Category Archives: Houston Music

As Audio Specialist at HoustonPBS, it was my honor to broadcast over 140 local Houston bands, mostly doing originals, one per week or so for six 26 episode years. These bands were mixed live to tape. Most of these are first takes, maybe a take two. Maybe four bands got to play more then once. Matt Brawley did the live video direction with the blue brick segments directed by Chris Boyd and the Weeknight Edition segments directed by Mark Kennedy. Ben Cowpersmith and Frank Castro with Chris Boyd designed the lighting. with them and Shannon Harrison, Joe Brueggerman and Fujio Watanabe operating cameras. Additional able performances at camera included Brad Burkons, Steve Pyndus, Kurt Kauder and maybe even the rare guest Ron Kabele. Phillip Williams and Chief Engineer Bill Anderson mixed vision. Gordon Luce ran tape. This was one of our joys. No one was charged. All rights were and are preserved and the bands always got a copy. And yes “the connection” was the name of the show and “the beat” was the name of the segment. This would be mostly selections from the last two years.