Jimi Hendrix's ghost is said to be haunting the New York recording studio he helped build, according to his former engineers. Login or signup to continue reading Hendrix died aged 27 in 1970, by choking to death after taking a huge dose of barbiturates however engineers at the Electric Lady music hub in New York insist they have seen several ghouls at the studio. Grammy-award winning mixer Michael Brauer told the New York Post: "Pretty much every assistant I know has had some kind of sighting late at night when they are alone.
" Brauer said he once thought he saw his assistant go to the lounge of the Greenwich Village studio, but was left convinced it was a ghost. "I called out to him because I needed him to patch something, but he didn't respond. "I called out again - nothing - so I got up and as I was heading to the door, (my assistant) came walking in from the other direction.
"I (investigated) the live room; it was empty. My assistant had been in the bathroom." An unnamed engineer also told the Post about hauntings at Hendrix's old studio.
"I proceeded to walk into the live room after (what I thought was a) 'person' only to find no one in there but the TV on playing static." Hendrix's studio is the subject of new documentary Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision. The space was a nightclub before the guitarist and his manager Michael Jeffrey started renovating it in 1968.
It opened as Electric Lady Studios in August, 1970, after lead architect John Storyk worked with.