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Bob Clearmountain is best known for his recording engineering, mixing of artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams, Toto, Simple Minds and The Rolling Stones. It was on Springsteen’s 1984 album “Born in the USA” for which Bob might have gained his widest audience and greatest fame. The...
Vince Wilburn, Jr., was born in Chicago and began playing the drums on pots and pans as early as five years old. His uncle, Miles Davis, encouraged young Vince to listen to the great drummers, many of whom played with Miles over the years. Vince recalls with a smile the day he sat in with Miles...
Marcello Vercelli was trained as a mechanical engineer and landed his first job in the music industry at RCF. RCF is an Italian based professional loudspeaker manufacturer, and a big OEM supplier for transducers and other projects. It was a wonderful introduction in the world of audio that he...
Graham Nash has been an outspoken advocate for music education, especially with regards to programs that provide instruments to young students. He has often mocked the thinking that allows school budget cuts to affect the music programs. As a result, Graham has worked with NAMM on raising the...
Dan Weingarten is a professor at CSU Northridge who also taught at Loyola Marymount University within the Theater Arts Department with a specialty on professional lighting. He has both designed and installed lighting for plays and operas as well as small and large musical events. His passion for...
Scott MacDonald grew up in a musical family, with his father having been a bagpiper. When Scott’s hands had developed enough to begin lessons on the bagpipes, at age eight, he took to the instrument, which he has been playing ever since. Scott took over and established a bagpipe band in Los...
Andres Mayo is a Grammy-winning audio engineer and producer who served as president of the Audio Engineering Society from 2014-2015. He began his membership with AES back in 2003 and has worked long and hard to expand the organization’s role within Latin America. He served as VP Latin America...
Bill Paige is one of the six founders of Heritage Guitars! The idea to start Heritage Guitar began when the Gibson Guitar Corporation closed its Kalamazoo, Michigan factory in September of 1984 and moved all production to its other plant in Nashville, Tennessee (in operation since 1975). When this...
John Storyk began playing the piano at the age of 6, and the clarinet six years later. While playing in the school band, John realized he had a great interest and passion for the sound each instrument made. The idea of audio vibrations and sound waves really intrigued him. While playing in bands...
This video is of our annual NAMM Tribute, created in honor of our members and music industry friends who passed away in 2015 and early 2016. This Tribute was shown for the first time at the NAMM Show in Anaheim, California in January 2016. All moving images within this video, indicate those who...