Brian Smith:  

Life Well, Hi! Thank you for the interest in my whereabouts and whathappeneds! Actually, I didn't realize I'd left this part blank(sorry!) Let's see. . .I moved from East Lansing to Detroit in '87 after touring the US for 3 years with a band called T.O.C.(I played guitar), and joined Mad Hatter. We released an album; "Shut up and sit down" the following year. I was a little disappointed with it. I left the band to join the "Skanking Voodoo Dolls", a Detroit based reggae-metal fusion project. A magical group, those folks. I was the youngest member and felt honored to share the stage with every one of them. Also about that time, I got engaged to a beautiful, charming, educated, (and, unfortunately, also) bi-polar runway model. That stable relationship(of course) COMPLETELY turned into a colossal trainwreck; really messed up my life for a while. HI-MAINTENANCE WOMEN: FUN TO LOOK AT, BUT KEEP YOUR HANDS AWAY FROM MOVING PARTS(claws, purse, and usually, MOUTH) AT ALL TIMES! (<- safety tip) Ahemm. . . I promptly moved to California, working in Hollywood guitar and amp shops for a couple of years before buying a rehearsal/ recording studio in Burbank(Audible Systems/Studio D, which became Cadillac Audio). Within a year we became one of the top 5 in LA, eventually building a client list that read like a page out of BILLBOARD. I got to meet and work with many musical legends( and MY heroes, too!), like Iggy Pop, The Ramones, KISS, Motley Crue, Dio, Rob Halford, Korn, Limp Bizzkitt, etc.(I'll quit name dropping now, but that ain't hardly scratchin' the surface) but, alas, my partner's wife got involved with the finances and (refer to the above warning regarding hi-maintenance females!!) well, it is but a memory now. But, using the connections I'd made with the studio (I'm not going to bother filling out the 'celebrities' section on the right; I've pretty much met all of 'em, at least in the musical world, and lived in close quarters with many, which ain't all sparkle and glitter. . ) I hooked up with Crazy Town(as a Guitar Tech, Bass Tech, & Drum monitor engineer onstage) a few months before "Butterfly" came out, I spent a year and a half on a world tour, going to Europe, Australia, Japan, and many other countries, living with the band in million dollar tour buses, four star hotels, etc. That was a pretty good time, no doubt. They all felt like little brothers to me, and I'll always have fond memories. . . From there, I signed on as Stage Guitar tech.with Zakk Wylde & Black Label Society for a US tour, finishing it off with '01 OZZFEST, which had Zakk Playing with Ozzy AND BLS(2 shows a day. . . exhausting!) The next year, I went out with Tommy Lee's band as Tommy's guitar Tech(as well as covering the duties of Bass Tech, Stage left Tech, TITTYCAM operator, and some others. . .)on a 4 month US tour that included 2002 Ozzfest as half of it. During that ...Expand for more