Jeff Slate is an ASCAP award winning singer-songwriter from New York City. He co-founded the 1980’s mod/punk band the Mindless Thinkers, who were mainstays on the Northeast college circuit. In the mid-90’s he released The Townshend Tapes, on which The Who’s Pete Townshend acted as executive producer, and opened for Sheryl Crow on her “Tuesday Night Music Club” tour.
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To the entire extended Roadie Free Radio Family, we wish you the merriest of holidays and lot's of good health!
In this quick episode I recap the last few months and give some ideas of things to come in the future. Come along for the ride!
Special Mentions:
Namm – The Power of Podcasting Panel, Ian S. Port: The Birth of Loud, Carla Jean Whitley: Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Roswell Pro Audio Mini K87, A Life On the Road, Filming Great Concert Footage, Roadie Short Film, Roadie: A True Story (at least the parts I remember), John Kane: Pilgrims of Woodstock, The Last Seat in the House, David Dann: "Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield's Life in the Blues", Roadie Free Radio Merch
Today’s episode is sponsored by boulevardcarroll.com.
TJ’s story originally started in the late 1980’s as a roadie for several New Jersey club bands. After a brief time at New Jersey’s legendary Trax East Recording studio, he spent most of the 1990’s and 2000’s crisscrossing the planet with bands like M.O.D, Agnostic Front, Ignite and many more. Along the way, he formalized his work with the creation Iron Sound Productions; a company providing back line, sound re-enforcement and tour logistics.
Ian Campbell is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter who grew up in Connecticut with seventeen entertaining and musical brothers and sisters. Outrageous family dinner time jam sessions, with instruments like "salt shaker" and "nose" gave Ian a love for music and performance. Ian has honed the sound, communication, experience, and feels of a powerful live performance.
Lisa Affenzeller is a FOH Engineer, Tour Manager, Production Manager, and Stage Manager based in Hamburg, Germany. Over the last ten years she has been busy building up her experience, skills, and resume with a list of artists that includes TesseracT, Butcher Babies, Kobra & The Lotus, Kiefer Sutherland Band, and many more.
Hanford Pittman is a Brooklyn-based FOH Engineer and Production Manager currently on tour with Sweden’s very own Tove Lo.
His extensive festival experience includes Outside lands, Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Glasdtonbury with bands such as Siilversun Pickups, Warpiant, Purity Ring, Borns, and now Tove Lo.
This week we’re touching base with two great author’s with upcoming books that I can’t wait to get a hold of.
John Kane is the author of Pilgrims of Woodstock: Never-Before-Seen Photos (University Press of Indiana) and The Last Seat in the House: The Story of Hanley Sound.
David Dann is a longtime Michael Bloomfield historian and his latest endeavor, Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield’s Life in the Blues, hits shelves in October.
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