Brian Stephens

The Boss, BonzoTunes Studio

www.BrianStephens.com (Official Site) www.BonzoTunes.com (Brian's Studio Site) www.MusicProShow.com (Brian's Music Business Podcast) Brian Stephens is a music business veteran whose many skills and talents make him hard to classify. For the past eight years, Brian has operated his own recording studio and production company, BonzoTunes Studio (formerly Sound Decision Studios), located in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. At BonzoTunes, Brian has produced, engineered, and/or mixed recording projects for independent artists like Mike Martin (Fozzy / Stuck Mojo), Magno, Amber Brooke, and Ocean Street as well as corporate clients like Warner Bros. Records, 20th Century Fox, Verizon Wireless and Merial. Some of the music he has produced has been licensed for use on television networks like ABC, MTV, Oxygen, HGTV, and The Soap Network. Brian has also been featured on television and in magazines & newspapers such as Modern Drummer, The Meridian Star, and WTOK-TV's “Live At Five” TV program. Brian has toured the country playing drums and working with artists like: * Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame members The Platters, The Drifters, The Coasters, The Marvelettes, and Shirley Alston Reeves (The Shirelles) * The Crystals : Billboard #1 Song – “There's No Other (Like My Baby) and several Billboard Top Ten hits * Frankie Ford : Billboard #1 Song – “Sea Cruise” * Jimmy Hall : Grammy nominated singer (Jeff Beck's 1985 album “Flash”) and lead singer for the band Wet Willie * Davis Daniel : Singer/songwriter whose Billboard Top 10 hits include "Picture Me", "For Crying Out Loud", "Fighting Fire with Fire" * Stan Whitmire : Pianist (The Gaithers) and Dove Award nominee for his 1999 CD, "Songs From The Resurrection" * Rev. Jeff Mosier: Banjo Specialist, Band Leader (Blueground Undergrass, Col. Bruce Hampton & Aquarium Rescue Unit, Phish) As a music educator and journalist, Brian has written articles for magazines like Modern Drummer and Performer magazine. From 2001 - 2005 , Brian wrote a monthly recording column for Performer magazine called, “In The Mix”. In 2000, Brian released his first drum instructional audio book entitled “Stickin' It Out – The Anatomy of a Professional Drummer”. For two years, he was a member of the teaching faculty at the Atlanta Institute of Music and has performed drum clinics alongside other noted players such as Gerry Brown and Richie Morales. Brian continues to instruct drummers & audio engineers privately at his teaching studio in Sugar Hill, Georgia.