Mike The Bard's Comments
I toured with a comedy show for 10 years, and I can assure you this makes more sense than it sounds like.
I seriously can't count the number of times we'd show up to a venue and we'd have no hotel reservation- which they agreed to set up in the contract they'd signed and mailed back to us two months earlier. Other times they'd have nowhere for our people to change costumes, or no electricity near where the sound equipment would go. All this stuff is included in the rider.
With a show the size of Van Halen's, there are specifications for things like how much weight the mounting points for the light rigging needs to be able to hold, or catering demands designed to accommodate somebody's severe food allergy. This is literally life-or-death stuff.
The bowl of M&Ms may not have served as a guarantee that everything was to spec, but it was proof that the person responsible for making those guarantees was AWARE of the specs.
I seriously can't count the number of times we'd show up to a venue and we'd have no hotel reservation- which they agreed to set up in the contract they'd signed and mailed back to us two months earlier. Other times they'd have nowhere for our people to change costumes, or no electricity near where the sound equipment would go. All this stuff is included in the rider.
With a show the size of Van Halen's, there are specifications for things like how much weight the mounting points for the light rigging needs to be able to hold, or catering demands designed to accommodate somebody's severe food allergy. This is literally life-or-death stuff.
The bowl of M&Ms may not have served as a guarantee that everything was to spec, but it was proof that the person responsible for making those guarantees was AWARE of the specs.
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Well played, McCheese. Well played.