![]() ![]() In fact, this project represents the new Lititz Rock-tocracy. The problem-solving DIY ethos of the music biz and the companies in Lititz inspired him, and he eventually became Tait’s right-hand man, partner, and now co-founder of Rock Lititz. I was broke.”) He soon discovered that rock-and-roll is a “cottage industry” in which small bands of creatives conjure up new designs to make artists look and sound their best. Michael Tait, an Australian who’d been a production manager for YES started a lighting company in 1978 shortly afterward, production designer Tom McPhillips arrived, and later founded Atomic Design.įairorth bum-rushed Michael Tait for a job without any great forethought. As time passed, a scene grew around them. They parlayed that present into a career, from parties at Franklin & Marshall College to gigs with Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and eventually the Rolling Stones and beyond. In the early ’60s, two Lititz-born brothers, Roy and Gene Clair, received a sound system from their father as a gift. Literally nothing!’”įairorth’s mother encouraged him to stay, and in time he learned of the local rock industry that flourished there. “I used to call my mother and say, ‘What am I doing here?’” he recalls. He slides into a seat at the window, fresh from a personal training session nearby, looking very much like a rock star himself - fit at 50, bedecked in black jeans, bulky black boots, and stacks of necklaces and bracelets.įairorth started attending Millersville University in the early ’80s, but as a Philly kid, born in Germantown, he was a little freaked out by the open country. I MEET ROCK LITITZ STUDIO co-owner James “Winky” Fairorth at Rouge, where the host greets him by name.
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