{"id":115560,"date":"2021-11-11T09:34:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T15:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=115560"},"modified":"2021-11-11T09:34:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T15:34:51","slug":"musician-restauranteur-and-entrepreneur-zach-bair-hopes-to-blend-food-and-fun-in-new-hybrid-venue-rockhouse-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/musician-restauranteur-and-entrepreneur-zach-bair-hopes-to-blend-food-and-fun-in-new-hybrid-venue-rockhouse-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Musician, Restauranteur, and Entrepreneur Zach Bair Hopes to Blend Food and Fun in New Hybrid Venue RockHouse Live"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Oxford\u2019s newest music venue, RockHouse Live<\/strong>, sits just off the Square<\/strong>. With locations in Memphis<\/strong>, Tennessee<\/strong>; Clearwater<\/strong> and Key West, Florida<\/strong>, the new brand is making waves in the Oxford food and music music scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zach Bair<\/strong> is founder and managing member of RockHouse Live International<\/strong>, and invented the RockHouse Live concept and brand. He also serves as president and CEO of VNUE, Inc.<\/strong>, and of DiscLive Network\/RockHouse Live Media Productions, Inc.<\/strong>, is lifelong tech and music entrepreneur, as well as a musician, and a recognized expert and speaker in new media and revenue streams in the music business. He is an accomplished audio and video producer, and is a voting member of the Recording Academy<\/strong> (the Grammys). He is the founder and former CEO and chairman of Immediatek, Inc. (IMKI)<\/strong>, a high-tech company he took public, and prior to that, founder and former CEO\/CTO of Voyence<\/strong>, which went on to sell to EMC Corp<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bair is widely known for implementing and commercializing the \u201cinstant media\u201d business model, acquiring pioneer DiscLive<\/strong>, and engaging The Pixies<\/strong> on the first tour that grossed more than $500K in revenue in just a few weeks. Bair spearheaded acquisitions which included Moving Records<\/strong>, a competitor, as well as numerous other companies and technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bair and his board of directors sold Immediatek to Mark Cuban<\/strong>, of Shark Tank<\/em><\/strong> fame, after achieving multiple successes in the immediate live and technology space, and Bair retained the right to continue the DiscLive model.
Bair aligned RockHouse Live Media Productions with EMI Music, under the Abbey Road Live<\/strong> name, and upon Universal\u2019s acquisition of EMI, Bair rebranded the live operation \u201cDiscLive Network,\u201d to emphasize his team\u2019s identity of pioneering the space, the brand strength, and the trust of the DiscLive brand. With VNUE, he is currently spearheading the design of technology (called Soundstr) to ensure songwriters are paid for music played in public spaces, and helping to reduce the costs of music licensing for businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We caught up with Bair recently to find out more about his vision for RockHouse Live Oxford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What drew you to music in the first place, and what are your thoughts about the future of the music industry in a post-Covid market?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have always loved music\u2014got my start when I was very young banging on my mom\u2019s piano. I\u2019ve played music my entire life in one form or another, but I knew I stood a better chance of having a career in technology than if I moved to LA and rented a one-bedroom apartment and tried to \u201cmake it\u201d with four sweaty guys. So I built my tech career, played in bands, and eventually was able to marry my love for technology with [my love for] music when I started Immediatek, my first public company, in 2001. That company eventually sold to Mark Cuban, but during that time it is what eventually thrust me into the \u201ccore\u201d music business. After Immediatek I had gained relationships across the major labels and ended up working for EMI Music Group (Capitol Records) and ran a global organization called Abbey Road Live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year I put out my first official single, \u201cRutherford Drive,\u201d which I produced. It did so well I enlisted Skidd Mills to produce an EP [Skidd produced Saving Able, 3 Doors Down, Pop Evil, and local punk metal legends, The Cooters], and released a second single, \u201cOrdinary Girl.\u201d I have another single coming out from that EP, which should be released by Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n