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We have a Radio Show up here in Canada on CBC called Q. And a couple weeks ago they had Simon Pegg on it to promote his new movie "how to lose friends and alienate people" and he said something I thought was pretty profound and that most "celebrities" needed to hear.
He said that people to bend hand over foot to make these movie starts comfortable on the set and cater to their whims because on camera the actors need to look their best and be happy to be able to pull of their trade and look good on camera. But the second they think they deserve all this attention because of any reason other than that is when they lose touch with reality. Im paraphrasing but it was something like that.
Well I've had my 2nd gig in 2 months opening for a big name act and I cannot believe how they all keep being such friggen dicks!
Our band is a local weekend warrior type band, and we get to be pretty versatile with our music so that we can get the gigs. So on Sept 1st we got to open for Girlicious, the new project from that gross looking old lady who created the pus.sycat dolls. And their tour manager was a biatch, and they didn't care enough to even interface with some of their fans. THey didn't sign autographs or anything. They woudln't let anybody in the building while they did their sound check. not the opening band, or even the venue staff. And then they wouldn't come on stage for at least 1 hour after the last act left... etc etc. it was stupid. so about 3 1/2 to 4 hours after we got off stage they finally took it and played for about 25 minutes, then ran back to their bus and left. I think thats total BS personally and a lot of people were upset and kept telling the club owner that our band was the only reason the 35 dollar ticket was worth it. So he invites us back to play for Lukas Rossi who played last night.
(he's the guy that won rockstar supernova)
So we're thinking awesome. a real musician, somebody who will probably be cool to us and hang out a bit and make life a little easier. Turns out you shouldn't expect people to be cool to you.
We're trying and trying to figure out when our soundcheck is, and we're pretty close with the sound guy that the club owner hired so we're talking to him and even he doesn't know whats going on. And hes pissed about it. So we find out that Lukas is bringing his own opening band. Okay makes sense they tour together. So there'll be 3 bands playing that night should be a good night for people right? Well the bands were 2 hours late for sound check. and we weren't allowed to unload our stuff in until they were all done setting up. So while they were dawdling to even show up, the sound guy had the stage all set up with lights and everything and then they show up and say thanks, now piss off we have our own sound guy.
Then they start telling us that they didn't know we were supposed to be playing that night even though we were billed on the schedule and we were booked 2 months ago! So first they say we're not allowed to use the stage. So we say okay fine we'll set up on the floor in front of the stage (like, theres no way we're not playing tonight, we're booked, we're here and our gear is all loaded in) and they're like okay sure whatever we dont care. So we're trying to work out the logistics of getting power to our gear and it turns out they 'wont let' us tie into the sound system. we have to have our own. Its not even their fudging sound system! They say things like "oh we just tour together we're like a self sufficient group and we're not interested in local talent" .......... if you're so self sufficient why dont you have your own damn pa.
So after mulling about for about 2 hours trying to figure this out, we figure out a way to tap into the house DJ system (which was installed by the sound man) but by the time we're ready for it its just too late to get it set up in time. So we start loading our crap back into the trailer, got paid.. and bugged out.
and on the way out... Lukas' tour manager finally piped up (she hadn't said a word to me all night) "oh it breaks my heart to see you pack all your stuff up after bringing it in blahblahblahblah" I wanted to smack her for being so fake. The whole thing was so humiliating and out of the 2 bands only 1 guy ever did anything to help. and he was the lead singer for their opener act (which was called Ours, who by the way were actually cool to us and their music rocks).
This whole experience has left a very very awful taste in my mouth that might not be there if it was my first experience, but it wasn't.. i've had several like this both as an opening act and simply as a fan meeting whoever i went to see.
If I ever get to tour am I going to be an boom-boom too? is it a pre-requisite?
He said that people to bend hand over foot to make these movie starts comfortable on the set and cater to their whims because on camera the actors need to look their best and be happy to be able to pull of their trade and look good on camera. But the second they think they deserve all this attention because of any reason other than that is when they lose touch with reality. Im paraphrasing but it was something like that.
Well I've had my 2nd gig in 2 months opening for a big name act and I cannot believe how they all keep being such friggen dicks!
Our band is a local weekend warrior type band, and we get to be pretty versatile with our music so that we can get the gigs. So on Sept 1st we got to open for Girlicious, the new project from that gross looking old lady who created the pus.sycat dolls. And their tour manager was a biatch, and they didn't care enough to even interface with some of their fans. THey didn't sign autographs or anything. They woudln't let anybody in the building while they did their sound check. not the opening band, or even the venue staff. And then they wouldn't come on stage for at least 1 hour after the last act left... etc etc. it was stupid. so about 3 1/2 to 4 hours after we got off stage they finally took it and played for about 25 minutes, then ran back to their bus and left. I think thats total BS personally and a lot of people were upset and kept telling the club owner that our band was the only reason the 35 dollar ticket was worth it. So he invites us back to play for Lukas Rossi who played last night.
(he's the guy that won rockstar supernova)
So we're thinking awesome. a real musician, somebody who will probably be cool to us and hang out a bit and make life a little easier. Turns out you shouldn't expect people to be cool to you.
We're trying and trying to figure out when our soundcheck is, and we're pretty close with the sound guy that the club owner hired so we're talking to him and even he doesn't know whats going on. And hes pissed about it. So we find out that Lukas is bringing his own opening band. Okay makes sense they tour together. So there'll be 3 bands playing that night should be a good night for people right? Well the bands were 2 hours late for sound check. and we weren't allowed to unload our stuff in until they were all done setting up. So while they were dawdling to even show up, the sound guy had the stage all set up with lights and everything and then they show up and say thanks, now piss off we have our own sound guy.
Then they start telling us that they didn't know we were supposed to be playing that night even though we were billed on the schedule and we were booked 2 months ago! So first they say we're not allowed to use the stage. So we say okay fine we'll set up on the floor in front of the stage (like, theres no way we're not playing tonight, we're booked, we're here and our gear is all loaded in) and they're like okay sure whatever we dont care. So we're trying to work out the logistics of getting power to our gear and it turns out they 'wont let' us tie into the sound system. we have to have our own. Its not even their fudging sound system! They say things like "oh we just tour together we're like a self sufficient group and we're not interested in local talent" .......... if you're so self sufficient why dont you have your own damn pa.
So after mulling about for about 2 hours trying to figure this out, we figure out a way to tap into the house DJ system (which was installed by the sound man) but by the time we're ready for it its just too late to get it set up in time. So we start loading our crap back into the trailer, got paid.. and bugged out.
and on the way out... Lukas' tour manager finally piped up (she hadn't said a word to me all night) "oh it breaks my heart to see you pack all your stuff up after bringing it in blahblahblahblah" I wanted to smack her for being so fake. The whole thing was so humiliating and out of the 2 bands only 1 guy ever did anything to help. and he was the lead singer for their opener act (which was called Ours, who by the way were actually cool to us and their music rocks).
This whole experience has left a very very awful taste in my mouth that might not be there if it was my first experience, but it wasn't.. i've had several like this both as an opening act and simply as a fan meeting whoever i went to see.
If I ever get to tour am I going to be an boom-boom too? is it a pre-requisite?