Austin Performance Space Uses Music Therapy for Detox
The Recovery Unplugged Treatment Center uses the power of music to help its patients heal from drug and alcohol addiction. Offering medically supervised detox, residential inpatient treatment, outpatient treatment, and sober living, Recovery Unplugged offers a music-based treatment approach that provides patients with access to a well-rounded recovery experience.
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When Clair Bros. Audio acquired Dallas-based Showco back in late 2000, the purchase left three Showco staffers with tons of touring experience searching for a new, clear direction. All signposts led Robin Magruder, Stewart Bennett and Ed Spoto to their friends at Crossroads Audio.
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“Peabody, set the WABAC machine for the early 1990s”… (cue Scorpions “Wind Of Change”)… Commercial recording studios are thriving. The record industry has not yet had to deal with Napster, and most people think that streaming refers either to a bodily function or a style of fly-fishing. Multitrack tape machines are still king, and analog is living happily alongside digital reel-to-reel tape.
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I was in London at the PLASA Show in October of 2002 with a freshly-printed copy of the first issue of FRONT of HOUSE in my hand. I went up to a very well-respected industry luminaire (pardon, the lighting reference). I proudly handed it to him and he looked at it for a few seconds, then quite sincerely said, “You know, the industry just doesn’t need another performance audio magazine.”
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Heavy rain put a damper on the opening day of Summerfest 2017, but Milwaukee’s mammoth “Big Gig,” which turned 50 this year, has shaken off bigger obstacles to success in the past. First-decade challenges included including significant losses for the festival’s second year (1969), six-figure crowds and a near-riot for Sly and the Family Stone (1970), comedian George Carlin’s arrest for profanity (1972) and an actual riot with 300 arrests during Humble Pie’s performance (1973).
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It’s 2:30 p.m. on a Friday, a show day at the 750-person capacity concert venue known as Delmar Hall in St. Louis, MO, and the girls and young women are properly dressed in roadie black. It is their last day of a camp that had them run the gauntlet of everything it takes to make a concert happen.
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