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I live on Maui and these fires are obviously so similar to what our island experienced. It's heartbreaking to see more people go through the same thing, especially all of the conspiracy theories that do nothing but bring harm. Rebuilding takes forever and it will never be the same, that's just the harsh reality and it sucks. I'm so sorry to everyone dealing with this horror right now.

So glad and thankful you're safe. I hate knowing that anyone is having to deal with this and that this is so many people's reality right now. Appreciate your videos, your creativity and your approach to things. Here's to rebuilding back even stronger, and my thoughts are with everyone affected by this absolute nightmare.

Thank you David for this informative video. I lived in Altadena in 2009, my mother lived there, and I'm gutted by the disaster. I find your survival skills and communication with neighbors very admirable and fascinating since the major news media is a joke. There needs to be contingencies for the people of LA to communicate in future fire disasters, as we all know there will be more. Good luck to you and your family and friends. Many of my colleagues lost their homes. All the best to you from NorCal.

Leave USA and come back to Europe. USA are becoming more and more dangerous with climate change

The Fairlight Series III used for Terminator movie burned :(

On the bright side, with a generator, you can crank a full stack, and no one's gonna call the cops.

I just stumbled across this video and was delighted to hear that your studio and home are okay and your family is safe. A friend of mine, who also lives in Altadena, was also very lucky, but it was entirely due to her neighbors commitment to stay behind and try and save his own house. In the end he also saved hers. The rest of the houses on her street are all gone. She and her two roommates and their two cats are desperately looking for a place to live as her home won't be livable for at least a few months. (Putting the word out in case you hear of anything. Incidentally, she's also a musician. :) My wife is from LA and grew up in La Crescenta, but attended the Pasadena Waldorf school in Altadena. She was sad to see that much of the school campus is also gone. The two of us made a plan as to what we would do and take if there were a fire after the Marshall fire here in Colorado a few years ago. That fire also destroyed entire neighborhoods and businesses. As a musician and avid music collector it's hard to know what to take. In the end after our son and pets were safe and my 5 year old already had everything that he wanted to take I would grab our passports, my sons first stuffy, a small box of hard drives with photos and my own music on them, an unframed U2 lithograph that took me nearly 20 years to get all 4 members to sign, the very first record award I ever received (because like you with that one piece of gear that told you that "you made it," this told me that I achieved my dream of working in the music industry,) and finally...I would take this single loose photo print that definitely has seen better days, but is the only copy that I have of the first time I met Bono. If I am lucky to have enough time to grab all of these things that's what I would take. I hope that your brother-in-law is able to rebuild quickly.

I needed the last 5 minutes of this one today. Lost my studio last week and today was one of those bad days. Our house survived, miraculously. Altadena is amazing and I just want to swing hammers for our neighbors.

From this video, you should create a short/reel about the News being out dated.

Those boxes you see on the electrical poles are filled with oil and become incendiary with enough heat applied to them. When they explode in fire can you imagine all that it could ignite? Now imagine many of them going off. Please check these transformers and make sure they are secure from fire.

Beautiful song brother

Glad you’re doing this David. I’ve been following everything from the DTLA area, and it’s just devastating to think about what all of you have been going through. So many friends and colleagues who have lost their homes. Again, thanks for putting this out there.

beautiful mate, thanks for posting

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This is a really insightful account. Thanks ❤

John Powell’s massive palisades studio is untouched. Sadly though John’s house just 150ft away from the studio is 100% gone.

Very well done song, poignantly expressed...

Beautiful song, David.

Extremely well spoken! This is one of the best videos I’ve seen about this horrible catastrophe. I’m glad you are fine! Greetings from Sweden. ❤

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great video and demonstration.. makes me want to try it out against my distressors in brit mode i'd like to hear you test the the MAS and modular channel as well! :)

Thank you for sharing. Your timeline is very similar to ours. Altadena is unincorporated and had 2 fire stations. The neighborhood was doomed with the wind anyways. It did very much feel like we were on our own and to defend ours. Looked like hell, sounded like hell. I came back to take watch too cause I was worried about embers and looters. Glad you are ok. fwiw guitar center is doing 1500 dollar grants to help get people back on their feet a bit.

It’s a bizarre feeling…This feeling of being thankful that you have a roof over your head knowing that some many of our friends and/or neighbors have lost everything. And kinetically we’re all sharing this sense of immense loss and trauma. Not just the physical loss, but the loss we all know is going to become realer and realer as time goes on. It’s so intense. Glad you and your family are alright and the studio made it.

middle aged dad with kids who is a musician. can confirm. glad you are safe.

Thank you for sharing this experience. I, too didn't know what I would take, I'm in W. Hollywood not far from Runyon Canyon, evacuation line was less then a mile from me. Feeling the survivor's guilt. 🙁

Its really good to hear survival stories. As you hear a lot of stories of what was lost. So are there still powerlines going into your places. I saw they were pulling up the underground transformers presumably to investigate them, sounds like the grid is very disrupted, I would be suprised if there was power there anytime soon if all the access points going into it. I think even people outside the area still had power turned off but this is just stuff I encountered today, can't verify it. They are sending in insurance teams into the burn area probably to verify claims orwhatever. They probably want to do a safety aseesment due to all the hazmat stuff that might be present in the area as house fires can be pretty toxic. I am geussing it will be a couple weeks before real cleanup happens, cleanup in Hawaii has taken months/years.

Altadena was the first town I lived in when I moved to LA in 2006. I lived on Sinaloa on the east side of the country club. Miraculously the house, and all my neighbors survived in one of those bubbles you spoke of, but halfway up my street, everything is gone. On the west side of the country club, everything is gone. On the east side of Allen, everything is gone. So many of my old friends lost their homes, and so many places I used to go to are gone. I'm still having trouble dealing with it, its so hard. I live very close by in La Crescenta, but Altadena will always have a special place in my heart. I'm glad to hear a story of someone who made it, especially a fellow musician. Be safe over there.

Great video David! I have one of these too, same revision. Question - how hard are you hitting the input on this, not including the input gain (ie what level is coming out of your DAW)?

HI David. You likely don't remember me, but I just wanted to reach out and say how incredibly happy I am for you that you and your family are safe. Thank you for making this video. It seems "wrong" for me to say that I enjoyed watching it, considering the nature and the context of the video but I appreciated your honesty and insight into the fires and the impact not only on you and your family but to your community. Thank you for sharing. And it sounds like this experience may provide you with a myriad of material for a new album. Until then. Take care.

a video Thanking GOD in a song of Praise!

I am glad you, your house and your studio survived the fires!. I guess big disasters unite people, as the big floods we had in Valencia (Spain) just two and a half months ago. Help poured from all over Spain and even from other countries. Of course, the media attention shifts fastly and it could seem that everything is already OK. But it isn't, there are thousands of businesses still closed, about 130.000 lost vehicles, thousands of houses damaged, infrastructures gone, and so on. So, please, for people out of LA watching this video: don't forget them as soon as the news shift to other things. Recovery will take years. My best wishes from Valencia, Spain. Praying for all of you 🙏

Fellow Angeleno here. Take care of yourself and your family, especially your mental health. We all are going through a lot of trauma and it's going to take years to recover. It reminds me a lot of the 1994 earthquake and how it affected the whole area. These wind and fire events are going to continue year after year, so it's going to be triggering. Best wishes. Oh and "Watch Duty" is a great free app for fire information.

lots of love buddy, you've still got ur home and studio but you've been through a lot, must feel weird sat in ur studio whilst pondering what really matters in life, you and the other musicians in the area will have a new meaning in their work, but for now fuck work, lets look after each other and be safe, good luck man, Leon from Cornwall uk

Sending love from the east coast

Don’t know ya personally but I’m glad you/family/fish and home are safe.

Thanks for making this David

of course the news are bad, because they feed of the fears and voyeurism of the people and are completely useless for the victims...good luck for you and your loved ones.

Funny how the trees right next to the burnt foundations are untouched. Just like Maui - we need forensic specialists to speak up.

I'm delighted to see you safe. Hope your whole family and the studio are at peace.

Oh shit man we're neighbors 😂 idk about you but my goodness that was terrifying. Came down to Woodbury and lake then Altadena and Washington, we got so so so lucky that it sorta just stopped at the golf course. My house isn't livable atm, too much contamination and my gf is pregnant so we can't go back until it's cleaned :/

Glad you and the studio are OK. I saw your post that said "the shit has hit the fan". Scary. Amazing gear you have and great sounds and videos

Your story is one of the few bits of good news to come out of the US ❤

Totally insane, very very sad. Off the damn charts.

I just moved from Altadena 4 months ago. What a tragedy. I’m so glad you and the studio are safe.

hey dave, glad to hear you survived this pretty well! thanks for the update - after the election i dropped out of the news 100% so i barely saw anything and as you say the news suck here anyway. 2 things that struck my mind here were a) are those houses all built from wood? not stone? and b) knowing about the dangers in this area and referring to your note with the flying amber - couldnt you just invest in some kind of giant anti-burn blanket that can be pulled over a house? i´m sure that won´t cost millions and would have probably saved many houses.

I hope you're doing okay man.

I totally relate to your commentary on the news media. I told my family from afar that even though it might be enticing to watch the coverage that nothing on the news is reflecting the event. Everyone is basically on their own. I was in Sierra Madre at my studio when I got a text saying "is there fire over there". I went out and onto the roof and saw the glow about 6:50. The chain of events to follow was pretty similar. I went to my house and packed a bag knowing the canyons would be evacuated. I came down to my studio and starting deciding what to take. Similar choices to yours. Mics, guitars, some vintage amps. It had to satisfy a certain ratio of how much space it took up verses the creative or monetary value it would have in starting over. After I'd packed my truck with all the sort of "structured" pieces I began looking at things I could put in the spaces. 500 series modules. More, smaller mics. Finally, I decided to take my Mothership out of the rack and that was the last piece. After the truck was packed I spent the night on the roof watching the fire sweep across from the west side of the city to the east. I was wondering if the wind would push it into the city but I never really did. I was up all night and when the sun started coming up I could make out the black smoke plumes here and there and knowing those were houses. I was starting to believe the city had been spared. I'm so thankful but I feel terrible for Altadena and my friends and colleagues there that are now scattered to the four winds.

I watched your video from Edinboro- it was really thorough, so thank you for sharing your experience. I am so glad your studio was spared. It was really interesting what you took with you when the fires were close. I can’t imagine driving around and seeing that kind of devastation. I really like the band Dawes and I’m so sad for them. A little bit of everything is a favorite song of mine. Sending lots of love your way. Many lessons learned. Stay strong.

Dude I’m so happy for you! I’m a firefighter for La county and am actually tracking an 11 song album that I’ve been wanting you to mix. Glad you made it out with your life and your studio brother

So so lucky, David! I had asked Bernadette about your place. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Thank you for sharing all this! Stay safe! I’m not far (in lower Hastings Ranch) if y’all need anything.