12 Facts About Gary Kellgren

Gary Kellgren was an American audio engineer and co-founder of The Record Plant recording studios, along with businessman Chris Stone.

Gary Kellgren was an early user of "phasing", a studio technique which simulates the sound of a jet engine.

Gary Kellgren is credited with pioneering other "psychedelic" sound effects, such as "flanging", a sound which is sometimes confused with automatic double tracking.

Gary Kellgren worked with producers such as Wes Farrell, Tom Wilson, Chas Chandler, Jack Douglas, Robert Margouleff, Phil Spector, and Bill Szymczyk.

Gary Kellgren contributed spoken dialog to the Mothers of Invention's 1968 album We're Only in It for the Money, which he engineered as well.

Gary Kellgren has engineered and produced records for Ron Wood and Bill Wyman.

Gary Kellgren's feeling, more than anyone else's, was that a studio should be a comfortable place to record.

Gary Kellgren was the one who first thought of the diversions, like the Jacuzzi he built in 1969.

Gary Kellgren was the creative and recording side, Stone the business side, and their third partner, Ancky Johnson, Revlon heiress, provided the financial backing.

Gary Kellgren had already been working with many of the top artists of the day, like Hendrix, so when he opened the Record Plant, they followed.

Gary Kellgren, having worked all night, would very often be out cold on the couch, with Jimi still in the studio glaring through the haze at the speakers.

Guitarist Ronnie Wood wrote that Gary Kellgren probably died from electric shock while trying to fix some underwater speakers in his pool, and that Gaines drowned trying to save him.