George Geranios

[cent73]

Hi,
A year ago I went to a Testament gig and got to know a great man, George P. Geranios. He was a sound engineer on the tour. He was really approachable and we had a long chat. I learned then that he had been doing Anthrax live mixes for 13 years or so. Of all the things he said about Anthrax I remember him prophesing Charlie is going to go real high in the music business due to his genius. Interesting, huh?
Now that the band is coming back to Europe I wonder if he rejoins them. That'd be awesome! Anyways, does anyone know who does the live sound engineering for them nowadays?
cent73

 

[ThraxDude]

During the Killer B's (Bring the Noise) tour in Denver, I was right behind George and the sound board. Someone threw a cup of beer behind me and the beer spilled all over the board.
George was PISSED! Some chick handed him her new concert T-shirt that she was holding, and he quickly wiped the beer off the board.
Then Scott started to play the beginning riff of 'Caught in a Mosh' and then he stopped. He asked the crowd, "Can you hear that??"
I guess when George wiped off the beer, the sound got all messed up.
But then he fixed it and the concert continued.
Exciting story, eh?

 

[jdelpi]

Hi,
A year ago I went to a Testament gig and got to know a great man, George P. Geranios. He was a sound engineer on the tour. He was really approachable and we had a long chat. I learned then that he had been doing Anthrax live mixes for 13 years or so. Of all the things he said about Anthrax I remember him prophesing Charlie is going to go real high in the music business due to his genius. Interesting, huh?
Now that the band is coming back to Europe I wonder if he rejoins them. That'd be awesome! Anyways, does anyone know who does the live sound engineering for them nowadays?
cent73

I'm pretty sure he has retired from touring.

BTW, he used to do the sound engineering for Blue Oyster Cult when they were huge.

At the end of 2003 their road manager "Big Red" was doing their soundboard. I don't know who is doing it now.

 

[jdelpi]

I'm pretty sure he has retired from touring.

Before saying that, I should ask when you saw Testament.

 

[Steve M]

george is a liar.

 

[Crabmeat]

I remember as a kid scanning the liner notes and thank you's in the album sleeves(god, they were HUGE! in those days, remember??!!!) and memorizing all the names. That's when I first learned about George. Then of course, he's in NFV a bit and all the tour books!
I actually got to meet him in London on the SOWN tour. I tried to nab some passes off him (I somehow thought, with my teenage rationale, that he'd be chuffed some kid fan knew exactly who he was!)Very, very nice fellow, but being "just" the sound guy, he had none to give. Boo me!
Aaaaaaaanyhoo, here's the scoop on George nowadays:

http://www.macdigital-uk.com/boc/blueskybag/georgegeranios/

Take it eez,

Crabmeat

 

[cent73]

Crabmeat: thanks for the link. It's great!
cent73