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Episodes

April 1, 2020

#90 - Production Industry COVID19 Virtual Happy Hour #2

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 ...

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March 30, 2020

#89 - Craig Caserta, Lighting Director and Programmer

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 ...

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March 26, 2020

#88 - Production Industry Virtual Happy Hour #1

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...

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March 25, 2020

#87 - John Huddleston from Upstaging

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...

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March 23, 2020

#86 - Randy Wade joins me to discuss his long career in touring sound…

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.

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March 18, 2020

#85 - Industry Leaders discuss COVID19 impact on the business and for…

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 ...

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March 16, 2020

#84 - Richard Rutherford

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...

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March 11, 2020

#83 - Sooner Routhier, Lighting Designer

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...

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March 9, 2020

#82 - The Lumen Brothers... Discussing their Podcast on our Podcast

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...

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March 6, 2020

#81 - Phay "Phamous" McMahon, Production Manager and former LD

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...

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Feb. 26, 2020

#80 - Patrick Whalen / Backstage Productions

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...

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Feb. 24, 2020

#79 - Seth Jackson, LD, Production Designer and Creative Director

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...

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Feb. 19, 2020

#78 - Cosmo Wilson... LD

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...

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Feb. 18, 2020

#77 - Roel Apers from KLSTR discusses his new technology for connecti…

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 ...

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Feb. 17, 2020

#76 - Bob Barnhart fresh off of SuperBowl 54

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...

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Feb. 13, 2020

#75 - Benoit Richard... From Rock and Roll to Iron Man... A remarkabl…

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...

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Feb. 12, 2020

#74 - Duck Lights founder Lee Duck

A unique business model is always intriguing and this one caught our attention at the recent NAMM show in Anaheim. Lee was a touring musician and found himself wanting much more when it came to his bands production quality. S...

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Feb. 5, 2020

#73 - Lowell Fowler... Founder of Highend Systems

I've always considered this guy one of the nicest, kindest and most passionate people in the industry. Lowell started with lightshows using overhead projectors in the 60s and went on to found one of the largest and most impor...

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Jan. 31, 2020

#72 - Geezer, Marcel Fairbairn interviewed by "the Astronaut's Wife" …

For a year, the question has been "when do YOU get interviewed"... and while this isn't the concert industry interview you'd likely expect, it is a great interview done by a local celebrity, Anita Mitchell, who among other th...

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Jan. 22, 2020

#71 - Dizzy Gosnell.... 40 years in Concert Lighting

Dizzy began his career lighting punk bands in the 70s using the very first version of Thomas pars before joining Meteorlites and then, finally, Bandit Lites. 40+ years with only 2 jobs.... Impressive. Enjoy Dizzy's unique tho...

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Jan. 15, 2020

#70 - Benny Kirkham - Lighting Programmer / Director / Designer

Benny has worked closely to collaborate with designers on artists like Michael Jackson, Nickelback, Aerosmith, Shania Twain, Elton John and so many more. His work supporting top LD's as a programmer or director is legendary. ...

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Jan. 9, 2020

#69 - Andrew Dunning / Landru Design

Andrew has literally been lighting churches and faith based projects since his teen years. After graduating college as a theater major, Andrew took his show on the road, eventually ending up with DC Talk with 12 successful ye...

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Jan. 2, 2020

#68 - Glyn O'Donoghue from MA Lighting joins us to share his story an…

If you've been to a lighting tradeshow anywhere in the world... in the past, ohhhhhh 30 years... you likely know this man! He's one of the best known sales guys in the industry and has been very closely connected to the succe...

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Dec. 23, 2019

#67 - Gratitude for a really great year of Geezers of Gear

Marcel gives thanks and discusses every single episode recorded in what has been an incredible 11 months of Geezers Of Gear. Showing gratitude to our guests, listeners and of course, our sponsors.

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