Episodes
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Join us to remember the 2024 LDI show, our highlights from the show, some cool products and a few stories. Plus, a bit about the inaugural Dining With Dinosaurs event as well. This episode is brought to you by Elation and MainLight.
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Andrew Mills, known as Hamish in the industry, brings more than 30 years of Entertainment industry Experience. Hamish Has Toured with acts like U2, Metallica, Nirvana, Rod Stewart and other high-profile entertainers, and worked with service providers in the U.S., Australia, U.K. and Europe.
Hammish has been responsible for managing and directing operational functions for large entertainment service providers in multiple countries. A leader with proven success at companies including VER, Tait Towers, Epic Productions, Vari-Lite International and Light & Sound Design. Now the Senior Vice President of Operations for PRG
Please welcome Andrew “Hamish” Mills to the Podcast.
This episode is brought to you by AVL Media Group and a very special mention to our friends at The Event Safety Alliance
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Robert Hofkamp was last on the Podcast back in 2021 at LDI where he was representing Void Acoustics. I can’t believe that is almost three years to the day and he was brave enough to exhibit at a lighting show, post covid!
Check out episode #158 on our website www.geezersofgear.comRobert has been in the audio industry since the 70’s. Nearly 20 years as Sales Director for Tannoy, North America, 20 years as Director of Operations for Martin Audio,and almost ten years,Director of Operations for Void Acoustics.
Most recently Brand Development Specialist for OPS + Consulting. OPS+ consulting specializes in the development of specialist products for the Professional Audio market sectors in North America.
This episode is brought to you by ACT Entertainment and GearSource
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Melody Tseng is a Creative Producer at Live Redesigned. Melody graduated from design school with a background in art and fashion.Melody started out working as a production translator in Taiwan before touring for over 10 years as a production coordinator and VIP/sponsorship manager for artists such as Justin Timberlake, Maroon 5, Janet Jackson, Ariana Grande, and Billie Eilish.During the pandemic Melody was assistant creative producer Fireplay run by Nick Whitehouse. Since then she has moved up quickly and learned a lot, now as creative producer/creative director.
Melody has been the creative director for Demi Lovato in 2022, Romeo Santos in 2023, and most recently art director/set designer for Alanis Morissette this past summer.Melody’s life motto is: Life is too short to settle for mediocrity, do what makes you happy and always do your best.
Please welcome Melody to Leading Ladies Podcast.
This episode is brought to you by Lightswitch
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John Featherstone Principal & Managing Director of Lightswitch. Born and educated in the United Kingdom, John was theatrically trained at Britain's National Youth Theatre.John met four lads who had just formed a band called The Smiths,John hit the road with The Smiths, and worked with them and his dear friend Johnny Marr until the band split. After that, he spent a decade concert touring under the watchful eye of Roy Bennett. John toured with bands from DuranDuran, INXS, Janet Jackson, Van Halen, and more. John met Norm Schwab also Principal & Managing Director for Lightswitch in 1986 — the same trip to the States when he met his wife, Kathy.
John moved to the United States in 1989 and continued to tour extensively until he founded Lightswitch in 1993 with Norn Schwab.Lightswitch is a design consortium committed to the continuing pursuit of excellence in all aspects of the design process. Lightswitch creates visual design for dynamic live events and compelling architectural environments.
John is married to Kathy and they have two daughters, Hailey and Ella who are both in the industry
Please welcome my good friend John Featherstone to Geezers Of Gear.
This Episode is brought to you by Main Light and Elation
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Marty Hom is a 40+ year concert touring veteran who has worked with Barbra Streisand, Shakira, Bette Midler, Lionel Richie, The Eagles, Alicia Keys, Shania Twain, Janet Jackson and Beyonce to name but a few.
Marty was with Fleetwood Mac for 21 years, most of those years as tour manager. Marty was last on the Podcast back in 2021 you can check out episode #128 on our website www.geezersofgear.comThis year Marty has been extremely busy on tour, directing/managing the Rolling Stones, Olivia Rodrigo, Stevie Nicks and Shakira's tours.
I can not wait to hear what Marty has been up to these last few years, please welcome Marty Hom back to the Podcast.
This Episode is brought to you by AVL Media Group and a special mention to Behind The Scenes Foundation
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Neil Juneja is a business and intellectual property attorney. He is the founder and managing partner of Gleam Law, a law firm headquartered in Seattle, WA. His impeccable track record and years of experience in the formation, growth, and exit strategies of business throughout the world as well as navigating the complexities of patents, trademarks, and copyrights, with clients in 46 states and on five continents.
The majority of his practice focuses on trademark protection of cannabis brands in state and federal law as well as patent protection for cannabis inventions. Neil has over 20 years of experience in entrepreneurship, business consultation, entertainment lighting, and technology industries, Neil understands unique business needs of clients of every size. Neil was last on the Podcast with Joe Cole back in 2020 where they both successfully hosted drive in raves, you can listen to episode #111 on our website www.geezersofgear.com
This epsode is brought to you by Ultimate Support part of ACT Entertainment and GearSource
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Bob Bonniol is an Emmy Award winning Director, Production Designer, andProducer. He is known for his implementation of extensive media andinteractive features in his productions and installations. His practice spans the worlds of theater, broadcast, opera, installations, and architecture.
In 2023, he has widely deployed new interactive technology and AI to elevate live concert production, with tour designs for Billy Joel, Blake Shelton, Megan Thee Stallion, and the One Night Houston Festival.
In the course of his career he has worked from Broadway to Beijing, helpingclients like Disney, NBCU, ABC, Live Nation, AEG, Marvel Studios, and Lucas' film gathers and dazzles audiences of millions.
We had the pleasure of Bob being on the show in February of 2023, you can check out episode #183 on our website www.geezersofgear.com
Please welcome Bob back to the Podcast.
This Episode is brought to you by Elation and Main Light
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Tim Dailey’s career started in event production, particularly lighting design and technical direction for large corporate events and tradeshows. This naturally led him down a path towards power as every show needs lots of it (well they used to anyway). Since then the bulk of Tim’s career has been in rental/temporary power generation for events. This has mostly been with diesel generators until the last 2 or so years where we have seen this transition to mobile batteries that can actually power entire events.
Tim has been highly recommended to come on the show by Neel Vasavada who we had on the show back in June.
This episode is brought to you by AVL Media Group and a special mention for Santas Roadies.
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Ellen Lampert-Gréaux works at Questex as Live Design/LDI Creative Director. Ellen started at LDI in 1988, the very first LDI was in Dallas, this will be her 37th year. Ellen is a writer, editor, conference organizer for Live Design/LDI she is from Philadelphia and went to college in Brooklyn.
Ellen is the editor-in-chief of Harbour Magazine for Saint Barth and Saint Martin and Organizes The St Barth Film Festival “Cinéma Caraïbes” this year was the 27th edition of "Caribbean Cinema", from May 1 to 4, 2024
I have known Ellen for a very long time but this is the first time she has been on the show, I am looking forward to hearing her incredible story and introducing LDI 2024
This epsiode is brought to you by ACT Entertainment and Main Light
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We are extremely lucky to have Cosmo (Charles) Wilson back on the Podcast.
Cosmo is a concert lighting designer and director. He has been in the industry since the 80’s and is one of the nicest people you will ever meet, he is a legend.Cosmo has worked with over 40 acts including AC/DC, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Foreigner, INXS, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Meat Loaf, Mötley Crüe, The Rolling Stones, Ronnie James Dio, David Lee Roth, Scorpions,[2] and Rod Stewart. He was a touring road crew member from 1986 before becoming a director and designer.
Cosmo received a Parnelli Award for Lighting Director of the Year 2015, a Tour Link Top Dog Award for Lighting Director of the Year for AC/DC in 2016 and Aerosmith in 2017, and the "Live Production Summit Pinnacle Awards" for both Lighting Director of the Year and Lighting Designer of the Year in 2020 and again in 2023.
We are so pleased Cosmo has found the time to come on the Podcast again, you can check out his previous shows at www.geezersofgear.com episode numbers #78 #112 #118 and #171Please welcome Cosmos to the show.
This episode is brought to you by MainLight and Elation
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Mark Fetto started working as a lighting technician in the late 1970’s, working his way through the ranks at the Obie Company and Vari-Lite, he then became a lighting designer and senior programmer. In 1989 Mark opened Vari-Lite's satellite office in Las Vegas. He went on to become general manager of Vari-Lite's Dealer Network and later General Manager of North American Operations.,
Following a 16-year career at Vari-Lite, Mark joined Stage Rigging, Inc. as the National Sales Manager before moving to his position as Chief Operating Officer at Morpheus Lights for 14 years.
Mark oversaw touring systems, new inventory, infrastructure, and operational strategies in both production and manufacturing.In 2019 Mark Joined OSA International as their Vice President, Lighting and he is now learning how to be a grandpa to 2- soon to be 4 grandkids. The priorities are shifting.
Marks Motto in Life is “Do it now, because you can’t count on being here tomorrow”
This episode is brought to you by ACT Entertainment and Ultimate Support
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Marc's work as an artist, director, producer, and lighting designer has reached audiences of millions world-wide and includes spectacles for Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, The Barcelona and Nagano Olympics Ceremonies, Cirque du Soleil, Neil Young, Blue Man Group, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen and hundreds of others.
Now, with David Gilmour and other technical collaborations, Marc is pushing even further into bridging art and light including various new technologies.
This episode is brought to you by Acme Lighting and PRG
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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 ranges from AV design and installation, live sound, rental, studio, broadcast and rehearsal.
James was with Harman for 10 years and covered 18 countries on a regular basis through Europe and the Pacific rim and has been all the way around the world twice. James is known for the Road Trip with Jim Ure demo trips. Also dubbed the "Insanity Tour" where he made roughly 340 stops in 46 states in 130 days.
This episode is brought to you by AVL Media Group and GearSource
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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 a strong background in corporate events, lighting design, and video production. Currently, Donny is the Director of Lighting / Senior Account Executive at Video West Inc in the United States.
An incredible moment was last year when Video West Inc and Lightswitch were honored to help deliver The Virgin Galactic event to the public via a livestreamDonny has toured with some of the biggest names in live entertainment, includingGeorge Strait, GooGoo Dolls, Rush, Peter Gabriel and many more. Donny leveraged this skill set to become an industry leader in creating unique live experience with his particular talent of protecting the creative vision, while still making sure a project is on time, and on budget.
In Donny’s spare time he has a passion for motorsports including building his son's Kart racing team LNL Racing.
This episode is brought to you by Elation and Main Light
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Colleen Wittenberg is a Freelance multi-cam director, media server programmer and operator. Colleen has worked for some incredible artists such as ColpPlay, aerosmith, alanis morissette, U2, Lizzo to name but a few. And is currently on tour with Hozier.
Colleen has not only had an incredible career so far in our industry but also started out in the cruise industry as the Entertainment Technical Manager, Senior Lighting and Special Effects Technician.
During the pandemic Colleen was one of the very few people able to leave the States and actually went to work for Universal in China
Colleen is an incredible human, strong, passionate, loving and full of energy for life.
Please welcome Colleen, my second guest, my great friend to the Leading ladies Podcast, part of Geezers Of Gear.
Leading Ladies is brought to you by Lightswitch
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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 from large international projects in Asia and the Middle East to middle school auditoriums and city council chambers. Howards passion for live music and experience in concert production has been invaluable when designing Tribal Gaming entertainment facilities such as the Ya’amava Theater and Cache Creek Event Center.
Howard brings his past experiences in almost all aspects of the theatre industry including technical, administration, education, construction, and equipment sales to bear on each project by looking at each venue as a whole and considering not only the audience experience but that of the staff, technicians, and educators who call these venues their home away from home.
This episode is brought to you by AVL Media Group and a Special to our friends at The Event Safety Alliance (ESA)
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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 shows, corporate events, trade shows, and special events. Some of the highlights have been Coldplay, Josh Groban, Fleetwood Mac, Guns & Roses, Michael Jackson, The Rolling Stones and Sir Elton John to name but a few.
In 2007, he became the Product Manager for PRG's Proprietary Luminaires and the Series400 System. During his tenure as a Product Manager, Chris has been listed as an inventor on 15 U.S. patents (and counting) and has continued to provide technical assistance and support to multiple shows.
In 2019, Chris became Chief Innovation Officer for PRG. As CIO, Chris leads PRGInnovation, which brings into a single organization all of PRG’s global talent focused on product development. Chris also continues to participate in some of PRG’s most ambitious productions.Chris was last on the podcast for Geezers Of Gear special edition at LDI back in 2021.
Please welcome Chris back to the podcast.
This episode is brought to you by Ultimate Support and GearSource.
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David Wolstenholme is a control systems specialist from Kent, England. David has gained extensive experience touring large-scale musical theatre and ice shows, and has spent time at the National Theatre of Great Britain and Cirque Du Soleil. More recently, he has toured internationally with pop and rock artists in stadiums and arenas worldwide, working with ELO, Take That, Helene Fischer, and Pharrell Williams, among others.
David specializes in lighting and show data integration and control systems, including lighting and video tracking systems for events of all sizes. Along with business partners Dom Smith and Paul Johnson, David established Show Binary Ltd. The company specializes in designing, consulting, and renting data control systems for live events, theatre, and film.
This episode is brought to you by Elation and Main Light
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David “Duck” Burns is an Experienced Account Manager and Technical Director with a demonstrated history of working in the events services industry. Skilled in Production Management, Stage Management, Lighting, Sound, Video, LED, and Rigging. From Opera to Country, Hip-Hop to Metal, Dance and Theatre,Television and Corporate Events, David has worked them all, he has loved living abroad and traveling the world over the last 40 years. The friends, knowledge, and business contacts he has gained are beyond measure.
This Episode is brought to you AVL Media Group and ROE Visual
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