The Rukkus Room

09/07/2024

I haven't looked yet but I'm gonna say someone is trying sell me a t-shirt.

09/02/2024

Recorded and mixed this song with my friend, producer Jeff Shannon for Crash Robinette and Chris Burris' band Strange Company.

While tracking two songs stood out. This was one of them. I'm so glad they let this track be what it wanted to be instead of taming it down to appease modern ears. This song RAWKS!!!

I really love how this came out. I mixed the s**t out of rock stuff. I need more of that in my life.

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07/28/2024

(edit)I think it's spoken for. Thank you for your interest!)Here's an opportunity!
Free console. Seriously. Free. Let me know if you want it.
It's yours if you can pick it up before August 1st.

I made over a dozen #1 records on this thing. Taylor Swift, Thomas Rhett, Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, Michael Bolton, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, Marty Stuart, and a whole lot more people I'm forgetting have made music with this thing. I'm moving one of my other consoles to my house to continue mixing and recording and making great music.

96 moving faders. Total recall. API designed. Newly rebuilt power supplies. I loved this board. It was my best friend for 25 years. It would make me so happy to see it go to a new home.

I'll reinstall FB messenger for the next few days in case anyone wants it. HMU!

07/19/2024

This is just one box full of demos recorded over the decades at Rukkus Room. There are songs by Ashley Gorley, Josh Kear, Brett James, Emily Shackleton, Mark Irwin, Robert Ellis Oral, Don Schlitz, Marty Stuart … and the list goes on. It’s like a guide to the country songwriters history. What a special place Rukkus Room has been!

07/10/2024

Big news from the Rukkus Room and Jamie Tate. Please read Jamie’s FB post if you want to see the text a little clearer

07/04/2024

Happy 4th. Have Fun! Be Safe!

Lego has a Jaws set coming out next month. I'm already saving my pennies for it. In the meantime, they made a cute video for it. Wish the Spielberg figure came with it. Maybe I'll make my own.

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05/22/2024

Did you know we also can do mastering for your projects? We can give your mix that finishing touch from some of the best ears in Nashville!!!

05/20/2024

Find out what all the buzz is about!!!

05/16/2024

A reporter from the London Times dropped by to interview Jamie Tate about his experiences working with Taylor Swift. It was a great time. Thanks to for the connection.

04/28/2024

Don't listen to this guy. Buy the $300 guitar. Nobody will think less of you. Learn on it. Love on it. It'll do everything a $5,000 guitar does. But, if you have a $5,000 guitar and still suck, you could've just bought the cheaper version.

It's not about the gear. It's all about the challenge of writing and performing music that effectively conveys a thought or emotion. It's difficult. Try it.

Gabe Dalporto insists the firm needs to “evolve and execute better” in order to survive, and that it has forgotten who its core customer really is

04/19/2024

Spotify is going to raise sub prices... and pay artists even LESS(!!!). Is that even mathematically possible? Like trying to divide zero.

“The higher prices will help cover the cost of audiobooks. Plans combining music and audiobooks will mean a lower mechanical royalty rate for songwriters."

Maybe TayTay ca start a streaming service. She may be the only non-evil Billionaire.

Spotify’s music and audiobooks bundle will mean lower royalties for songwriters, but the company claims earnings for creators will continue to rise.

04/08/2024

I worked for Pantera's Dad (Jerry Abbott) for 7 years. He bought an old funeral home and had it converted to a recording studio. Low ceilings and small isolation booths, but it was workable.

He hired me to wire Abtrax, a three month job of 12-14 hour days. When I finished my last solder point, he hired me to engineer the first session (because nobody else knew how to use the new console yet). I made the producer, artists, and musicians happy, so he kept calling me back for sessions. I recorded a bunch of hits there that helped make a lot of people a lot of money that. I also won me some awards and whatnot (they give money to songwriters and awards to engineers in lieu of money).

I was booked 18months in advance the entire 7 years I was the engineer.

About six months before Dimebag was killed, Jerry suddenly decided to close the studio (even though we already had sessions booked for the next year and a half). I got the loans for The Rukkus Room the next day. Now we're 20 years after that.

I had some great times at Abtrax (I had some not-so-great-times there, too). Thanks for the gig, Jerry! RIP

To the rock world, Jerry Abbott was known as the father of heavy metal legends "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott and Vinnie Paul Abbott. But before his sons got into music, Jerry Abbott was a country singer, guitar player, and songwriter.