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<< PREVIOUSNEXT >> 1999: Sting, recipient of the Les Paul Award, is presented with a custom-made Les Paul guitar and tells the audience: “I...

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<< PREVIOUSNEXT >> 1997: An emotional Stevie Wonder accepts the Les Paul Award. He wears a tuxedo created especially for the occasion, with different...

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<< PREVIOUSHOME 1996: Musician/producer Don Was wins the TEC Award for Outstanding Producer, and then presents the Les Paul Award to Brian Wilson of...

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<< PREVIOUSNEXT >> 1995: Bandlead Paul Shaffer of Saturday Night Live inducts his friend Phil Spector into the TEC Awards Hall of Fame Spector...

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<< PREVIOUSNEXT >> 1994: Guitar icon Carlos Santana presents the Les Paul Award to jazz great Herbie Hancock.

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<< PREVIOUSNEXT >> A pickup band comprising Booker T. Jones, Boz Scaggs, Don Was and Ray Benson improvises on “Green Onions” and “Sittin’ on...

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<< PREVIOUSNEXT >> 1993: Les Paul plays a 12-bar blues duet with John Sebastian of The Lovin’ Spoonful.

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<< PREVIOUSNEXT >> 1992: While inducting synth pioneer Robert Moog into the Hall of Fame, Devo’s Mark Mothersbaught drops to his knees and bows...

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<< PREVIOUSNEXT >> Host “Weird Al” Yankovic (in 1991), flanked by bassist Will Lee, Les Paul and Art Garfunkel

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<< PREVIOUSNEXT >> 1990: Producer/engineer George Massenburg receives his award from producer Peter Asher (right).

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<< PREVIOUSNEXT >> The TEC Awards Hall of Fame is inaugurated, with Les Paul and Bob Liftin (pictured) as its first inductees. Circa 1988.

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<< PREVIOUSNEXT >> Television producer Norman Lear, whose company bought Mix that year (1989), suprises the audience with an a cappella rendition of “There’s...

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<< PREVIOUSNEXT >> Rupert Neve is inducted into the Hall of Fame, circal 1989.

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<< PREVIOUSNEXT >> Herbie Hancock and the Rockit Band cap the show with a rousing performance in 1985.

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<< PREVIOUSNEXT >> Hillel Resner, Karen Dunn, Penny Riker and David Schwartz

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<< PREVIOUSNEXT >> From left, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter uses an early model cell phone to let friends know he is hanging with the legend...

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NEXT >> The founders of the Foundation, from left: Mix co-founders David Schwartz and Penny Riker, and then-Mix associate publisher Hillel Resner

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Founded in 1985, the Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards is the foremost program recognizing the achievements of audio professionals. Presented annually by the Mix...

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LOUD Technologies is honored to be a part of Mix magazine’s 20th Annual Technical Excellence and Creativity Awards. At LOUD Technologies, we are incredibly...

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