AES NY Section Hosts The Jimi Hendrix Legacy

Electric Lady Studios 40Th Anniversary Salute. Live Streaming Set for 6:30 p.m. Tues. Aug. 24.

Jimi Hendrix celebrated the opening of his Electric Lady Recording Studios (http://www.electricladystudios.com) at 52 West 8th Street in NY's Greenwich Village on August 26, 1970. On Sept. 18th that year the iconic 27-year-old guitarist passed away. In addition to his lasting musical legacy, Hendrix left a studio which continues to this day to produce hits for artists ranging from Dylan, Bowie, Coldplay and The Stones to Patti Smith, U2, Sheryl Crow, The Strokes, Jay-Z and Beyonce.

On August 24th the NY Section of the  Audio Engineering Society will host a 40th Anniversary Salute to Electric Lady and the Hendrix legacy. The panel will include: Jimi's sister, Janie Hendrix, CEO/President, Experience Hendrix (http://www.jimihendrix.com/be-fr/experience-hendrix-llc); Eddie Kramer (http://www.kramerarchives.com/), engineer of all Hendrix's recording sessions; studio architect/acoustician HYPERLINK "http://www.wsdg.com" John Storyk who began his career with Electric Lady, and who's international Walters-Storyk Design Group has created over 3,000 studios around the globe; long time Electric Lady engineer Tony Platt (AC/DC, Foreigner), and Grammy-winning engineer Bob Margouleff (http://www.micasamm.com) (Stevie Wonder) and Lenny Kaye (http://lennykaye.com/), Patti Smith's guitarist, longtime collaborator and longtime Electric Lady client.

AES New York Section Committee Member David Bialik reports, "Our goal for this dual event is to honor one of the longest-lived studios in NYC's history. And, to pay tribute to the indelible mark its founder has left on contemporary music.

CBS will stream the event via the AES NY Section website.

For further information contact: http://www.aes.org/sections/ny/ or http://www.facebook.com AES NY Section for details.