Zeke Clark

Randall "Zeke" Clark (b. 1956?) is an American guitar technician and luthier based in Nashville, Tennessee. He has worked as a principal music tech for Kenny Chesney and Arnie Barn Music since August 2010. Clark designs guitar rigs, builds and services guitars, basses, and amplifiers, and consults on touring production. In the 1980s, Zeke Clark worked extensively with Van Halen as a guitar technician on a few world tours, and was later employed by Prince, creating and rigging several Cloud guitars (originally designed and built by Dave Rusan in 1983 for the Purple Rain film) between 1988 and mid-1990s. Clarke worked on several instruments for Prince in collaboration with Andy Beech. Other prominent acts and musicians who had employed Clark include Journey, Sammy Hagar, Heart, Clint Black, Poison, Jefferson Starship, Eric Martin, and Faith Hill.