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Chez Stock is a experienced Tour Manager and Front of House engineer currently on tour with Amanda Palmer. She has toured extensively since 2007, building steadily on her no-nonsense work ethic, and a desire to continuously improve and grow as an engineer. Along with her passion for sound, Chez also works diligently and at times aggressively, to champion women, minorities, and those struggling to...

Sahir Hanif is a Tour Manager, Production Manager, Industrial designer, creative director, studio drum technician, drummer, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Masters of Maple Drums, and Ghost Tech: a full service production and logistics company. A Southern California native, Sahir's introduction to the music came from growing with parents in the industry. His father is an award-winning compo...

Ken "Pooch" Van Druten has built a name for himself as one of the industry's top FOH Engineers. After graduating Magna Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music, Ken headed to Los Angeles to begin what he initially thought would be a long and lucrative career as a recording engineer. However, this all changed after the invitation to mix one of his artists in a live venue. The band was Warrant, and t...

Erich Miller is the FOH Engineer for Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, currently based out of South Philly. He's a graduate of The University of the Arts in Philadelphia with a degree in Jazz Trumpet performance and a minor in Music Technology. Full Episode Here: https://soundcloud.com/roadiefreeradio/125-erich-miller-foh-engineer

Ken "Pooch" Van Druten has built a name for himself as one of the industry's top FOH Engineers. After graduating Magna Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music, Ken headed to Los Angeles to begin what he initially thought would be a long and lucrative career as a recording engineer. However, this all changed after the invitation to mix one of his artists in a live venue. The band was Warrant, and t...

Sahir Hanif is a Tour Manager, Production Manager, Industrial designer, creative director, studio drum technician, drummer, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Masters of Maple Drums, and Ghost Tech: a full service production and logistics company. A Southern California native, Sahir's introduction to the music came from growing with parents in the industry. His father is an award-winning compo...

How does a Memphis Gospel singer find her way to Chicago to become an Opera singer, only decide the spotlight isn't for her, and ultimately forge a career as the successful FOH Engineer for Janelle Monáe? It's these questions and more that I explore with the amazing and talented Amanda Davis. Frustrated by the constraints of her classical training, and realizing the spotlight wasn't where she was...

Meegan Holmes attended California Institute of the Arts ("CalArts") and graduated from their technical theater program in 1993. She has worked in the live sound industry for over 25 years touring, doing everything from System Engineer and Technician, to Monitor and Front of House Engineer. She has toured with TOOL, Queens Of The Stone Age, Gorillaz, Natalie Cole, Natalie Merchant and Soul Coughing...

Jimmy Pettinato is a veteran Production Manager based in his hometown of Scranton, PA. After several years as both Lighting Designer and Production Manager, Jimmy ultimately made the switch to focus solely on being the best Production Manger he could, and through his career he has worked with the likes of Trans Siberian Orchestra, No Doubt, Spin Doctors, PINK, New Kids On the Block, Backstreet Boy...

Meegan Holmes attended California Institute of the Arts ("CalArts") and graduated from their technical theater program in 1993. She has worked in the live sound industry for over 25 years touring, doing everything from System Engineer and Technician, to Monitor and Front of House Engineer. She has toured with TOOL, Queens Of The Stone Age, Gorillaz, Natalie Cole, Natalie Merchant and Soul Coughing...

Kim Watson is a freelance sound engineer who's been focused as a systems tech, monitor engineer, and Front of House engineer since she was in high school. She's moved quickly up the ranks, earning the respect of her peers. As the house engineer for Newcastle's O2 Academy, she works with an incredible selection of artists. Her client list includes The Subways, Blondie, Tom Jones, Shane Filan, UB40,...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Harley Zinker is a FOH Engineer born and bred New York City. Starting at rehearsal studios before moving on to clubs and venues around NYC, Harley has since gone on to mix at venues around the world from clubs to stadiums. With a career in live audio spanning 25 plus years Harley has mixed and worked with a wide range of artists across mu...

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 l...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Pierre BUCHER is a Stage Manager, Tour Manager, Production Manager based in LYON France. For the last fourteen years he has worked every sized venue from clubs, theatres, and festivals. Pierre started as a volunteer, helping local productions in every job possible. His philosophy now is the same as it was then; the more areas you can be k...

Chez Stock is a experienced Tour Manager and Front of House engineer currently on tour with Amanda Palmer. She has toured extensively since 2007, building steadily on her no-nonsense work ethic, and a desire to continuously improve and grow as an engineer. Growing up as a music fan in Alaska, Chez quickly realized that to develop her interest in the music industry she would have to seek that educa...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Timothy Burkhead is a Tour Manager, Production Manager, FOH Engineer, entrepreneur and percussionist currently based out of Nashville, TN. He is the co-founder of TMinc.live, and All Access Advance, an online system for automated show advancing and tour management. The optimized system prepares and streamlines site specifications, travel...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Sandy Espinoza is an industry veteran who is championing the cause to help fellow crew members in need by being the voice behind Roadiecare.com. Tom Weber has been a much sought after Guitar Tech whose resume includes long-standing support for Eddie Van Halen and CC Deville. Roadiecare.com seeks to provide assistance to those in the enter...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Rachael Moser is a System Engineer/Crew Chief from Clair Global who is currently based out of Nashville, TN. Over the last ten years she has worked as a PA Tech, Monitor Systems Tech, RF Tech, and Monitor Mixer. Rachael attended Belmont University , and received her BS degree from the Audio Engineering Technology program while also minori...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Ben Paletsky is an entrepreneur and co-founder of South Farms, one of the leading agri-tourism and Wedding destinations 2-hours north of NYC.  His expertise spans emerging technology, agriculture and tourism.  Over his career Ben has worked extensively with Fortune 100 companies in the tech space. He has been awarded Connecticut Magazine'...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon 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...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Jake Nelson is a Tour Manager currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Raised in a creative community, Jake has always found a love for supporting the arts. He's a strong advocate for the freedom of expression and holds himself to a high standard of reliability. Since graduating from Emerson College with a BA in Marketing & Media Production, Jake...

iTunes           Spotify           Y outube            Patreon Dana Wachs is a Brooklyn based composer and audio engineer, that performs under the name Vorhees. Dana studied cello and electric bass from an early age. At nineteen, she joined the DC hardcore group Holy Rollers (Dischord Records) and dove deep into a world of touring and live sound. Audio engineering would define the following twenty...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Jason Greenberg is a Front of House and Monitor Engineer based in New Jersey with an extensive resume including such artists as Hot Tuna, Darlene Love, Dion, Trey Anastasio, and the Tangiers Blues Band. An avid taper of Grateful Dead and Hot Tuna concerts, Jason's passion for music and live sound ultimately led him to the Institute of Aud...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Meegan attended California Institute of the Arts ("CalArts") and graduated from their technical theater program in 1993. She has worked in the live sound industry for over 25 years touring, doing everything from System Engineer and Technician, to Monitor and Front of House Engineer. She has toured with TOOL, Queens Of The Stone Age, Goril...

iTunes           Spotify           Youtube            Patreon John Guarnieri is the Chief Operating Officer of Silver Spear Security and is currently the Head of Security for the band Shinedown. A graduate of Norwich University, Corps of Cadets, John knew immediately upon graduating in 2008 that he wanted to join the elite team of the Secret Service. He served his country in that capacity for seve...