As Bell tells it, he stumbled into the booking game through a happy accident.
“A friend of mine were sitting around a bar one night talking about how many bands we knew and how many friends we had who were in bands, and we were talking this other guy that I worked with who said, oh, yeah, I have a hall that I could let you rent out, and then you could have bands there, and you could use our liquor license to sell beer,” he told WAMC. “So, we got three or four bands together that we that we knew, and got a bunch of friends out and had a party.”
In the years since the launch of Guthrie/Bell Productions with friend Jeff Guthrie, and over hundreds of shows, Bell – a fervent fan of jam band pioneers the Grateful Dead – has managed to live his dream several times over…