When did you know?

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Steve Tarak

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...that you wanted to be in the biz.

me.... my first real concert...Neil Diamond...Indianapolis...at age 12....

that was my "chills" moment
 
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When did I know that I had to be in the biz? 14 years old, a small rock show, was asked by one of the band members if I'd help load-in some gear. The band let me hang at the side of the stage, which impressed a sweet young lady. Got lucky... After all....it WAS Drugs, Sex and Rock n Roll!

Hammer
 
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The first indication was during school talent show at age 14, running a follow spot.

In the last couple of months I have come to the conclusion that doing anything else makes me absolutely miserable.
 
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At a Jr high concert band performance that the "teacher rock band" played at the end. I remember staring at the Leslie and wondering what it was.

The "sound" got me hooked.
 
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A really cool music teacher arrived at my school when I was 13 complete with a modular Moog system and sundry other bits of esoteric noise making objects, which he set up in his class, fascinated me and eventually led to a long and rocky road down the sound/programming road, need the day job to pay for it but have had lot's of fun so it's probably been worth it. G
 
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I was a Late Bloomer...

I started ushering in Feb 2002 (19 y/o) and then I bugged my boss a lot asking how do I get to help build the stages. And then in August 2002, I pushed my first case and built a stage and flew a PA (well I was on the clock just pushing stuff around when asked).
 
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apparently when my parents took me to a children's play when i was 5 i stared at the lights every time they changed. By 10 i was taking CD players and amplifiers apart and putting them back together. I also saw DCtalk that year. They had moving lighting trusses. The only reason I'm not a squint is that when i was 13 I saw a guy running sound at my youth group and thought "that looks interesting".
 
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I was about 13, sitting at a Bogen PA amplifier powering Altec A7's in a large youth church auditorium back in the early 70's... I kept my fingers on the round knobs thoughout the show! I knew at that moment! (I still remember it had an "anti-feedback" switch)
 
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I was about 4 years old, my preschool had a recital of stupid little kid songs in the local high school auditorium. The most vibrant images I have from that day are the loading bridge and fly rail. A few years later, my dad was playing 80's music through his 80's Peavey PA in the basement. (Remember the Project 4s?) I asked him to show me how to use it. Being the man my dad is, he said "when you're older." I accepted the challenge, and raised with spades. Then a decade later, I found myself as the house engineer for the same theater where it all began. From there, one thing lead to another, to full production. If it weren't for this business, I wouldn't have half the stories, gone to half the places work has taken me, or acquired the taste for virtually any bourbon known to man. The money has been great, and my management skills top 90% of the morons in my age bracket. It's been a hell of a ride that I wouldn't trade for anything.
 
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My earliest childhood memory was being around 4 years old and playing withmy mum and dads hifi...... They had headphones and a mic..... Remember plugging the mic in to the headphone socket and sound coming out...... Realising that mics and headphones where the same just cased differently..... Was facinated after that with recording and anything that made noise.
 
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The electronics side of it came pretty early - when I first broke a radio valve to pull it apart to try and figure out how it worked. The music side came via working on a production line testing (valve) reel to reel tape recorders, building a tape echo out of scrap parts and being asked to help out a band who liked to borrow the echo unit.
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The electronics started when I was about 4 or 5. I had a fake outlet and other computer parts to play with (I could plug anything i wanted into the outlet and took the computers apart) Don't worry i stayed away from the real outlets
Production and sound, probably came from when the time i was 8, whenever my parents went to concerts or shows I would go ask to sit in the control booth or at FOH. I was hooked.
I also could have been a lampie, I was proficient on an older ETC crossfader when I was 12 and filled in at the local 4-500 seat opera house one night when the LD wasn't there.
Every day i'm reminded more and more why I want to do this the rest of my life.(I'm only 20 now) I've had different hobbies over the years but production is one that comes back again and again without fail.
 
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