I lent a hand yesterday at the Art Attack XXV at University of Maryland College Park. This year the show was part of MTV’s Campus Invasion 2008 tour, which no doubt brought a handful of larger acts to the show: Wyclef Jean, The Bravery, Simple Plan, Cobra Starship, The Spill Canvas, as well as local [...]
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I worked a quattrocelli concert the other night. It’s a four-piece cello quartet based out of Germany. Cellists — and most other artists who play while seated — are picky about their seating, particularly the height of the seats. Not having numerous adjustable piano benches, we managed to strap several stacked chairs together with gaff [...]
Another Season Comes to a Close
Posted in Tech, life in general, music on Mar 19th, 2008
Six RNR shows were completely sold out this year. An extra was added due to popular demand. No tickets being sold in advance for the extra show, it only took a few hours for 600+ to be sold. Two months worth of stage and set preparations, mostly torn out in a twelve hours over three [...]
Life Will Continue in 18 Days
Posted in Tech, things i'd like to see on Mar 3rd, 2008
As of early last week, all tickets for Rock ‘N Roll Revival XIX — which opens this Friday night — were sold out. That’s six shows seating around 1,000 people at $12/ticket, grossing over $70,000. That doesn’t include merchandise, concessions, flowers, or another of the other things that people will buy. Not too shabby for [...]
Saturday, anyways.
On Saturday afternoon I’m going to a subwoofer shootout at the IDS-Shoreline shop. It should be an interesting (if not thunderingly loud) display of various sub cabinet designs and pairings with various amps. Think home theatre or car audio, but large enough in size and quantity to fill a stadium rock concert. Turn the [...]
We loaded in for the Battle of the Bands on Thursday night but I neglected to bring my camera. I remembered it last night and took a few pictures which I was able to post after fighting with the computer for what seemed like an hour. Many of them are more tech-like, but there are [...]
Third Eye Blind at College Park
Posted in Tech, gadgets, music, technology on Nov 10th, 2007
It’s been over ten years since I first heard Third Eye Blind on the side stage of HFStival 1997. Yesterday I had the opportunity to do so again at UMD College Park’s Ritchie Coliseum, this time while working on the show providing support to the Technical Director. As usual, I got a kick out of [...]
An Absurd Idea: Concert at Altitude
Posted in Tech, music, things i'd like to see on Nov 4th, 2007
I was reading Maxim and saw that you can buy an Airbus that seats 900+ passengers for the low hundreds of millions of dollars. Talking to a buddy in the production services industry (read: a company that provides big ass speakers for concerts, among other things), we thought it would be cool to have a [...]
Went down to a beach on the Magothy River to do some slacklining on Saturday afternoon. I setup a 30 foot line between two trees with a blanket below the center point but lacked the coordination to stay up for any period of time. I set up another line between two trees about 15 feet [...]
A group of students from Severna Park High School are convening on Facebook (in an AACC group, oddly enough) with the purpose of “[making] some crucial changes in the directing staff” of this year’s Rock N’ Roll Revival XVIIII. Led by the kid who played the hydraullicly-enabled Billie Jean last year, the group claims that [...]
We installed an ETC Sensor+ Touring Rack for Severna Park High School last weekend. It was the double wide touring model, half populated with dimmer modules. It was (obviously) less expensive than buying a full rack and it leaves adequate room for future expansion. The dimmer racks that were in use were getting rather antiquated [...]
Fools & Horses at Ram’s Head On Stage
Posted in Tech, food, life in general, music on Jul 15th, 2007
I saw Fools & Horses at Ram’s Head On Stage yesterday afternoon. I’ve been to Ram’s Head Tavern many times before, but it was my first time at the dining room/concert venue. It’s nice. It has seating for 217 people and they offer table-size food/drink service to the 21+ crowd. Perfect for an intimate set, [...]
All American Rejects played at UMD’s Art Attack 2007 this past Friday evening. I was there all day lending a hand where I could, providing the 2-3 minute spotlight training to some volunteers, cabling the truss incorrectly, and generally enjoying the warm weather otherwise. Overall it was a really good time without too many noticeably [...]
I rode up to Penn State (PSU) this weekend to support Movin’ On. Held on the HUB lawn, the PSU concert series is in its 33rd year and has attacted plenty of solid national acts in the past. I thought it was strange that I’d never heard of any of this year’s bands beforehand, nor [...]
Why I Still Do Crew
Posted in Tech, life in general, youth on Mar 27th, 2007
I spend a good amount of time with the Severna Park High School Stage Crew. I’m frequently asked by coworkers and my college buddies why I would waste my time doing high school shows. Simple. I don’t think it’s a waste. A bit longer explanation would be that we don’t do high school shows. Sure, [...]