Oct 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Bud Scoppa

The year 1977 was, shall we say, a “transitional period” around the L.A. music scene. On the plus side, the most popular studios were booked around the clock; however, the interiors of these studios quite often resembled insane asylums with the inmates in charge.

Some veterans look back on this turbulent time — with classic rock and R&B still going strong while punk and disco exploded — as the golden age of analog artistry; others greet questions about '77 with cringes, remembering it as a period when a lot of smart people did really dumb things, thanks in part to a veritable blizzard of cocaine. But even amid scenes of single-edge razors being used to cut lines and tape, gram scales sitting on near-field monitors and 3 a.m. runs for “maintenance,” records somehow got made and a number of them have endured, along with some of the people who made them.

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