On the Road

Mar 1, 2004

Rick Camp is one of those guys who never rests. This studio and live engineer has worked with the likes of Earth, Wind & Fire, Madonna, Erykah Badu, Burt Bacharach and Destiny's Child....

Now Playing

Mar 1, 2004

Blake Shelton

Sound Company: Sound Image (Escondido, Calif.)
FOH Engineer/Console: Dirk Durhan/Midas XL4...

All Access

Mar 1, 2004, By Heather Johnson

Mary Chapin Carpenter introduced the concept of a guitar pull, a song-sharing tradition in acoustic country and folk circles, to an appreciative audience...

Tour Profile: David Bowie

Mar 1, 2004, By Breean Lingle

b>From the moment David Bowie's band entered the stage, walking along a high catwalk and silhouetted against a dramatic, projected backdrop of the Milky Way (Bowie appearing suddenly below them, wrapped and abstracted by white beams of light), it's evident that his Reality tour is a rock show of grand proportion....

Tom Jones

Feb 1, 2004, Photos and Text by Steve Jennings

Tom Jones will never go out of fashion, so Mix caught up with his guitarist/musical director Brian Monroney and the sound engineers when he hit San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium....

Now Playing

Feb 1, 2004

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Sound Companies: Rainbow Concert Productions, Firehouse Productions
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Tour Profile: Seal

Feb 1, 2004, By Heather Johnson

Save for a red light emanating from his wireless mic and the white glow of a Macintosh's Apple logo, Seal and band seemed nearly invisible as they stepped onto the dark stage at the sold-out Warfield Theater in San Francisco....

All Access: Barenaked Ladies

Feb 1, 2004, By Steve Jennings

Mix caught “An Evening With Barenaked Ladies”...

Interpol

Jan 1, 2004, By Steve Jennings

New York City-based Interpol will remind most post-punk junkies of Joy Division or The Chameleons....

All Access: Godsmack

Jan 1, 2004, By Steve Jennings

Mix caught up with Godsmack at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium when they came through Northern California last fall. The crowd greeted the band with tremendous enthusiasm, and Godsmack responded by turning in a boisterous set of hard-hitting, in-your-face music. The band has been on the road playing theaters, arenas, sheds and festivals - ironically, including the European leg of Summer Sanitarium....

Tour Profile: Red Hot Chili Peppers

Jan 1, 2004, By Robert Hanson

In any successful band's career, there is the subtle yet unmistakable point where the bombast of youth gives itself over to the confident bravado that comes with experience....

Tour Profile: Good Charlotte

Jan 1, 2004, By Gregory A. DeTogne

Part of a new breed of tuneful pop punksters on today's music scene, spikey-haired, tattooed and pierced Good Charlotte manages to address the prime topic of the genre — alienation felt by outsiders — but with a somewhat sunny and positive approach that sends 10- to 14-year-old girls into paroxysms of hysteria....

Tour Profile: Lucinda Williams

Jan 1, 2004, By Christopher Walsh

“That should be the porch up there,” says Nathan Harlow, front-of-house engineer for Lucinda Williams, gesturing toward the stage of New York's Beacon Theatre, barren but for a drum kit, amps and mic stands.

Tour Profile: Primus

Jan 1, 2004, By Candace Horgan

For the neophyte at a Primus show, the chant struck up by the band's diehard fans seems disconcerting: “Primus sucks! Primus sucks!” “It just keeps happening and won't go away,” front-of-house engineer Derek Featherstone says with a laugh, from The Fillmore in Denver “The chant dates back to the band's early days.”

Tour Profile: Simon & Garfunkel

Jan 1, 2004, By George Petersen

Despite the hoopla surrounding the biggest reunion tour of the year, I figured this gig couldn't be too tough — just a couple of folksingers, right?...

Tour Profile: Branford Marsalis

Jan 1, 2004, By Breean Lingle

Branford Marsalis, renowned saxophonist and member of one of jazz's most beloved musical families, never seems to rest. In the last year-and-a-half alone,...

Sex Pistols

Dec 1, 2003, By Steve Jennings

Marking the 25th anniversary of their American invasion, the Sex Pistols played San Francisco's Warfield Theater. Interestingly, their last show before...

On the Road

Dec 1, 2003

Maxie Williams This Mississippi native has engineered monitors for the likes of Staind, Guns N' Roses, Marilyn Manson, Stone Temple Pilots and countless...

Now Playing

Dec 1, 2003

Norah Jones Sound Company: Audio Analysts FOH Engineer/Console: Lee Moro/Midas Heritage 3000 Monitor Engineers/Console: Brett Dicus, Ryan Cecil/Midas...

All Access: Queens of the Stone Age

Dec 1, 2003, By Steve Jennings

“The Queens are one of the best rock bands on the planet. The source of my sounds are great, and that makes my job a lot easier....