Industry | Music (recording) |
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Genre | Punk rock |
Founded | 1985 in Culver City, California |
Founder | Brett Gurewitz |
Defunct | May 12, 2010 |
Fate | Dissolved |
Headquarters | 6035 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California , United States
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Westbeach Recorders was a recording studio in Hollywood, California famous for recording punk rock groups, such as Bad Religion, Avenged Sevenfold, [2] 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, [3] and re-located to Hollywood, California in February 1987. They moved for the final time in 1991 to the former location of Seymour Heller's Producer's Workshop studios on Hollywood Boulevard. [4] In a back room closet at this location, Epitaph Records had its first office. [3] [5]
Donnell Cameron became a partner in 1988 and was the studio owner/engineer until May 12, 2010, when Westbeach Recorders went out of business.