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Inside the Complicated Past and Uncertain Future of LA’s Record Plant Recording Studio

The Record Plant isn't closing, but the future of the iconic recording studio in Los Angeles is wrapped up in a complicated mess of lawsuits.

“This place was a rock ‘n’ roll mecca complete with a hot tub room and other creative spaces specifically designed for orgies and drug use,” wrote Jim Peterik, a member of the ’80s band Survivor, in his 2014 memoir Through the Eye of the Tiger. In 2014, Moi visited the Record Plant and decided he loved everything about it — “I had goosebumps,” he says — and made a deal with Stevens to rent a two-room upstairs studio, Digi-Plant, as resident producer.Moi spent earnings from his London real-estate portfolio to invest in equipment and renovations. Due to Philmar’s Chapter 7 status, the trustees in the bankruptcy proceeding are required to sell the Record Plant assets to pay off the creditors (which include CIM for back rent payments, and Moi for equipment, as the Italian producer argues in court).

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