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Date: 06 April 2005 11:49:43
Last few weeks have been pretty rock n roll for the Chopsmeister. My friends are pretty into this band and have been anticipating the tour for many years. So when the band finally does come to our city. Guess whose venue it comes to and who has the task of looking after their every whim and need. The short answer to all of those questions is ME!!
To the outsider my task looks simple make sure everything goes well and just hang out with the band. Unfortunately it is a little more complicated than that. Not only do I need to make sure that everything including dressing rooms and the performance area are all set how they should. I need to make sure the promoter and the production team are happy and that all the punters know where to go and get into their seats in time.
Everything was going pretty swimmingly and I was checking with the production office to make sure that all was cool with them. When my friend's favourite band member bumps into me. When I say that I mean that with his elbow. He was lost and on his way to sound check. Putting on my most professional outlook and trying not to crumble into a mess. I guided him to the stage and made polite comments about how I appreciated his music. He seemed shocked that some one from the venue actually knew his music and was so very nice and charming and polite. The band is one of those bands that will sell 4000 tickets but is very underground and spread like a virus by friends.
I went to the back of the room so I could sneak a look at the sound check. The sound guy thought he was in trouble. Once again I am mistaken for Security. We got talking about how he liked the venue and that it sounded pretty sweet. I asked about the band he was amazed that I actually had heard of them seeing that
I was the first venue person to know who the band was.
Everything went pretty sweet till about an hour before the show. The "I am supposed to be on the list and I know the band intimately" people started turning up. Look if your not on the list and you know your not don't try it cause it won't work. All it will do is make the venue and the promoter ticked off. And frankly we are too busy to be stuffing around trying to figure if you do have a legitimate claim to tickets. Out of the five groups of people only one got through and that was because they forgot to put him on the list. Some of the others already had tickets and thought because they were good looking females they would get backstage passes. Unfortunately that rarely does happen but for the most that stuff went out in the 80's. It was't this concert but I do know of a time in my building when girls flashed their chestal areas to get the set list of an artist. I guess sometimes those clichéd rock n roll things still happen. Let alone hard core a fan would you be to do that.
Til Next Time Keep Your Chestal Area to Your Self,
Chops