Myth #3… The crew arrives at the venue just before showtime.
I wish!! Roadies for the roadies!! This misperception always cracks
me up! Who do people think sets all that stuff (lights, sound, drums,
amps, barricade, etc.) up? I'm sorry, but whereas traveling on tour
with a band might be a unique job, it is still a job with responsibilities.
No one in the crew could show up just before showtime and do
their specific job. Impossible!
On a typical PJ show day, the crew wakes up in the bus parked
right outside the venue. We eat all of our meals (catered) and shower
inside the venue, sometimes making the venue itself the only thing we
see of a city. The first equipment truck starts being unloaded at 8 or
9 a.m., depending on different production/logistic factors. Now
that might not sound too early in the day for a lot of people, but
remember, after a show we get done loading-out the production
sometime between 1 and 1:30 a.m. That can be a pretty long day.
Setting up a production is systematic…Production, security, rigging,
and lighting people (you know who those people are if you read the
last newsletter) are in at this early hour, followed closely by the sound
crew and merchandisers at 10 a.m. The backline crew, management,
and accounting people start work at Noon. The opening band's crew
will show up sometime around 2:30 p.m. All parts of the production
have to be unloaded, assembled, tested, and tuned before the bands
come in for afternoon soundchecks. This set-up process may continue
to take place during and/or after the soundchecks, but except for
detail work, must be finished by 6 a.m. when doors to the public are
opened. Once the show is over, the production gets torn apart in
reverse order of it's assembly and off to the next town we go…To
do it all over again the next day.
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