Yeah, the roadies are a different breed alright. And I thought bike messengers were a heavily tattooed bunch. These guys have more ink on them than the Sunday edition of the New York Times!
Almost all of the big shows have multiple semi-trailers based in Nashville, Tennessee. Must be the rigging/staging/lighting capital of the world down there. I always wonder how many roadies travel with the show and how many they pick up locally. Some of them wear helmets and full-body safety harnesses - I guess they're the ones high up in the rigging. Must be pretty dangerous stuff... Cheers, frank "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: David J Brooks <[email protected]> Sent: June 20, 2012 6/20/12 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: PESO - I Get aDrink Nice shot. Was not a huge fan, but i did like a few of their tunes. Yes those roadies are a different breed all together. Dave On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 6:10 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > One of our clients runs the Molson Amphitheatre, one of Toronto's largest > outdoor concert venues. When I go to pick up an envelope I can tell how big a > concert they're having that night by the number of sem-trailers are at the > loading dock unloading rigging, lights and sound equipment. There were about > seven yesterday; a pretty big concert. I have to walk along the loading dock > to get to the office so I usually can see the band's name on some of the > equipment cases. > > I noticed these three little coolers, obviously intended to be placed onstage > during the show: > > http://www.photoshop.com/users/knarftheriault/assets/498428625f1d461f94ff7900cc27e3da > > *http://tinyurl.com/77xx8yn* > > The Beach Boys are on their fiftieth anniversary tour (anyone out there feel > as old as I do right now?). I was never a huge fan (I was a Beatles kid) but > I have to say their music is damned fun, fun, fun to listen to. > > I was at the Amphitheater first thing this morning and their wasn't a trace > of them, the tour buses or the semis. Those roadies must have worked their > asses off to tear down, pack up and pull out in less than 10 hours after the > show ended... > > Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. > > Taken with the Samsung Android phone cam. > > Cheers, > frank > > "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- > Christopher Hitchens > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
