Electric Lady Studios, at 52 West Eighth Street, in New York City’s Greenwich Village, is a recording studio originally built by Jimi Hendrix in 1970. Hendrix spent only four weeks recording in Electric Lady before his death, but it has since been used by many notable artists, including the recording sessions for members of The Soulquarians extraordinary period of producing critically acclaimed works between 1999-2002.
Questlove on recording with D’Angelo at Electric Lady:
I’ll say that activity at Electric Lady went full throttle in early 1998. By early 1998, a typical day in Electric Lady and this is from the D’Angelo point of view, at six in the evening, D’Angelo would arrive at the studio, and usually he was coming from the gym. If you remember, he was severely cut and in shape. It was first time I heard about the nine carb diet. If you walked into the break room, there were twenty pieces of turkey bacon and a bunch of lettuce. That was D’Angelo’s snack. I would set up shop there. There was a TV and a VCR inside of the break room. Before YouTube, I was YouTube. I was the one going to Europe and Asia, and I would come back with the largest Kipling bags stuffed with 40 to 50 VHS tapes of every Prince concert, Soul Train episode, every Michael Jackson concert, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye concert.
D’Angelo Live at Montreux 2000 – Shit, Damn Muthafucker
Mos Def – Brown Sugar
Bilal – Love It