NEW YORK: On Tuesday, November 5th at 9PM, PBS American Masters Series will premiere “Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin,’” a 2-hour biography of the iconic guitar hero. In addition to rare performance footage and interviews with Paul McCartney, Steve Winwood, Lou Adler and other music industry notables, the program will highlight the compelling history of Electric Lady, Hendrix’s personal recording studio. Still cranking out hits 43 years after opening it’s doors on West 8th Street, in the heart of NYC’s Greenwich Village, ELS was conceived by Hendrix’s producer/engineer Eddie Kramer, and designed by Walters-Storyk Design Group co-founder/architect/acoustician John Storyk, both of whom provide personal reminiscences of working with Jimi on the creation of Electric Lady. For a preview of this not-to-be missed program, please visit:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/jimi-hendrix/electric-l…
Photo: John Storyk (left) with Eddie Kramer at the original entrance to Electric Lady Studios. Please credit photo by Howard Sherman
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Walters-Storyk Design Group has designed over 3000 media production facilities in the U.S., Europe, the Far East and Latin America. WSDG credits range from the original Jimi Hendrix Electric Lady Studio in Greenwich Village to NYC’s Jazz At Lincoln Center performance complex, broadcast facilities for The Food Network, CBS and WNET, over twenty teaching studios for The Art Institutes around the US, and corporate clients such as Hoffman La Roche. Recent credits include Jungle City, NY’s major new destination studio; private studios for Green Day, Jay-Z, Timbaland’s Tim Mosley, film composer Carter Burwell, Aerosmith, Bruce Springsteen and Alicia Keys. WSDG principals John Storyk (an adjunct professor at Berklee College,) Beth Walters, Sergio Molho and Dirk Noy lecture frequently at universities and industry events, and contribute regularly to industry publications. WSDG has collaborated with such noted architects as: Frank O. Ghery (Novartis Campus,) Rafael Vignoly (Jazz at Lincoln Center,) Norman Foster (El Aleph,) Oscar Niemeyer (CAMG,) Phillipe Stark (Faena Hotel,) Grimshaw (Zurich Airport,) and Santiago Calatrava (Berklee Valencia.) WSDG is a seven time winner of the prestigious TEC Award for outstanding achievement in Acoustics/Facility Design, including 2012 for NY’s Jungle City. WSDG maintains offices in NY, SF, Miami, Buenos Aires, Belo Horizonte, Basel, Beijing, Barcelona, Mexico City and Mumbai.