@kqedofficial: In the late 1960s, Sandy Stone was a young audio engineer at the Record Plant, the hottest new rock ‘n’ roll studio in New York City. When Jimi Hendrix himself arrived to lay down the tracks that would become his hit album ‘Electric Ladyland,’ he saw something in Stone. One evening, when the lead engineer called out sick, he asked Stone to take over. An invitation to collaborate with one of the best guitarists on the planet was a golden opportunity. But the male-dominated mainstream music industry wasn’t really where Stone wanted to be. Stone felt most at home among other strong women who lived by their own rules. After she moved to California and began living as a woman in the early ’70s, she became the recording engineer at Olivia Records, the label at the center of the women’s music movement. ✍️: Nastia Voynovskaya 📹: Ugur Dursun & Darren Tu 🎞️: Archival images of Sandy Stone courtesy of Sandy Stone and MJV Productions. Jimi Hendrix photo courtesy of Getty Images. Olivia Records photo © 1974 JEB (Joan E. Biren)

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