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RECORD PLANT SAUSALITO TURNS 50 TODAY

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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Presto’s “Imaginative” ADT Chango

  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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Stories, Witnesses

Tom HIdley: Breaking Sound Barriers

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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