The Early Days of Charlie Butten



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 Who: Charlie Butten (He is one of the early founding members of Clear-Com.)

Place of Birth: Storrington, Connecticut

Place He was Raised: Canaan, New York (He moved there when he was five.)

Best Childhood Friends: Doug Hall and Derek Van Loan

Memorable High School Moment: He and his friends would build howitzers at a local blacksmith shop.

First Job after Graduation: He worked at Paul’s Radio Shop in Chatham, New York as well as the Audio-Visual Division of the New York State Department of Education and Q&Q Electronics Supply.

Source

Passman, Arnie. “Such Sweet Thunder: Charlie Butten and his Earthy Sound System.” Rolling Stone. 1971. Mature Musician. 9 August 2011 http://www.maturemusician.com/rw-article03.html.

Friday Fun: Meet Sales and Marketing

Happy Friday from the Global Sales and Marketing Team at Clear-Com!

1st Row: Pat Hamp, Jennifer Cassidy, Carmen Rivera, Christina Bartolome

2nd Row: Ahmed Magd, Edmund Song, Dan Muchmore, Judy Giddings, Jeffrey Wu

3rd Row: Corey Frasure, James Schaller, Jaz Wray, Terry Skelton, Lana Zumerov

4th Row: Stephen Sandford, John Kowalski, Jay Wallace, Michael Rucker, Mike Hughes, Amber Burke

5th Row: Vincent Beek, Vinnie Macri, Peter Giddings, Bob Boster

Who Built Eric Clapton’s equipment?



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Eric Clapton is one of the most influential guitarists of all time and the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

So who built Clapton’s equipment?

The answer is Charlie Butten! He's one of the founding team members of Clear-Com and he had designed, engineered, and assembled Eric Clapton's equipment.

In Mature Musician, Jack Fronk, a guitarist that worked with Clapton, informs others about Charlie’s impressive work, “That equipment got bigger and bigger and bigger, to the point where we built a club out in the Mission called Rock Garden. The stage was a fifteen foot bass speaker, with coils that actually blasted right out onto the dance floor. We had towers of amplifiers, and when we played concerts that were out of doors, you could hear that band clean across the city. But that was all custom built stuff.”  

Source

Fronk, Jack. “The MM Interview with Jack Fronk.” Mature Musician. 2006. http://www.maturemusician.com/interview-jackfronk.html