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Re: [ARSCLIST] Mellencamp
Yes, I work many shows in my other job as an IATSE stagehand, and many
bands travel with a recordist, even some smaller "jam" bands have a
separate person to do only that, and for a few years now some now sell
CDR's of that nights show for $25 quickly bulk copied after the show for
leaving concert goers. Almost every band records audio and video these
days during a show, though not always a separate crew member to do that.
I hope they have some kind of archivist!!!
Also most bands do have their own monitor mix person(s), as do all of
the Broadway productions, though usually not one alone for a specific
performer, I recently worked a show on the Kevin Chesney tour, and even
though they were all using digital boards with gobs of extra memory, we
had to set up and switch during the show breaks 3 full completely
different monitor systems for the 3 band's crews.
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From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Mellencamp has a personal archivist/headphone mixer?
>
> KIDDING!
>
No, quite possible...I used to be fairly close friends with Jeff Healey
(whom I met through CAPS and 78 collecting) and during his rock-music
heyday, he travelled with a full support crew! In fact, about anybody
who has reached "rock star" status (or THINKS they have, anyway) doesn't
have to do much other than sing and/or play on stage. I was quite
impressed when Jeff arranged a backstage pass for me for a John Mayall
show...and Mayall & Co. came in carrying their own equipment and set
it up themselves.
OTOH, what I iosually get is "The house PA is over there...I hope you
know how to use one of those!" (or else "I hope you guys travel with
a PA, 'cause we don't have one!). I recall one time I got there and
there was no stage lighting...so I had to rush to Canadian Tire,
and buy four garden spotlights (two red, two blue), a roll of
duct tape and a couple of 12' extension cords. When I got it
cobbled together and hung up, it looked almost like REAL stage
lighting!
Steven C. Barr