The final installment of our Van Halen roundtable with Brian Kehew. We go over everything and share some new facts that the studio dug up from work orders from 1977. Enjoy! MAKE SURE & SUBSCRIBE & TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS BECAUSE WE ARE JUST GETTING STARTED!

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Ep. 2 with Brian Kehew takes us in the control room of studio 2 at Sunset Sound to listen to some cool outtakes and alternate endings as well as what the room mics picked up during the tracking of "Eruption" in studio 1. Due to copyright issues our conversation picks up in ep. 2.5 available now. Van Halen November is a quest to bring some information to light and a discussion from the studio where so much VH work was done. MAKE SURE & SUBSCRIBE & TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS BECAUSE WE ARE JUST GETTING STARTED! Also when you’re done here go to the link below for the final wrap up episode: 2.5 https://youtu.be/O-aZi17L0bI

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Owner: Paul Camarata https://www.instagram.com/sunsetsound...

Sunset Sound Senior Engineer Geoff Neal: https://www.instagram.com/geoffbneal/

Filmed by Abel Padilla Mario Nakasone

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Van Halen November kicks off at Sunset Sound with Engineer/Producer/Author/Historian Brian Kehew coming in to Studio 2 for an amazing informative discussion. Brian was introduced to us at Sunset Sound through Ted Templeman biographer Greg Renoff just last week. He told us he had been in the Warner Brothers vault when he was hired to go through all the Van Halen outtakes and unreleased audio and we asked if he could come in studio that day. He agreed and this is that conversation. We have a 2nd installment of this interview that will be released this coming week. Thank you to Brian, Greg and long live Van Halen.

R.I.P EVH MAKE SURE & SUBSCRIBE & TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS BECAUSE WE ARE JUST GETTING STARTED!

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Owner: Paul Camarata https://www.instagram.com/sunsetsound...

Sunset Sound Head Engineer Geoff Neal: https://www.instagram.com/geoffbneal/

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Below the notes is time sequences for segments. Mark Jacobs is a Director, a Cinematographer and a Journalist, but he’s much much more. He’s a beautiful person who has led a fascinating life, to which I myself use as a motto of motivation, to work with honesty, integrity and knowledge. He’s done it all in his profession and off camera is where the real story of intrigue lies. Starting in the Mob Infested Las Vegas of the 70’s in the Howard Hughes owned news rooms of KLAS in his early teens, he soon rose to the knowledge and experimentation to quickly land him in more senior positions before he had reached 20 years of age! Truly shooting "Reality" before it was the term we associate it with today. Having a father that was worked with the mob and just so happened to also be casino gangster, Lefty Rosenthal’s right hand man. And with his mother being the top show girl of Vegas at the time, his life is a truly a movie that just hasn't been shot yet. The 90’s led Mark to newsrooms in San Diego and on to Hollywood to direct television for some of the biggest shows in history. The coolest thing about this interview is that Mark has never gave an on camera bio interview like this before, and he gave it to ME! All Access! Me! A 2nd yr film student who he only met once before at Rob Dyrdeks house while he was directing Season 1 of the MTV mega hit Rob and Big. At that time little did I know that Mark was working on his masterpiece, a documentary about quadriplegic surfer Jesse Billauer, entitled "Jesses Story", which for me is one of the most motivating beautiful documentaries, that shows the true test of the human spirit to be able to rise above the one of the greatest tragedies and adversities ever. This interview has everything for any viewer or listener.

Thanks to Mark for being so open and entertaining.

00:00 - Growing up in Las Vegas around the mob and working in Howard Hughes KLAS studios at the age of 15.

12:00 Journalism gave me the start and paying it forward

23:37 - Discussing current well done docs, The Last Dance and Tiger King, ESPN and Michael Jordan

33:40 Working with producer Rick Kirkham (Inside Edition, Tiger King, TV junkie)

39:28 Reality Vs. Features and the current doc programming

42:10 Directing Breaking Bonaduce

57:00 Directing Rob and Big

1:05:20 Meeting Jesse Billauer and Making Marks Documentary Jesses Story.

Norman Harris is THEE vintage guitar dealer!!  He owns and operates his historic store called Norman's Rare Guitars in Tarzana, CA which is nothing short of legendary. He is one of the guitar industry's foremost experts on vintage guitars. His store has become a rock star and entertainer destination and he has become a celebrity through his Youtube channel which has more than 500,000 subscribers. He is also the author of two books about vintage guitars and was close friends with Tom Petty before his passing and just so happens to owns Tom's guitar and top hat which I was lucky enough to try on.   On any given day you will see Slash, Joe Bonamassa or Dave Grohl shopping around this epic LA axe store.

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From BLACKILLAC,  Zeale live on The DFD Podcast from The Ivar Theatre in Hollywood. Talking Blackillac, Gary Clark Jr, Austin, TX, ACL, shoe deals, quitting drinking and the grind to get and stay on top of the Hip Hop game in todays music industry .

Live from The Ivar Theatre in Hollywood, CA Jan 26 2020. Fronted by acclaimed songwriter Drew Lawrence (Christina Perri & more) This harmonious charismatic group sits down with me to discuss their new album Easy Times, the trials and tribulations in the current music industry, musical influences, the love and motivation of their fans, 3 part harmonies, Prince, Beach Boys, OZARK and scented candles.

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