Brad grew up in San Francisco back when Joe Montana and Jerry Rice were the kings of the universe. In his teens and early twenties he bounced around the country from Northern Michigan to Wyoming, ski-bumming between Jackson Hole and Lake Tahoe before returning to SF to produce sports entertainment TV shows including Fog City Wrestling and SF Bay Bombers Roller Derby. In 2012 he moved to NYC to work as a transfer engineer at Wolfgang's Vault where he digitized thousands of hours of live concerts by the Grateful Dead, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, and loads more. He reshaped that job into a 7-year stint at Paste Magazine where he produced over 2,000 sessions with artists like Steve Martin, Phoebe Bridgers, and Sting. After Paste he partnered with audio engineer Juan M Soria to form I Know We Should, a 2-man wrecking crew. Brad Wagner is good fun at a dinner party. Brad Wagner is a pair of 80-proof clown shoes.