From Boston clubs to national stages, Bruce Bennett built a career across producing, touring, and turning 80s rock into unforgettable live experiences. 🎸
He shares Shot of Poison’s rise, mixing KISS on the road, and scoring a hit PlayStation NASCAR soundtrack—plus the story behind his book, Spirits in the Radio. 📻
✅ Bruce Bennett’s path: guitarist, producer, studio owner, and music entrepreneur from Boston/New England.
✅ Shot of Poison’s origin (2017) and “treat it like a business” mindset that unlocked national touring.
✅ Breakout moment on Jimmy Fallon’s Clash of the Cover Bands and the power of “success by association.”
✅ Endorsement from Bret Michaels, sharing the stage, and landing bigger festival gigs (Sturgis, Rocklahoma, Monsters on the Mountain).
✅ The grind: five 90-minute sets across Dakotas; how “fewer, bigger shows” became the strategy.
✅ Origin story of instant live concert recordings and scaling to 35 employees and 80–90 orders/day.
✅ Recording roster highlights and distribution (Allman Brothers, Hall & Oates, KISS, Peter Frampton, Sony RED).
✅ Bruce mixing KISS live in Texas (2004) and the thrill of nailing the show flow and solos.
✅ Scoring Sony PlayStation’s NASCAR Racing (mid-90s) and earning rave soundtrack reviews.
✅ Spirits in the Radio: music as after-death communication; audiobook on Amazon, hard copies at Shot of Poison shows, BruceBennettRocks.me & ShotOfPoison.com.
Turn passion into a portfolio: play, produce, and package the experience—then scale what resonates. 🚀
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Spirits-Radio-Tuning-Messages-Beyond-ebook/dp/B01M7YNWXF
Website: http://brucebennettrocks.me/
Band Website: https://shotofpoison.com/
Bruce Bennett is a musician from Boston, Massachusetts. A songwriter, producer, guitarist, bassist, and music business entrepreneur. He has worked with thousands of musicians and bands throughout New England doing recording, producing, mastering, live sound, and disc duplication. As a musician, he has played with several local cover and original and national bands. One of his favorite musical accomplishments was doing the soundtrack for Sony Playstation's Nascar Racing, which sold over 600,000 copies worldwide.
As a businessman and entrepreneur, many musicians know Bruce as the owner of New England's largest CD and DVD duplication factory, Superdups/New England Compact Disc. These companies have fulfilled thousands of CD manufacturing orders for bands and other artists including local favorites Godsmack, Staind, Recycled Percussion, WBCN radio, Brad Delp & Barry Goudreau, and countless more. As a sound architect, Bruce conceptualized, designed and invented Clear Channel/Live Nation's Instant Live Concert Series, where a band would play a live show that was recorded on the spot, and CDs of that show were ready for purchase at the end of the show, within minutes. From 2002 through 2008 over 700 titles were recorded and released, from national acts like The Allman Brothers, KISS, Peter Frampton, Jewel, The Black Crowes, Hall & Oates, Phil Lesh of The Grateful Dead, Charlie Daniels, and many more. One of his favorite memories was mixing and recording KISS live for several shows during their 2004 world tour.
As an author, Bruce's book Spirits in the Radio tells uncanny tales of his personal experience with after-death communication and encourages people to watch for spiritual and energy-based signs around them.
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