Biography

Sean Lawrence Shannon from Hamburg, New York, USA, moved to Central Florida after college.^[1]

Sean married Carol Schwolsky in 2001.^[2] Their daughter, Autumn Rae, is a singer, songwriter, dancer, producer, instrumentalist, and actor.^[3]

Sean "The Cannon" is a sound engineer, drummer, songwriter, and artist in Central Florida. He has toured many countries with Molly Hatchett, Pat Travers, Brian Howe, Rob Rock, and the Sauce Boss. He has performed with or engineered for many well-known performers, such as; Dave LaRue, Shaquelle O'Neal, and William Shatner^[4][5]. He has worked as audio engineer at Valencia Community College and Sea World of Florida. He is the head audio engineer at the Dr. Phillips Walt Disney World Theatre at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.

Education

He attended Frontier Central High School in Hamburg, New York, USA. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Tonmeister Studies--music and audio engineering--State University of New York, USA 1987. [1]

Interviews

• Drum Muff Interview
  

• Dean Andrews, Jr and Sean Shannon Interview about Drum Muffs
  

• Home of the Brave--Outbound Road Band single
  

Invention

Sean invented The Ear Training Kit. [2]

Companies

• Mixing the Band
• The Mixing Workshop Inc^[6]
• MixMonsterz^[7]
• Cannon Biggs Publishing Inc^[8]

Endorsements

Sean has numerous companies whose products he endorses, uses, or writes songs, including DW drums and BMI.

Engineering Credit

• Carmine Appice--Pat Travers, The Balls Album--Cleopatra Records
• Impellitteri's, Nature of the Beast--Frontier Records
• Pat Travers, Retro Rocket--Purple Pyramid Records)
• Outbound Road, Hard Country

Bands

• The Pat Travers Band^[9][10]
• Molly Hatchet^[11]
• Brian Howe's Bad Company featuring Jeff Carlisi--38 Special^[12]
• Rob Rock ^[13]
• Impelliteri^[14]
• Carmine Appice^[15]
• Billy Payne^[16]
• Outbound Road^[17]
• The Hit Men^[18]
• TnA
• Two Wolf^[19]
• Barry Myers^[20]
• Rocket 88^[21]
• 3 Bucksworth^[22]

Music, Performance, Vocal, Video Credits

The references link to credits for Sean Shannon's work on each piece. To see Sean's contribution to each work of art, click on the album or song, then follow to credits through to see his work. Only some of his works are listed here. These are professional credits, not for royalties.

• "Kingdom of XII" Molly Hatchet^[23][24]
• "The Blues" William Shatner ^[25][26]Engineer
• "Nature of the Beast" Impelitteri^[27]
• "Wicked Maiden" Impelitteri^[28]
• "Blues for a King" Shirley King^[29]
• “Lookin’ Up” Pat Travers^[30][31]
• “SummerDaze” Pat Travers, Blue Oyster Cult, Foghat, Steppenwolf^[32]
• “Best of the Blues Plus Live” Pat Travers^[33][34]
• “Ice Queen” Pat Travers^[35]
• “Elijah” Pat Travers^[36]
• "PT=MC2" Pat Travers^[37][38][39]
• "Fidelis" Pat Travers^[40][41][42]
• "Blues on Fire" Pat Travers^[43][44]
• "Dogs & Guitars-Pat Travers First EP" Pat Travers^[45][46]
• "Can Do" Pat Travers^[47][48] Back on Black Production
• "Retro Rocket" Pat Travers^[49]
• "Live at the Iridium NYC" Pat Travers Band^[50][51] Frontier Music SRL Production

• "Blues Brothers" Junior Wells ^[52]
• "Voodoo Crossing: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix" I Don't Live Today^[53]
• "Gypsy Blood: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix Vol 2" Ezy Ryder^[54]
• "Southern Rock Christmas" Happy Xmas War is Over^[55]
• "Untitled garlic" Peels^[56]
• "Southern Rock Christmas" War is Over^[57]
• “The Bright Side” Assorted - The Make a Wish Foundation
• "The Morning After" Milka ^[58]
• "Until the Bitter End" Fick Renstrom ^[59]
• "Love Lessons" Jean Carn ^[60]
• "Cotton Field of Dreams" Albert Bashor ^[61]
• "Light My Fire: A Classic Rock Salute to the Doors" ^[62]
• "Strange Weather" Dylan Mathews & the Flips^[63]
• "7th Avenue" Barry Myers^[64]

• “Deliver Me” the Heltones
• “Anjelo Janotti - Guitar Licks” Angelo Janotti
• “Pedal Steel Licks for Guitar” Forest Rodgers
• “Florida OutBound” Florida OutBound
• “Mr. Right Now” Florida OutBound
• “Comin’ Back to You” Florida OutBound Technical^[65]
• "Holy Hell" Rob Rock Technical ^[66]
• "Friendship Forever" Retard-O-Bot Technical ^[67]
• "New Slave Nation" Crossbreed TechnicalCite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
• "Tonight We Radiate" Fallen from the Sky Technical ^[68]
• "Countdown" Driver^[69] Metal Heaven Production
• "Eyes of Eternity" Rob Rock ^[70]
• "Garden of Chaos" Rob Rock Technical ^[71]
• "The Voice of Melodic Metal-Live in Atlanta Proppower USA IX" Rob Rock^[72]
• "Channelling the Infinite" Empires of Eden^[73] Recording, Engineering^[74]
• "Requiem for a Scream" Nozomu Wakai's Destinia^[75]
• "Anecdote of the Queens" Nozomu Wakai's Destinia^[76]
• "The Four Seasons" Vivaldi Metal Project^[77]
• "Stoner Box" Always Rum^[78]
• "Two Wolf" Two Wolf^[79]
• "EpiClassica" Vivaldi Metal Project^[80]
• "Light My Fire-A Classic Rock Salute to the Doors" Various^[81]

References