GM Place: Soundcheck to Showtime

Here's a video compilation of pretty much my entire work day on October 3, the first night of the Toby Keith tour. In case you don't watch it, I show up, walk around, other people show up, we all walk around together, set up, soundcheck, walk around, then do the set and then pack up. Is it boring? Yup. Is it also exciting? Well...yeah. The bottom line is it's usually both. It seems like a contradiction in terms, but if you're not the road manager or the record label rep or the artist who's doing interviews and hair and makeup and meet 'n' greets, or on the crew, this is pretty much how it rolls out. If you're me, you're a musician who has in theory put the time in with rehearsals and practice so the work has already been done, the dominos are set up and all that's left is to knock them down in a 20 minute set.

Whether or not I succeeded, I've tried to illustrate my comments above in this video, in part by including enough footage of me walking around to convey the fact that these arenas are big and so there's a lot of walking around, if I haven't already mentioned the walking around part, which I might have.

GM Place: Soundcheck to Showtime from Ryland Haggis on Vimeo.

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Comments

[Pasquale]

I love behind the scenes in everything (I always watch them first on dvd).

[Lisa]

Man boobs.