If your band is on the road and your trailer has a flat tire and you aren’t going to make it in time for your gig at Terminal West, we can outfit your band for your entire show. If you need a small bass combo amp for your event at Eddies Attic, no problem. We service everyone from local schools to large music festivals. I touched on this a little earlier but in a nutshell, we are a musical instrument rental company. We’d love to hear more about your business. By mid-summer 2014 we had nearly everything in custom protective cases, systems in place, a completely full warehouse and a culture that was being built by our staff that is more like a family. It looked like we were more of a moving company then a backline company! Our clients stood by us and we have had so much support. Everything was in the original cardboard boxes stacked in the rental trucks. Thinking back, we did both of these huge events along with the local work we were doing and all of the equipment was brand new. We relied heavily on friends in the biz for help for both staff and equipment and were also able to acquire a large amount of this equipment due to these contracts. Within two and a half weeks after opening, we found ourselves doing a large jazz festival in Florida and then another giant multi stage fest Texas. It hasn’t really slowed down and we have been very lucky. For the longest time, I was sure 8am to 3am was standard business hours. The very beginning was countless endless days and weeks. That was both a reality check and gut punch. I mentioned my friend and co-founder Mark earlier. Ha! The industry is a roller coaster especially at the beginning. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you? – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc. We have had a lot of ups and downs like any cottage industry including losing our co-founder Mark Brown last September but we keep growing, getting new toys weekly and most importantly having fun. Our first location was 1,750 square feet and in August we will be checking off our second year in our 11,000′ sq. ![]() We just celebrated our 3rd anniversary and we have grown exponentially. ![]() I will be the first to admit, I was nervous and just hoped the phone would ring. But, we wanted to provide the very best backline, with the best technicians and focusing exclusively in this way would allow us to excel in the great detail that is required. My partner and I wanted to do something different – to focus exclusively in one area: the actual musical instruments.īecause it was standard practice for companies to handle multiple facets of live music, and not focus only on the musical instruments – the backline – it sounded pretty absurd to attempt to strip it all down. The company I worked for had branched out into a multitude of industry areas. There are many different areas of live event production like staging, lighting, live sound (PA), monitors, risers, playback and so on. We supply these items for local small events as well as concerts, tours and festivals mostly in the southeast.Īfter cutting my teeth with a production company, my business partner and I opened Atlanta Backline in 2014. It is quite niche but is a critical part in the music industry today. Atlanta Backline Company rents instruments like guitars, drum kits, keyboards, DJ gear, a multitude of various percussion items, guitar and bass amplifiers as well as speaker cabinets and so on. Most are unfamiliar with the term but backline is the musical instruments used for concerts, tours, and festivals. I have been in the backline industry now for just over 12 years. ![]() Today we’d like to introduce you to Bryan Akers.īryan, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
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