I’ve provided equipment for some interesting rentals recently.
Sound Emporium hosted T Bone Burnett producing Robert Plant and Allison Krauss. T Bone’s equipment guy Paul called for my mid-sixties Vox AC-30 combo and the 1955 Gibson mandolin, I also arranged a ShoBro resonator (Dobro type) guitar from my friend Chas Williams for Norman Blake to play on the sessions. Paul was a pleasure to meet and work with; as often happens we got started talking about favorite equipment, we could have gone on for quite a while.
I provided full stage equipment – everything except lights – to a fine country music band from Ireland called “The Conquerors”, also known as the Mike Denver Band. The boys played and sang very skillfully. They played the Opry, the Wild Horse, and some shows at a hotel downtown for the Irish tour group brought in by Paul Claffey. Frank Downey was the steel player who was the encouragement to buy the new Carter D10 double neck pedal steel.
I took some very nice stuff to Matt Collom and Mike Salaway who are recording in Murfreesboro with Jim Champagne producing. They got a couple of Gibson acoustics, the Martin D-28, Hofner Beatle bass, AC-30, blackface Twin Reverb and more. Seems to be an excellent project.
