awesome!

[MrJeffcoley]

0:10 I never knew the Van Halen brothers are half Indonesian on their mother's side. Embarrassed to admit it but I always thought Alex looked like he was really high and I couldn't understand why.

[JeremysRockSchool]

This is a gold mind of legendary knowledge of the early tone. Thanks for sharing. RIP ed

[ROOKTABULA]

Did they TRY to find an interviewer who knew as little as possible about VH?!

[mindeloman]

What broke up original van halen can be forever debated like what broke up the Beatles. The one thing that people overlook is that "Women and Children First" and "Fair Warning" did not chart as well as the first two albums. W&CF sold very well, no doubt riding the coattails of the first two albums. But Fair Warning had a concerning drop and sluggish sales. It's a good bet Warner Bros. turned the screws on Templeman to produce an album that would do as good or better than the first two. W&CF and especially fair warning were darker in tone. Less poppy. So Templeman went back to a method that worked. Make it snappy and poppy and just like VH1, use already known hits and van halenize them. Diver Down. It's why they went with Pretty Woman and Dancing in the Streets. Half the songs on that album aren't theirs along with 3 instrumental tracks. Templeman pulled it off. Diver Down was very commercial and peaked at number 3 on the US charts. Exactly what WBs wanted. But it led to greater band tension. Eddie hated cover songs. Dave loved doing his Roth take on them. Eddie was feeling steam rolled by Templeman and Roth. The band was losing direction. I'm not sure how all recording contracts go but some labels will pay for the studio time BUT that gives them greater leverage to insist an album be a certain way. No doubt, this was on Eddie's mind when he threw-down to build a studio from scratch. It must've cost a fortune. I'd like to know what warner bros. brass thought of Eddie's end-around. So eddie gets back a little creative control and lets the keyboards be front and center on 1984 and Roth hated the keyboard rock. Part of me really wonders what warner bros. would've done if 1984 tanked. "Eddie, take your studio and go shove it up your ass. You can find another publisher." But 1984 was a resounding success which really made WB have confidence in Eddie. So much so that WB stayed with them with a lead singer change. 5150 was also the first VH album without Templeman as producer, which i don't think is coincidence because he also produced Hagar! There was definite acrimony between ed and ted, to be sure. 5150 was the first van halen album to go number 1 and WB stayed with VH up to 2004. Ted came back for the FUCK album though. But what was Templeman doing in 1985 when van Hagar was in the studio cutting 5150? He was producing David Lee Roth - "Eat'em and Smile.

[edwardwaldron]

Any chance the Oakland 81 show somewhere laying around in the vault

[areaaudio]

It's too bad Sunset lost the account when Ed had 5150 built, but VH came into their own at Sunset and learned how it's done. Those first Van Halen records are some of the best sounding material ever produced by a rock band imo.

[brunighttbrunodutra]

hello to everyone at Sunset! These Van Halen albums were never released? Where are the tapes? hug

[andrealarocco]

Awesome job, Drew!! Love Van Halen!!
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[kickinvideo]

Ted Templeman produced Montrose's first album with Sammy Hagar on vocals, an album that Van Halen's debut is often compared to for its raw energy. When recording For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, the band enlisted Andy Johns (Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Free), but Sammy had concerns with the direction of the album and convinced the band to bring back Templeman to recapture the heavy rock aspect of the band's Roth years.