Geezers of Gear
Episodes
#271 - Marc Brickman
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marc's work as an artist, director, producer, and lighting designer has reached audiences of millions world-wide and includes spectacles for Pink Floy...
#270 - James Ure
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
James Ure is the Vice President of US Sales and Marketing at AVL Media GroupJames has been in the audio industry for over 35 years and his experience...
#269 - Donny Lodico
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Donny LoDico is a highly experienced professional with over 30 years of work experience in the field of lighting, video, and event management. He has...
#268 - Colleen Wittenberg - LEADING LADIES PODCAST
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Colleen Wittenberg is a Freelance multi-cam director, media server programmer and operator. Colleen has worked for some incredible artists such as Col...
#267 - Howard Glickman
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Howard Glickman is the Associate Principal at Apeiro Design, With over 20 years at the firm, has been a team leader on a great variety of projects fro...
#266 - Chris Conti
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Conti is the Chief Innovation Officer at Production Resource Group. Chris joined PRG in 2004 where he has worked on multiple concert tours, TV s...
#265 - David Wolstenholme
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Wolstenholme is a control systems specialist from Kent, England. David has gained extensive experience touring large-scale musical theatre and i...
#264 - David “Duck” Burns
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David “Duck” Burns is an Experienced Account Manager and Technical Director with a demonstrated history of working in the events services industry...
#263 - Jake Berry
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over a career spanning more than 40 years, Jake Berry is a multiple award winning Production Director. Known throughout the industry as the go to guy ...
#262 - Craig Caserta
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Craig Caserta is the VP of Production Creative Technology Group. Originally From New York, Craig is no stranger to Event Lighting with over 20 Years o...
#261 - Sebastien Boulanger
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sebastien Boulanger is a 15 year veteran of the Live Events industry, having worked as a Technical Director for the likes of the Quebec Minister of Ju...
#260 - Lori Rubinstein
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lori Rubinstein is the Executive Director of the Behind the Scenes Foundation, a 501C3 charity which provides Basic Needs grants to entertainment tech...
#258 - Ken Lennon
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Lennon is the recently retired Executive Lighting Designer for Walt Disney Imagineering. His designs over the last 37 years have included such ico...
#259 - Claire Heat
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Claire Heat is a highly motivated individual with over 25 years experience in the industry, specializing in events and special projects for the music,...
#257 - Joe Cole
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Cole is the founder of R90 Lighting. R90 Lighting is first and foremost dedicated to design, their history is rooted in corporate event lighting a...
#256 - Bryan Hartley
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Production and Lighting Designer Bryan Hartley has designed for a lot of metal bands in his long and storied career. Many people know Bryan as the pas...
#261 - Sebastien Boulanger
04 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sebastien Boulanger is a 15 year veteran of the Live Events industry, having worked as a Technical Director for the likes of the Quebec Minister of Ju...
#255 - Chris Lisle
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Lisle has over 32 years experience in the entertainment industry. He has worked in a variety of roles including Production Designer, Lighting De...
#254 - Scott De Vos
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Scott De Vos has been in the industry for over 50 years, he is the owner of De Lux Productions and has produced events such as the Dove Awards, PGA, L...
#253 - Paul Vincent
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Vincent is the Founder (in 1978) of Vincent Lighting System’s Company, which sells and services theatre, television and architectural lighting ...
#252 - Dizzy Gosnell
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dizzy Gosnell is the Vice President of Production for Bandit Lites, He has been a part of the Bandit family since 1993 but he first met Michael 40 yea...
#251 - Ola Melzig
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ola Melzig began as a stagehand working on local shows in Stockholm 1989. Over the last 20 years he has gone on to produce high profile shows beginnin...
#250 - Neel Vasavada
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Neel Vasavada is the founder and president of Overdrive Energy Solutions.Neel is a driving force in the movement to bring green technology to the even...
#249 Michael Keeling
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Keeling is a Production Designer, Creative/Show Designer Director and as it says on his website, Veteran (he said it not us!) as Creative and ...
#248 - Phay MacMahon
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Phay Mac Mahon started his career in production management in 1976 with Bob Geldof and The Boomtown Rats. Since then he has worked with some of the bi...
#247 - Joe Casanova
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joe started back in the 80’s on the rental and production side of Century Music Systems Inc and worked as a staff engineer prepping tours, repairing...
#246 - Mike “FINN” Finocchiaro
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mike “FINN” Finocchiaro is a twenty-five year veteran of the live entertainment industry. With roots as a touring lighting technician and a succes...
#245 - Bob Harmon - Eggshell Lighting Company
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Robert (Bob) Harmon is one of the hands down NICEST guys in the industry. You know you've made a mark in this industry when Bob approaches you at a tr...
#244 - Claude Viens
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Claude Viens is a Product Specialist at Lighting at AVL Media Group in Montreal, Canada. Claude is responsible for projects and support in North ...
#243 - Jim Woodward
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Woodward is an award-winning designer whose expertise is 3D visualization, rendering, and modeling for a wide variety of industries including conc...
#242 - Steve Warren
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Warren was a Shareholder and Director of Avolites Ltd until to its recent sale to Robe. For over 35 years, Steve was the public face of the cons...
#241 - Michael Nevitt, Crossfade Design
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michael has spent 30+ years in the entertainment industry. First as a freelancer, then in 2011, Michael joined forces with other designers to create C...
#240 - David Haskell from Gateway Studios
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David has been in the industry more than 40 years. He was President at Morris | Light & Sound, Integration before SoloTech acquired Morris. David ...
#239 - Jeff Cranfill from SES & Concert Stuff Group
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Founded Special Event Services in 1986 with Jim Brammer in Brammer’s Winston-Salem garage. SES is an industry leader in audio, lighting, video,...
#238 - David Milly
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David sold his lighting business, TLS Inc to 4Wall back in 2012 and stayed on to work with the company for three years before taking a different appro...
#237 - Glenn Roggeman, CEO of AED
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Glenn Roggeman is the CEO of The AED Group. He founded AED in Belgium in 1985 as a dry-hire rental company for lighting and sound equipment. Today, th...
#236 - Dan Braun
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Talk about career spans - Dan Braun started his legendary career path more than 45 years ago. In fact this year will mark Dan’s 30th year working wi...
#235 - Matthias Hinrichs
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matthias Hinrichs is a Product designer and innovator. Specializing in the Obsidian Control Systems for Elation Professional. Matthias has a focus on ...
#234 - Richard Cadena
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Cadena is an ETCP Recognized Trainer, an ETCP Certified Entertainment Electrician with over 36 years of experience in live event production. H...
#233 - Josh Allen / 3LR Design
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Allen has been actively contributing to the lighting industry for more than thirty years. He held the position of principal consultant with Theat...
#232 - Thomas Kubik / Tour Manager and FOH Engineer
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Kubik started his career 28 years ago and took the classic course from stagehand to behind the console and touring. He has been touring since 1...
#231 - Mickey Curbishley
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are very happy to have Mickey Curbishley back on the Podcast, the last time he was on the show was back in September 2019. You can listen to Mickey...
#230 - Todd Spencer
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Todd’s career spans more than 25 years with firms varying in size from $1M to $3B in revenues, with over 18 years in executive leadership roles, wor...
#229 - Marian Sandberg
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marian Sandberg Started doing PR for Jack Kelly/Group One in 1996 and barely left the industry since! Marian has diverse work experience spanning sev...
#228 - Rocko Reedy
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rocko was Stage Manager for 30 Years for U2, recently visiting The Sphere in Las Vegas where he saw the gig from FOH. The first time he had ever watch...
#227 - Paul Streitz
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paul established himself as an industry visionary, one of the early leaders in Fiber Optic lighting solutions and a go-to-source for high-tech, high-t...
#226 - Steven Creech Anderson
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Creech has been in the industry for over 40 years. Steven started as a stagehand in Dallas and then his first BIG tour was with Motley Crew in 1985.St...
#225 - Jean Larivière
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jean has been in the business since the 80s, starting in theater and clubs. He was able to work under the tutelage of his very first mentor, Jacques T...
#224 - Eric Wade
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eric is the principal designer and creative director at Crossfade Design. He got his start in the industry at the ripe age of 14. His mom was a rock s...
#223 - Marsha Stern talks about almost 50 years "in the biz"
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marsha Stern is an award-winning lighting designer, programmer, technician and production manager who’s career began in NYC in the music business an...
#222 - Jim Digby and The Event Safety Alliance
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jim has had a nearly four-decade journey in production and project management roles within the live entertainment and music touring industry has had h...
#221 - Lighting Designer / Director - Matt Guminski
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew is a Boston Massachusetts native and resident of Astoria New York. He's a Lighting / Production Designer, Lighting Director, Programer and own...
#220 - Tom Stimson - Business Coach, Consultant and life long AV Expert!
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Stimson is a Business Advisor, Coach, and Speaker who works exclusively with hands-on owners and management teams that want to improve their decis...
#219 - Jamie Mardis - CEO of Koffee Kult and former roadie / live events business owner
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie cut his teeth in the automated lighting field, first as a touring lighting tech and programmer, later working directly for a couple of lighting ...
#218 - Geezers Of Gear 5 Year Anniversary
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Exactly 5 years ago today, I launched Geezers Of Gear with a mission. Myself and an employee who would serve as the co-host, would be two old guys (Ge...
#217 - Emily Bornt - Lighting Designer and Director
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Bornt is a lighting designer, currently living in Los Angeles. She started her career in New York as a lighting technician, and moved cross-coun...
#216 - Nick Whitehouse from Live Redesigned / Fireplay
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick and his company, currently being rebranded "Live Redesigned, formerly known as Fireplay - are innovators and leaders in the lighting and producti...
#215 - George Masek on 40 years in lighting, 35 years in automated lights
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
George's career began in 1982 with his own "side hussle" while still going to school in his new hometown of Dallas Texas. Eventually, through a lot of...
#214 - The Sponsors - talking about the industry - looking back and ahead to 2024
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A pretty great collection of interviews beginning with Eric Loader from , then Daniel Anderson, , Ben Saltzman, , Brad Nelms, and finally, Rick McKinn...
#213 - John Wiseman year end chat on the biz, his health and so much more
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John has built a career unlike many others in the lighting business. He's been at the top of his game, and the touring business for many many years, a...
#212 - Rob Koenig - LD for Metallica, GnR, Lizzo and so many more
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Koenig is a lighting Designer, programmer and director, with over 25 years of experience. Having worked his way up through the clubs in FL in the ...
#211 - Chris McMeen from Christie Lites - LDI Post Show discussion
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chris has been around the industry in the Northeast USA for a long time now, and is one of the top lighting account exec's in the NY City area. He's w...
#210 - Martin Thomas - LD, Production Manager and owner of Relentless Entertainment Design
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Martin is one of those guys, you find him pretty easy to like, and super easy to talk to. This was a very enjoyable podcast to record, and hopefully, ...
#209 - Welcome "The Producer" - Sarah Birnie joins Geezers Of Gear
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Geezers Of Gear is growing, and super excited to be adding a new team member in the role of Producer. And not just any old producer, but the one and o...
#208 - Michael Springer
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michael is an Entertainment Specialist, Stage Manager, Stage Crew Member, Production Stage Manager, Production Manager, former Tour Manager and so muc...
#207 - Bob Dickinson, the OG of televised event lighting
05 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Dickinson is a television lighting designer. His career, spanning decades, has focussed on awards shows, music shows, game shows, talk shows, and ...
#206 - Bob Harmon from Eggshell Lighting
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the hands down NICEST guys in the industry. You know you've made a mark in this industry when Bob approaches you at a tradeshow and hands you a...
#205 - David Packouz - an International Arms Dealer depicted in War Dogs creates a sound brand
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Not many young men will lead a life of an international arms trader, have a hit movie made about them (War Dogs), close deals for as much as $300 mill...
#204 - Lighting Designer Lee Rose
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For over 50 years, Lee Rose has been designing lighting for television, film, music and theater. He began in theater in the late 60s, did his first ro...
#203 - Luke Meek - Author, Production Manager & FOH Engineer
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Luke began touring as a FOH engineer in 2005 then later, a production manager as well. He began writing a blog for the live production industry in 201...
#202 - Howie Zales... from Camera Man to Entrepreneur
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Howie Zales is an Emmy Award winning Camera Operator who turned his passion for television broadcasting into several entrepreneurial endeavors includi...
#201 - "Red" Rod Gibson has had an amazing career in touring and now on the vendor side
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's impossible to have survived the 80s, 90s and even into the 2000s in the Touring Lighting business, without coming through with some stories. A re...
#200 - Patrick Whalen checks in from Backstage Productions / Backstage Aerial
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My dear friend Patrick Whalen shares some (horror) stories from the road, updates on drones and so much more. I hope you enjoy our chat as much as I d...
#199 - Steve Lieberman fresh off the heels of EDC Vegas
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Not many LD's get to write their ticket. Doing things exactly as they want, staying in their lane. Steve has done that... and for a long time! And, he...
#198 - Marshall Bissett - founder of TMB (and so much more!)
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An awesome guy, and with a ton of great stories to tell as well. Marshall saw the Beatles in 1963, did early gigs with The Eagles, Pink Floyd, Elton J...
#197 - Han Henze discussed almost 50 years in the business
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Han started his career like so many, a guitar player in a high school band until one day, someone actually said "you know, you're just not very good"....
#196 - Erik Eastland - President of All Access Staging
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Erik has been in the business more than 40 years, starting with Edgar Winter in the 70s, and more recently - the incredible Super Bowl Halftime show. ...
#195 - Jim Marlowe... one of the godfathers of HD projection
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jim was a very early proponent of Digital HD projection, he provided HD process images for the CBS series, “Hack” as well as having provided 3D HD...
#194 - Roland Greil on designing for Rammstein, The Stones, Adelle, Genesis and more
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Roland began his "career" with a passion for audio at 8 years old, and in his teens made the move to lighting. Since that time, he has worked hard to ...
#193 - Jeremy Bridge from PK Sound talking Motorized Line Arrays
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Innovation is hard, it's expensive, and oftentimes it's thankless work. Jeremy named the company PK based on "Polar Kinetic" defined The radial direct...
#192 - Brad, Marcel and Rane Renshaw go FULL GEARHEAD and discuss the Moving Light March Madness too!
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rane has become a lighting influencer through a lot of hard work, dedication to helping folks, and some great ideas like his Moving Light March Madnes...
#191 - Omar Colom with AV Educate
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Omar holds over a dozen certification and train the trainer certification in various disciplines in AV and also a second generation video engineer who...
#190 - Jeremy Fairbairn on a career in Motorsports with GearSource
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
So many friends and listeners are constantly asking about Jeremy's status, what he's racing now, where, etc. So in a departure from our usual talks on...
#189 - Brian Dowd chatting through 46 years in this crazy but wonderful biz! (and lots of BBQ talk too!)
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Brian has a lot of "firsts" in his 46 years in this industry. He was the FIRST employee at Mainlight back in the early 80s for one! Brian is currently...
#188 - Eric Todd - 40 years at BML/Blackbird and an industry thought leader
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eric started BML when he was still in school, and has grown it over a period of 40+ years. Today, between Blackbird and Generico, Eric continues to wo...
#187 - Fausto Orsatti, truly one of our industry pioneers in product development
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fausto began his career creating amazing products for Coemar in the 1970's. Since that time, he not only helped develop the very first commercially av...
#186 - Mickey Williams / Gig Life
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mickey grew up in the temporary crew business through his family, and just recently started his own company, Gig Life. He talks about a lot of the cha...
#185 - Patrick Dierson
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick is a lighting designer, programmer, director, production designer, and smart business man! Always a great time when we get together, and this ...
#184 - AJ Pen talks about 25 years in the business and his new adventures growing Penlight
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
AJ Penn has had a career spanning more than twenty-five years in Lighting, Set & Production Design and currently works with artists including Josh Gro...
#183 - Bob Bonniol of Mode
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bob is a really interesting guy, who started in the late 80's running follow spots in a theater at night, while studying political science during the ...
#182 - Chris Lose on a career built on kindness and saying YES!
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Lose is a man with more Job TItles than most folks will gather in a lifetime. While his entire career has been in lighting, it hasn't been linea...
#181 - Jonathan Smeeton discusses 50 years of lighting design
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Not many designers have 50 years lighting the world's leading acts, from Hawkwind to Peter Gabriel, Wham, Zappa, Def Leppard and even Diana Ross. Jona...
#180 - We're losing too many friends... what can be done? With guests, John Featherstone, Eric Loader, Ben Saltzman and John Wiseman
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The group who gathered often during COVID come back to discuss a very important and sombre topic. We're losing too many friends, and it's entirely unn...
#179 - Dan English discusses his lengthy history at Morpheus Lights and more recently LD Alliance
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I always think of myself as a guy who's been around since the earliest days of automated lighting, but in fact, that's not accurate. I began in the in...
#178 - Gordon Addison.... Need I say more?
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gordon is a very well known and kind soul in the live events lighting space. Based in the UK, Gordon cut his teeth in nightclubs, but has since grown ...
#177 - Ben Coker from Live Events Productions / Zenith Lighting, LIVE from the LDI Show Floor
19 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ben helps to select the greatest lighting products for Live Events and Zenith Lighting. Gain insights on his picks for the best stuff at LDI 2022!
#176 - Chris McMeen at LDI
19 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chris is a well known account executive working with Christie Lites in New York and shares some great product insights from the LDI show floor. Qu...
#175 - The Conference At Lititz
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This thing is impressive! Imagine being in a room with Jake Barry, Marty Hom, Charlie Hernandez, Stuart Ross and a list of 60 other top names in the i...
#174 - Likely our MOST important discussion yet... The Entertainment Association
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We had COVID... it came, tried very hard to destroy our industry, then (for the most part) left - and it's like we've learned nothing. As an industry,...
#173 - Victor Fable - Lighting Designer, DP, Programmer and more
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vic's 40 year career began in NY and brought him to California, and recently he moved to be closer to family in Virginia. He's worked with a "who's wh...