Dallas
Hard Rock Cafe
1986
In 1986, began working as a curator & assistant music producer for the founder of the Hard Rock Café, Isaac B. Tigrett at the Dallas, TX to help open the first Hard Rock Café that featured live music, and a private club. Over 100 successful shows a year were produced. The company’s ever growing rock collection was housed on the top floor of the Stoneleigh Hotel a few blocks away. The founder also lived on the top floor in a penthouse that had an outdoor terrace with a dramatic view of the Dallas skyline. It was used to host receptions for rock stars, blues legends, and up and coming musicians. All were treated the same-with respect. The Hard Rock was located in an old church on fashionable McKinney Avenue in downtown Dallas now known as Uptown to locals.Concerts and the musicians reflected a goal by the Hard Rock Cafe to produce music that celebrated the diversity of American music.
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Private parties for touring rock acts Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac and Rod Stewart and many others were organized on a monthly basis. Helped organize an event with ZZ Top and Muddy Waters’ band to raise money for Delta Blues Museum. A guitar “The Muddywood” made was sent to Hard Rock Cafes worldwide to raise money and awareness for the museum. The guitar was made from wood retrieved from Muddy Waters childhood home located on the Stovall Plantation. The cabin severely damaged after a tornado, has been restored and is now part of the permanent collection of the Delta Blues Museum.