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iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Lisa Affenzeller is a FOH Engineer, Tour Manager, Production Manager, and Stage Manager based in Hamburg, Germany. Over the last ten years she has been busy building up her experience, skills, and resume with a list of artists that includes TesseracT, Butcher Babies, Kobra & The Lotus, Kiefer Sutherland Band, and many more. No stranger to...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon   Erik Rogers is a FOH Audio Engineer based in Florida who has been touring steadily for the last 15 years. He has spent the greater part of this year on the road with Godsmack and is preparing for another North American run to finish out the year. Throughout his career he has worked with Hunter Hayes, Testament, Death Angel, Avenged Seve...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon   Kevin "Kwiz" Ryan is a musician, producer, composer, audio engineer and artist development specialist from Bronx, NY. His professional resume begins as a vocal arranger for Jeff Redd's "I Found Loving" (Uptown/MCA) with his first production release, Brazilian Lady, appearing on Redd's debut album.  Since then, Kwiz's professional resume...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon     Tiffany Hendren is a full-time FOH Engineer currently based out of St. Louis. Performing and being in a band is what initially drove Tiffany into live music, but she realized that the combination of that passion and her interest in computers and engineering might just hold other options for her. After a few years in the military, she...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon   This week's episode is a little different than most. I've never really broken down the journey of how I started Roadie Free Radio and all of the crazy twists and turns that got me here. So I hope you'll join me as I take you back 15 years ago to the release of my short film ROADIE, and the subsequent twists and turns that got me behind...

iTunes           Spotify           Youtube            Patreon Peter Levin is a keyboardist and musician known for his work with The Blind Boys of Alabama and Greg Allman. A native New Yorker, Peter has recently made Nashville his home when he is not on the road. Equally at home on the Hammond Organ as he is on a Fender Rhodes or various synths, his most recent studio work includes Piano, Hammond B...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Rena Nicole Kozak is a freelance audio engineer and tour manager based out of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  Rena has been working in audio in many capacities for close to 20 years and brings her experience to live audio for concerts and events, in-studio recording and mixing, training and education. Although currently specializing in FOH mix...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Maya Finlay is an Audio Engineer, Producer, Songwriter and Musician based in San Francisco, CA with more than 11 years of experience in professional audio.    As a live sound engineer, Maya has worked at some of the most beloved venues in San Francisco, including The Independent , Boom Boom Room , Elbo Room , the Stern Grove Festival and...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Hanford Pittman is a Brooklyn-based FOH Engineer and Production Manager currently on tour with Sweden's very own Tove Lo. Originally from Southern California, Hanford grew up as a musician playing with several local bands, before getting a gig as security at the world famous Troubadour. It was there that he caught the bug to be an enginee...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon This week we're touching base with two great author's with upcoming books that I can't wait to get a hold of. My first guest, John Kane, is no stranger to Roadie Free Radio, he joined us on episode 50 with Bill Hanley. John is the author of  Pilgrims of Woodstock: Never-Before-Seen Photos (University Press of Indiana) and The Last Seat in...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Friends, in this episode I open up about a whole mess of crazy stuff that happened to me in the last week. I hope you find some inspiration or maybe just a good chuckle at my expense. Whatever it is, it's honest, raw, and definitely a wild ride. Special Mentions : The PMA Effect - John Joseph , www.theproductionacademy.com , Masters of Ma...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Michael Thomas Regina is a FOH Engineer, Tour Manager, and Composer based in St. Petersburg, FL. Since 2017, Michael has been FOH/TM for Orlando based indie-pop band SALES. Over the last few years he has toured extensively in both North America and internationally including stops at Coachella 2019, Firefly Music Festival, and Corona Capit...

  iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon This week it's just me in the studio riffing on the state of affairs of Roadie Free Radio and friends. Don't forget to check out The Production Academy , run by Scott Adamson ( EP# 135 ), one of the best online schools dedicated to helping musicians and sound engineers get the technical knowledge they need to have successful shows. Sign...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Scott Adamson is a touring FOH audio engineer and the founder of The Production Academy, an online school dedicated to helping musicians and sound engineers get the technical knowledge they need to have successful shows. A California native who has been working in the music industry since the late 1990's, Scott moved to Iowa with his fami...

  iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon 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 wi...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Ritchie "the amp guy" Fliegler is a notable guitarist, author, and at one time an evangelist for both Marshall Amplification and Fender Musical Instruments. As a guitarist, he has worked with John Waite, Lou Reed, John Cale, Tom Verlaine, Johnny Copeland, and Alice Cooper. As an author on the subject of guitar his articles have appeared i...

  iTunes           Spotify           Youtube            Patreon 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...

  iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Anthony Cioffi is a founder/partner in Boulevard Carroll Entertainment Group, one of the largest, full-spectrum backline and production companies in the country. The New York City location alone boasts a full 17,500 square foot facility, and seven state of the art production/rehearsal studios, dance-friendly mirrored/wood-floored rooms,...

  iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Ryan Philip George is a guitar and keyboard tech and one of the founders of thistourlife.com . Ryan is a graduate of Temple University and got his start in the music business in Philadelphia at Centerstaging in 2001, where he became well versed in all aspects of Backline. A few short years later he accepted his first touring gig as keyb...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Laura Davis-Chanin is a founding member of the band the Student Teachers, and the author of the book about her experiences in the NY punk scene, The Girl in the Back: A Female Drummer's Life with Bowie, Blondie, and the '70s Rock Scene. After being diagnosed with MS at the age of nineteen, she left Rock 'n' Roll and returned to school and...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Ashley Shepherd is a producer, composer, musician, author and owner of Audio Grotto, a full-service recording studio located in a turn-of-the-century church in Newport, KY. Raised in the heart of the Midwest, Ashley has played music since early childhood. Starting with trumpet and eventually moving onto guitar and bass, he draws from a wi...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Grace Royse is a 15-year veteran of the music industry with a concentration in production management and audio engineering. Her experiences span thousands of festivals, tours and live broadcasted performances worldwide, including the US open, Good Morning America, Ellen, and the Super Bowl. "I've been on both sides of the event experience...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon Chris Wilson is a FOH Engineer based in Dallas, TX. He is officially sponsored by Lewitt Microphones and 64 Audio. A graduate of the Audio Science and Music Theory program at Cedar Valley College, Chris spent the next 2 years as the Lead Engineer for Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, Texas, before picking up various tours and one-off gig...

TGIF People! I thought I'd pop-in to your ears today with my friend and past guest Sue Anello (EP77), board certified Homeopathic practitioner and educator. There's a lot that happens on the road and off, and keeping your balance mentally can be challenging. Sue and I discuss a few simple ways you can stay healthy and how Homeopathy may just be the option you've been looking for. If you are intere...

iTunes          Spotify          Youtube            Patreon 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. Erich was first introduced to music at the age of five when his parents bought an upright piano and st...