Record Plant Sausalito Archive

A look back at the history of the Record Plant and Plant Studios

The archive covers recordings made at 2200 Bridgeway, Sausalito, California 94965, from 1972 to 2008. Read the Record Plant Sausalito history.

Chris Gamper and friends performing in Studio A

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Chris Gamper & friends in Studio A

A jam at 2200 Studios, recorded December 17, 2025.

Stacked Record Plant and Plant Studios master tape boxes — Grateful Dead, CSN&Y Déjà Vu, Fleetwood Mac Rumours — with a studio log sheet and reel-to-reel tape.

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The Record Plant and Plant Studios Archive

A researched list of sessions, broadcasts, and recording events at 2200 Bridgeway — a sourced record of what was made here and who made it. Nothing like it exists anywhere else. The full archive list now covers more than 450 sessions.

—Studio sessions from the opening night in 1972 through the closing in 2008, traced album by album.

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Marantz 2275 walnut-cased FM stereo receiver with backlit tuner dial — the Record Plant Radio player

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Plant Radio is dialed to stream 64 historic KSAN and KFOG broadcasts like Steve Miller, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Marley, Bonnie Raitt, Journey, Jerry Garcia, and many more surprises.

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Jimmy Buffett — Live in Sausalito, California 1974 CD cover

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Jimmy Buffett at the Record Plant, 1974

Alone in February, with Jerry Jeff in October: two KSAN broadcasts from the year of Living and Dying in ¾ Time and A1A

John Dawson of New Riders of the Purple Sage performing in 1973

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New Riders of the Purple Sage: Panama Red and the Sausalito Years

The band's first gold record came out of Record Plant Sausalito in 1973. The New Riders kept coming back.

Dawn Explosion album cover — Captain Beyond, Warner Bros., 1977

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Captain Beyond: Dawn Explosion at Record Plant Sausalito

Bobby Caldwell returned, Willy Daffern took the microphone, and Captain Beyond made its third album in Sausalito across the turn of 1976 into 1977.

Mariah Carey at a March 1999 event in Washington, D.C.

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Mariah Carey, Rainbow, and the Wrong Record Plant

The 1999 album credits point to Los Angeles, not Sausalito. The correction reveals Mariah Carey’s documented history at 2200 Bridgeway.

Mosaic of album covers from KSAN's live broadcasts at the Record Plant, Sausalito (1973–1978).

KSAN Live at the Record Plant - Listen

From 1973 to 1978, KSAN broadcast live from the Record Plant's Sausalito sound stage. The surviving tapes are a Bay Area rock archive hiding in plain sight.

File No. 055, the Grateful Dead Records tape log for the August 1973 Wake of the Flood sessions at the Record Plant Sausalito. Primary source, recovered from the 2200 Bridgeway warehouse. Tap to read the full card. Photo courtesy of 2200studios.com.

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Wake of the Flood: The Grateful Dead at The Record Plant

Nine days at the Record Plant that launched a revolution in independence, improvisation, and the American studio album.

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Old & In the Way at the Record Plant

An early Old & In the Way performance from the Record Plant captures Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Peter Rowan and John Kahn as the band was still taking shape out of the informal bluegrass scene around Stinson Beach.

Carlos Santana seated with a gold guitar in front of the wood geometric wall of Studio A at 2200 Bridgeway

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Carlos Santana and the Studio He Calls Home

From the studio's first year in 1972 through the making of Supernatural, Santana kept coming back. This is why.

Sly and the Family Stone group portrait, early 1970s.

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Sly & the Family Stone at Record Plant Sausalito

Sly Stone commissioned a room at Record Plant Sausalito built to his exact specifications. Then he moved in. The room is still underneath the studio that replaced it.

Stevie Nicks, c. mid-1970s — Record Plant Sausalito era

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Stevie Nicks Wrote "Dreams" at Record Plant Sausalito

At the Record Plant, Stevie Nicks was in someone else's room, on someone else's bed, with a cassette player running. She wrote Dreams in ten minutes. This is what happened next.

The Rick James conference room at 2200 Bridgeway — where Street Songs was recorded.

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Rick James & "Street Songs": Inside the Record Plant Sessions

Rick James drove to Sausalito in 1980 with a guitar, a bass, a drum machine, and a problem. He lived in a conference room at the Record Plant and made Street Songs. The room is still here.

Record Plant Sausalito live room — psychedelic swirl mural, staggered acoustic panels, vintage console and grand piano, a guitarist mid-take on the Persian rug.

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Gary Kellgren: The Man Who Built Record Plant Sausalito

Gary Kellgren opened the Record Plant Sausalito in 1972 and threw a party. John Lennon and Yoko Ono came dressed as trees. Nobody questioned it.

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Studer A800 MkIII multichannel tape recorder at 2200 Bridgeway

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The Record Plant and Plant Studios — A Chronology

From a wartime shipyard office to the studio where Dreams was written, where the government once ran the mixing board, and where the last surviving Record Plant still stands.

The carved redwood sunburst wall in Studio A at 2200 Bridgeway

A walk through 2200 Bridgeway, room by room.

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