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Artists at 2200

The musicians who lived in these rooms — and the records they left behind.

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  • Carlos Santana — Blues for Salvador album cover, recorded at The Plant in Sausalito
    History · Featured · May 2026

    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.

  • Stevie Nicks, c. mid-1970s — Record Plant Sausalito era
    History · May 2026

    She Wrote It in Ten Minutes

    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.
    History · May 2026

    The King of Punk Funk and the Room He Lived In

    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.

  • Sly Stone performing on Midnight Special, NBC, 1973
    History · May 2026

    Sly Stone's Record Plant

    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.

  • Metallica — classic-era band promo photograph
    History · May 2026

    Metallica at the Plant

    Load, ReLoad, and the room they reshaped to get the drum sound they wanted. Metallica's stretch in Sausalito left a permanent mark on Studio A.

  • Journey — classic-era band promo photograph
    History · May 2026

    Journey at the Record Plant

    Born from Santana, raised at the Plant — Journey's classic-era records came out of a building designed for artists to inhabit, not just rent.