Kelsey Hightower

gear and the large mixing boards to pro tools right the little rack mount unit and they all need it max they all need these conversions so i added that to my uh abilities and then i had a small setup in the store and artists and musicians would come in and say hey we want exactly that in our studio and i would get the order and i added it to the list of things i could do

Even during that time as the store owner, I managed a comedian and we went on the road and... So you were helping out your manager?

Yeah, I had a buddy from high school.

He was a comedian.

Turns out he was actually really good at it.

We even, I went to go see him at a club.

He's like, hey, I need a manager.

I was like, are you even funny?

Like...

I know you from high school, but I don't remember you being like funny enough that I would pay to see you tell jokes.

And he was like, I have a show tonight.

And so I gave him a ride on the north side of town.

And the interesting part, it was a predominantly black audience in Atlanta.

OK, makes sense.

And he did these jokes and they laughed.

And it was one of these comedy clubs where if you're not funny, you have like three seconds and they will just boo you off the stage.

And that's the end of it.

And he held it.

I was like, wow, you survived that.

That's incredible.