Saturday, March 13, 2010

What truck did that go in?

With daylight savings now officially upon us, I celebrate with a nice spicy ceaser ( Canadian bloody mary) and the notion that in a way tonight is "roadie thursday". For those who are not aware of the terminology i will explain. Basically any night after a load out is complete and the next day is a day off is automatically dubbed "roadie friday!" Now this could be a sunday, monday , wednesday, or whatever, the fact of the matter is that it is what is.
Now for us, tomorrow is a show day, not a day off, so this is indeed what has just become known as "roadie thursday."
Let me dare to explain how this has come to be known.
We just finished our load out here in Tampa Bay and are now heading to Atlanta Georgia for our third show in a row tomorrow. The problem is that Atlanta is quite the drive from here, about eight hours, and the time springs ahead one hour..this puts us at the venue around noon with load in shortly there after. So it would appear that tomorrow is kind of like a half day that starts later but forces us to squeeze the same amount of work in with less time to do it. Anyways the point is that we all get to sleep in , do a gig , and then have the following day(monday) off in Philly. So yeah..roadie thursday it is , and all but one of my bus mates are up and having drinks with the time currently at 10 minutes to 3 in the morning!

Not to go into great detail or anything, but rather to inform those who are interested in knowing. I had the best show of my tour thus far tonight hands down. having worked through some key cue points and notes over the last few shows i would say that tonight i mixed a helluva great show and the boss was very happy. I must admit that at first i was kind of disappointed that i would be living under the stairs on stage left, but the more i get used to my world the more i like it. Never have i felt more in the zone mixing than i do right now.

Ryan, pictures will come soon...i just can't remember what truck my camera is in......

1 comment:

  1. Haha. No worries, glad things are going smoothly. Apart from the head smashing!

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