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Chris Beck. The sad story of a major talent whose avaricious, vindictive record label ruined him. Hawthorne, California—located 16 miles from Los Angeles—has a musical mystique because it's the hometown of the Beach Boys.

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But there was another musician who grew up there with those band members he went to high school with them , and at one point seemed to have the potential for a similar musical trajectory. Until it all went up in smoke. The story of Emitt Rhodes is a cautionary tale of the damage that a ruthless, spiteful record company can do to a budding talent.

In a universal sense, it's a commentary on how easily any successful or promising life can get derailed in an instant by a bad decision. Rhodes was playing music on the Sunset Strip at The teenager started out as a drummer, but took up the guitar due to the Beatles. That influence was never far beneath the surface of his music.

Soon after the young musician started writing songs for his critically-acclaimed albums, "Beatlesque" became the most common descriptor of his sound. Rhodes went solo after Merry-Go-Round disbanded. He recorded and mixed his next, and first proper solo album, Emitt Rhodes, on his own, and it went to number 29 on the Billboard charts.

The musician used the money he made from the "salary" his manager paid him to buy studio equipment to make more of his own records. With four albums in a span of three years, right after going solo, things were looking bright for Rhodes. But here's where the weirdness comes in. A good answer would be to contractually require that already hard-working artist to turn in two albums per year, which is exactly what the clueless record label did.