Why is it sad? Wasn't this part of the plan announced a couple of months ago?...........
......."The studio expects to announce a new owner at the beginning of 2005, and will change its name to Western Recorders. The studio has hosted staff engineers Chuck Britz, Bones Howe, Wally Heider and Lee Hirschberg. The Mamas and the Papas’ "California Dreaming," Frank Sinatra’s "Strangers in the Night" and Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Nat King Cole and Johnny Mercer Lou Adler all recorded hits at the facility....."