About SLAM Summit - Surviving and Thriving in the Music Industry
The Music Industry Survival Guide! Real talk with music superstars and industry VIPs, shining a spotlight on the day-to-day realities for songwriters, performers, road warriors, industry workers, and all the resilient souls who live and breathe music. Host: Jack Mangan.
“I hope other musicians see this and know they’re not alone.”
-Marc Lopes (Metal Church, Ross the Boss)
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Jack Mangan and Eric Haley visited the Brandenburg Labs booth at NAMMShow 2026 to speak with legendary musical inventor and Internet Hall of Fame Inductee: Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg, about his latest innovation: Okeanos Pro Headphones. His biggest claim to fame is co-inventing the .mp3 file format.
Topics covered:
-Augmented Reality Immersive Headphones. The sound changes as you walk around the rood. It’s wild to experience.
-Listening to Rush on the Atari 800.
-Impact of the .mp3 format.
SLAM Bumper: Rich Catino.
Full disclosure. The room around us was seriously noisy. Some of the audio is rough. We know. The second half of the video is better. Yes, we did run Noise Reduction.
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26 Feb 2026
52 - Positive Attitude, Positive Attitude
An 8-minute NAMM hallway conversation with Chad Leon, singer and guitarist of the mighty Kings of Thrash .
Lyrics reference: Megadeth.
SLAM Bumper: Jason McMaster
-Be humble
-Forming your neuro pathways.
-Practice thinking positively
Camera work: Eric Haley.
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12 Feb 2026
51 - Every Day I Move Forward
A 10-minute NAMM hallway conversation with Joel Hoekstra, hyper-talented guitarist with Whitesnake, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Revolution Saints, and numerous other projects, including Joel Hoekstra’s 13.
Lyrics reference: Whitesnake.
-Making 10 cents an hour.
-You’re treated like a king and then you’re a bum and then you’re a king.
-Try and look at it logically.
Camera work: Eric Haley.
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