Dead Stages George Fontes on Surviving the Shutdown and Changes S3-EP13
They shut down the weddings, the concerts, the corporate blowouts, and the paychecks. George Fontes (World Ablaze Podcast) ran a 27-year live events and production company with 32 people on payroll when COVID hit. The entire industry went dark. Remote Zoom galas, government-funded church LED walls, tour riders that demand a half-million-dollar console, and the slow realization that once clients buy the gear they stop renting it. Havok and LX sit down with George for an unscripted ride through the wreckage: how installs kept the lights on, why monitor mixing is the real high-wire act, what…
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