In late 1967, Chris Stone was introduced to Kellgren because Kellgren's wife, Marta, was seven months pregnant and scared of the upcoming birth and Stone's wife, Gloria, had just given birth. There, Kellgren worked with artists such as the Velvet Underground, who recorded " Sunday Morning" in November 1966 Frank Zappa and Jimi Hendrix, engineering their recordings and also sweeping the floors.
In 1967, Gary Kellgren was a recording engineer working at several New York City studios, including Mayfair Studios on 701 Seventh Avenue at the edge of Times Square, a drab upstairs office, a single room which held the only professional 8-track recording system in New York. Stone later said of Kellgren, "He single-handedly was responsible for changing studios from what they were-fluorescent lights, white walls and hardwood floors-to the living rooms that they are today." The Los Angeles location has since added VIP lounges. Kellgren and Stone brought this same vision to their Los Angeles and Sausalito properties, adding a Jacuzzi and billiard table. The Record Plant in New York was the first studio to give recording artists a comfortable, casual environment rather than the clinical setting that was normal practice through the 1960s. The Los Angeles studio remains in operation. During the 1980s, they sold the New York and Sausalito studios the former closed in 1987, the latter in 2008. The studio was founded in 1968 in New York City by Gary Kellgren and Chris Stone, who opened a Los Angeles branch the following year and a Sausalito, California, location in 1972. More recent albums with songs recorded at Record Plant include Lady Gaga's ARTPOP, D'Angelo's Black Messiah, Justin Bieber's Purpose, Beyoncé's Lemonade, and Ariana Grande's Thank U, Next. Known for innovations in the recording artists' workspace, it has produced highly influential albums, including Blondie's Parallel Lines, Metallica's Load and Reload, The Eagles' Hotel California, Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP, Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction, and Kanye West's The College Dropout. The Record Plant is a recording studio established in New York City in 1968 and currently operating in Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles, California, US (1969–present)
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