Electric Lady Studios
The Electric Lady Studios are 1970 by Jimi Hendrix in New York was founded. It is a studio complex with a total of three separate recording studios .
history
In 1968 Hendrix and his manager Michael Jeffery had jointly invested money in the acquisition of the Generation Club in Greenwich Village, New York. They dropped their original plan to reopen the club when they realized that setting up a recording studio would prove to be far more lucrative and meaningful. The recording work for Hendrix's album Electric Ladyland was very expensive and he was constantly looking for a recording studio.
The construction of the studio took about twice as long as originally planned, and the costs exploded. Permits were delayed, and due to heavy rainfall when the club was demolished, the site was flooded. Ultimately, a multi-million dollar loan from Warner Bros. helped secure the project. The complex contains three independent studios and was designed by the architect and acoustician John Storyk and specially manufactured according to Hendrix's ideas. There were round windows and a device that produced multicolored light to change the atmosphere of the room . The aim was to support Hendrix's creativity while enabling him to work professionally. The 1970 working for Hendrix engineer Eddie Kramer kept strictly to the rule of professionalism and banned the use of drugs during the sessions. The artist Lance Jost painted the studio rooms.
Hendrix only spent four weeks in the Electric Lady Studio; most of the recordings were made while the work was being carried out on the building. An opening party was held on August 26, 1970, and the following day Hendrix made his last known studio recording, an instrumental piece called Slow Blues . He then flew to London to play at the Isle of Wight Festival . Less than three weeks later, Jimi Hendrix died in London.
Web links
- Electric Lady Studios website
- Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah: A River Runs Through It . The Believer, January 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lance Jost Designs Vintage Paintings . Retrieved April 9, 2007.