As Liesl Schillinger writes in a "Wall Street Journal" profile on the studio, "from its inception, [Hendrix']s mother ship served as a rock, funk, disco and soul Olympus where gold and platinum hits were forged", including those by Wonder, Led Zeppelin, Lou Reed, the Rolling Stones, and Blondie. In 1971, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, then with the New York rock band Wicked Lester, recorded demos at the studio. A few years later, after forming the band Kiss, they used the studio again to record the band's 1975 album "Dressed to Kill".