Record Plant
Record Plant (also The Record Plant ) is the name of three originally known recording studios in New York City, Los Angeles and Sausalito in California. Among the artists who made recordings in the studios include, among others John Lennon, Queen, Aerosmith, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Zappa and Jimi Hendrix.
History
The studio in New York City was opened by Gary Kellgren and Chris Stone the spring of 1968. One of the first sessions were the recording of the album Electric Ladyland by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, which originated from June to August in 1968 in Studio A. After the cable channel TeleVision Communications ( TVC) had taken over the studio in New York, was only one year later, a second studio in Los Angeles was opened. In 1972, the studio came in Sausalito so. Studio founder Kellgren died 1977. The following year the studio C was destroyed by fire. In 1987, the former Beatles producer and co-owner of Chrysalis Group George Martin the studios. While the studio in Los Angeles continues to exist under the name The Record Plant, joined the New York studio in 1987 and that in 2008, the Sausalito doors.
The studios put much on the artists to create a comfortable atmosphere. Especially Kellgren sat instead on clinical rooms to a pleasant facilities in the studios.
Producers and engineers
- Gary Kellgren (co-founder, producer and sound engineer )
- Shelly Yakus ( sound engineer )
- Roy Cicala ( sound engineer )
- Ray Colcord (producer)
- Jack Douglas ( producer)
- Jimmy Iovine ( engineer and producer )
- Jay Messina (producer)
- Jimmy Robinson ( producer and sound engineer )
- Sam Ginsberg ( sound engineer )