BANDING TOGETHER
THIRD ENCORE STUDIOS
Father-and-son studio business hits all the right notes
BY JAKE POINIER
W HEN YOU BUY TICKETS to see your by accident. Like any professional pursuit at the highest levels, the band’s two-hour performance is dwarfed by the time they spend preparing for a tour. Wynnsan Moore, president of L.A.-based Third Encore Studios, likens the process to baseball spring training. favorite band in concert, you expect an epic show. And that doesn’t happen “You can’t put a pitcher out there and say, ‘OK, go throw nine innings,’” he says. “He needs to go through the three- or four-week process of building muscle memory. It’s the same when you see the Rolling Stones up there doing 28 songs, and Mick
Jagger bouncing around at 79 years old. It took a lot of work to get there.”
Building in stages Moore’s pointed insight comes from years of experience—namely running Third Encore, a family- owned and -operated rehearsal studio in north Hollywood, a stone’s throw from the Hollywood Burbank Airport. The business launched in 1988 as a single rehearsal studio established by two road managers from the Eagles and went through several ownership changes in the ’90s. Moore—with a background as a CPA, serial entrepreneur and real estate investor—
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