Chuck Surack
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Chuck Surack Criticizes Black Lives Matter Leadership for Divisive Rhetoric
“And I think the Black Lives Matter group, the people behind that were not necessarily good and strong. I believed in the movement. I believed in all bunch of stuff, but not the kind of rhetoric that was being thrown about.”
Sweetwater Now Sells Over 1,000 Guitars Every Single Day
“We went from no guitars to selling over a thousand guitars every day.”
Chuck Surack Bought Back Sweetwater Using $1M in Local Personal Loans
“And so my best friend, who's an attorney, and I went to about 18 different individuals in Fort Wayne and said, we want to buy the company back. Would you loan me 50? Would you loan me a hundred? One guy loaned me a million dollars.”
Top Sweetwater Sales Engineers Earn Nearly $500,000 Annually
“Frankly, in your first year, you're probably gonna make 75 to 80, 85,000 dollars. In your second or third year, you're well into six figures. You know, we have people that are making nearly a half a million dollars now.”
Stevie Wonder Used Chuck Surack's Custom Brass Sample on Characters Album
“I remember one time I brought in a trombone player, a trumpet player, and I played saxophone, and we made a brass section sound. There was not a section of brass in there. That sound ended up being used by Stevie Wonder on his character's album.”
Chuck Surack Won GM's Business by Editing CEO's Speech on Tape
“I remember one year I did a, I recorded a speech of the CEO of General Motors. He was down in Defiance, Ohio, and all the way through his speech, he kept referencing the current year, and he meant to reference the next year. So he gets all done with his speech…”
Most Commercial 1970s Recording Occurred Inside Radio Stations
“Back then, there weren't a lot of standalone recording studios. Most of the recording happened in radio stations, and so we would quite often on Monday morning go to the local radio station and record, you know, this week we're playing at the Holiday Inn or wh…”
Chuck Surack Quit Touring After Making Only $50 Per Week
“I made about 50 bucks a week. I probably made a little bit more than that, but it barely paid for gas and getting to the next location. And that's why I ultimately quit, because I just, I was a decent musician, but I wasn't going to be good enough to be a trul…”