Tag: technical
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Lighting Preps
Every day isn’t working on a show. There are days set aside for other tasks, and today is one of those. Today is a prep day, and I will be working on the lighting/electric crew today. Usually I work on the audio crew, but if you spend enough time in this business you learn…
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Pablo Cruise and Jim Messina
Today we’re working on Pablo Cruise and Jim Messina. Both bands are traveling together but are using separate sound monitor desks. Pablo is using our FOH desk and our monitor board but Messina are using their own monitor desk. Complicating things they share the drum kit, but other inputs will be changing in the sub…
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Who I Am and What I Do.
In live entertainment there are traveling companies and venues. If you are a tech and you travel you’re, “with the company, touring” (roadie). If you’re with the venue you’re “local, with the house” (stagehand). Currently, in the latter part of what I’ll call my career I am a local stagehand. I have traveled in the…
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What the Hell Do Stagehands Do Anyhow?
Let’s concentrate on live performance, stage work, since that is where I primarily work these days. In the theater we break down into three basic departments: Audio, Electric (that’s lighting to you), and Carpentry (or carps). Within the departments are many job descriptions. So let’s take a look at what they are. The Audio Department…