Not a whole lot to tell....
I started out about 15 working with friends in a garage band..I was one of the local science geeks...back then a state-of the-art garage band PA was a 100 watt Bogen amp and a pair of EV 848 horns on stands...lots of bands were willing to play before us 'cause they didn't have a PA. This is before Shure Vocalmasters really became popular..
Doesn't take long for a person with working ears to realize the limitations of that setup...first thing I did was bass reflex boxes underneath and crossovers to the horns...sounded a heckuva lot better but still sucked...
By the late 60's had real gear, mostly homemade...no such thing as a cheap mixer then, you wanted one you built it..
Got picked up by a local sound company, did a number of "B" level acts...Kenny Rogers with the First Edition...before he became a country star...
I did a lot of 50's and 60's acts...in the 70's...Sam and Dave, Junior Walker and the All Stars, Carl Perkins, acts like that on their way thru here...
Most interesting show I ever did? Google a band called "Trapeze". The were passing thru town...got like 50 paid admissions...felt so bad my hyperactivity kicked in...I worked with people who did charity shows at the Agora in Columbus...made a deal for them to play the charity concert the next night...they were broke and staying at the Agora's band house...the band played the charity concert for free but I talked the charity folks into spotting them a hundred...the concerts were an ongoing thing, usually 4 local bands, and drew crowds of 1000 or so...this was before the 70's gas crisis, a c-note still bought a lot of gasoline...
Very briefly worked for Altec in the early 70's...it just didn't fit, I was young and hot headed and they were saddled by tremendous debt and the fact that too many of their assets were declining in value...it was really tough for them...I feel a little bad about my attitude then, I gather one Altec exec committed suicide because of all the financial issues they were facing...I don't think I could have made a bit of difference, but still have regrets and wish I could have...
Did house audio at Crazy Mama's in Columbus......new wave/punk place...Black Flag, David Johansen, Craamps, Joann Jett acts like that...oddly enough that place also did a lot of 50's-60's stuff...did Steel Pulse there...great band, wonderful people...
My ears still hurt from doing the Ramones in a tiny room....
Second most interesting show? Hard to say...Gotta tie between David Thomas and the Pedestrians, Sun Ra, and Fabulous Thunderbirds...how can I pick one over the other?
By late 70's/early 80's I was off the road managing the retail operation for one of the bigger local music stores...should have just stayed there...
Wanted to try something different, so I got out of audio around 84 to run a local entetainment publication...never made any money...nice status job, you can get tons of free drinks and food, so it was fun for a while...by 90 was out of that...just got boring...and I got burnt out with deadlines...
Since then mostly audio rentals, made more income cross renting than doing concerts myself...I retired about 6 years ago.
I still help out a local musician's school occasionally. But really don't do much except putz around.
Least path of resistance is out my back door...a quarter mile walk to a nice stream...most of the fish are too small to keep, occasionally net a good one or two.
I can help a lot with issues on 70's 80's gear if anybody needs it...I worked with a lot of that cantankerous stuff and know some of it's issues...and since I was doing retai I know some of the history of the guitar amp companies and stuff back then..
I like reading about DIY projects and stuff, would like to do more - I miss those old days...but lots of times it's easier to go fishing...got a favorite shade tree, that and a good science fiction novel I'm all set...SF not Sci-Fi BTW, there is a difference...at least to us wannabe writers....
Sorry didn't mean to prattle on, but you did ask...