Doppler, A Roadies View

The days approaching

Just a few days until we begin the tour. This one is similar to the Smokin Grooves tours that I have done in the past. A multi-artist tour with a bunch of hip-hop acts. The difference this time is that we are using a smaller production.

I will be using a lighting system, which we will be carrying on the tour. There was talk of using local lighting at one point. I'm glad this was not the case. The audio guys will be using the same consoles and montiors but the PA will be from local sound companies. So there will only be two semi-trucks on this one instead of 4 or 5 which we had on the Grooves. The trucks are loading today and will be leaving from California later today.

There are also going to be two production buses.

If you know anything about this upcoming tour, you know that Rage Against the Machine will be headlining four of the shows. We will being using the production they are using which means my lighting rig will stay in the truck. Our day will be a bit easier on those shows.

We are going to need it since we are loading in at 6am the regular days of the tour with doors at 2pm. It is going to make for a very long day. The other good thing is we only have a couple of shows back to back. There will actually be quite a few days off. There goes a bunch of the per diem again.

The production crew will all be flying in on Tuesday evening. Some of us have worked together in the past and some have not. So it will be the first time meeting and getting to know each other. It's interesting how people who don't know each other learn to work and live together in a very short period of time. I can't think of any other industry that this occurs, except for maybe pro athletes.

Labels: Concert, Rock The Bells, Touring, Tours

posted by Doppler at 1:14 PM