Iggs and The Cult
I have quite a few gigs to tell you guys about, but I wanted to share a quick story about today’s gig first. We are rocking the Jaegermeister Music Tour featuring 80’s rockers The Cult. Maybe you remember them. Maybe not. Check this out: they actually called ahead to find out if our PA was stacked onstage or if it was flown. When they were informed that the speakers are onstage, they requested we put a carpet or riser underneath all the speakers so that guitarist Billy Duffy doesn’t feel the vibrations of the sound on the stage. I guess he has very sensitive feet. They also requested that we don’t hang the Jaegermeister backdrop until after soundcheck. Apparently the backdrop somehow affects their sound. Then, for the final (so far) kick in the nuts, their LD (lighting designer) had us change gel colors in the truss after we focused.
In the words of Andrew “Dice” Clay in his role as “Ford Fairlaine,” “…Rock stars. I’m sick of dealing with rock stars!”
I have a bunch of photos to show you guys from all the gigs we’ve been doing the past couple of weeks. I’ll get ‘em up here soon.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Wow — those are some odd requests — if the Jager backdrop changes the sound, wouldn’t it make more sense to sound check with the backdrop in place? My guess is I’m preaching to the choir here.
In your experience, what would have happened if you guys blew off the request to lift all the mains and throw carpet underneath? Just curious — sounds like a royal pain! Also, wouldn’t it have to be pretty thick carpet to make any difference?
November 19th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Yeah bro…putting the carpet under the mains was pointless. It was just something for us to do at 10am while we waited for the tour to arrive late. As a follow up to the backdrop story, the band doesn’t even do their own soundcheck. The crew guys do it. Nutty!