The Changing Stage

Jackie Bertone has been a studio and touring percussionist for the past 26 years specializing in the styles of R&B, Funk, Latin, Latin Jazz, Fusion, New Age, Country and all ethnic percussion. He has worked with a vast number of top artists, including Brian Wilson, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmidt (Eagles), The Beach Boys, Bobby Caldwell, Big Mountain, Michael McDonald, George Duke, Stanley Clarke, Tower of Power, Jimmy Buffet, Earth Wind & Fire, Kenny G., Freddy Ravel, Peter Cetera (Chicago), Steven Stills, Santana, and has been involved in various television and film studio projects.

Jackie talks with Florentino about getting his start and passion in music, his experiences as a professional musician and the challenges he’s had to overcome.

Meng calls in from Singapore to talk about the cloud based collaborative DAW – BandLab. He talks about his backhround, moving to the UK from Singapore at age 10, being introduced to British music like Radiohead and playing in a band. Meng discusses merging his educational background in math with his passion for music when he found an opportunity in Singapore to work with a distribution company focusing on products for musicians.

Meng describes the technological and social barriers musicians face with the creative process and illustrates how BandLab makes it more seamless, allowing musicians to capture and develop song ideas from anywhere and collaborate through the cloud-based recording and editing application.

Meng highlights some of the features of BandLab, emphasizing the revolutionary ability of the app to retain functionality across all platforms and devices, thus eliminating the common problems of collaborators having to deal with multiple proprietary file types, different operating systems and different DAWs.

Meng talks about BandLab’s use of the native technology of every OS or device it runs on, making it a truly multiplatform solution and goes on to talk about the fast progress of web audio, which should allow for more complex web-based editing and effects processing in the

Scott Robertson is CEO of Robertson Communication, a PR firm focusing on marketing for innovative music technology companies.
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After writing hits for such artists as Patti LaBelle, Tom Jones, Chante Moore and Stephanie Mills, Carol Duboc began sharing her own musical heart in a more powerful and intimate way, launching her career as a contemporary jazz artist. Since the 2001 release of her critically-acclaimed debut, “With All That I Am,” the multi-talented vocalist, songwriter and producer has carved out a unique niche sharing deeply-felt original songs that are all at once beautifully stylish and lyrically direct and insightful. Former Los Angeles Times jazz critic Don Heckman captured the sultry singer’s magical essence perfectly when he wrote, “The keenly imaginative (Duboc) is one of the most interesting and dynamic jazz singers of her generation.”

Alan Sanderson is a veteran engineer who has recorded top level musicians like Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, BB King, Weezer, Switchfoot, Chris Cornell, and many others. He currently owns and operates Pacific Beat Recording Studios in San Diego, California.
www.pacificbeatrecording.com

Paul Varlamoff is the founder of Showslinger, an app that directly connects artists, fans and live music venues.
www.showslinger.com

Johnny Vatos talks about his early days as a professional musician, going to Vietnam as part of the USO tour and goes on to discuss the current state of the music industry and Oingo Boingo Dance Party’s role in it. He talks about the early challenges of getting the band off the ground due to legal issues with Danny Elfman, who ultimately gave his blessing for the band to go on without his involvement, focusing primarily on his successful film scoring career. Johnny talks about the enormous amount of business related work required of him as the current leader of the band and about his projects as a producer and his work with movies.

Full broadcast of the TVMA show with live performances by:
School of Rock student bands!
Larry Mitchell – Grammy award winning producer, engineer, guitar player!
Marky Lennon – From the band Venice, backup singer on The Wall tour!
Caleb Quaye – Rock guitarist and studio musician best known for his work in the 1960s and 1970s with Elton John, Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, Paul McCartney and Hall Oates!
Jackie Bertone – World Renown Percussionist and Local Legend Honoree!
Lifetime Rocker – Award winning cover band is also the house band!
Joanna Pearl – Award winning singer/songwriter, TVMA Board Member singing special tribute song penned by Andy Fraser!
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Steve Skillings, CEO of JamHub talks about his time working in product design and development for the auto industry, where he learned his manufacturing and development chops. While working for the Bose Automotive Group, Steve was impressed with the Bose L1 speaker project that he left his position as the head of a huge department to join the L1 team. Steve talks about looking for a solution where a band could practice in a quiet environment, realizing nothing like that yet existed and getting the idea for the Jamhub, a device which allows musicians to play electronic instruments or in a live room with everyone getting their own in-ear monitoring. Jamhub was launched in 2009.
Steve describes the JamHub, which is split into wedges for each musician to control their own mix. He talks about the various models; the 15 channel “Bedroom”, 21 channel “Green Room” with a remote for a drummer or keyboard player and the “Tour Bus” with a built in stereo recorder. He talks about the Jamhub’s multi track recording capabilities and its unexpected success as a favorite of musicians as a live stage in-ear monitoring solution – one that rivals other systems costing upwards of $20,000.