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Most Vancouver music fans have never heard of Dave Zeffertt. But if you went to a rock concert in the 1970s or ’80s, you heard his work.

Zeffertt was the sonic wizard behind Kelly Deyong Sound, which once did the sound at all the big rock shows in Vancouver, and most of the small ones, too.

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Music fans of a certain vintage may remember him as the curly-haired guy with a moustache who was always behind the soundboard. The guy who looked like Burton Cummings.

Zeffertt died in 2000 after a bout with pancreatic cancer. He was 61.

Over the years there have been whispers that Zeffertt had a secret cache of live tapes from the gigs he worked. But the only one that has ever been released was his recording of Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and Phil Ochs in a benefit concert for Greenpeace on Oct. 16, 1970. I’ve been trying to track down the rest of the Zeffertt tapes for almost two decades. This week I finally found some of them, albeit copies.