Episodes

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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.

This is one of the more colorful guys in our industry and he's funny, memorable (both his sense of humor AND appearance), and a brilliant production manager. And oh yeah, he's been responsible for the production of Eurovision...

Most founders or entrepreneurs are happy and fortunate to be in a position to found 1 successful startup. Nils is in a very elite company of people who have done it not twice, but 4 times! And at least 3 of those 4 were revol...

Episode 64 - Brought to you by ACT Lighting... Steve has always been a guy who is able to come in to a challenging situation and turn it around, to the point where he gets the call back. His career has spanned more than 4 dec...

Recorded live on the LDI show floor - Chances are - you've either met, heard of, employed, or been replaced by Patrick at some point. He's not only a talented designer, but a personality to be remembered. Patrick is passionat...

Udo began his career in the rigid confines of Siemens before joining his brother in the club lighting business he had created - B&K. There, Udo fell in love with the lighting business and began to dream up his first innovatio...

Blizzard was started by a couple of musicians with a very basic need for better lighting, so they started a company! Then, realizing they would need someone to create sales channels, distribution, etc - they brought in a 3rd ...

Naming your company after (arguably) the best driver to have ever raced in F1 says something.... but Yvan shares something with Mr Senna... he has passion for perfection, horsepower and just getting it right. Ayrton have quie...