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Lucas “Rico” Corrubia – Sound Design Extraordinaire
Look at the sunrise.
John catches up with the ever positive Lucas “Rico” Corrubia on his incredible history and experiences in all the influential times in entertainment. With the likes of Liza Manelli, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Crawford, Van Halen and the incomparable, Frank Sinatra, Rico’s A-List stories goes on and on. John digs deep from Rico’s early life to his life threatening aortic aneurysm that caused the loss of his fingers. Rico shares his thoughts on how lighting, sound and life are all intertwined.
We live in an acoustic space.
Don’t sweat the small stuff.
To learn more about Lucas, visit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corrubia-lucas-3004167/
To follow John on Twitter: https://twitter.com/J0hnDavids0n
Full Episode Breakdown
0:00 – Background
3:53 – John’s awesome impression of Jens
4:48 – Career as a Sound Engineer – 19 year start –
5:48 – The Story of Bruce Springsteen, Sunshine Inn and Asbury Park
8:08 – What made Sunshine Inn and Asbury Park so special
8:47 – “Asbury Park was to the 20th Century, what Rome was to the Renaissance”
10:10 – The Cutting Room – The place to go after acts played “The Garden”
10:50 – University of Vermont and their Holographic Lab – The start of 3D Sets
14:17 – Rico’s shift from Washington, DC and working at a children’s hospital
15:30 – The day Rico moved to Atlantic City to be a sound engineer for a gig to pay off school bills and Tom Young
18:08 – Steve Wynn’s influence with Atlantic City acts – Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson and Boom! THE Frank Sinatra Story!
19:34 – THE Frank Sinatra Story!
23:59 – Romanticism of being on the Road and facing realities
28:50 – San Diego, Frank Sinatra and the Gold Microphone Story
31:21 – Hanging with Frank and the elevator exchange
33:01 – “Bum Parts” – Rico’s life threatening Aortic aneurysm in 1996 and shout out to Dr. Lawrence Cohen
36:00 – What happened to Rico’s hands in 2016
39:17 – Rico’s philosophy on staying positive
42:57 – Shout out to Naked Prosthetics in Seattle, Washington! Rico gives it a “thumbs up!”
44:57 – Rico’s heart stopped for 32 minutes
46:08 – Rico’s parting thoughts – Seriously take the time to listen to this!
We love you,Rico!
Your BILs,
Nick and Jack
John has a great podcast. He is nice to listen to. Rico’s stories from the time he was in High School was very interesting. This podcast is going on my “must listen to” list!
As part of a New Year resolution to look up old friends, I googled Lucas Corrubia, and found this podcast. I was one of the “other people” from Ocean Township High School who created the light show we named “Isaac Lights” after Sir Isaac Newton, that was behind most of the bands at the Sunshine Inn on First Avenue, a block off the boardwalk in Asbury Park, summers of 1970&71. Lucas was the driving creative force, he did the business with the Sunshine Inn owner, and created the “blobs”- colored oils and other liquids in big clock crystals on an overhead projector. We had another guy who did all reflection effects, a direct projection guy who projected “prepared” films, and I wired everything together and was “master control”- switching everything with Variac dimmers and switches I mounted on a piece of 3/4″ plywood. As I remember, our total earnings were $100/night, and that all went back into buying equipment, projector bulbs, and the polyethylene construction sheeting we used to build the rear projection screen. A fantastic experience for a bunch of high school kids. My family moved away right after graduation, and I haven’t seen Lucas since, but will try and get back in touch!
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