Episodes

Our weekly happy hour discussion with folks from manufacturing, rental companies, tour management, promotion, design, and more. A great, knowledgable and lively group! Definitely an enjoyable 90-odd minutes every Wednesday!

In a new Geezers of Gear Series, called Tales From A Pandemic... Our first guest, Robert Roth shares with us his new, daily Pandemic routine. In Robert's case, that includes a pretty serious focus on personal health, business...

Troy was literally born into show business. His grandfather ran a theater in his hometown of Regina, Canada and his father also ran a theater, while his mom handled costumes and wardrobe. Early on, Troy struggled between his ...

Not only did Christian learn about lighting on You Tube, he's since learned to turn his You Tube passion into a lucrative part of his earning arsenal as well. Christian has a much larger You Tube, Instagram and Twitter follow...

Another weekly discussion with a large group of industry folks. This week we talked about some of the information being shared stating that there will be NO LIVE EVENTS UNTIL LATE 2021 and other devastating messages by folks ...

Isaac was laid off from his job in AV and like many of us, wondering "what now". Instead of waiting to be run over by the bus of unemployment, depression and more - Isaac decided to DO SOMETHING. With a few hours to work, Isa...

An amazing group of people is assembling each week for a drink and a lively chat about this virus, the industry, the things we're all doing to keep busy, and of course - ideas to help improve their lives or businesses. This w...

Once of our biggest episodes was episode #85 where I was able to assemble a top group of individuals who shared important information with our listeners. We decided to do it again, but this time, adding Live Nation executive,...

Our industry is filled with REALLY creative, and normally productive people.... who are ALL going a little bit nuts at the moment, without work, without clients, without anywhere to direct their creative energy. Getting this ...

Craig grew up in Brooklyn, NY and literally fell into the business when a friend of a friend said someone needed a few hands to help out. Shortly after, he found himself learning under one of the forefathers of rock and roll ...

I really spirited and fun discussion with some top industry folks from manufacturing, rental companies, design, crew folks, etc. A shared and common interest for people to understand what's happening, especially in other plac...

John is one of the nicest, hardest working guys I've met in the industry. He's fun, fair and firm all in the same guy! The company, like ALL in our industry, has been severely impacted by the COVID19 virus. Although they lost...

Randy began his career as an agent before joining Morpheus Lighting (twice), Performance Magazine, Varilite, ShowCo, Audio Analysts and also working with Geezer Host - Marcel, at Tracoman / Martin in the mid-90s.

This week, I pulled together 4 key industry folks to join me and discuss the impact this virus has had on our industry but more importantly, to give sound advice on things we can all be doing to get through this. If you only ...

Like so many of us, Richard got his start in music, where he was a vocalist / wanna be rockstar. As luck would have it, his "real job" in a music store exposed him to pro-audio systems and a career was found! Later, Richard g...

Sooner Rae Routhier is an award-winning Designer, Producer, Director, and one of today's leading creative minds in the world of experiential entertainment. She has developed and produced some of the most recognizable performa...

The Lumen Brothers are primarily made up of 3 old friends from the Theater / Opera lighting world who got together in 2017 and decided to create a Podcast. 152 episodes later, they're still doing it! David Jacques, Stan Kay a...

Phay began back in the 70s, with his first "break" coming from Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats. Shortly there after, he began working with a group of teenagers from Sheffield England called Def Leppard, who at the time had j...

Patrick became intrigued by the lighting and production world early, while still in his teens. He took a slightly different approach though, writing a business plan for a lighting rental company he would call Backstage Produc...

We discussed Seth's upcoming book, Concert Design - The Road, The Craft, The Industry at length. So many great things about this book for people who want to get into this business. Seth has long term client, vendor and manufa...

Cosmo (Charles) Wilson began his lighting touring career in the 80s and really, hasn't slowed down! He's worked with a "who's who" list including The Stones, The Cure, AC/DC, Foreigner, Scorpions, Aerosmith and many others. A...

KLSTR is a brand new technology created by some very smart guys in Belgium who simply sought out a better way. At the foundation, they hated wasting so much time configuring and addressing lighting systems... and at its core ...

Bob Barnhart just designed Super Bowl 54, remarkably his 21st Halftime Show as lighting designer. In addition, Bob designs for So You Think You Can Dance, VMA's, Ellen, Oscars, Grammys, Miss Universe, Miss USA, Family Feud, E...

Benoit has done what so few have in the concert lighting world, and reinvented himself to establish a parallel career.... in Movies! Having worked with LD's including John Broderick and Marc Brickman, doing lights for artists...