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(Raechel Donahue’s notebook from the 72-hour concert. Credit: Raechel Donahue) The legacy of Tom and Raechel Donahue’s Live at Record Plant concert series is the many musical careers it helped launch, leaving behind numerous historic, quality recorded performances of future…
Continue readingThey were just two Italian kids. One from Brooklyn and the other from Jersey. Jimmy Iovine, the one from Brooklyn, got the nod from Record Plant NY owner Roy Cicala to engineer some sessions for this new rocker who everyone…
Continue readingExplore what critics, journalists, and music insiders are saying about Buzz Me In: Inside the Record Plant Studios. Rolling Stone: Review of Buzz Me In: Inside the Record Plant Studios “Without the Record Plant, chances are your record collection would…
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July 4, 1971: John & Yoko at Record Plant NY! ZOOM Video Meeting With Those Who Were There… This video was recorded on July 4, 2021 in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Independence Day Weekend (July 4, 1971)…
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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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