A staff dinner at Mama Cozza’s Restaurant in Anaheim, capping the 2000 Live Sound
Workshop. Left to right, far-side of table: Renee Gander, Susan Scheirman, David
Scheirman, Cris Gallo, Howard Page, Steve Dupaix, Paul Gallo. Left to right, near-side
of table: John Murray, Albert Leccese, Mark Gander, David Robb, David Revel. (Mick
Whelan manned the camera.)
Whether it was the Live Sound
Workshop, an evening stage monitoring
presentation at a SynAudCon seminar in
Colorado Springs, or an employee train-
ing session with me at Audio Analysts,
Albert would never refuse to share his
seemingly endless knowledge of audio.
Audio Analysts colleague Ken Toal:
had to end with a shot of Sambuca.
Beyond that, Albert was fun! Every-
one always wanted to go to dinner
with him because he was just so like-
able, and road-dog war stories would
always accompany the meal. The only
caveat was no chicken. Albert had an
absolute intolerance to chicken, having
been forced to partake of far too many
rubber chicken meals on the road to ever
touch it again. And the meal, invariably
at a good Italian restaurant (he was a
French-Canadian of Italian ancestry),
I’d love to see a resurrection of the
workshop, and this time, it should
be in the name of Albert, because it
always was largely his anyway. Let’s call
it the ALLS, for Albert Leccese’s Live
Sound Workshop. It has a nice ring to
it, doesn’t it?
John Murray is a 34-year industry veteran who has worked for several leading
manufacturers, and has also presented two
published AES papers as well as chaired
numerous SynAudCon workshops. He is
currently the principal of Optimum System Solutions, a consulting firm, and can
be reached at john@OptimumSS.com.
