Steve Nider: Silverfish Audio and a Life on the Road
Steve Nider entered the live sound business at sixteen, driving an equipment truck for Black Sheep, the Rochester band fronted by Lou Gramm before Foreigner. He later joined Silverfish Audio, helping build and tour the company’s early systems for artists including Bonnie Raitt, Jimmy Buffett, Jesse Colin Young, Warren Zevon, Emmylou Harris, and Pablo Cruise. Steve shares the story of Silverfish’s rare Ashly consoles, custom-built speaker systems, small touring crews, and the company’s move fr...
18 Jul 2026
Greg Price: Mixing Ozzy, Sabbath, Van Halen and Beyond
Greg Price has spent more than four decades moving between the recording studio and front of house at the highest levels of the industry. His career includes work with Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, KISS, Poison, The Cult, Steve Miller, Pablo Cruise, and many more. But Greg’s story is about more than an extraordinary list of artists. In this episode, Greg shares how he went from driving the truck and working as a roadie for Pablo Cruise to learn...
27 Jun 2026
David Morgan Part II, Behind The Wrong Desk
David Morgan spent five years behind the “wrong desk.” After coming up through A1 Audio and the early West Coast live sound scene, David was called by Jim Gamble in 1981 to help manage Innovative Audio, the company that grew out of Tycobrahe. What followed was a crash course in sound company life: gear, people, payroll, pressure, system design, client relationships, and the reality of supporting major tours from the other side of the desk. In this second conversation with David, we dig into A...
15 Jun 2026
Greg Carttar, 3rd St. R&D Production Services
Greg Carttar of 3rd St. R&D Production Services joins me for a deep dive into the early days of live sound, regional sound companies, and the era when people were still building, modifying, and figuring out the tools of the trade in real time. Greg talks about getting his start in electronics, building amplifiers and mixers, and learning from Stanel Sound, where theory, field experience, and the Don Davis book all became part of his education. From there, we get into early country shows w...
7 Jun 2026
Bill “Doc” Gans, The Road Behind The Load-Out
Bill “Doc” Gans worked for Showco from 1973 to 1982, during one of the most important eras in the development of modern concert touring. Doc came into the business with no formal audio background, learned by doing, and found himself on the road with some of the biggest artists of the 1970s and early 1980s. In this long-form road conversation, he shares stories from his years in live sound, from the Showco shop to stages with Jackson Browne, James Taylor, The Who, ZZ Top, Average White Band, U...
29 May 2026
David Dansky, Mixing Audio With Texture
David Dansky has been mixing shows since 1970, stepping into live audio at a time when the industry was still young, raw, and being figured out in real time. With a background in electrical engineering, David was uniquely positioned for an era when sound engineers were not just mixing shows. They were solving problems, adapting gear, learning from each other, and helping shape the systems and workflows that became part of the live sound industry. “I wasn’t just mixing a band. I was mixing tex...
22 May 2026
Jim Yakabuski, From Bar Band to Van Halen
Jim Yakabuski’s career started in Vancouver bar bands, learning live sound the hard way: small rooms, limited gear, feedback problems, and a lot of figuring it out as he went. In this episode, Jim walks through the path that took him from those early club gigs to DB Sound, Summerfest in Milwaukee, monitor gigs with Aerosmith and Poison, and eventually front of house for Van Halen. Along the way, he shares stories about learning before the internet, working with massive proprietary PA systems,...
14 May 2026
David Morgan, Connecting The Artist and Audience
David Morgan spent more than 50 years standing between artists and audiences, helping translate performances into emotional experiences night after night. As the longtime front of house engineer for James Taylor, Paul Simon, Bette Midler, Steely Dan, Whitney Houston, Fleetwood Mac, and many others, he’s mixed everything from intimate theater shows to massive outdoor performances for hundreds of thousands of people. But what drives him has never really been the résumé. It’s the people walking ...
8 May 2026
Ken Newman, In Pursuit Of Audio Nirvana
Ken Newman has always wanted to achieve the best sound and anxious to succeed at challenges. With a 40 plus year career, Ken has worked with artist like Barry Manilow, Chris Isaak, Paul Anka, Shirley Maclaine and many more. He started in high school by building his own recording rig with a Gately Pro kit mixer. Ken started working with some local bands and a regional company CSI Audio before getting the job in 1980 that would propel his career path at the Sands Hotel Casino in Atlantic ...
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