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Lee Hale – Kick-A-Poo Creek Sound Company
It started for the second time though a friend that led to a friendship with Scott Jeffries. Fifty different bands, over 200 venues and 500+ shows later I am blessed to be “Livin the Dream”.
Kick-A-Poo Creek takes its name from an old gentleman named Charlie who worked at an interstate rest stop in Illinois. It was located next to Kick-A-Poo Creek. Charlie was in his 80’s with 12 children when I met him, he’d seen it all. He always said, if it’s not fun, stop doing it!
Sound equipment on hand today allows me to go from a small bar to 5000+ people. I use only the high end Pro Audio equipment, great for the sound, lousy on the pocketbook!
Vocal mics tend to be Shure Beta 87A, wireless or hardwired. For instruments I like CAD, drums are usually a mix of Audix and CAD. Amps are Yorkville; speakers are Yorkville, EAW and JBL. Mixing boards are Allen Heath, effects rack processors tend to be ART. The equipment fills an 8 x 20 trailer and a single car garage; it’s pretty stupid when I look back on it all. Really stupid when I unload it all for the annual, “take it all apart maintenance week” and try it find what I really own! Who would have thought there were 30 mic stands and 150 mic cords, guess I need them!
If the band is tight and having fun then it’s the best thing for me, it doesn’t matter the type of music they’re playing although I’m getting a bit hooked on the new country stuff.
I just love a really great female vocalist, sorry guys. Working with Wild Oatz and Megan Weber out front is simply beyond my wildest dreams, every night is just great.
For the best band story every told, you really had to be there to see the look on Megan’s face and better yet her dad Rick when Scott and I “found her” at a Karaoke bar. At the first practice she showed up with her parents in tow I’m sure thinking these two guys, 20 years older than me will abduct me and I’ll never see the light of day again! Megan has become my second daughter.
