Meanwhile back in NYC, the ownership was changing. To help design the studio, they called in Tom Hidley, who made his pioneering breakthroughs in studio acoustics while there, and developed the legendary Westlake monitors that answered the high-decibel needs of rock and roll recording.
WESTLAKE AUDIO STUDIO MANAGER 1978 PLUS
Equipped with the latest gear, plus comforts like a Jacuzzi and themed ‘hotel rooms,” Kellgren and Stone opened up the LA Record Plant on December 4, 1969. The rapid success of Record Plant New York led to the move out west to serve the burgeoning LA scene. Years later, Stone would continue to serve the studio elite by co-founding the Music Producers & Engineers Guild of the Americas, which has become today’s Producers & Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy. With a $100,000 outside investment, they built the first Record Plant on West 44th St. After earning his MBA at UCLA, he worked his way up to a top-marketing position with Revlon in New York City where he and Kellgren met through their wives. Within a few years Kellgren had established himself as the recording engineer of choice for a brilliant new generation of music artists, beginning with Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa and the Velvet Underground.Ĭhris Stone was born in 1935 in San Francisco, the son of a fourth generation Gold Rush entrepreneur. Gary Kellgren was born in 1939 in Shenandoah, Iowa, and made his way to New York City in the mid-sixties, where he cut songwriter demos alongside future Eagles producer Bill Syzmczyk. The Record Plant helped launch the careers of scores of top producers and engineers who influence the making of music to this day. Together they created the first living-room style musical workspaces, and pushed the boundaries of multi-track recording, analog sound design and studio acoustics, while creating musical homes for artists including the Eagles, Stevie Wonder, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Fleetwood Mac, Aerosmith, Bruce Springsteen, Sly and the Family Stone, John Lennon and, individually, every other member of The Beatles, among thousands of others.
Kellgren was the visionary studio designer and engineer and his partner, Chris Stone, was the business brains and creative-enabler. With Jimi Hendrix as its first customer and “Electric Ladyland” its first album, and one of the first 12-track recorders, the music industry quickly discovered that an engineer named Gary Kellgren had created a very special room. It was the original Record Plant New York in 1968 that set the standard for a new type of recording environment that served every creative, personal and technical need of its artists. Kellgren and Stone at the opening party for the Record Plant LA
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