Vinyl records

The Hollywood Persuaders vinyl records

2 albums with 35 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

The Persuaders were really one key figure. That of Paul Buff, whose engineering skills had led him to build PAL Studio in Cucamonga, initially at 8020 Archibald Avenue and then at 8040 - where it eventually became Frank Zappa's 'Studio Z' in 1964. Buff offered flat-rate fee tariffs to up-and-coming bands who needed cost-effective recordings. He engineered a number of surf bands (despite being in the desert location) and his work launched The Surfaris and The Chantays, but he benefited no more than they by some devious re-recording of the works. As Zappa (who had lived nearby with his first wife) began to occupy the studio, a number of other musicians began to regularly appear.