Electric Lady Studios - CBS Special

[@GodsUnrulyFriends]

I've been inside Electric Lady a few times. It's amazing! Just beyond words. The first time I was there, I went into Studio A, and the guy told me "This is where Hendrix used to record." Wow! Eric Clapton was n Studio B, so I couldn't go in there.

[@hansolo9585]

Breaks my heart that Jimi passed before he got to his impact on the world.

[@beachcomber4141]

When I visit New York City this studio will be on the top of my list to visit. I got a tear watching this. The fact that Jimi did such little work here is so tragic. I loved the story about the cat turning off the feedback! (only Jimi would have cranked up the feedback!)

[@danacurry8742]

You'll only get to see the outside of the building. I was able to get in back in 1981,but since then they don't allow The general public 4:06

[@tomkelsey2303]

If those walls could talk, sing, and cry....

[@jayshrivastava3804]

I was there a few days ago. Of course I did not go inside. Just took.a picture outside. But it was a privilege to do that knowing the kind of talent that has walked through the doors.

[@robertkees6048]

I know the owners and fans tried very hard to have the outside entrance designated an historical sight so they couldn't change that unique curved brick layout, but it wasn't to be, and so they tore it down and redid the outside to what it looks like today. If Jimi popped up he wouldn't even recognize it standing right in front of it. Kind of sad.

[@robertkees6048]

It's sort of ironic that they play some clips of Jimi's studio work but not one of those snippets was recorded in Electric Lady Studios, geez at least find a track he recorded there, there's plenty. I read that Jimi's family/estate, sold off their holding in Electric Lady in like 1975, so they are no longer a part of the studio and haven't been for decades. And the one thing I yearn for is to see as many pictures of what it looked like in its original state. It was still under construction when he passed, but they did finish it to his specifications, wouldn't it be great to see that version, maybe a huge coffee table book of the few shots of him working in it while it was being finished, but then to see the finished product in 1970. today too, but there must be some good quality photos of what it looked like inside back in the day, I can find them few and far between. Hey Electric Lady, you listening? Make a coffee table book of Jimi's house.

[@beachcomber4141]

I noticed none of the music they played had been recorded there as well. And yes, what a fantastic coffee table book idea!! Then and now even would be cool.

[@Becauseimme]

Three of the most important albums recorded there… Voodoo Like Water For Chocolate Mama’s Gun

[@LordStevie]

I was on engineering staff there ‘79-80. Best two years of my life!

[@GodsUnrulyFriends]

I visited Electric Lady, and was shown the big Studio A. The first thing the manager at the time, Alan Solbey, said when I walked in to the studio was "This is where Hendrix used to record." What a moment! He apologized for not showing me Studio B because Eric Clapton was recording in there.

[@hippydippy]

All along the watch tower was "not" recorded at Electric Lady, but I suppose most don't know or care. Rest easy Jimi.

[@kookamunga2458]

Hendrix is like Bach and Beethoven. He is one of the few big cheezes in the universe of music .

[@bnilo]

Well said!

[@johnwattdotca]

Bach and Beethoven wrote their music and used musicians to play it live. Jimi was the product of a corporate effort, lots of players and lots of overdubs and sounds added by producers. I saw Jimi play live in Toronto and he was trying to imitate his recordings, not sounding like them. The Band of Gypsies is said to be his live album but it's a blend of two nights of live performances with bass and drums being recorded afterwards and dubbed into the mix. Jimi talked about his new band being called Electric Church, sixteen or eighteen musicians who could reproduce albums. He never got into that and I don't think I want to see Jimi locked into playing memorized or reading charts, when he was a great Marshall and Stratocaster feedback guitarist and live, uh, adult performer.

[@kookamunga2458]

@@johnwattdotca What I meant to say was Miles Davis thought Jimi Hendrix was a master of his craft and he holds Hendrix's music in High regard . I beleive Miles Davis opinion of hendrix and of your opinion sir I hold little regard . Just read Miles Davis autobiography and it's really a good read . Hendrix pushes all the right buttons and he is equal to Beethoven and Bach when it comes to origionality . Bach was more prolific but Bach listened to and played other composers music . Bach and Beethoven also worked for rich counts or dukes or what ever there called in Germany and Austria so that's corporate in a way . Bach also composed for god and the church is also a corporation. The church has managers , accountants , balance sheets and expenses so the church is corporations so Bach is no different than Hendrix as far as being a corporate products . Bach was a product of a corporate or do I need to explain further ?

[@kookamunga2458]

@@johnwattdotca and yes I know Bach was a music teacher but I just forgot to mention it because I am all excited. I bought a new Captain Beefheart album and also smoked a bit of hash . You are right Hendrix didn't write music but that does not mean that his music is not legitimate. Music is sound waves and not ink . It is near impossible too translate Hendrix music into tablature. He does so much sound mangling , pitch bendind and feedback and that doesn't work well with tablature except I think for the pitch bending .

[@johnwattdotca]

@@kookamunga2458: I was being specific with my comment. Captain Beefheart? If you're into Frank Zappa and Jimi Hendrix, the only Zappa that comes close to a Hendrix thing is a five minute instrumental Frank did on "Wild-Man Fischer", a double album with a sidewalk performer Frank found. I can't remember the name but it's got an aquatic sound and doesn't sound like anything else Frank did. I saw The Mothers of Invention in 1970 and got to try Franks' S.G. backstage. Aynsley Dunbar played the best drum solo. Using the tremolo, pitch bending, goes beyond individual notes, something you can never transcribe or describe, just ascribe to Jimi. Not fatherly or brotherly or sisterly love, motherly love is the best for you.

[@We-Just-Elected-A-Dictator]

Hendrix didn't die of a drug overdose.

[@supermantra3437]

He did NOT die of an overdose. He was drowned in wine. Today was his last day 50 years ago.

[@paulzaiter6630]

Thats what I was just about to write. Drowned in wine, with no alcohol in his blood!!

[@Lina.333]

How sad they try to make our beloved black musicians as druggys selfless human beings … shame world we live in

[@echoman1975]

No shit. They need to stop reporting it incorrectly and helping perpetrate the lie

[@326vince]

Drowned in puke is what they say. But all the circumstances of the very sad story never quite add up😢

[@tomcarl8021]

The studio was originally a live music venue called The Village Barn. It was one of the only venues in NYC country music stars would play. It was decked out like a honky-tonk complete with sawdust on the floor. My dad saw shows there in the fifties.

[@b2generator]

My mom, Carolina Cotton, played at the Village Barn in 1949 & 1950

[@tomcarl8021]

@@b2generator That's great!!

[@balkanboy1203]

Jimi was drowned in red wine. Stop lying.

[@abracaroguearcane1484]

Thanks.

[@TURTLES_FOR_LIFEEE]

True they killed him, sad but is the truth.

[@leonguisburg413]

At the risk of vulgar details---he went out to dinner that night with Monika Dannemen and had red wine with his meal. He was also suffering from a cold. He was a high strung guy and always had trouble sleeping and took too many of his girlfriend's sleeping pills. The pills wine & dinner did not mix well and he vomited all over himself while lying on his back sleeping. Aspiration of vomit---literally means drowning on your own vomit---a horrible death. Ms Dannemen had went out to get cigarettes Do you really expect young people in their twenties to excersize good judgment. It's just one of music's great tradgedies. I was 13yrs old and just starting to play guitar and drums. It had a profound impact on me. I grew up on Motown & 60s R&B, rock & jazz. This was and is the soundtrack of my life

[@keithmccaslyn2527]

@@leonguisburg413 you are soooo UNINFORMED. wow!! do your home work,please!!

[@keithmccaslyn2527]

Thank you. this shit right here is EXACTLY WHY I never watch the news or much of TV anymore..I Knew I was in for something when I came into this Vid',skipped the hell outt Jane Paulie,right off.... Jimi did not die of a drug over does,fuck that narrative and squash that nonsensicle noise. Yeap He was drugged and drowned, dont believe Jim Morrison nor Janis Joplin just accidently slipped,tripped and were gone too,within months Bolox!! thanks man yer outta site!!

[@chrisdaniel5004]

The front of the studio used to have beautiful curved brickwork. Long gone due to bad decisions.

[@grandwazoodebris1015]

2:51 - Stevie w/ Jeff Beck and Max Middleton. so much history.

[@hybridslinky4829]

If that cat were Jimi, wouldn't it push a button to make even more screeching? Lol

[@2010georgian1]

Jimi was a musician and delicate not an idiot

[@bnilo]

If screeching comes to mind....you just don't get Hendrix

[@GregorySWilliams01]

Actually, that was exactly how Jimi was according to those musicians who saw him live. The roadies would go near his guitars and the feedback would be unbearable and then Jimi would pick the guitar up, strap it on, and play incredibly delicate chord melodies that people thought sounded like three guitar player playing together.

[@dannyhood7433]

This would blow me away seen on television

[@paulpugh5315]

My dream trip would be to travel to Seatle,and visit the EMP museum to ask if I could change the low E string on Jimi's guitar......he always wound the low the opposite way to the other five. Noticed on a museum pic that it was wound correct way.....ooops.

[@UnionThugg]

Probably some of the very biggest of all the albums recorded there were from Hall and Oates, from 1980 - 1986.

[@johnwattdotca]

Don't say Jimi Hendrix died of a drug overdose as if it was like Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, that sad summer, it was about German sleeping pills being stronger than his British prescription, and I know enough to believe he was murdered. It's nice to say Stevie Wonder used it, but Stevie moved in to pay the rent so the studio didn't close. The ceiling they talk about was solid concrete, something Jimi knew would improve acoustics as balancing the acoustics of the floor, having more of mind for ambient sound and stereo.

[@Thespeedrap]

WOW that looks awesome some reason this studios dies remind me of Paisley Park Prince was influenced by Jimi as well too bad both never did anything together alive maybe in the afterlife perhaps.

[@salimokwaye3831]

Jimi died in 1970 prince was 12 years old and in school how could they have collaborated musically?

[@Thespeedrap]

@@salimokwaye3831 I'm just saying too bad they never met each other.They would had worked well together.

[@toneyisaiah408]

They were apart of something. They made their debut album on Polydor records.

[@lakendrickdarby9317]

Nick and Norah’s infinite Playlist .. I wish to see this studio one day.

[@craigmonteforte1478]

Oh Yeah ! Criteria is Legendary in South Florida I grew up in Hollywood Florida and we all knew all the greats that passed through the Studio at one time or another in the 70s and 80s most notably anyone associated with Robert Stigwood Organization which was of course Clapton. The BeeGees. And countless movie and play Soundtracks i beleive Olivia Newton John was signed with RSO too for awhile and thats how Andy Gibb and her did some things together if I remember correctly over the years I became freinds with a couple of guys that worked there at one point as Studio Musicians years ago

[@PaulJonesy]

Thumbs down for pushing the “drug overdose” narrative.

[@tomasroth2417]

Yep, I'm totally with you on that statement. Shame on that reporter or whatever he is just spitout a comment like that!

[@donnelljordan907]

2:51 Stevie and Jeff 🤯 rip Jeff 🙏🏾

[@luisfabian5995]

They also did latin recordings there

[@lvisiv]

that cat wasn't Jimi, he would had turned the feedback up ;)

[@toneyisaiah408]

This is not Graceland, It's Electric Lady.

[@michaelabbott9080]

Ironically...I worked at Electric Lady from 1982-84...then went to Hit Factory where I worked on Graceland...Happy Days...

[@toneyisaiah408]

How dare they!

[@miguelferreiramoutajunior2475]

Artists...

[@carlosgarciamusic953]

John!!!

[@joanwajda8879]

⭐⭐⚡🌠🎸🌠⚡⭐⭐

[@toneyisaiah408]

They didn't mention Mandrill.

[@danacurry8742]

Tommy bolin recorded TEASER at electric lady...

[@davepowell9708]

Jimi didn't die of a drug overdose! get your facts right

[@eternalluv5272]

🥰🥰🥰 😇😇😇

[@lenguamuerta3558]

Charly García!

[@GregorySWilliams01]

I despise the narrative that Jimi died of a drug overdose; there is sufficient evidence from the medical examiner that supports something that was not accidental but sinister, nefarious.

[@mykhedelic6471]

Ryan's got a little dough, he could pay a little bit. It's fucking NEW YORK and it's JIMI'S HOUSE, so, ny rock and soul elite GET IN THERE AND DO SOME GODDAM WORK and dont let it get gobbled up into some bullshit office building parking garage bullshit. Ny lost CBGB's and lots of other shit but if you lose this I'll never forgive you. This is a recording studio, it's not a smokin laptop with a killer AD converter, it's a room, built for a specific purpose by someone who saw the room as another instrument. Stevie and Patti have played this instrument, etc. Charge an honest rate and do some honest work and PLAY THIS SPACE and if you're lucky, the space will play you. I swear if this goes...

[@keithmccaslyn2527]

Jimi DID NOT Die of a drug overdoes,damn it! this shit right here is exactly why I never watch lame stream media anymore, I skipped thru this video right off,saw patti smith,say what she had to say and then this BS non-sense! Jimi was taken out...but CBS would never really published what REALLY happened to JIMI. Tony Brown's "The Final days of Hendrix!" Im outta here! is great place to start if you wanna know the deeper aspects,if you can can the demise of a rock giant,great. Play on Jimi,Play on Man!!

[@felipelotas5609]

How stupid has someone to be to compare Hendrix to Beethoven or any other classical composer of the past centuries? Diferent styles and eras cannot be put side to side. Why don´t just enjoying such a variety in history of music and stop saying such pile of moronic statements?

[@leopoldo3279]

I definitely don’t know the history of that space… I thought… it’s just a place where Taylor and Jack goes to create and produce music… 😅 After all… Beatles where there too? 😂

[@tripjet999]

Puh-leeze don't talk about real music and then mix in garbage from Mile-e Virus and Ladie Gag-gag.

[@Unclemoparman]

Typical MSM

[@indigohammer5732]

Patti Smith 🤮

[@claychandler3468]

They record their just because of the name and some of the sound when it was constructed Hendrix fucked up big-time by succumbing to his lifestyle wasted all that Talent money into this place and you never got to use it God

[@Rainydaydreamaway7]

Have some respect man