Jerry Harvey (inventor)

Jerry Harvey is an American sound engineer best known for inventing a series of customized dualspeaker inear monitors in 1995. He founded Ultimate Ears that same year, and in 2007 founded JH Audio. He has served as the sound engineer for artists as varied as Van Halen, Kiss, Morrissey, the Cult, the Knack, David Lee Roth, Mtley Cre, k.d. lang, and Linkin Park.

Jerry Harvey was born in 1961 and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. His first break in the music business occurred in 1980, when the Gland Slam Superjam rock tour starring April Wine, Judas Priest, and Sammy Hagar was performing at the St. Louis Busch Stadium. While Harvey was tinkering on his 1978 red Pontiac Trans Am, Hagars people approached him on the street and asked to borrow his car in exchange for free tickets. They then used Harveys car to drive on stage during Hagars anthem Trans Am .

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