There was a fire just down the hill from 5150

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  • Nitro Express
    DIAMOND STATUS
    • Aug 2004
    • 32940

    There was a fire just down the hill from 5150

    I have two college buddies who live over where the LA fires are. One has a home in Brentwood. Several fires have started. One house in Studio City caught fire and that caught the brush and neighboring homes on fire. Just up the hill from there is the Van Halen estate and 5150. Luckily the firefighters were able to extinguished those fires before they spread. They almost issued an evacuation order for the whole area.
    No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!
  • Seshmeister
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    • Oct 2003
    • 35582

    #2

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    • ZahZoo
      ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

      • Jan 2004
      • 9102

      #3
      One can hope that tape library and any of Ed's legacy gear from Ed's work is stored somewhere secure and not sitting in 5150...
      "If you want to be a monk... you gotta cook a lot of rice...”

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      • Nitro Express
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        • Aug 2004
        • 32940

        #4
        The fire department got that fire out pretty quick. The hydrants must have had water in Studio City.
        No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!

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        • Nitro Express
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          • Aug 2004
          • 32940

          #5
          I will bet you anything those tapes are still in that storage area off the drum room.
          No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!

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          • Terry
            DIAMOND STATUS
            • Jan 2004
            • 12108

            #6
            Hopefully somebody working in an assistant capacity there has converted whatever is there on those tapes to a digital format, rather than just let the tapes sit there and degrade.
            Scramby eggs and bacon.

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            • ZahZoo
              ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

              • Jan 2004
              • 9102

              #7
              Originally posted by Nitro Express
              I will bet you anything those tapes are still in that storage area off the drum room.
              Plus the upstairs storage room with Ed's old gear... his old Marshall heads, a bunch of rare and odd-ball vintage guitars, EB Music Man's, Peavey Wolfgangs, Fender EVH Wolfgangs and his tuba...
              "If you want to be a monk... you gotta cook a lot of rice...”

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              • Vinnie Velvet
                Full Member Status

                • Feb 2004
                • 4649

                #8
                Originally posted by ZahZoo
                One can hope that tape library and any of Ed's legacy gear from Ed's work is stored somewhere secure and not sitting in 5150...
                I bet Wolf didn't even consider that. Most fatties who sit and play video games are lazy at these types of things as well.
                =V V=
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                EAT US AND SMILE

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                • Nitro Express
                  DIAMOND STATUS
                  • Aug 2004
                  • 32940

                  #9
                  Originally posted by ZahZoo

                  Plus the upstairs storage room with Ed's old gear... his old Marshall heads, a bunch of rare and odd-ball vintage guitars, EB Music Man's, Peavey Wolfgangs, Fender EVH Wolfgangs and his tuba...
                  5150 is a cinderblock building with commercial steel doors. The roof is black tar. Black top surrounds it. It’s more fireproof than most the houses up there. Ed said when the Northridge earthquake happened nothing happened to the building because it’s on the bedrock. Masonry buildings don’t necessarily hold up great in earthquakes; especially side to side ones. Not that the area is the greatest for fire but 5150 is more safe than the house is.

                  To be honest when I saw how close that fire was and it’s downhill and fires tend to burn uphill I did cringe at the thought of everything burning up. We live in a forrest fire danger area. We clear out all the dead under growth around our subdivision and cut the dead trees up for firewood. There’s not much fuel for a fire so hopefully it will keep a fire out of here.

                  No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!

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                  • Seshmeister
                    ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

                    • Oct 2003
                    • 35582

                    #10

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                    • ZahZoo
                      ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

                      • Jan 2004
                      • 9102

                      #11
                      Former DLR guitarist Terry Kilgore lost his house and his musical gear in the Eaton fire...

                      "If you want to be a monk... you gotta cook a lot of rice...”

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                      • Seshmeister
                        ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

                        • Oct 2003
                        • 35582

                        #12
                        That's really shit I hope someone steps up and helps him.

                        Also struck by some real fucking asshole comments on vhnd, if that twat NinjaChiquirita is registered here please fuck off immediately.

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                        • Nitro Express
                          DIAMOND STATUS
                          • Aug 2004
                          • 32940

                          #13
                          Pacific Palisades is 95% gone. Altadena is pretty much gone. The hills around LA have always been a tinderbox when the Santa Ana winds dry everything out but in the past they had excellent fire prevention. They stopped clearing brush and doing controlled burns for some environmental reasons. There were empty hydrants. Once you get a fire going with high winds it's almost impossible to put out. If you are lucky you let the fire burn to the top of the ridge and fire bomb the shit out of it and it goes out. There's really no excuse. People pay very high taxes in those areas. There's also federal funds for fire prevention. There needs to be an investigation where all the money for fire prevention went. Some of the fire funds were diverted to help with the homeless problem. Good ol mismanaged LA. It's been a mess for years. Next will be mudslides. Malibu is basically a disaster area. So is Laguna Beach. But people want the nice ocean view.
                          No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!

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