QuestLove Talks Electric Lady Studios, Season 3 of ‘Quest for Craft’ and Spying on ‘Saturday Night Live’
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Questlove spends most of his waking (and sometimes sleeping) hours of his life at the Greenwich Village’s famed Electric Lady Studios.
So it makes sense that he chose the psychedelic lair, with curved walls, groovy multicolored lights and Morrocan rugs, to host conversations with a few of today’s most influential artists for the third season of his Youtube series “Quest for Craft.” “I consider this room like my college dorm because we spent all of ’96 here,” Questlove, whose birth name is Ahmir Thompson, recalls from the corner of the studio, looking out at the “drumming prison” in which he’s recorded dozens of albums. “The recording of [D’Angelo’s] ‘Voodoo’ ended in November of ’99 so I would say for a good 3, 4 years I spent in this room…like funky socks, sleeping in the same clothes, not showering.
Literally, the funk that emanates from that album is because of us. But we chose it because it was the purest room ever.” The room, commissioned and designed by Jimi Hendrix in 1970, has no corners.
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