Fall Out Boy.....
A little extra day gig,,, Or so I thought. I had a 9-am call to load in Fall Out Boy up at the coliseum. Last year, the last time they were here it was a rig and a half tour with local hire lighting. Real simple. 3 hours and change and I remember being back on the road. And the strike was half that time. With T-shirt no less.
And I thought that this would be sort of the same sort of deal. A couple of extra trucks max., as it's sponsored by Honda Civic. And there's sort of a warped tour spin aspect to it with a few other proto pop/punk bands on the bill. Usually, the most impressive things to this are the posters and bills around town. And the show goes up and comes down pretty fast. I took the Loader gig ( pushing shit out of the truck ) It's a gig at an assistant rate. And once the trucks are unloaded I get to go home. I thought that with a 9-am load in I'd be back in bed for a nap before my gypsy gig my midday.
Boy was I out to lunch on this...8 Full 52 ' rigs. A forty point truss prerig. With Sound, Lights, Video playback moving stage pieces and elevating drum riser, with full KISS Pyro. Seriously... This band were just one group out of the unwashed masses of greasy musicians last year???? . With their screwed down Bowie shags and tore knee Junky slim jeans. But right out of the 3rd truck came a huge pack of wardrobe cases. Like it was a Bon Jovi hair band show. The band's fan base is teen a pre teen girls. A huge swath of who were camped out back in the parking lot waiting for their band crushes to arrive. All dressed in the same black skinny Junkie jeans. Ironic vintage tour shirts, advertising bands like The Police, and Quiet Riot. Long Avril style straight black hair and Suzie and The Banshee style raccoon makeup. Smoking like chimneys while waiting for the band member to come sign their arms so they could turn it into some rat tattoo.
If they were near my age they'd look more like the girls who sell themselves for crack down on the east side. The touring guys telling us where all the gear went, jokingly called them " Prostitots " As they'd noticed this particular skank look all through the tour. It felt like a Motley Crue setup versus some hip new band of the moment thing.
Seriously.... I'm really out of touch... I don't get it any more. I mean thease guys sing about being genuine and not the flash 80's style Slippery When Wet hair bands with no soul. Yeah I'm 40..... I don't get lousy played irony and I want to trust when a band says their not in it for the cash and girls. ....Nuff Said.
A little extra day gig,,, Or so I thought. I had a 9-am call to load in Fall Out Boy up at the coliseum. Last year, the last time they were here it was a rig and a half tour with local hire lighting. Real simple. 3 hours and change and I remember being back on the road. And the strike was half that time. With T-shirt no less.
And I thought that this would be sort of the same sort of deal. A couple of extra trucks max., as it's sponsored by Honda Civic. And there's sort of a warped tour spin aspect to it with a few other proto pop/punk bands on the bill. Usually, the most impressive things to this are the posters and bills around town. And the show goes up and comes down pretty fast. I took the Loader gig ( pushing shit out of the truck ) It's a gig at an assistant rate. And once the trucks are unloaded I get to go home. I thought that with a 9-am load in I'd be back in bed for a nap before my gypsy gig my midday.
Boy was I out to lunch on this...8 Full 52 ' rigs. A forty point truss prerig. With Sound, Lights, Video playback moving stage pieces and elevating drum riser, with full KISS Pyro. Seriously... This band were just one group out of the unwashed masses of greasy musicians last year???? . With their screwed down Bowie shags and tore knee Junky slim jeans. But right out of the 3rd truck came a huge pack of wardrobe cases. Like it was a Bon Jovi hair band show. The band's fan base is teen a pre teen girls. A huge swath of who were camped out back in the parking lot waiting for their band crushes to arrive. All dressed in the same black skinny Junkie jeans. Ironic vintage tour shirts, advertising bands like The Police, and Quiet Riot. Long Avril style straight black hair and Suzie and The Banshee style raccoon makeup. Smoking like chimneys while waiting for the band member to come sign their arms so they could turn it into some rat tattoo.
If they were near my age they'd look more like the girls who sell themselves for crack down on the east side. The touring guys telling us where all the gear went, jokingly called them " Prostitots " As they'd noticed this particular skank look all through the tour. It felt like a Motley Crue setup versus some hip new band of the moment thing.
Seriously.... I'm really out of touch... I don't get it any more. I mean thease guys sing about being genuine and not the flash 80's style Slippery When Wet hair bands with no soul. Yeah I'm 40..... I don't get lousy played irony and I want to trust when a band says their not in it for the cash and girls. ....Nuff Said.