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- Record Plant Studios (also known as just "The Record Plant") were three famous recording studios which were started and run by Gary Kellgren (who was the creative engineer, producer & studio designer) and Chris Stone (a National Sales Rep for Revlon Cosmetics). The first opening of the Record Plant was in New York City at 321 West 44th Street map, in 1968. The next year, they opened a studio in Los Angeles. In 1972, the studio also opened up in Sausalito, California. In the 1980s, the New York and Sausalito studios ended up under different management and the Los Angeles studio became the main studio. The Los Angeles and Sausalito studios are currently owned and managed separately, and the New York studio has closed down. The Los Angeles studio is known as "The Record Plant", and the Sausalito studio is known as "The Plant. " The huge success of the Record Plant was largely due to Gary Kellgren's existing relationships and work with legendary artists like Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, and the Velvet Underground as well as Kellgren's desire and dream to build a studio that was not only a comfortable living environment, but also enhanced the creative juices of the recording artists. He single-handedly changed the look and feel of recording studios to what they are today. Before the Record Plant opened, studios consisted of four white walls, hard wood floors, folding chairs, and fluorescent lighting in a rectangular room with bad coffee and donuts and an engineer dressed in a tie and jacket. Kellgren designed acoustically superior studios with state of the art equipment and a creative living room feel and turned the studio into a place where artists repeatedly stated they wanted to live. It was also his idea to build in a Jacuzzi, which had never been done before. The first album recorded at the Record Plant in New York was Electric Ladyland by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released in 1968. Through the years, hundreds of albums were first cut there. During the 1970s, house engineers Shelly Yakus and Roy Cicala also gave many local bands their start by donating session time and materials to upcoming artists, engineering and producing their demo tapes. This was part of the Record Plant's successful marketing plan which led to its as having recorded nearly 10% of the top 100 albums on the Billboard charts. A long list of Award winning American music has been written and recorded in the Sausalito studio, more than any other singular structure in Sausalito and/or Marin County. The Record Plant Studios have hosted musical artists in virtually all musical genres: Rock-and-roll, reggae, country music, jazz, punk, blues, folk, soul, zydeco, hip-hop and rockabilly.
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