Mark Workman is the author of One for the Road: How to Be a Music Tour Manager. He has been a successful tour manager and lighting designer in the music business since 1983. His list of past and present clients includes Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Testament, Motorhead, Machine Head, Danzig, Devildriver, Mudvayne, Dio, Queens of the Stone Age, Soulfly, Sepultura, Keel, Steeler and many others.
As a lighting designer, Mark Workman has designed high-impact lighting performances for many music tours, including the infamous Clash of the Titans (Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Testament, Alice In Chains, & Suicidal Tendencies) in 1990/1991 and American Carnage 2010 (Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax & Testament), as well as for many music videos and live DVDs such as Machine Head’s Elegies DVD filmed at Brixton Academy in London, Megadeth’s Rust In Peace Live DVD shot at the Hollywood Palladium, Testament’s Dark Roots of Thrash Live DVD shot at the Paramount Theater in Huntington, NY, and Anthrax’s Live DVD, Chile On Hell, shot in Santiago, Chile.
Mark Workman is also a former boxing writer whose feature articles have appeared on BoxingScene and Fox Sports.
Noted author and tour manager, Mark Workman, offers a gritty rock n' roll narrative about Slayer and recollections of their late guitarist, Jeff Hanneman.
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