I have told this story before, but i dont know how many of you have heard it. I was doing a show with lamafia, big latin band. We spent a good few days setting it up and everything was going great, besides the dimmer rack throwing out a big blue flash when we turned it on for the first time, but it still worked so we continued on. And that when i went to go pick up soco cable all they had were 150'ers, and i only needs 100'ers. And the boss forgot the truss bolts, so setup was delayed while he drive back from beaumont to louisiana to pick up the bolts. SO After all of that, show time comes along. Not 3 min into the first band we lose all of the DMX to the movers except for the first one in the chain, on our upstage truss. SO after a few songs they take a "break" in which we lower in the entire rig, because everything is swagged together, (upstage, downstage, and line arrays) to replace a dmx cable that was fine for 3 days before the event. After the event when i was pulling the tape off of the rollacue on our avo console, the roller bar quit working.
Sometimes you wonder if a show is supposed to go on.
Sometimes you wonder if a show is supposed to go on.