Who is Sean Shanahan and why do I keep getting his mail?
Sean is awesome, the best producer/engineer who has ever twisted a knob, and never talks about himself in the 3rd person.
Weird, isn't it, when you read a bio on people's website, written in the 3rd person, and then they're all surprised that their bio talks about how amazing they are? Funny how that works.
I have been working as a musician playing across the USofA, though mainly the West side of it, since my teen years. I have played in a variety of musical situations from punk to folk, with an emphasis on my rockabilly and bluegrass exploits. Although I have been in countless bands, and had the pleasure of playing with some of the finest musicians in the land over the last 30 some-odd years, I guess the projects I got the most noteriety from was the renagade string band Honey Buckit back in the late 90s/early aughts, and the psychobilly of Atomic Junkyard through the 2000s.
Early on I got very interested in the process of recording. I started out, like many folks who cut their teeth in the 80s, making demos for my early bands on a good ol' Tascam Portastudio. (lotsa bouncing back then). As I got more interested in the process of recording, I migrated to a Tascam 4 track reel to reel, with matching console. This led to me recording other bands, which led me to buy more stuff, which led me to doing more recordings, which led me to buy better gear, which led to more artists wanting to record with me. Fast forward many more years and miles than I care to admit, and I decided to slow up my performance schedule, and focus on making records as Shanahan Audio. Or maybe it just worked out that way and I didn't really decide anything.
Since then, I have been fairly busy recording and producing records, which suits me just fine and dandy. We have fun in here, and have turned out some very solid records if I say so myself. I still perform fairly regularly, just not nearly as often as I used to, or as far from home.
Because I hate standing still, I also do live sound/tech work at various venues around town, including but not limited to Tsunami Books, the Hult Center, and Wildish Theatre. I am a proud member of IATSE 675, our local stagehand union.