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iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Chris Bedry is the Systems Tech for the Tedeschi Trucks Band. Before touring regularly, Chris was the Audio Department Manager for KM Productions where he cut his teeth at numerous concerts and festivals. During that time, he also worked as a freelancer around the New York area. In 2015 he joined Tedeschi Trucks on tour for a short stint...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Matthew McGlynn is the founder and owner of Roswell Pro Audio in Sebastopol, CA. A self-described microphone nerd, Matt's first audio project was RecordingHacks.com, which attempted to describe every microphone ever made. It gave him an excuse to buy a *lot* of microphones — absolutely necessary for the research, so far as he told his ver...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Sean Sullivan is a Production Manager, FOH Engineer, and Monitor Engineer based in North Carolina. Over the years he's been involved with festivals and artists such as MoogFest, Form Arcosanti, Imagine Music festival, Chicano Batman, and Hundred Waters. Sean is also a certified First Responder, a member of Event Safety Alliance, D&B train...

iTunes           Spotify           Youtube            Patreon   Steph Paynes is the founder and lead guitarist of the New York City-based all-girl quartet, Lez Zeppelin.   Paynes started the group in 2004, after touring as a "Ronette" with the "first bad girl of rock and roll," Ronnie Spector. Paynes lives in New York City, is a Brown graduate and before donning the white satin dragon suit, she wo...

iTunes           Spotify           Youtube           Patreon Jeri Palumbo is a Broadcast Sports and Entertainment Mixer currently based in California. Jeri has been a broadcast audio mixer and specialist for the past 27 years in Sports and Entertainment. Prior to her work in broadcast, she spent years as a trained musician and arranger on the music side of the business before going into post produ...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Chris Scianni is guitarist and founding member of the NYC based Tangiers Blues Band. He is also known as a member of Echobrain (with Jason Newsted) and of Dangerman. Chris was born and raised on the lower East side of Manhattan. His father, Joseph Scianni, was a well-respected Jazz musician in his own right and a professor at NYU, who fos...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Graham Mellor is a Production Manager, Monitor Engineer, and Front of House Engineer currently based out of Rhode Island. He is also the owner of Sound Advice LLC, a small sound/production company in North Kingstown, RI, providing production, backline, and audio services to venues in the state, as well as tours such as last years' The Las...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Matt Boudreau is an Audio Engineer and host of the podcast Working Class Audio. He has been involved in audio and music professionally since 1987. He started out playing drums in the bands The Sextants (Imago) & Seven Day Diary (Reprise/Warner Bros.) in the days of six-figure record deals and tape-based recording. In 1994 he transitioned...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Keith Knobler is the Head of Audio at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, CA. Over the last 30 years he has honed his skills as a monitor engineer at some of the areas preeminent venues such as Slim's, the Great American Music Hall, Maritime Hall, Covered Wagon Saloon, and On Broadway. He grew up in Westhampton, Long Island...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Erik Samuelson is the owner of Three Crown Studio, LLC in Brooklyn, New York. Three Crown Studio is a full service music production studio that specializes in helping artists create and record their music and develop their careers. Erik grew up in the Midwest in a musically-inclined family. His mother was a singer in Stockholm, his father...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Michael Alago is a photographer, and author, and former Record label executive. At age twenty-four, he began a storied career as an A&R executive at Elektra Records that started with signing Metallica in the summer of 1984, changing the entire landscape of rock 'n' roll and heavy metal. He also worked in A&R for both Palm Pictures and Gef...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Claire Murphy is a Guitar Tech originally from Wales, and currently based out of Long Beach, CA. For the last four years she has been with Vance Joy as his tech over his last two album cycles. Through determination, perseverance, and plenty of hard work and luck, Claire has managed to turn her passion for music, and in particular, live mu...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Austin Schroeder is a Monitor Engineer based out of San Diego, California, who is currently in rehearsals for the highly anticipated Rage Against the Machine tour. An Iowa native, Austin started on piano at a young age, setting the groundwork for a deep and lifelong understanding and appreciation of music. His teenage years saw him develo...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Tana Douglas is widely acknowledged as rock'n'roll's first female roadie. Her journey started in 1973 in Australia, where within a year she was working for AC/DC, first doing backline then F.O.H. Sound for the band. She then moved to lighting working for a Major Australian Promoter and completed in quick succession several tours with Inte...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Jeff Cardoni is a film & television composer based in Los Angeles, CA. His talents range from intimate independent fare to full orchestral majesty. With over 45 feature film scores and several network series to his credit, one can hear his work worldwide every day. His unique ability to cross genres has made him a powerful player in the f...

  iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon In this special episode I'm joined by touring veteran Ryan Philip George and clinical psychologist Dr. Chayim Newman, core members of the team behind the Tour Health Research Initiative. Launched by a small team of psychologists, researchers, and touring professionals who work closely with and care deeply about the well-being of touring...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Larry Martin is the founder and owner of Tour Supply Inc., accommodating touring professionals with the gear they need from locations in Los Angeles CA (Third Encore) and Nashville, TN (Soundcheck), a showroom location in Lititz, PA (Rock Lititz), and a shop in Manchester, UK. With over two decades of experience, Tour Supply has proven to...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Here's a replay from our panel at this year's NAMM show: Join hosts from some of the top podcasts in the industry as they take you from inception to launch and beyond. Hear their personal journeys as they organically grew audiences and learned how to navigate the world of brands and sponsorships. The session will be moderated by Larry Mil...

  Jimmy Pettinato is a veteran Production Manager based in his hometown of Scranton, PA. In spite of his long resume marked by some of the biggest names in the music business, Jimmy has never strayed far from his family's hard-working, no-nonsense, Italian-American roots. Born into a legacy of carpenters, day laborers, and mechanics, Jimmy's career choices seemed predetermined. However, once he di...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Jessica Sanders is a Lighting Designer/Tech currently based in Nashville, TN. Raised by music-loving parents in Macon, GA, and named after and Allman Brother's song, Jessica and her family eventually settled in Houston where she ultimately got her start in the audio field. A graduate of Media Technical Institute, Jessica started working a...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Michelle Sabolchick Pettinato is a professional live sound engineer currently mixing FOH for Elvis Costello. Over the last thirty years, Michelle has worked with/for some of the most recognizable names in music including: the Spin Doctors, Styx, Gwen Stefani, Goo Goo Dolls, Melissa Etheridge, Indigo Girls, Mr. Big, Big Time Rush, Ke$ha, J...

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 Mi...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Born in Chicago: The Blues of Michael Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield, is book signing, film clip viewing and panel discussion on the lives and artistry of guitarist Michael Bloomfield and harmonica player Paul Butterfield. From the late 1950s when, as teenagers, Bloomfield and Butterfield ventured into the black blues clubs on the South...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon   Thank you all so much for joining me on this incredible journey!  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,...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon 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. After spending five years in the military, Ian drove ar...