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Fifty years ago, the rock ‘n’ roll angels and demons haunted the new Record Plant Sausalito, and they are still singing and howling today. On Oct. 29, 1972, Gary Kellgren and Chris Stone unveiled their newest location of the fabled…
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Roy Cicala and his Record Plant New York team could do the impossible. During the Imagine sessions in July 1971, John Lennon was looking for an Automatic Double Tracking (ADT), an EMI Studios invention that was never made commercially…
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The last time Jimi Hendrix worked at Record Plant New York was May 15, 1970, one week before the Woodstock album’s release and the same date that the shootings at Kent State appeared on the cover of Life magazine. The…
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While Gary Kellgren was scouting locations in Sausalito, living on a houseboat they had rented, Chris Stone was commuting back and forth to run both studios in Los Angeles and New York, and working on a business plan to buy…
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Opening celebration in Los Angeles, December 4, 1969. Pictured L-R are attorney Tom Butler, producer Tom Wilson, investors Ben Johnson and Ancky Johnson (cutting cake), founders Chris Stone and Gary Kellgren. Photo by Irv Antler. The Record Plant Diaries Chapter…
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Jack Douglas’s mind was blown. The rock and roll bass player from the Bronx, who just months earlier was cleaning toilets at the hippest studio in New York, was alone behind a $100,000 console getting ready to work with The…
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Birth of a Record: The Witnesses By Mr. Bonzai Bill Szymczyk and Joe Walsh: “Hotel California” Recorded at the Record Plant in Los Angeles and at Criteria Studios in Miami. Released in 1976, two Grammy awards, over 32 million copies…
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TONTO: The 50-Year Saga of the Synth Heard on Stevie Wonder Classics
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Stevie Wonder and Gary Adante. Photo by David Goggin. I first met Gary Adante in the 70s when I was managing Lyon Recording in Newport Beach. He and Stevie Wonder were recording “The Secret Life of Plants” and it was…
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A 2015 conversation between audio trailblazer Tom Hidley and Record Plant co-founder Chris Stone (moderated by Steve Harvey). Tom Hidley: You can’t really talk about Record Plant unless you talk about two main individuals. The first being Gary Kellgren, who…
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