Mike Savoie

Musician and director from Louisiana. Savoie played bass in a later lineup of thrash/hardcore band Shell Shock (3) and follow-up band AfterShock, whose members went on to form Crowbar (2). In 1990, he stopped playing music and went to film school, becoming a music video director for metal bands including Crowbar, Down, and Pantera. After working for BMG, he moved into education and became a professor of mass media and later dean of Valdosta State University in Georgia.