A Super Talk Mississippi Media Production.

This is a Thunder and Lightning Extra here on Super Talk Mississippi.

I'm Brian Haydad.

And joining me today is Richard Greenlee.

He is the president and owner of Ratchet Entertainment Group.

They are the entertainment group responsible for bringing the Brett Eldridge concert to do the Noble Field.

And Richard, you reached out to me last week.

You heard me talking about this with Robbie on Thunder and Lightning about this concert.

We're excited about it and the potential for Starkville as a concert venue.

Let's start with the concert that's going to happen, Super Bowl Dog weekend.

After the Saturday game with Ole Miss, Brett Eldridge will take the stage at Denny Noble Field. How did that concert get into motion? Who was the first one that suggested? Does MSU reach out to you? Do you reach out to MSU? How did that come into play? Well, it's a funny story. I have a good friend of mine, a fellow named David Ruliffe, who I've known for a long time, who knows about what I've been doing.

And he said, you know, we talked about trying to do some concerts at State. He put me on the phone with Bo Hemphill, and both put me on the phone with Rhett Hobart, and I had a meeting the next week. And it was actually State's idea. I don't know if Rhett takes credit forward. about, you know, but they, you know, you have the best baseball field in college sports, and it's just, you know, it'd be great to do something there

besides just baseball, so they wanted to put a concert on, on Judy Noble Field and Super Bulldog

weekend at the Ole Miss State, back-to-back national camp. Baseball sure would be the perfect time to do it. So it was their idea. Well, that's a good start to our conversation because we talk about Mississippi State wanting to be proactive and do things. I mean, of course, the guy you mentioned is no longer here, but we'll move on for that. So let's talk about logistics because, you know, when I think about a concert and I think about what it takes, you know, and I don't know a lot about that business, obviously, but I've been to concerts, and setting up those stages, you're talking about a lot of work that's done over time, and you really have a window here because the game ends, you want to have the concert, and then you have another game the next day.

Let's just start.

How long does it take to put the stage together for this show on Saturday?

Well, and it's very – I'm not to have a move about this, but we've partnered with a great

group out of Scottsdale, Arizona, and they have a potent-in-roll-on staging system that has played at 28 of 31 Major League

Parks.

It's done 23 Super Bowls.

It's the national championship football game.

Whether it be a concert, a trophy presentation, the national anthem, a lot of things

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