One typical roadie jobâsound engineering technicianâpays $57,000 a year, on average, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (The figure doesnât take into account the legion of roadies who are self-employed.) Surveys by the Berklee College of Music say a âfront of houseâ live-sound engineerâthe person who controls what concertgoers hearâearns at least $60,000 a year, and can top $120,000. Road managers can earn $125,000 or more. Tour coordinators? $175,000.
Holy Old Batman and big Robin!
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I wish my childhood hero’s would stay the same as I remember them:( Adam West is really old but glad he is alive. My cousin Randy met him at a Mall opening in Florida in 1976. He was kind enough to get me a signed 8×10 photograph. I wish I still had that. Burt Ward is really obese now. Farrah Fawcett is nothing more than ashes đ Holly Marshall grew up. Superman is dead. (both of them).The list goes on and on. Sad, sad, sad.
But Adam and Burt are supposed to be apart of a new Batman and Robin animated series movie so that’s cool!
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Roadies, I mean “Concert Technicians” make good money!
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With the Record industry in the toilet due to digital downloading. It seems no one is making any money this days with recorded music. So how are bands surviving? By touring relentlessly. According to “The Wall Street Journal”, the big money makers are the Roadies. Now known as “Concert Technicians”. It’s no longer sex and drugs for back stage passes to meet the band. We got a whole new crop of professional and somewhat computer geeks running the shows behind the scenes. Even Guitar techs can make a lot of bank with a touring act!
Sign me up!
chuck
Here is a snippet of the great article. Hit this <LINK> for the rest of it.
Roadies: Unlikely Survivors in the Music Business – WSJ
Categories: General Tags: backstage, concert technician, load in, load out, roadcrew jobs, stage hands, the wall street journal, touring
The Walking Dead Spoiler? Rumor is
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One of the main characters of TWD now has “their” home up for sale in Hotlanta..(Atlanta). Which has in the past translated into “no longer on the show”…Who do you think it is? Comment below.
So walking dead fans. Who is it?
 
Categories: General Tags: AMC, carol, dayrl, glenn, michonne, rick grims, spoliers, the walking dead
YAHOO News…Smooth Move Really?
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Yahoo News posts that Van Halen is embarking on a huge tour this year and they use Sammy Hagar’s photograph on the article! Sammy hasn’t been in the band for 15 years! Come on YAHOO News, who does your music columns, clueless kids? I screenshot it since someone will get the hint after reading all the comments about the photograph so here it is! You can hear the Van Halen brothers kicking car tires over this slip up! “Humans Being”.
chuck
Categories: General Tags: band feud, david lee roth, sammy hagar, slip, tour, van halen, yahoo news
The Darkness new release “Open Fire”!
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Gotta love “The Darkness” . Dirty gritty back alley bar fight guitar tones and raw rock! I have dug these guys since “I believe in a thing called love” came out! The falsetto is over the top! Check out their newest release “Open Fire” below! The albums drops June 1st! Click flyer for more info! And for a bonus…You gotta have love for a band that replies to posts on their Facebook page. Go check out some of the comments! They can take a punch and give it right back!
chuck
Categories: General Tags: Dan Hawkins, Emily Dolan Davies, Frankie Poullain, Justin Hawkins, last of our kind, new release, the darkness, youtube
Evansville Native/Nashville Legend Joe Feldpausch this Thursday!
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Click Flyer for more details!
Categories: General Tags: evansville, nashville, songwriter, the uptown
Listen to two Live Van Halen tracks here!
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From the VHND:
Listen to âIâM THE ONEâ From Van Halenâs Live Album! | Van Halen News Desk
Van Halen is releasing its first-ever live album to feature original singer David Lee Roth. Recorded on June 21, 2013 at the famed Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, TOKYO DOME LIVE IN CONCERT includes 23 songs, spanning all seven of the bandâs albums with Roth. It will be released as a double CD; four-LP set on 180-gram vinyl; and digitally beginning March 31, 2015.
TOKYO DOME LIVE IN CONCERT features an electrifying performance by singer David Lee Roth, guitarist Eddie Van Halen, drummer Alex Van Halen, and bassist Wolfgang Van Halen. Mixed by award-winning engineer and mixer Bob Clearmountain (Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Roxy Music, Nine Inch Nails, and many more), and mastered by Chris Bellman, the album features such classic anthems as âDance The Night Away,â âBeautiful Girls,â âAnd The Cradle Will RockâŚâ âUnchained,â and âEverybody Wants Some!!â as well as blistering versions of âTattoo,â âSheâs The Woman,â and âChina Townâ from the groupâs most recent studio album, A Different Kind of Truth.
A deluxe collection featuring Tokyo Dome Live In Concert and the newly remastered Van Halen and 1984 albums, as both a four-CD set and a six-LP vinyl set in special packaging, are also available.
Read more: http://www.vhnd.com/2015/03/19/van-halen-live-song-previews/#ixzz3VKvAPq64
Unchained:
I’m the One:
Categories: General Tags: Alex Van Halen, david lee, eddie van halen, I'm the one, live, new release, preveiw, tokyo dome, unchained, van halen
Tom Hanks is simply amazing! You must see this!
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He reenacts every movie he has been in! And he does it in 6 minutes! I don’t think I have ever laughed so hard! Enjoy!
chuck
Categories: General Tags: castaway, james corden, the late late show, tom hanks, toy story, wilson, youtube
The day the Music died for our Generation of Metal
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I remember it like it was yesterday… He was our generation’s Jimi Hendrix. A little guy with monster guitar skills. He is still influencing guitarists all over the world 33 years later…R.I.P. Randy
Categories: General Tags: blizzard of ozz, classical, diary of a madman, guitarist, march 19 1982, metal, Ozzy, randy rhoads, rock, youtube
The “Naked Adam” show âRed Letter Daysâ podcast
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If you haven’t had a chance yet to listen to Tony’s Easter Series podcast, please give it a listen! You surely shall be blessed and uplifted!
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