Donn Landee
Full Name: Donn Edward Landee
Birth Date: February 26, 1947
Deceased Date: April 5, 2026
Artist Bio:
Sound engineer and record producer in Los Angeles beginning in the mid-60s at TTG and Sunwest studios; joined Warner Bros. Records in the late-60s as staff engineer and worked on dozens of albums by Little Feat, Van Morrison and many others, often alongside famed producer Ted Templmen; was primary engineer on seven straight albums by The Doobie Brothers from Toulouse Street (#21, 1972) to chart-topping Minute by Minute (#1, 1979); served as “fifth member” and engineer, and later co-producer for Van Halen on every album from the 1978 debut through 1984, designed and helped build Eddie Van Halen’s 5150 Studios next to his home in the Hollywood Hills and supervised the recording of 1984 (#2, 1984), 5150 (#1, 1986) and OU812 (#1, 1988) there at the peak of the band’s popularity; following a split with Van Halen in 1989 spent the ensuing decades remastering several Van Halen albums as well as other artists for reissues and retrospective collections; died from natural causes on 4/05/2026, age 79.
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