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Name: Bob Heil, K9EID |
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Topic: Life before, during and after
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Location: Cabrillo
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Date & Time: Friday 7
- 8:30 PM |
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Bob Heil, young theatre
organ protégé of Stan Kann began his musical career
as Stan’s substitute organist at the St Louis Fox Theatre
in 1955. He learned to ‘listen’ – mentally dissecting
the various sounds of that magnificent Wurlitzer as he and Stan
would tune and voice the monster to keep it playing. Young Bob also
took a special interest in amateur radio and became licensed in
1956 as K9EID. Heil met Larry Burrows K0DGE on the 6 meter amateur
band. It was Larry that taught Bob how to design and build early
SSB VHF equipment on the back benches at KMOX. Larry was the chief
engineer for the St. Louis CBS power house. That knowledge, along
with Heil’s unique ability to listen was the spark that created
an International sound reinforcement company, started originally
in Marissa, Illinois in 1966. Heil has developed hundreds of innovative
audio products and mixing the live concert sounds for leading entertainment
groups such as the ‘Who’, Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton,
Humble Pie, Z.Z. Top, Jeff Beck, Dolly Parton, the Billy Graham
Crusade and countless others. Bob is most famous for his invention
of the Heil ‘Talk Box’, an electro-mechanical device
that he designed in 1970 for his ham radio buddy WB6ACU, Joe Walsh
to do Joe’s signature song “Rocky Mountain Way”
and brought to further prominence with Peter Frampton’s “Show
Me The Way” album. Heil also was the ‘father’
of multi KW concert sound systems being the first to hang tons of
Heil Sound speakers from Rohn 25G ham radio tower in order to increase
the sight lines of large auditoriums. Many of Heil’s early
ideas are still being utilized on many live concert stages 30 years
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