This installment of How We Work Now is with LMG Las Vegas Senior Operations Manager, Troy Staton
is asking individuals from all sectors of the music business to share stories of how they work now, with much of the world quarantined at home and unable to take in-person meetings, attend conferences or even go into the office. Submissions for the series can be sent to [email protected].
Here in Vegas, I've got about 50 employees. Next week, I'll have about three. We furloughed people, then we brought them back. Now I've got to furlough them again. I'll just bring them back sporadically as I need them. The studio and the warehouse together is about 90,000 square feet. I'm here every day. I did a company-wide inventory, made use of the time. Maintenance, reorganization, working on more efficiency, cleaning up our inventory software, database. A lot of needed stuff, because we were moving 1,000 miles a minute prior to this. We were averaging 50-hour weeks.
LMG's been offering virtual capabilities for years, so when the pandemic hit, we were ready with knowledge and experience. We transformed our studios for broadcasting and virtual events. It's corporate clients and artists. Do you want to stream, do you want to record? We can send packages to each band member's home and they can set up and do it on Teams, Google, Zoom. And we have IT technicians. They control the network so there's no latency.
I was a touring engineer before I came to LMG. Born and raised in the South Bronx, where it all began. I grew up in the projects, DJing in the parks and streets, block parties and so forth.and the Zulu Nation were my inspiration. There used to be gangs in the park. The music's playing, then a fight might break out. Get a bullhorn, get a microphone,"Hey, everybody, stop fighting over there!" Next thing you know, somebody was talking with the microphone with the music.
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