When did you build this studio we're in right now?
KL: Well, around 2000, my partner and I decided we'd move in together. She started looking for some place we might want to do that. I had been living as a bachelor in a house where the studio was the master bedroom and I lived in the guest room.
JL: All the overdubs on anything he was making for Asylum Records happened there.
KL: When we decided that we wanted to find a place, she said, "Look, you've got to find something where we can live in a house together, but you can also have your studio." I figured we'd never find anything like that in this neighborhood. We wanted to live near here in Green Hills. I think it took her a couple weeks and she found this house. Ironically it was owned by Garry Tallent; Bruce Springsteen's bass player. Garry had bought the house but had never actually moved in. It came back on the market, and a realtor friend of ours found the house and called me.
Was the back building already built?
KL: Every structure was already here, except that the room you're in right now was part of a nine car garage. It's three bays wide and three bays deep. On the other side of that wall [the back of the control room] is a three-car garage. I took the back two-thirds. When we found the house, Jason and I took a couple of lawn chairs and sat in here with a six-pack of beer, sipped, and just sat here.
JL: Yeah, I think we sat at the mixing position!
Was there the window looking outside?
