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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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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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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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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 readingThom Panunzio got me into the door at Record Plant. I was a hippie in Colorado in a treehouse playing bluegrass music in my previous life, and it was right at the time that my band was breaking up. Thom…
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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