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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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TONTO: The 50-Year Saga of the Synth Heard on Stevie Wonder Classics
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Lori Burton tells her story — and writes another love song for her husband and soulmate Roy Cicala. The video (below) is from the fateful Arbors sessions that led to Roy leaving A&R and joining Record Plant. Roy Cicala and…
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Michael Braunstein tells how life, love and labor all married together for the Record Plant family: There were quite a few romantic couples at the Record Plant over the years. And a few not so romantic, too. Scooter (Sharon…
Continue readingClive Davis was so impressed with a 1972 showcase performance of Aerosmith at Max’s Kansas City that he immediately signed the band to Columbia Records. But the very expensive, much-anticipated, self-titled 1973 debut album dropped with a quiet thud. …
Continue readingMalcolm Cecil remembers finding out that Chris Stone had rented out Studio B for a movie. (Note the beautiful John Storyk-designed cabinets that were designed to house Margouleff and Cecil’s TONTO) “We booked (Studio B) out but occasionally we weren’t…
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