10 People You Know Who Almost Made It Big in Music

Kelly McCarthy, president of NSCA and CEO of Genesis Integration, started out as a self-professed “drunken rock-and-roll musician with a blue Mohawk”, playing guitar and keyboards in bands such as Slash and the Bleeding Hearts. He was also the guy who knew how to fix the gear five minutes before a gig. “So, while everyone else was drinking, I was in the back with a soldering iron fixing the systems.” That evolved into mixing sound live and in studios and eventually being out on tour doing live sound before his family became top priority.