Photo: Walter/GettyBummer.
This past weekend in Brooklyn the headquarters of soul purveyors Daptone Records was robbed -- thieves making off with a slew of guitars, mics, pre-amps, turntables, amps and computers.
Daptone is the home of the Dap-Kings -- the band that rose to fame after backing Amy Winehouse on Back To Black, and who also tour with soul legend Sharon Jones. In a plea to fans to keep an eye out for the stolen gear, Dap-Kings bassist Gabriel Roth said that the equipment was all uninsured.
In an odd twist, he said that they hoped to borrow equipment to have the studio up and running by Friday, because that day have a session booked to lay down material for a new Rod Stewart album.
Rod and the Dap-Kings sounds good to us.
Let's hope it still happens.
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PHR | February 22, 2009 6:48 AM
Hope the sessions went on, the Rod Stewart sessions i mean.
Daptone is fantastic, true Soul, maybe the only studio in the world these days to create true Soul.
It would be the wright medicine for Rod The Mod.
Marty | February 18, 2009 10:13 PM
That sucks, especially since they didn't have insurance. Maybe they can get a bailout from the government. I read somewhere that Rod the Mod was thinking about doing a soul album (it might have been in Austin's feature a while back), hopefully this is it.
mitch | February 17, 2009 2:24 PM
bummer...