Latest Showlighting Podcast Episodes
#246 - Mike “FINN” Finocchiaro
Geezers of Gear - May 30, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMike “FINN” Finocchiaro is a twenty-five year veteran of the live entertainment industry. With roots as a touring lighting technician and a successful career in event production, Mike has grown to be one of the most well respected production managers working today. Over two decades spent tourin...
#245 - Bob Harmon - Eggshell Lighting Company
Geezers of Gear - May 29, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsRobert (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 tradeshow and hands you a bag of Hawaiian coffee. Bob started his first business at 12 years old and founded Eggshell at 16.This year Eggshell Ligh...
#244 - Claude Viens
Geezers of Gear - May 22, 2024 13:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsClaude Viens is a Product Specialist at Lighting at AVL Media Group in Montreal, Canada. Claude is responsible for projects and support in North America. Claude spearheaded AVL’s continued growth in the professional lighting and visual effects marketplace. His 30+ years of experience spans a ...
#243 - Jim Woodward
Geezers of Gear - May 15, 2024 13:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsJim Woodward is an award-winning designer whose expertise is 3D visualization, rendering, and modeling for a wide variety of industries including concert & theatrical events, film, television, corporate events, trade shows, museums, architectural firms, and retail. Jim has been incorporating CAD...
#242 - Steve Warren
Geezers of Gear - May 08, 2024 13:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSteve 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 console and dimming manufacturer. He began his career designing electrical layouts for hospitals, police stations, and public buildings, before joinin...
#241 - Michael Nevitt, Crossfade Design
Geezers of Gear - May 01, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMichael has spent 30+ years in the entertainment industry. First as a freelancer, then in 2011, Michael joined forces with other designers to create Crossfade Design, LLC. During that time, he has created designs for small,medium and large-scale events worldwide. Michael is the President / Senio...
#240 - David Haskell from Gateway Studios
Geezers of Gear - April 25, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDavid has been in the industry more than 40 years. He was President at Morris | Light & Sound, Integration before SoloTech acquired Morris. David is now the President of Business Development for Gateway Studios & Production Services (GSPS). Gateway Studios & Production Services offers turnkey ...
#239 - Jeff Cranfill from SES & Concert Stuff Group
Geezers of Gear - April 24, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsJeff Founded Special Event Services in 1986 with Jim Brammer in Brammer’s Winston-Salem garage. SES is an industry leader in audio, lighting, video, design, staging, and live event production for businesses, religious organizations, and major recording artists. Since 1987 Jeff has provided scen...
#238 - David Milly
Geezers of Gear - April 18, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDavid 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 approach to life. Now David is retired and manages some real estate and spends time renovating his current house with his wife DeAnn. They both did so...
#237 - Glenn Roggeman, CEO of AED
Geezers of Gear - April 18, 2024 01:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsGlenn 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, the AED group is a major player in the audio-visual market in Europe, employing more than 300 people in eight countries - Belgium, the Netherlands, ...
#236 - Dan Braun
Geezers of Gear - April 11, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsTalk 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 with mega-act, Metallica where he remains their Show Director today - while delivering the best show he can to their massive audiences around the worl...
#235 - Matthias Hinrichs
Geezers of Gear - April 10, 2024 13:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMatthias Hinrichs is a Product designer and innovator. Specializing in the Obsidian Control Systems for Elation Professional. Matthias has a focus on user experience, usability and workflows to make complicated tasks easy and fun for the user. As a product manager for lighting control systems he...
#234 - Richard Cadena
Geezers of Gear - April 04, 2024 17:43 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsRichard Cadena is an ETCP Recognized Trainer, an ETCP Certified Entertainment Electrician with over 36 years of experience in live event production. He is the author of several books, and the technical editor for Lighting and Sound America, Lighting and Sound International, and Protocol magazine...
#233 - Josh Allen / 3LR Design
Geezers of Gear - April 03, 2024 13:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsJosh Allen has been actively contributing to the lighting industry for more than thirty years. He held the position of principal consultant with Theatre Consultants Collaborative (TCC), where for over a decade, as member of the American Society of Theatre Consultants (ASTC), he consulted on the ...
#232 - Thomas Kubik / Tour Manager and FOH Engineer
Geezers of Gear - March 28, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThomas 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 1999 with Euro and metal bands including InFlames, Nevermore, Arch Enemy, Fear Factory, Angra, Lacuna Coil, Moonspell and Chimaira. Thomas has been...
#231 - Mickey Curbishley
Geezers of Gear - March 27, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWe 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’s previous Podcast recording on Spotify episode #45 and hear all about how he got into the industry by selling t.shirts on tour with AC DC and hi...
#230 - Todd Spencer
Geezers of Gear - March 20, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsTodd’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, working with both startups and established companies to guide strategic and operational growth, acquisitions, turn-arounds, and business sales. Really...
#229 - Marian Sandberg
Geezers of Gear - March 13, 2024 20:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMarian Sandberg Started doing PR for Jack Kelly/Group One in 1996 and barely left the industry since! Marian has diverse work experience spanning several industries and is currently the Vice President & Market Leader for LDI, DSE, and XLIVE at Questex. Prior to this, Marian worked at Informa f...
#228 - Rocko Reedy
Geezers of Gear - March 07, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsRocko 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 watched a U2 show from the front, as a punter, as a fan and looking at the band’s faces vs their backs! Rocko has retired from the road since 2019 bu...
#227 - Paul Streitz
Geezers of Gear - March 06, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsPaul 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-touch creative lighting solutions for, working with high profile jobs including the Grammy awards, Broadway shows and major concert tours. After s...
#226 - Steven Creech Anderson
Geezers of Gear - February 28, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsCreech 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. Stevens' career just kept on getting better and better, working with incredible artists such as Metallica, Scorpions, Rush, Elton John, Bob Seger ...
#225 - Jean Larivière
Geezers of Gear - February 21, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsJean 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 Tanguay. It was with Jacques that he learned all aspects of fixing, hauling, hanging, and designing lighting. Life began to change when Jean was in...
#224 - Eric Wade
Geezers of Gear - February 15, 2024 14:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsEric 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 singer in the Dallas area and he would help in the lighting and sound booth at her shows. By 16, he was working for a lighting company, building di...
#223 - Marsha Stern talks about almost 50 years "in the biz"
Geezers of Gear - February 14, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMarsha Stern is an award-winning lighting designer, programmer, technician and production manager who’s career began in NYC in the music business and spans the NYC Nightclub and Special Events circuit from the late 70’s through the mid 90’s when she began to pioneer using automated lighting and ...
#222 - Jim Digby and The Event Safety Alliance
Geezers of Gear - February 07, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsJim has had a nearly four-decade journey in production and project management roles within the live entertainment and music touring industry has had him working alongside artists as diverse as Linkin Park, Hootie & the Blowfish, Back Street Boys, the Bolshoi Ballet, Phil Collins, and most recent...
#221 - Lighting Designer / Director - Matt Guminski
Geezers of Gear - January 31, 2024 12:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMatthew is a Boston Massachusetts native and resident of Astoria New York. He's a Lighting / Production Designer, Lighting Director, Programer and owner of MG Lighting Design. Matt holds a BFA in Lighting Design from Boston University, and throughout his career, has worked for various styles and ...
#220 - Tom Stimson - Business Coach, Consultant and life long AV Expert!
Geezers of Gear - January 25, 2024 11:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsTom Stimson is a Business Advisor, Coach, and Speaker who works exclusively with hands-on owners and management teams that want to improve their decision-making and elevate their strategic thinking. His Intentional Success® framework has helped hundreds of companies remove the clutter of past dec...
#219 - Jamie Mardis - CEO of Koffee Kult and former roadie / live events business owner
Geezers of Gear - January 24, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsJamie cut his teeth in the automated lighting field, first as a touring lighting tech and programmer, later working directly for a couple of lighting manufacturers. He took a run on cruiseships, and finally decided he wanted to operate his own business. Jamie's business' including lighting, stagi...
#218 - Geezers Of Gear 5 Year Anniversary
Geezers of Gear - January 23, 2024 08:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsExactly 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 (Geezers) talking about gear. Hence "Geezers Of Gear". But then, something happened. People immediately started reaching out saying "I wanna be on Gee...
#216 - Nick Whitehouse from Live Redesigned / Fireplay
Geezers of Gear - January 17, 2024 14:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsNick and his company, currently being rebranded "Live Redesigned, formerly known as Fireplay - are innovators and leaders in the lighting and production design space. He's worked with Metallica, Coldplay, Carrie Underwood, Aerosmith, Billie Eilish, Justin Timberlake, Rihana, Beyonce and many more...
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