Buena Park hires alumnus Mauricio Carmona as football coach

• January 24, 2025

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Buena Park has named alumnus Mauricio Carmona as its new football coach, the school recently announced.

Carmona, 33, will be a first-time head coach in the fall after serving last season an an offensive line coach and the head frosh-soph coach.

He has been the Coyotes’ frosh-soph coach the past three seasons and brings 14 years of coaching experience to the post.

Carmona also works as an instructional aid at Buena Park. He graduated from the school in 2010.

“I’m just excited about the opportunity,” said Carmona, who was a two-way lineman for Buena Park after starting his high school career at Sunny Hills. “I just want to bring the culture back. I want to bring structure.”

“Football imitates life in a lot of ways,” he added. “I’m able to relate to the kids.”

Carmona replaces David Prieto as Buena Park’s coach. The school and Prieto agreed to mutually part ways after four seasons.

Carmona counts Prieto, former Buena Park coaches Anthony White and Rob Ryan and former Godinez coach Tom Heathington as coaching mentors.

Carmona served as an assistant coach and offensive coordinator for the frosh-soph at Godinez.

Last season, Buena Park finished 4-6 overall, 2-3 in Omicron league and missed the playoffs.

Please send football news to Dan Albano at dalbano@scng.com or @ocvarsityguy on X and Instagram

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MLS Cup champion Galaxy face busy schedule while retooling roster

• January 24, 2025

CARSON — In Major League Soccer there really is no rest for the champion.

The Galaxy hoisted their sixth MLS Cup trophy on Dec. 7. This week, the club opened preseason training camp. In one month, the 2025 regular season kicks off. Until then, there are big decisions that need to be made and a few that have already been made.

“The goal going into the offseason was to run it back,” General Manager Will Kuntz said Thursday. “We obviously want to win again and do it with as much continuity as possible. The reality is, in MLS, it’s really difficult to be able to keep together a contending team.

“We’ve been trying to walk the right line of keeping the continuity as much possible, but also having a roster that’s sustainable with our league rules. It’s been really hard and painful, I think as we’ve all seen from the transactions that we’ve made … it’s not easy. This league punishes teams for having success. No one is going to feel bad for us, but it’s a real problem.”

Since celebrating the championship win on their home field, the Galaxy have traded homegrown defender Jalen Neal (CF Montreal), midfielder Gaston Brugman (Nashville SC) and midfielder Mark Delgado (LAFC). All three moves helped the Galaxy toward salary cap relief.

“Every year in MLS, unfortunately you go through roster shifts and changes and sometimes as coaches you have to let the dust settle a little bit to see what it will actually look like when it’s all done,” Galaxy coach Greg Vanney said. “Trying to build our vision for 2025, but understanding that we have a title to defend, expectations to fulfill. The intention and attention is on the process.”

Complicating matters for the Galaxy is the absence of star midfielder Riqui Puig. Puig suffered an ACL injury in the Western Conference final. He’s currently back home in Barcelona as he begins his rehab process.

“We’ve certainly lost some important guys, which unfortunately sometimes happens,” Vanney said. “The more success you have, sometimes the more challenges you have to keep a group together. We’ll see as we go through the next couple of weeks, hopefully clarity starts to set in and guys start to get here and start to prepare for what’s to come.”

So far, the Galaxy have added another goalkeeper (JT Marcinkowski), midfielder Sean Davis and defender Mathias “Zanka” Jorgensen. The club is trying to land midfielder Lucas Sanabria from Nacional in Uruguay. Kuntz said there is progress being made and hopes to have it finalized “sooner rather than later.”

The Galaxy also re-signed defender Maya Yoshida to a two-year contract.

The upcoming schedule will be more crowded with the Campeones Cup, CONCACAF Champions Cup and the Leagues Cup along with the 34-game MLS regular season, placing an importance on building a strong roster, even with the departures.

“The pieces that we will add, which I’m sure there’ll be two to three more pieces to come between now and the start of the season, we’ll get a feel for the strengths of those players and how they will fit into the ideas that we will have as a team,” Vanney said. “Guys that gained experience last year, like Mauricio (Cuevas), we need him to take a step forward this year, more games, more opportunities for him. I suspect he’ll be more ready to contribute this year than even where he was last year.

“Isaiah (Parente) and Tucker (Lepley) these are guys who spent a year with us, we know a lot about what they bring to the equation, they understand the way we want to play so that makes me comfortable in finding the right moment and using those guys. Ruben (Ramos) has continued to grow inside of all of these experiences and I think he’ll play a role this year and be able to step in, we have (defender) Julian (Aude) back and healthy, hopefully we can keep him there, we missed him for big chunks last year, so it will be nice to have him and his quality back in the group this year.”

Gabriel Pec and Jorgenson are due to arrive over the weekend. Unlike last season, Joseph Paintsil is in camp from the beginning. Last year, he arrived days before the season opener and went on to play a combined 70 games between Genk and the Galaxy.

“Teams are really going to come at us now,” he said. “But we need to be really prepared for every difficulties or everything that’s going to try to make things difficult for us.”

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Disney appoints new Disneyland president from cruise line division

• January 24, 2025

Disneyland has a new president who will oversee the park’s 70th anniversary celebration starting in May and guide the Anaheim theme park as it begins work on a 40-year expansion plan under the recently-approved DisneylandForward initiative.

Former Disney Cruise Line executive Thomas Mazloum was appointed the new Disneyland Resort President on Thursday, Jan. 23 by Disney Parks chairman Josh D’Amaro.

Mazloum replaces former Disneyland Resort President Ken Potrock who has been appointed to a newly created role overseeing major worldwide events for Disney.

Both Mazloum and Potrock will begin their new roles immediately and continue to report to D’Amaro who heads the Disney Experiences division.

Mazloum will oversee 36,000 employees who work at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure, Downtown Disney and the three Disney hotels in Anaheim.

As president of Disney Signature Experiences, Mazloum previously ran the Disney Cruise Line, Disney Vacation Club timeshare program, Adventures by Disney guided tours, Aulani Hotel in Hawaii, Disney Institute education program and Storyliving by Disney housing development.

Before running Disney’s cruise business, Mazloum oversaw the Disney World hotels, Disney Springs outdoor shopping mall and bus transportation operations in Florida.

Potrock guided Disneyland during the yearlong COVID-19 pandemic shutdown of the parks and the launch of the Avengers Campus themed land at Disney California Adventure. He shepherded the $1.9 billion DisneylandForward plan approved by the city of Anaheim that will reimagine what the theme park resort district will look like over the next four decades.

In his new role, Potrock will help develop Disney’s plans for America’s 250th anniversary celebration in 2026 and the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

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Is Commanders QB Jayden Daniels ‘the best rookie of all-time?’

• January 24, 2025

By STEPHEN WHYNO | AP Sports Writer

ASHBURN, Va. — Jayden Daniels has the Washington Commanders in the NFC championship game, and his list of admirers around the league continues to grow.

Just this week, Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Vic Fangio called Daniels “a young quarterback by birth certificate, not by the tape.” C.J. Stroud of the Houston Texans believes Daniels has “had the best rookie year of all time.”

If he and the Commanders beat the Eagles on Sunday, Daniels, a Cajon High grad, would become the first rookie quarterback to lead his team to the Super Bowl. And even as the hype train picks up speed, Daniels remains the same laser-focused competitor and down-to-earth person he was when he walked through the door as the second pick in the draft.

“He stays as even-keeled as any player I’ve ever been around,” top receiver Terry McLaurin said Wednesday. “We’ve played in some of the most hostile environments, we’ve been playing on some of the biggest stages and he’s treating it the same each and every week. I love that about him.”

Daniels is making a strong case to back up the opinion of Stroud, a Rancho Cucamonga High product and last season’s AP Offensive Rookie of the Year.

Daniels, a 24-year-old out of LSU, is the first player in franchise history to throw for 25 touchdown passes with fewer than 10 interceptions, and his 891 yards rushing are the most of any rookie QB in NFL history.

After winning the Heisman Trophy in college and becoming a shoe-in to be AP Offensive Rookie of the Year, Daniels said he was “not even thinking that far” about making the Super Bowl and the trail he would be blazing by facing the Buffalo Bills or Kansas City Chiefs in New Orleans on Feb. 9.

“It would obviously be a blessing, but I’m just focused on how can I be better day by day,” Daniels said. “There’s countless teams that want to be in this position. … You can’t really take it for granted, but you also just got to be in the moment.”

No problem there. Coach Dan Quinn likens Daniels on the sideline to “The Terminator” because of his steely-eyed demeanor and avoidance of distractions. On the field, Daniels has led the Commanders to six consecutive victories — winning the first five on the final play of scrimmage and beating the 15-win Lions 45-31 in Detroit. He has thrown for 17 TDs during this stretch, and while Washington is an underdog at Philadelphia, Daniels’ magic is the biggest reason to think the Commanders could pull off another upset.

“He’s got rare, in-the-moment skills that have allowed us to be into this spot,” Quinn said. “When it’s mental chaos going down and two minutes (left) and these tight moments where it can feel that tight, he’s got the experience of somebody that’s played a lot more football than a first-year player.”

Daniels isn’t sure when teammates stopped treating him like a rookie. It was Week 8 after his Hail Mary pass to Noah Brown when veteran tight end Zach Ertz asked that everyone outside the organization stop acting like Daniels is a rookie because he had seen signs of it for months.

“He was very proactive in his approach to being great,” said Ertz, who helped the Eagles win the Super Bowl seven years ago. “A lot of times when you’re young in the league, it’s a lot of trial and error to see what works for you. And, oftentimes, you’re reactionary in terms of how your process is. And it’s like, ‘Oh, after I failed a couple times, maybe I’ll do X, Y and Z a little more.’ Whereas Jayden, the moment he first got here, he was the first one in the building studying as much as possible.”

Daniels, who still warms up with a basketball and loves that sport, too, earned the reputation of being a gym rat during offseason practices. He showed up early to take part in walkthroughs before others and stayed late to make sure he got the playbook down pat.

Quinn, himself one win from returning to the Super Bowl eight years since he and the Atlanta Falcons lost to New England, appreciates Daniels’ competitiveness but respects even more how much stems from the rookie’s preparation.

“There’s a feeling of being a leg up, and doing that type of extra work sometimes just also provides the right motivation for yourself: ‘I’ve seen that look. I’m ready,’” Quinn said. “You’ve done the work at it, so when the moment comes, you’re ready to deliver.”

Daniels has delivered Washington’s best season-to-season win improvement from 4-13 to 12-5, and he has been the centerpiece of an offense that has 10 games with zero turnovers — the most for the franchise since at least 1940, according to Sportradar.

Each step along the way, Daniels has shown that no situation is too much pressure for him, something he credits to football being a fun escape for him.

“I’m not really going out there and stressing about the moment because at the end of the day I get to do what I love each and every week win, lose or draw,” Daniels said. “It’s just a blessing to be one of those kids that are able to fulfill their dream and live out their dream of playing on Sundays in the NFL.”

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Unapologetic Dodgers introduce another top-end acquisition, Tanner Scott

• January 24, 2025

LOS ANGELES — Tanner Scott arrived at Dodger Stadium on Thursday with his wife, Maddie, and son, Bo – the latter sporting a toddler-sized No. 66 Dodger onesie with “SCOTT” across the back and greater interest in the trucks crawling all over Dodger Stadium this winter than anything dad had to say on stage.

It hardly looked like the final straw in the ruination of baseball.

“We’re solely focused on the Dodgers and making this team as good as we possibly can,” Dodgers general manager Brandon Gomes said when asked about the prevalence of sky-is-falling commentary after the latest acquisition in possibly the most aggressive offseason by a World Series winner. “Our ownership group has been incredibly supportive of continuing to put back into our fans, who have done nothing but support us and come out and see us. So we’re solely focused on ‘How do we make our team better?’ and give back to the fans who have nothing but come out to see us.”

The Dodgers have made their team better this offseason with the additions of pitchers Blake Snell and Roki Sasaki, outfielder Michael Conforto, infielder Hyeseong Kim and, finally (for now), Scott whose signing was officially announced Thursday. Add in new contracts for outfielder Teoscar Hernandez, reliever Blake Treinen and utility man Tommy Edman and the moves have driven the Dodgers’ projected payroll for 2025 to the unprecedented $380 million neighborhood – more like $320 million when you take into account the deferred money that has annoyed so many around the game (and could become a thorn in the side of Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations when the CBA expires following the 2026 season).

Scott’s four-year, $72 million contract is not outrageous for a left-hander considered one of the best relievers in baseball, the best available on this year’s free-agent market. But when combined with their other moves over the past two winters, it produced a steady drumbeat of discontent with the Dodgers’ ability – and willingness – to extend themselves financially to add good players to a roster already loaded with talent.

“Let’s talk about that for a minute, because I think there are two elements to answer that question,” Dodgers team president Stan Kasten said of the criticism of the Dodgers’ free-spending ways. “First is competitively. As all of you know, the way our game is structured, right now we’re 3-to-1 against to win the World Series. That’s 70, 75 percent likely that someone else will win the World Series. So obviously it hasn’t damaged the game competitively.

“On the entertainment side, which is what we are, it’s really good when there’s one beloved team by their fans who come out in record numbers, leading all of baseball in attendance, while that same team can be hated and lead baseball in road attendance. That’s a win-win for baseball. The fact that this is also really contributing to the enhanced globalization of central baseball around the world (with the Dodgers’ acquiring three Japanese stars). It’s a win-win-win. This is really good for baseball.”

Kasten acknowledged that “other teams, markets, cities just don’t have the same kind of opportunity we do” – an advantage that exploded with the signing of Ohtani to the most team-friendly contract in the history of sports.

The Ohtani phenomenon was worth millions in revenue to the Dodgers’ bottom line last year – an advantage no other team has.

“I don’t know. But it has paid off tremendously,” Kasten said when asked if Ohtani had enabled this continued accumulation of talent by the Dodgers.

With Ohtani’s $700 million contract last year leading the way, the Dodgers committed more than $1.3 billion to new players last winter. This winter, the total is a modest-by-comparison $452 million. Money is the top item on almost any free agent’s wish list. But the Dodgers are being accused of ruining baseball, in part, because they signed Sasaki to a contract that includes only a $6.5 million signing bonus and the prospect of minimum salaries in his first three seasons.

More than money is leading players to don Dodger blue.

“Obviously players want to be in a place that they know that ownership is committed to winning,” Gomes said. “And then on top of that, we take a lot of pride in our family programs, the culture, how we treat our players, doing everything first class, and having that reputation throughout the game of, we’re going to take care of our players and their families, is important to us. And we know that if our players can focus on just the field and not have to worry about things off the field and know that they’re taken care of, that’s just one less thing that they need to worry about, and they can pour more energy to the field.

“So it’s a little bit of everything – of weather, stadium, fans, winning, culture. And we’re starting to see that really play out here as it’s built over the last few years.”

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Orange County scores and player stats for Thursday, Jan. 23

• January 24, 2025

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Scores and stats from Orange County games on Thursday, Jan. 23

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THUIRSDAY’S SCORES

GIRLS SOCCER

SUNSET LEAGUE

Corona del Mar 3, Fountain Valley 0

GOLDEN WEST LEAGUE

Fullerton 2, Garden Grove 1

ORANGE LEAGUE

Loara 2, Rancho Alamitos 0

NONLEAGUE

Whittier Christian 3, St. Paul 0

GIRLS WATER POLO

NEWPORT INVITE

Orange Lutheran 11, Foothill 6

Newport Harbor 13, Bishop’s 3

SOCAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Corona del Mar 16, Edison 2

COAST LEAGUE

Anaheim 18, Saddleback 4

Western 10, Rancho Alamitos 4

GROVE LEAGUE

Bolsa Grande 12, Savanna 10

Estancia 13, La Quinta 5

SOUTH COAST LEAGUE

Dana Hills 9, El Toro 7

NONLEAGUE

Valencia 10, Tustin 4

Garden Grove 11, Laguna Hills 2

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Gov. Newsom signs $2.5 billion wildfire disaster aid package

• January 24, 2025

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a $2.5 billion disaster aid package on Thursday, Jan. 23, to help Southern Californians recover from the devastating wildfires that have ravaged Los Angeles County.

The funding, approved by the legislature earlier in the day, will help pay for services ranging from shelters for those who have lost their homes and debris removal to expediting the rebuilding of residential homes and damaged schools.

The two bills the governor signed were introduced by legislators just this week and fast-tracked through a special legislative session to get emergency dollars out to affected communities immediately.

During an afternoon press conference, Newsom thanked the legislature for acting with urgency and for legislators from both sides of the aisle coming together for a common cause.

“I wanted to thank everybody that cleared the deck, didn’t play politics with this, that recognized that people are in need,” said Newsom.

The governor later doubled down on the importance of bipartisanship, posting on the social media platform X that the bills passed with “No ‘conditions.’ No strings attached.”

He said he hoped Congress and President Donald Trump would do the same.

Since the Southern California fires first broke out on Jan. 7, some Republicans, including  Trump, have suggested that federal disaster aid to California should come with conditions. But by and large, lawmakers who represent Southern California, on both sides of the aisle, have decried the notion that conditions should be placed on disaster relief aid.

Trump, who has criticized the state’s water policy, said in an interview with Fox News this week, “I don’t think we should give California anything until they let water flow down” from the northern part of the state to the south.

In the meantime, California state legislators moved forward with approving $2.5 billion in emergency funding for Southern California with hopes that at least some of that money will be reimbursed by the federal government. The money was approved as part of special session bills introduced by Assembly Budget Chair Jesse Gabriel, D-Encino, and Senate Budget Chair Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco.

The first bill, ABX1-4/SBX1-4, provides up to $1.5 billion to fund fire response and recovery. This includes expenses related to evacuating and sheltering displaced individuals; removing household hazardous wastes; remediating post-fire hazards such as flooding and debris flow; conducting air quality, water or other environmental tests; and expediting recovery.

The second bill, ABX1-5/SBX1-3, provides funding for the following:

• $4 million for L.A. County, as well as the cities of Los Angeles, Malibu, Pasadena and potentially other local governments to expedite the rebuilding of residential homes by providing resources to speed up the planning review and building process.

• $1 million to assist the Los Angeles and Pasadena school districts, as well as charter schools within those districts, to rebuild and recover damaged facilities.

• Up to $1 billion for other disaster-related responses.

Legislators have called the $2.5 billion initial funding and said that more money and other actions will be needed in the future to address California wildfires.

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NAMM 2025: Scenes (and sounds) from the first day of the Anaheim music event

• January 24, 2025

Scott Sullivan waited patiently in line for his chance to meet drummer Gregg Bissonette at the NAMM Show at the Anaheim Convention Center on Thursday morning.

The line moved, and Sullivan, himself a drummer from Simi Valley, reached the table where Bissonnette, who has toured and recorded with stars including Ringo Starr, David Lee Roth, Duran Duran and Pat Boone (on that metal album the pop crooner once made).

Out came a glossy photograph of Bissonnette enlarged to the size of a small poster.

“I was younger and thinner then!” Bissonnette said, laughing, as he signed the image.

Sullivan arrived at the annual National Association of Music Merchants Show with a stack of similar photographs and a list of musicians he hoped to track down for autographs at signings in the exhibition halls.

“I have so many of these at home I have to rotate them,” he said of the past success of his efforts. “On the NAMM app, they have a list of who will be at the different booths. I came prepared for many people.”

At NAMM on Thursday, we wandered the floor checking out guitar manufacturers and technical gear, the occasional musical performance, and a panel or two.

Here’s what we found:

Music for the heart

Marcelo Dai was hard to miss as he jammed on electric bass with two guitarists at the Macmull Guitars booth. Between his retro maroon suit and his funky, string-popping riffs, it was impossible not to stop and watch.

“I came here from Brazil,” said Dia, who is from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and is actually a Tama Drums-sponsored drummer, not a bassist.

“Everybody’s got the same energy, the same good vibes,” Dai said, explaining he saw the bass untended and couldn’t resist picking it up to jam with two strangers. “Having a chance to be in the same space with everybody here, it’s good for the heart.”

Ripping some riffs

Sofia Dove, the musician influencer known as Sunfyre, looked like she was having the most ridiculous time of her life as she laughed and grinned while trying out a new guitar effects pedal at NAMM on Thursday.

And how could she not? The Fart Pedal does exactly what its name implies, converting each note played on a guitar into, well, a very cheeky range of semi-musical sounds.

“People like farts,” said Dove, whose live performances on Twitch feature her wearing one silly costume after another – Dora the Explorer, a Mario Toad, a camouflage ghillie suit – while playing drums and singing on a technicolor set. “It’s for people having fun.”

Fart Pedal creator Steve Gadlin said the product, which is packaged in a can of beans not a box, came unexpectedly about four years ago.

“I was googling it because I wanted one, and it didn’t exist,” he says of his desire to make guitars break like the wind.

He contacted a tech guy who made pedals, who told him he could make the pedal of Gadlin’s dreams, but wondered why he wanted one.

“I said, ‘Just go on the journey with me, man,” Gadlin said. “And we’ve been making a lot of Fart Pedals since.”

Art and soul inside

Before Luis Ortiz founded Cream Guitars in Monterrey, Mexico, he was a musician whose first love was a Stratocaster. And as he tried new guitars, a Les Paul, a Telecaster, a semi-hollow body, he says he learned new sounds and techniques.

With Cream, Ortiz hopes to inspire those who try his company’s custom guitars and basses to go like him to musical places they’ve never known before.

“The old designs stopped changing,” he said of the way that Strats and Les Pauls and similarly shaped and built guitars became standards. “Everything was like the same car from the ’50s with better brakes. No innovation.”

At NAMM, Cream’s Voltage DaVinci displayed plenty of that attitude thanks to the electronic paper made by E Ink that covers the guitar body and allows a guitarist to endlessly customize the colors and shapes and their movements as they play the instrument.

“We are a new attitude,” Ortiz said of the customization his instruments can offer even beyond the e-paper used on the DaVincis. “From a guitar that changes colors to guitars that have art and soul inside.”

Record Plant stories

The name of the Record Plant, a chain of recording studios in New York City, Los Angeles and Sausalito, appears in the credits on scores of beloved classic albums from the late ’60s for decades after.

Stevie Wonder’s “Innervisions” and his other legendary albums of the early ’70s. Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” and “Darkness on the Edge of Town.” Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” and the Eagles’ “Hotel California.”

At NAMM on Thursday, some of the people who build Record Plant studios and produce or engineer those records appeared on a panel titled “Buzz Me In – Birth of Record Plant Recording Studios: 1968-1978.”

Much of the conversation circled around Studio B at the Record Plant in Los Angeles, which panelists John Storyk and Robert Margouleff created for Stevie Wonder to use not only for “Innervisions” but other albums including “Talking Book” and “Songs in the Key of Life,” too.

Storyk, an architect and acoustician, built Electric Lady studio for Jimi Hendrix, whose album “Electric Ladyland,” was the first album recorded at the Record Plant after its creation by partners Chris Stone and Gary Kellgren. Engineer-producer Margouleff was working with Stevie Wonder in New York City, and neither of them was entirely happy with the studios they had to use.

Studio B at the Record Plant changed all that, Storyk and Margouleff said. It allowed space to house the massive bank of synthesizers called TONTO with which Wonder was making those albums. But even more significant, it expanded on the new kind of recording studio that Hendrix and Storyk built at Electric Lady, making them more like a living room and less like a science lab.

“The Record Plant, Electric Lady, and a few others were finally studios that said there should be a vibe in a studio,” Storyk said.

At the Record Plant studios, not only could an artist make a record that sounded fantastic, they could indulge in all manner of fun while they were doing it. In Los Angeles, the studios had a jacuzzi, a former Coke machine that dispensed cans of beer for a quarter, and themed bedrooms.

In Sausalito, there were two jacuzzis and a weekly delivery of nitrous oxide – laughing gas – which apparently could be enjoyed through devices built into the control room, though panelist Ken Caillat, an acclaimed producer, said he never saw the nitrous during the year he spent in Sausalito recording Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours.”

The sex and drugs are stories now, some of them likely to appear in “Buzz Me In: Inside the Record Plant Studios,” a book coming later this year from coauthors Martin Porter and David Goggin, the latter of whom moderated the panel in his online persona of Mr. Bonzai.

The music, though, will forever live on, Margouleff said.

“You couldn’t make a bad record in that room,” he said. “It was magical.”

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