5150 Studios is Eddie Van Halen's home studio in Hollywood, CA, USA. He built it so that he could have more control over the recording process than he had in the past. Every Van Halen album from 1984 onwards was recorded at 5150. They took the name for the studio (and incidentally the album 5150) from the California Police code for criminally insane. There are currently rumours that Eddie is moving house and is worried about what will become of his studio. Edward Lodewijk Van Halen, (born January 26, 1955) is a guitarist and a founding member of the hard rock band Van Halen. ... Van Halen is an American hard rock band. ... 1984 is the sixth album by American hard rock band Van Halen. ... 5150 is the seventh album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released in 1986 (see 1986 in music). ...

Eddie said this about the studio "We've done every album since 1984 here. It's where I go everyday, where I go to hang out. I even come up in my bathrobe. I usually get up at about seven in the morning- hey, I got a kid. Sometimes I'll bring Wolf and he'll bang around on Alex's drums. This place is like Fort Knox. Nothing happened to it during the earthquake in 1994. It's all two-foot cinder block filled with cement. It ain't going anywhere. Donn Landee actually designed this studio. It just started out as a demo thing, a place where I could go and have fun. We built it with a very small budget in mind, and then as it grew over the years, we started to go,'F***, we can actually make records here! Let's buy a new console, let's buy this, let's buy that!' It's not like I started out saying let's have a professional recording studio at home- it wasn't like that at all. You should have seen what we did 1984 on; a $6,000 piece-of-sh** console that came out of United Western, an old green World War II thing with big old knobs and tubes. Donn rewired it to make it work."

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