Entertainment reporter/columnist {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. In 1968, Jimi Hendrix decided he wanted to create his own nightclub, envisioning a cool venue where he could hang out, and if the notion struck, jump on stage and jam, a space that just happened to have a recording studio tucked into a corner. So he and his manager spent $50,000 at a bankruptcy sale to buy Generation, a rundown nightclub at 52 W.
8th St. in New York City, with the intent of transforming the trashed building into his dream space. The idea of a club, however, was soon abandoned in favor of turning the whole place into a recording studio — a process that’s captured in “Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision,” a documentary from Experience Hendrix that’s playing at the Ross Media Arts Center this weekend.
Directed by John McDermott utilizing the Hendrix estate’s extensive collection of photographs and film clips, the documentary visually goes back to the late ’60s, showing the building in, to say the least, disrepair and Hendrix on stages large and small. People are also reading..
. And it uses the recollections of studio president Jim Marron, architect John Storyk, and, especially, chief engineer Eddie Kramer to tell the story of the building process, a monthslong adventure that saw the price of the studio rise to $1 million. Those expenses forced Hendrix and his band, including Billy Cox, who contributes som.
