Hair Metal Mixtape
Hosted by Gabriel (Gabe) Añel LIVE every Saturday at 9:00pm
HMM is a live radio show on Saturday nights from 9pm-11pm EST (NY Time!) - TWO hours of balancing the classic with the current Hair, Glam, Sleaze, Hard Rock and Classic Metal with band exclusives, band interviews and all the current news and updates on our classic and current favorite rockers!
REPLAY Mondays 3pm-5pm EST and archives of all past broadcasts available Thursdays in the RFB Archives and on Mixcloud!
About Gabriel (Gabe) Añel
Hair Metal Mixtape is hosted by Gabriel (Gabe) Añel, a Live Sound Engineer who likes ALL kinds of music, hiking, F1, Futbol and running long distances.
I started making mixtapes off the radio at an early age. But my first love of music started in 1984 when I was 10 and saw Motley Crue and Kiss on Mtv. I WAS SOLD! I loved the theatrics and the heavy music! I loved it loud! I played snare drum in band because of Tommy Lee and then started guitar because of Ace Frehley and Mick Mars.
I have been an Audio Engineer since graduating to The Conservatory of Recording Arts in Phoenix, Arizona in 1994. To graduate school I spent a couple years at NYC's famous Power Station Studios, starting as an intern and then production assistant until Power Station closed their doors. I moved back to AZ to work for my Live Sound Professor's company and I have been a live sound engineer since.
Working in little venues and Rock and Blues clubs as the sound man in AZ and eventually back in NYC which led to going on tour pulling double duties as a Front of House Live Sound Engineer and Tour Manager for the following acts; Sharon Little (opening for Robert Plant/Alison Krauss), A Camp (Nina Persson of Cardigans), Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Shudder To Think, Fu Manchu, Erin McKeown, Willy Mason, Jimmy Chamberlain of Smashing Pumpkins, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, French Kicks, The Walkmen, White Rabbits, South, Valient Thorr, Cyro Baptista and Beat the Donkey, Something for Rockets, Helmet, Dr. Dog, Say Anything, Apoptygma Berzerk, The Nowherenauts, Hot One (Nathan Larson), Care Bears On Fire, The Bronx/Mariachi el Bronx.
Plus a bunch of "one offs" mixing the following; Bruno Mars, B.O.B., Helmet, Josh Grobin, Idina Menzel, Leighton Meester, Chico Mann + the hundreds of others when I worked at different venues throughout the country.
Now, since 2013, I am off the road, married with child and work as an Senior Audio/Visual Engineer for a local Corporate A/V company AND hosts my dream radio show! Hair Metal Mixtape!
"Audio Ergo Sum"
