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Electric Lady Studios<\/a>, in Greenwich Village, is a working music museum. The Fender Twin amplifier that the studio\u2019s onetime owner Jimi Hendrix brought to work before his 1970 death remains, as does an electric piano Stevie Wonder used on an astounding run of records. There\u2019s a keyboard Bob Dylan played in Muscle Shoals and several lurid murals by the painter Lance Jost, originals depicting interstellar travel and Aquarian-age sexual exploration.<\/p>\n But Lee Foster \u2014 the former intern who became the space\u2019s co-owner in 2010, after helping rescue it from financial ruin \u2014 keeps his drawings by the singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston<\/a> in a small safe in the corner of his office, each page bound in plastic in a lime-green three-ring binder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cIt has nothing to do with financial value,\u201d Foster said in his art-lined room last month, as afternoon slipped into evening. \u201cIt is so meaningful that, even if it was for that hour or three when he was sitting down to draw, it was all he was thinking about. There\u2019s a little bit of his soul in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n