Inside BB King's $1.4 Million Tour Bus

Steve Crowe · 11-05-09, 04:51 PM

Inside BB King's $1.4 Million Tour Bus
By Jason Knott
King's "home away from home" is complete with AV servers, touchpanels, security, lighting and shade control, surround sound, distributed A/V, iPod docks and more.

For legendary blues guitarist BB King, the thrill isn’t gone when it comes to touring. The 83-year-old “King of the Blues” is still on the road with his famous Gibson guitar “Lucille” performing 100 concerts per year.

And King gets from gig to gig on more than just a simple set of wheels.

King rides in a $1.4 million, 45–foot luxury motorcoach that has more than $200,000 worth of electronics inside, making it a center of inspiration for laying down tracks, reviewing audio and video, keeping up to date on news and communicating with his fans and crew.

The interior design of the Prevost XL motorcoach was done by Superior Coach Interiors in Nashville, Tenn., while the electronics were installed by Digital Home Lifestyles of Phoenix, Ariz.

The tour bus, which took 100 hours of design time and 300 hours of installation time to complete, has seven miles of of cabling from Liberty Cable, five miles of Cat5 wiring and 3,000 feet of CresNET.

Equipment Rack in Lounge
King has more than $200,000 worth of electronics in his tour bus. The source components include: 4 DirecTV HR21-PRO DVRs, 4 Kaleidescape 1080p players, 1 Kaleidescape 3U server, 1 Crestron iPod dock that is distributed throughout the coach, 2 Integra Blu-ray DVD players, 1 PS3 and, 1 Xbox 360 and more.

AV Rack Closeup
King has a distributed audio/video system with eight zones of video and nine zones of audio. The front and rear lounges have 7.1 surround sound systems that are fed through a combination of dedicated and distributed sources.

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Steve Crowe Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 328	Inside BB King's $1.4 Million Tour Bus Inside BB King's $1.4 Million Tour Bus By Jason Knott King's "home away from home" is complete with AV servers, touchpanels, security, lighting and shade control, surround sound, distributed A/V, iPod docks and more. For legendary blues guitarist BB King, the thrill isn’t gone when it comes to touring. The 83-year-old “King of the Blues” is still on the road with his famous Gibson guitar “Lucille” performing 100 concerts per year. And King gets from gig to gig on more than just a simple set of wheels. King rides in a $1.4 million, 45–foot luxury motorcoach that has more than $200,000 worth of electronics inside, making it a center of inspiration for laying down tracks, reviewing audio and video, keeping up to date on news and communicating with his fans and crew. The interior design of the Prevost XL motorcoach was done by Superior Coach Interiors in Nashville, Tenn., while the electronics were installed by Digital Home Lifestyles of Phoenix, Ariz. The tour bus, which took 100 hours of design time and 300 hours of installation time to complete, has seven miles of of cabling from Liberty Cable, five miles of Cat5 wiring and 3,000 feet of CresNET. Equipment Rack in Lounge King has more than $200,000 worth of electronics in his tour bus. The source components include: 4 DirecTV HR21-PRO DVRs, 4 Kaleidescape 1080p players, 1 Kaleidescape 3U server, 1 Crestron iPod dock that is distributed throughout the coach, 2 Integra Blu-ray DVD players, 1 PS3 and, 1 Xbox 360 and more. AV Rack Closeup King has a distributed audio/video system with eight zones of video and nine zones of audio. The front and rear lounges have 7.1 surround sound systems that are fed through a combination of dedicated and distributed sources. Click here to continue.