"For what I do, I'm mimicking somebody else. It's a little bit of me, but I'm, you know, they come out to see Diamond Dave. Without the in-ear monitor technology, I definitely wouldn't be doing what I am today."
Brian Geller — Sales Director for Ultimate Ears
Some artists meet in-ears in a clinic. Brian met them in the fire. He was living the wedge life—loud rooms, louder guitar players, doing the nightly math: “Can my voice take another chorus?”
He needed a solution or he’d lose the gig of his dreams.
I couldn't keep up. It was blowing out my voice the first night and then had to figure out a way to get through the second night.
Fronting The Atomic Punks—a band built on microscopic detail: phrasing, timbre, the way a vowel sits in the pocket—his voice wouldn’t last without a switch to in-ears. So he became a customer long before he ever worked at Ultimate Ears.
Later he crossed the aisle to UE and started solving the same problems from the inside. That’s why he matters here.
Brian doesn’t sell a fantasy; he sells repeatability—a mix you can trust and a voice that doesn’t get shredded. He also knows culture has to move with the tech: image, fit, and the feel in your ears decide whether a singer leans in. He’s the rare bridge—the artist who gives the crowd what they came for at night and spends the day making sure others can do the same tomorrow.
And yet… even Brian may not know who actually invented in-ear monitors. Watch
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https://www.canigetalittlemoreme.com/speaker-profile/brian-geller#person-brian-geller
https://www.canigetalittlemoreme.com/speaker-profile/brian-geller
Brian Geller
Brian Geller is Director of Sales & Marketing at Ultimate Ears Pro and the longtime frontman of the Van Halen tribute band The Atomic Punks. His dual vantage—artist on stage, sales leader by day—anchors a practical understanding of adoption, fit, and workflow around in-ear monitors. He’s been publicly profiled in music media for balancing tribute-level accuracy with advocacy for modern monitoring.
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Headshot of Brian Geller, Ultimate Ears sales director and lead singer for Van Halen tribute The Atomic Punks.
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• Converts lived stage problems (vocal strain, wedge volume) into clear IEM use cases and training points for artists and crews. • Embodies the culture shift—helped make IEMs “artist gear,” not clinic gear—accelerating wider adoption. • Bridges community and brand: credible advocate to singers because he is one, and a decision-maker on the vendor side.
Brian is our fan-turned-frontman-turned-insider. He sings the Diamond Dave parts at a surgically precise level and then spends his days helping other artists protect their voices and deliver that same precision. His path threads directly through Jerry’s story and the Ultimate Ears lineage, giving us the belonging beat: when the tools work, you don’t just survive the show—you get to be who the audience came to see.
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https://www.canigetalittlemoreme.com/org-map#the-atomic-punks
https://www.canigetalittlemoreme.com/org-map#the-atomic-punks
The Atomic Punks
Renowned Van Halen tribute band celebrated for their high-energy performances and uncanny recreations of the band’s classic era.
tribute band, hard rock, Van Halen covers, live performance, stage charisma
Band, Singer, Musician, Artist
Connected through Brian Geller — Sales Director for Ultimate Ears by day and lead singer of The Atomic Punks by night. The irony of a tribute frontman existing alongside actual Van Halen legends is not lost on Brian, Jerry, or Diamond Dave, who famously sends Jerry to Punks shows when scouting new guitarists for the real band.
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https://www.canigetalittlemoreme.com/org-map#ultimate-ears
https://www.canigetalittlemoreme.com/org-map#ultimate-ears
Ultimate Ears
Pioneering in-ear monitor manufacturer that redefined on-stage sound for touring artists, founded by Jerry Harvey and later expanded into consumer audio.
Ultimate Ears, Jerry Harvey, Mike Dias, Brian Geller, in-ear monitors, custom IEMs, pro audio, touring sound, monitor engineering, artist relations
In-Ear Manufacturer
Connected through founder Jerry Harvey, IEMITO Executive Director Mike Dias, and Sales Director Brian Geller — all central figures in the film’s origin and storytelling.
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"Who's Marty? Is someone going to tell me who's Marty."
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0.72
belonging
anecdote
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It lands because it’s true: even insiders lose track of who started what. Coming from UE’s own sales lead and a working singer, the deadpan “Who’s Marty?” punctures the canon—credit gets fuzzy, memory drifts, and the road rewrites history. Comic relief that doubles as commentary on legacy.
Marty Garcia
webflow
quotes
"Noy. I love Noy. The guy has been here in the in the business as long as you. Right. Who came first, The chicken or the egg? Is it Mike or is it Noy?"
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belonging
anecdote
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Frames Noy as Jerry’s long-time shadow operator—the “who came first?” riff signals he’s been there as long as the legends. It spotlights the invisible continuity that kept the shop running and the artists covered. Sets up Noy as institutional memory and quiet leverage in the story.
Noy Soudaly
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quotes
"Jerry made it cool"
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0.90
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credibility
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The aesthetic flip that unlocked the market: Jerry turned IEMs from clinic gear into artist gear—something you wanted in photos and on stage. That “cool” factor accelerated buy-in, gave early adopters social proof, and set up the clash with Santucci’s “make it safe” ethos. Culture moved first; standards had to catch up.
Jerry Harvey
Ultimate Ears
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quotes
"They were flesh tone colors and look like particular sexual devices."
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0.22
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anecdote
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Captures why “making it cool” mattered: the first-gen flesh-tone look was a turnoff, hurting onstage image and slowing adoption. Useful as private context or a behind-the-scenes chuckle, not a hero pull.
Ultimate Ears
webflow
quotes
"Now, I know people were kind of doing it before that, but Jerry kind of made it a cool thing and made it happening"
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0.77
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credibility
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Acknowledges predecessors while nailing Jerry’s specific contribution: he made IEMs aspirational—artist gear, not nerd gear. That cool factor accelerated adoption, turning backstage hacks into must-have kit and clearing runway for full product lines and touring norms. It’s the culture switch that moves markets.
Jerry Harvey
Ultimate Ears
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quotes
"So my understanding of the tale is that Jerry rigged these earphones for Alex Van Halen to help them be able to hear what was going on in the band. And all of a sudden this whole industry, you know, was created."
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anecdote
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Geller retells the canonical spark: Jerry hacks a solution for Alex Van Halen, and a cottage fix becomes a market. It’s the legend in a sentence—useful as the “myth” beat we can contrast against timelines, patents, and Garwood/Shure milestones to show how stories condense around a moment.
Jerry Harvey
Van Halen
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quotes
"You know, to me, it was Jerry Harvey starting Ultimate Ears. And the fact that I sang in a Van Halen band and somehow found Ultimate Ears, it's truly special to me."
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belonging
emotion
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As a singer channeling “Diamond Dave,” Geller casts UE as more than gear—it’s his bridge into Jerry’s lineage. The second-fiddle humility makes the tech personal, showing how origin stories become identity for the artists who use (and later represent) the brand.
Jerry Harvey
Ultimate Ears
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quotes
"Well, I think that's kind of debatable. I mean, you know, I hear all these little things. Well, this guy did this first and this guy did this, this, this and so forth."
invention-debatable-brian-geller
0.68
trust
credibility
invention-attribution, origin-debate, industry-lore, multiple-claims, perception
Even a UE insider concedes the origin is murky—credit splinters across early tinkerers and companies. That ambiguity is fuel for the film’s core question: how stories condense around a few names while many hands shaped the field. It lets us contrast lore vs. evidence without forcing a single hero.
webflow
quotes
"For what I do, I'm mimicking somebody else. It's a little bit of me, but I'm, you know, they come out to see Diamond Dave. Without the in-ear monitor technology, I definitely wouldn't be doing what I am today."
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0.89
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anecdote
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Tribute work demands surgical accuracy—timbre, phrasing, pitch center—because the crowd came for that voice. IEMs let Geller lock to the reference, protect his throat, and stay in character show after show. It’s proof that the tech doesn’t just help; it enables a very specific kind of performance to exist at all.
David Lee Roth
Van Halen
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quotes
"In-ear monitors truly made me a better musician, made me a better vocalist."
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0.88
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credibility
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From a frontline singer who later became UE’s global sales lead, this is the conversion thesis in plain English: with clean, repeatable monitoring, pitch tightens, timing locks, and vocal strain drops. It reframes IEMs as a craft upgrade, not just a comfort—turning survival into improvement night after night.
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quotes
I couldn't keep up. It was blowing out my voice the first night and then had to figure out a way to get through the second night.
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0.86
stakes
anecdote
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A singer burning out by night one and scrambling for night two is the wedge-era reality check. This line captures the survival math that pushes reluctant artists toward IEMs: protect the voice or end the run. It also foreshadows Geller’s later conversion and advocacy as UE’s global sales lead.
The Atomic Punks
webflow
quotes
"The first time I used in-ear monitors, it was the most awful experience I've ever had. It was a Led Zeppelin band. And they let me borrow a set because I kept blowing out my voice."
awful-first-time-iems-brian-geller
0.83
stakes
anecdote
first-experience, vocal-strain, borrowed-set, fit-seal, adoption-hurdle
From someone who’s now UE’s global sales lead, this nails the common origin story: bad first fit/mix makes IEMs feel worse than wedges—right when vocal health is already on the line. It sets up the arc from resistance to conversion and underscores why training, seal, and gain structure decide whether IEMs save or sink a singer.
webflow
quotes
This isn’t a story about gear.
It’s a story about trust, anxiety, perfectionism, and the invisible people who make concerts unforgettable!