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Chris Stone is an American music industry businessman and writer, and the co-founder with Gary Kellgren of the Record Plant recording studios.〔 Stone's article first appeared in ''EQ'' magazine in November 1996.〕 Stone founded Filmsonix in 1987, sold the Record Plant in 1989, and is the founder and CEO of World Studio Group. He co-founded the Society of Professional Audio Recording Services (SPARS), and he co-founded the Music Producers Guild of the Americas (MPGA), serving as executive director. The MPGA developed into the Producers & Engineers Wing of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.berkleemusic.com/school/faculty-member?person_id=7198595 )〕 Stone earned an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and he lectures online for the Berklee College of Music as well as in person for the USC Thornton School of Music where he is an associate professor.〔 He has contributed regularly as a recording industry journalist, his work published by ''Pro Sound News'', ''Mix'' and ''Sound on Sound''. He published a book, ''Audio Recording for Profit: The Sound of Money''. ==Record Plant, New York City== In the mid-1960s, Stone earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and by late 1967 he was employed as the national sales manager of Revlon cosmetics. He and his wife Gloria had their first baby in New York City. Stone was introduced to Gary Kellgren, a recording engineer working at several New York City recording studios on sessions for musicians such as Frank Zappa and Jimi Hendrix. Stone and Kellgren met because Kellgren's wife Marta was seven months pregnant and scared of the upcoming birth. Mutual friends thought that the two couples could talk about being parents and ease Marta's worry.〔 A copy of the Record Plant chapter is hosted online by the author as "(The Record Plant: Magical Seeds )"〕 Though they were "diametrically opposed" in nature, with Stone all business and Kellgren very creative, the two quickly became friends.〔 During his lunch hours, Stone visited Kellgren in the studio, and began to see that Kellgren was not making full use of his genius. Stone noticed that Kellgren was getting only 4 percent of the money that studios were charging, and he helped Kellgren raise that to 20 percent. Stone convinced Kellgren that the two of them, with $100,000〔 that Stone borrowed from Johanna C.C. "Ancky" Revson Johnson, could start a new recording studio, one with a better atmosphere for creativity. Johnson was a former model who became the second wife of Revlon founder Charles Revson, then divorced and married Ben Johnson. In early 1968 Kellgren and Stone began building a 12-track studio at 321 West 44th Street, creating a living-room-type of environment for the musicians. It opened on March 13, 1968.〔 As the studio was nearing completion, record producer Tom Wilson persuaded Hendrix producer Chas Chandler to book the Record Plant from April 18 to early July 1968, for the recording of the album ''Electric Ladyland''. In early April, just prior to the start of The Jimi Hendrix Experience session, the band Soft Machine spent four days recording ''The Soft Machine''; their debut album, produced by Wilson and Chandler, with Kellgren engineering. In 1969, Kellgren and Stone sold the New York operation to TeleVision Communications (TVC), a cable television company that was broadening its portfolio. The purpose of the sale was to gain cash for expansion into Los Angeles with a second studio. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chris Stone (entrepreneur)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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