![]() ![]() So it was really great experience on the retail side.ĭave “Gooch” Guccione: And then I just started to get that like, “Hey, I’m 35. So I’ve had a really diverse career, but the great thing about a Hot Topic was, it was an MBA class and getting paid for it. So if that wasn’t fun enough, I got hired away to be the music buyer for Hot Topic. I had a little career change and decided to get into concert merchandising and licensed merchandising repping. And so we ended up having a record label with records and I was in the music business. So I worked with the management team who was managing Stacey Q and ended up having a record label out of it with Jon St. I mean, I was involved with a major artist that was on Atlantic Records and toured the world and-Ĭhris Noland: Is it safe to name that artist? ![]() From there I got into artist management for musicians. But business-wise in the 1980s, I’m going to show my age here, my business to business experience started with working for a wholesale record distributor. In a state where some of the stuff we were shooting wasn’t necessarily legal. Our neighbors did not like my brother and I, we did a lot with fireworks year round. We won’t get any sort of details of those. So as a juvenile, I did juvenile things with fireworks. And I ended up with a flash ray gun in my hands and I kind of caught the bug at five years old. So born and raised in California, not that that matters, but it does when it comes to fireworks because when I was five years old, my parents brought me down to a local Red Devil fireworks stand. We got 15 minutes here.ĭave “Gooch” Guccione: Okay. The Reader’s Digest version.ĭave “Gooch” Guccione: We don’t need the hour and a half version.Ĭhris Noland: Yeah. But before we start with our topic today, which is 60 gram canister shells, I kind of wanted Gooch to share a little bit about his background and how he got into the fireworks business. So I think last time we talked about the status of the industry and what 2021 season is going to look like, potentially.Ĭhris Noland: And it’s definitely gearing up for an interesting one. This is number two, I think, right?Ĭhris Noland: Yeah. Welcome Gooch.ĭave “Gooch” Guccione: Hey, so here we go. I’m Chris Nolan, VP of marketing at Black Cat Fireworks along with Dave Guccione, better known as Gooch, who’s-Ĭhris Noland: Director of sales for Winco Fireworks. With your host, Chris Nolan and Dave “Gooch” Guccione.Ĭhris Noland: Welcome to another episode of Get Loud with Black Cat Fireworks. Who knows how big they’ll go?ĭave “Gooch” Guccione: Welcome to Get Loud with Black Cat Fireworks. There are four inch, five-inch, six-inch, seven-inch canisters…. In this episode, Chris & Gooch talk about different kinds of 60 gram canister shells, how they’ve evolved, and what they are today. ![]()
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