Nashville flood claims millions in music gear

[kiramdear]

Soundcheck Studios is still underwater, with huge losses of equipment and instruments.

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/N ... lood-0506/

[winston]

Brad and Keith own some pretty nice instruments. Here's hoping they were not damaged.

[collin]

Brad and Keith own some pretty nice instruments. Here's hoping they were not damaged.

Not to mention Lynrd Skynrd, Peter Frampton and other big names that also use the same facility.



Waterlogged celebrity gear....coming to an eBay near you.

[ajish4]

This is so heartbreaking......I can only imagine.....living on a lake and two blocks from a river.

I have this fear every hurricane season.

Just took out additional FLOOD INSURANCE last week. I've got a FEELING this is going to be a ROUGH YEAR!

[johneek]

That's sad....I had been wondering about the Gibson Showcase at Opry Mills....I think this gives a pretty good clue.

[lennon211]

Louisville had the same system hit, just not to the same degree. I had a few leaks in the music room, but thankfully only a poster of the Who was damaged. I found it in a puddle behind my AC-30. I'm not sure where I would have been had my basement taken on the inches and feet of others. The school system that I teach in was also out for part of this week due to areas of the county being accessible only by boat.

It really is mindblowing to think of everything that was lost in Nashville. I can only begin to fathom the gear that was lost.

[johnallg]

John, thanks for linking that video. Irene and I were just there a year ago and stayed at the Gaylord. They had to lose millions just in the plants in their atria. One is all like the rainforest in South America and full of plants from there. So sad.

[morgan]

Here is a link to a piece that played on NPR this afternoon (Wednesday) on the destruction of instruments in Nashville that focused on the many valuable guitars stored at Soundcheck by many well-known musicians: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =126776761

[ajish4]

There were some heartbreaking pictures on TB....dozens of vintage guitars left open out in the air to dry.

[jdogric12]

I bet vintage prices go up. An influx of insurance money, increase in demand, economics 101...

[electrofaro]

I had been wondering about the Gibson Showcase at Opry Mills....

Well, tbh, it's gone... total loss...

[jch]

It is heartbreaking!
http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2010 ... -in-flood/

[ajish4]

It is heartbreaking!
http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2010 ... -in-flood/

Wow...the history that was lost.

[sodbuster]

This is so heartbreaking......I can only imagine.....living on a lake and two blocks from a river.

I have this fear every hurricane season.

Just took out additional FLOOD INSURANCE last week. I've got a FEELING this is going to be a ROUGH YEAR!

better be careful buying used guitars, same thing with cars, I usually wrap my gear with 4 mil poly and duct tape when a bad hurricane hits the area, I shouldn't flood out as i am close to the highest point in Fl (I think that may be an Oxymoron) but incase I lose the roof, and the rain damage, and yeah we are due for a bad one soon

[ajish4]

better be careful buying used guitars, same thing with cars, I usually wrap my gear with 4 mil poly and duct tape when a bad hurricane hits the area, I shouldn't flood out as i am close to the highest point in Fl (I think that may be an Oxymoron) but incase I lose the roof, and the rain damage, and yeah we are due for a bad one soon

Same deal here...all get wrapped up tight as a drum...but we DO flood. I'm "technically" not in a "flood zone" but with a lake about 75' in front of the house, and a large river just two blocks away.....NOT TO MENTION Lake Okeechobee drains into that river that is so close to my house....

Sobering.

What did this stupid kid from NY know about Hurricanes & Floods?