Greg Colley

As a guitar player, song writer, and former guitar Luthier, Greg has been involved in music and the technologies of recording music for over 30 years. Greg has owned and operated (3) recording studios during his career.  Prior to starting Backbone Studio, Greg was the founder and CEO of Clear Technologies, Inc., a $60 million computer hardware and software and media firm. While at Clear, Greg built a large Music and Post Production studio in Dallas that produced multimedia training videos during the day for corporate customers like IBM, and music records for the local musicians at night. In the late 70s, Greg also owned and operated a small 8 track studio in Austin Texas called Musicians Cooperative Audio.

Greg has been happily married for 30 years to his wife Nancy and has (2) girls who go to college in the Denver area. Greg continues to write music and is actively involved in the studio's outreach program for young musicians and songwriters.  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Jay Harper

Jay grew up in Southern California in a music store his grandfather founded in 1964.  While his main instrument was percussion, he found he had an affinity for recording and live audio production.  Since 1990, he has made his living in the pro audio field.
Upon receiving a BA in Music with an emphasis in Recording Arts from California State University, Chico in 1997, he immediately went to work at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood.  After a few years of tremendous learning and building his craft, he then spent several years at Digidesign while he started his own mastering business and freelanced as an audio engineer at various studios and venues around the country.  In late 2008, Jay teamed up with the crew at Backbone Studio.

Jay delights in raising his two fantastic boys.  He continues to play drums and percussion and enjoys helping artists achieve their dreams and aspirations in the studio.  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Chandra Lynn

Chandra Lynn, M.B.A. owns an entertainment marketing agency called Glow Marketing. She previously worked for successful and legendary entertainment producers, publishing companies, and media. Most notably, Chandra held in-house marketing positions at Digidesign; Tickets.com; Bill Graham Presents/Live Nation; Miller Freeman Publishing (now New Bay Media, LLC); San Francisco Focus Magazine; and KFOG Radio/Cumulus Media, Inc. Chandra has a proven track record for securing positive press coverage, managing numerous events, and leading successful marketing programs with artists that consistently top the charts including Black Eyed Peas, Brooks & Dunn, John Mayer, Linkin Park, Nine Inch Nails, Peter Gabriel, Sting, and many others.  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Russ Hungsberg

Russ grew up in Wisconsin, in a musical family.  His parents both played many different instruments and played together in bands around the area.  They were involved in some recordings, of that time.

He became interested in drums and played in the marching band as a teenager.  After his father passed away, his mother gave him his father’s acoustic guitar that she had bought in 1938.  Russ immediately started lessons and has been playing ever since.  He influenced his two sons to follow his footsteps.  He is active in his church band and even though he enjoys all types of music, his true love, is the “blues”.

Over the years, Russ has acquired a very fine collection of vintage guitars and amplifiers.  He has been involved in recording for many years and has had his own “basement studio” for about 10 years.  Russ has been married to Kathy for 25 years and they have two sons.  He enjoys sports, camping, water skiing and spending time at the family cabin in Wisconsin.  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Reece Pullen

Reece grew up in Melbourne, Australia and began playing drums professionally at the age of 14.  In 1977, he moved to the United States to continue his career.  Over the past 40 years his musical journey has taken him half way around the world playing jazz, funk, country, blues and rock.

Reece began recording music in Australia and in the early 80’s, continued in the US as a session drummer for radio and television. He recorded his first album in 1983. More recently, his skill as a drummer has morphed into his ability to work with fellow musicians from a technical aspect at Backbone Studios. With his wife of 30 years, he raised a daughter. He enjoys woodworking, traveling and continues his love of music through playing and recording with local musicians.  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Aaron Rom

Aaron grew up in Ohio and Michigan in a musical household.  He started playing drums around the age of five.  His love of drumming further developed in high school, where he played in the Symphonic Band, Jazz Band, Marching Band and Percussion Ensemble.  He attended Capital University in Columbus, OH as a Jazz Studies Major, where he played in every ensemble that would have him during his two years there.

The recording bug bit him in 2001, after completing a basement recording session with his band.  He completed his Associates in Music-Recording Technology at Grand Rapids Community College in 2004.  Aaron moved to Florida to attend Full Sail University in 2007 where he completed another Associates Degree in Recording Arts and adding a Bachelors Degree in Music Business.

Aaron moved back to Colorado after graduating from Full Sail in April 2009, and is glad to be back among the mountains and dry air.  Aaron joined the Backbone crew in June 2009.  Outside of music, Aaron is a big hockey fan, enjoys hiking in the mountains, and hopes to continue exploring the awesomeness of Colorado.   This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Producer Partners

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Sterling Winfield

Born and raised in west Texas, Sterling moved to Dallas, Texas in 1988 after graduating high school,and started mixing for local bands in 1990 after graduating an extensive audio engineering course with recording legend Phil York.In 1991 Sterling became a staff engineer for Dallas Sound Lab, and in late 1993 met up with heavy metal pioneers Pantera, and worked with them on their ground breaking CD “Far Beyond Driven”, (which debuted at #1 on the Billboard top 200 in April of 1994.) and soon after went on to work with many other bands in the studio and on the road.

Sterling Winfield is currently working as an independent producer/engineer with various record labels,production companies, and original material bands. Sterling has 19 years experience in the recording industry, and worldwide touring experience.

Some production credits include Pantera, Hellyeah, Rebel Meets Rebel, Hatebreed, Soil, Damage Plan, King Diamond and Merciful Fate.

Dave Beegle

Dave Beegle has been creating, performing and producing music in Colorado for over 30 years.  At age 18 he was called personally by Gene Simmons to audition for Kiss.  In the 1980's he formed the internationally acclaimed progressive rock band Fourth Estate and was called "A One-Man Guitar Army" by Guitar Magazine and voted one of the Top 10 "Best Guitar Players You've Never Heard Of" by Guitar World Magazine. In the 1990's Dave was hired by Transperformance Self-Tuning Guitars to be their artist consultant and demo-guy to showcase this revolutionary technology at various NAMM shows and in video presentations.

Over the course of the last 20 years, Dave has been producing, engineering, mixing and mastering not only his own music, but music by hundreds of independent bands and artists spanning a variety of musical genre's.  Whether it's rock, pop, blues, acoustic, contemporary Christian, country, jazz or metal, Dave incorporates an amazing sense of musicality in his approach and brings out the absolute best in those he is working with.  He currently resides in Loveland, Colorado with his wife Sandy and little daughter Naomi and loves to fish, camp, teach music, and be involved in projects that are personally fulfilling.

Jason Larson

Jason started making music at a young age, and being a singer and guitarist, he was always the person to figure out the live sound situation for rehearsals and shows. As Jason continued writing songs, the natural progression was to record. After a few mediocre and expensive studio experiences he decided to look into the home studio and self recording avenue. Jason tracked, mixed and released his first full-length, self-recorded album, and soon after that other bands and solo artists started calling to record them. Jason started Pigpen Studios and it evolved into a place where he could record other independent artists as well as his own material.

Jason has always been kind of a gear dork and worked at the Fort Collins guitar store Spotlight Music doing repairs and sales for several years. In the midst of this he was hired by Brent Paschke, a guitarist friend from Minneapolis, who was playing with Pharrell Williams' band N.E.R.D., to be his guitar tech. Jason quickly moved on to be N.E.R.D.'s stage manager and later played bass for shows in Europe. As he was touring, Brent introduced him to Pro Tools.  Jason would track when he was home and bring his computer and Digi 002 Rack on the road to learn and experiment with the editing and mixing capabilities of Pro Tools.  Since getting off the road, Jason has been recording, mixing and producing bands from along the Colorado front range.  Some of the projects he has worked with include The Jimi Austin, Lindsey O'Brien Band, Other Side of Clearview, Motorhome, 2013, Johnny Hickman(Cracker), and his own band The Piggies.