I left PRC in 2012 after having spent two years on the Music Tech course, in that time I remember that Ernie was consistently one of the background heroes of the department. If there was an amp not working, a speaker that had blown or a faulty fader he'd be there working on it. The whole department kept running on the back of his engineering expertise. Even after having left for University in London at the end of 2012 I would frequently go back to the college to visit Ernie every summer and we'd talk for at least a couple of hours about the topics of the day and I learned a great deal from him, he had an encyclopaedic knowledge of Roman and Greek history and was particularly fond of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. At some point after Coronavirus I planned to pay him a visit once again until I was devastated to learn through a friend that he'd passed away. Still it was a pleasure to have known him at all.
I left PRC in 2012 after having spent two years on the Music Tech course, in that time I remember that Ernie was consistently one of the background heroes of the department. If there was an amp not working, a speaker that had blown or a faulty fader he'd be there working on it. The whole department kept running on the back of his engineering expertise. Even after having left for University in London at the end of 2012 I would frequently go back to the college to visit Ernie every summer and we'd talk for at least a couple of hours about the topics of the day and I learned a great deal from him, he had an encyclopaedic knowledge of Roman and Greek history and was particularly fond of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. At some point after Coronavirus I planned to pay him a visit once again until I was devastated to learn through a friend that he'd passed away. Still it was a pleasure to have known him at all.
