We had the good fortune of connecting with Brian (bw) Bridger and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Brian (BW), what was your thought process behind starting your own business?
I was working in the computer field as a Unix network engineer for a large telecom company. It was great but I just didn’t fit in from a personality perspective. Everyone I worked with was always talking about what car they wanted to buy or how much they spent on this and that, stock portfolio, etc. It all seemed very superficial. I just couldn’t see myself getting up every day and going to this place and doing this thing every single damn day with the same people that I had absolutely nothing in common with. So I bailed and decided that I was going to see how far I could go making money doing something music related.

Alright, so let’s move onto what keeps you busy professionally?
Everything I do started with trying to put a band together. When you have a band it needs services just like any business. Photos, video, recording, graphic design, marketing, etc. Just like most bands, we didn’t really have the money to get these things. So I just started researching and learning as much as I could about how to do all the different things that a band, my band would need. I already had a small background in recording from some studying I did in high school in East Texas so that helped. The camera work was a little bit more of a task but I did have some friends that went to school for photography and video so it helped greatly to have some people I could talk to and learn from.

None of it was easy, but anything worth doing rarely is. In the beginning just recording my band at the time called ThickSkind was a huge learning experience. After we put out our first demo, people that we met in the scene and friends who also needed recording but didn’t have a ton of money to work with would hit us up to record them and it worked out well. Eventually I ended up running the recording studio at Jam Station in Plano, TX along with their live sound for in house events. This event was the birth of Low B Recordings and DFW Guitar Lessons and eventually BWBridger, LLC which handles all the creative work. I also for about a year ran the recording studio at Platinum Music Complex NRH and now starting January 2025 I will be engineering alongside some really greats in the business at Sessionworks Studios in Hurst, TX as well as continuing to shoot photos and video and do graphics work freelance.

As you go through the process of working to get your band noticed you find you need more and more services that you can’t afford or don’t know how to find somebody to do. So just like everything else in my life, I just figured it out the best I could and hoped it would either be or get good enough at it to make whatever I needed look professional. Photos, video, graphic design, marketing in general. It is really a whole process that goes into making a successful band and it is way beyond just being able to write a good song and perform it. Just like playing an instrument, everything you do in life takes practice to be good at, and the more that people needed something that I could do, the more I learned about what I had to do for my own projects.

Moving forward, Low B Recordings will be putting out music and doing audio production work while DFW Guitar Lessons is moving to an online music lessons platform and building a YouTube channel and BWBridger, LLC will be continuing photography and video work not just for bands but for several different types of clients.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
Depending on what it was that they were into, I would suggest to maybe catch a local show at The Haltom Theater and maybe see what was going on at Granada on Greenville in Dallas. There is good live music almost every night somewhere in DFW. I don’t drink so I’d have no idea where would be a good place to go to…lol…but I would suggest to them a blues bar or jazz bar so I could at least enjoy myself while they drank…lol. I’ve always loved the Omni Theater in Ft Worth and the museum there as well. I would stay outta the water though…lol

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
Every single person I’ve ever met in my life. Every person I’ve played music with, recorded, photographed, shot video for or interacted in a creative way with.

Website: https://www.bwbridger.com

Instagram: https://instagram.com/bwbridger

Facebook: https://facebook.com/bwbridger

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnUjqHzxm5lPDRNKFlJviA

Other: bandcamp.bwbridger.com
youtube.bwbridger.com
instagram.bwbridger.com

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