Patrick Collins

TRUMPET

Patrick’s passion for the trumpet started in 4th grade and quickly expanded to FrenchHorn and any three valve brass instruments. He played throughout high school and junior college and in 1969 headed to UNLV with a full music scholarship. 

At age 19, Patrick left school to tour with Little Richard in the US and Canadian tour. Patrick then toured with Mass Confusion and the Clarke Expedition. In the early70s, Patrick left the road to learn the studio side of the music business as Quality Control Manager at Custom Fidelity Records in Hollywood. This is where he honed his “dog ear” skills, while learning to manufacture pressed vinyl records. It was at Custom Fidelity where he met his mentor in the Disc Mastering field, Kent Duncan, founder of Kendun Recorders, and Patrick’s sound career began. 

He spent the next six years at Kendun mastering albums for artists including Earth, Wind and Fire, Heart, Joe Walsh, Deep Purple, Grateful Dead, Steely Dan, Barbra Streisand and many hundreds more. After Kendun, Patrick joined Cherokee Sound as second engineer and worked with bands such as Burton Cummings, Norton Buffalo, The Band and Jon-Luc Ponty. 

Patrick was fortunate to work with legendary producers, Bob Margoleff, Malcom Cecil, Keith Olsen, George Massengberg and Roy Thomas Baker, among others.

His Mastering awards include: Golden Reel awards for Fleetwood Mac “Fleetwood Mac” and Chuck Mangione “Feels so Good”. 

Grammy winning projects include: Stevie Wonder“Innervisions”, Stevie Wonder“Fulfillingness First Finale”and Steve Martin “Let’s Get Small”.

After a successful studio career, Patrick turned to live sound, mixing for Jon-Luc Ponty and Bad Axe, whose bassist, Dana Strum, later founded Slaughter.

Patrick and family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1984, where for the next 30 years he played lead trumpet in Big Bands, rock and R&B bands, directed and played in a Christian big band and was Principal Cornet in the Peninsula Symphonic Band. He also continued his passion for recording live sound, focusing on music for education in high schools and colleges.

In 2018 Patrick and his wife, Megan, co-founded At the Garages Satellite Pub in Beaverton, where Patrick designed the sound system and ran the board. His care and commitment to producing quality live sound earned him a well-known reputation in the Portland-Metro music scene.

Though he retired from the pub ownership in November 2021, Patrick continues to stay busy mixing sound and playing trumpet throughout Western Oregon.