Ep. 16 Todd Horton

Today’s guest Todd Horton has a sweet and funny Jeff Buckley story for you. Todd is a great trumpeter and he actually met Jeff a couple of times back in the early 90s in the lower east side of New York City. Additionally, he was a witness and participant to the birth of multiple national acts such as Blues Traveler, Spin Doctors and Norah Jones, not to mention the Jeff Buckley Band . This is a fun story so come along with me and Todd as we see what he, and others, were like in the 90's!A lifelong musician and lover of all things audio, Todd Horton was born in Ithaca, NY in 1969.Over the past 35 years, as a trumpet and flugelhorn player, Todd worked with artists and bands in multiple genres including the Spin Doctors, Buddy Miles, Aaron Neville, Ani Difranco, Richard Bona and many others. As a studio musician he worked in famed New York studios such as Electric Ladyland, Avatar, Sear Sound and Looking Glass, while also composing, performing and recording with his own jazz fusion group “D BOP.” In the 1990s, he produced albums at Phillip Glass’s Looking Glass Studios where he learned the ropes from in-house engineers and producers, eventually establishing his own boutique record label Soulsearch Music.In 2010, from his home studio, Todd came up with the idea of a modular microphone stand he dubbed the “Mic Tree” that would aid in tracking drums in a limited space. He spent the better part of the next ten years designing and developing his stand ideas, building prototypes and endeavoring to eliminate as many of the most common issues with regular microphone stands as possible.In 2021, satisfied he had a product that improved the lives of musicians, engineers and producers, he began building custom stands out of his workshop for engineers and musicians needing a space saving solution for multi-mic’ing drums, pianos and anything else. Demand grew and Base 4 Stands was born.https://base4stands.comTheme Music: Spy - Whatsa (Todd's Band)Astrometrix - Section 31 (featuring Todd) Last Goodbye - Jeff BuckleyPS I Love You - Norah Jones and Todd Horton"Everyone Has A Jeff Buckley Story” is created, recorded, edited and produced by Jeff Haley. Co-Produced by Konrad Meissner   Instagram: thekonradmeissnerShine Light Podcasts is Executive-Produced by Chris Searles via biointegrity.netThe BioIntegrity community has helped fund protection of more than 320,000 acres of old growth tropical forests since 2014. Those efforts are helping to save thousands of species from extinction, keep more than 85 million tons of greenhouse gasses out of the atmosphere (enough to offset Austin, TX's community carbon footprint for 5+ years), institute land occupation rights for more than 400 Indigenous communities around the world, keep the planet cool, and more. Chris is also co-founder, creator and executive editor of AllCreation.org, a living archive of faith and spiritual practice views on human relationships with Earth's other species and environment. AllCreation has more than 400 posts exploring sacred texts and contemporary views, and is currently read in +150 countries. Visit biointegrity.net and allcreation.org for more info.