My first real recording session was at

I found the receipt in a box of keepsakes...

I actually got to go back to Electric Lady a few years later.

I was working with a singer/songwriter named Alan Wauters,

and a kid we knew named Mike Loye, was in a work-study

program as a go-fer at the studio. He managed to persuade

the owner at the time (Alan Selby), to come see us play at

the Great Gildersleeves on Bowery. They liked us and

signed us to a spec deal. We got half way through the

album and Alan (Wauters) pulled out of the deal.

I also attended a WNEW/Pat St. John simulcast

and got to see Procol Harum perform there.

My first real recording session was at Electric Lady Studios

in Greenwich Village, New York City in October of 1975.

Somehow I had found out that they were having a special

starter package deal of 4 hours of 4 track recording time

for $200.00. At the time, I was working nights at the UPS

in Maspeth. I saved up the money and excitedly went in with drummer Vinny Signorelli and bass guitarist Charlie Gozzer

to record a demo of a song I wrote with guitarist/vocalist

Robert Tietse entitled, "Alexis". I was 19 years old and

doubly excited that this was in fact "the house that Jimi built". During the recording, Bill Davis the engineer, took a liking

to me and my song and later that week, put in some extra

hours in the cutting room to splice on a new ending with

a cool echo repeat effect. (I'm searching for a copy of it to

post to the site.)

Some views of the original front and entrance to Electric Lady Studios.

52 West 8th Street in Greenwich Village, NYC.


Recording the basic rhythm track for "Alexis" in Studio "B" at Electric Lady. Vinny Signorelli on drums in the background.	Recording engineer, Bill Davis gives us some suggestions in between takes. Charlie Gozzer on the Rickenbacker Bass.

Buddies Andy Randazzo and Warren "Ernie" Terrel came along for the "experience". At the time, Ernie was aspiring to be a studio engineer.	A very rare photo of Jimi at the mixing console...