June 3 [12:00 EDT] -- Electric Lady Studios, the New York City recording facility built by the late Jimi Hendrix back in the 60s, is scheduled to lose its distinctive curved-brick facade this week.

While Hendrix is long gone, the studio remains in business, but the building in which its housed now has a new owner. The building's current landlord has decided that he wants the notable facade destroyed and replaced by a flat front with glass windows.

Electric Lady is only three years away from qualifying for landmark status, which would have preserved it, but as things stand now, the wrecking ball swings on Thursday.

Hendrix had the studio built at the urging of his business managers, who determined that the guitarist was spending so much time experimenting with his compositions in recording studios that it would be cheaper to have his own instead of paying astronomical bills to have free reign in others.