# Jefferson Waful

In the premier episode of the Light Side, host Luke Stratton sits down with lighting design/director Jefferson Waful of Umphrey’s McGee. Topics include how Waful became an LD, his influences, how he lays out his console, and his experience working with Phish and Chris Kuroda last winter in Mexico.

Jefferson Waful spent eleven years lighting Umphrey's McGee, and moe. before that. What that actually takes: counting odd time signatures, watching a guitarist's foot move toward the sustain pedal, hearing the drummer call "off on one, in on two" into a talkback mic and killing the stage on that ex…