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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Before his death, Mike Stone was a great friend of the Record Plant Diaries project. Here, in his own words, are some of his favorite memories about the early days at the Record Plant. From Day One We took possession…
Continue readingFrom from the interview transcript: Bill Szymczyk, “Hotel California” Eagles Producer/Engineer I was working at the Record Plant, and Joe Walsh was the one who said, “You’ve got to really talk to these guys (the Eagles).” I said, “I…
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The Record Plant Diaries is built on the stories of the artists, engineers, producers, and “hangers-on” who worked and lived in the studios in New York, Los Angeles and Sausalito, as well as those who were part of the Record…
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