If your bassist shows up with a left handed Hofner - that’s actually Paul McCartney in disguise.
When I was a sound tech the drummer was always the first to arrive and the last to leave. With the diva singer being the complete opposite.
But also, it doesn’t matter how soon or late they arrive and get set up… They’ll always wait until you’re mic’ing the kit and your head is riiiiiight next to their snare to start testing things.
Don’t mind me, just eating this bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed.
I used to work in a roadhouse, and I remember one band had this in their rider as a joke… But our producer actually took the time to pick out all of the brown ones from a giant fishbowl.
The band was equally amused and horrified when they realized. The lead singer was like “yeah we added that to our rider as a joke. We’ve never had anyone actually do it before. Now I feel kinda bad that she had to sit there and dig all of them out…”
Meanwhile, she had an entire bowl of brown M&Ms sitting on her desk to snack on.
So, it was originally more than a joke.
More a heuristic to verify whether the venue manager had bothered to read and comply with the contract for a pyrotechnics heavy performance.
Oh, I know the origins. I just thought it was funny that a band added it to their rider as a joke many decades later, and then was aghast when they realized they had contractually obligated someone to sit there and sort through their entire fish bowl. Like I said, every other venue they had been to simply ignored that line.
thats when you surrender to the folk gods and just start playing cajón
Keyboard is going to need some amps or PAs as well there to plug into.
*plays the world’s smallest violin*
Also very little set up time for tiny violins
That’s why I play 'em.
“I ask you how is playing drums. You say it’s too much shit to carry.”
