How Bad Equipment Will Ruin a Tour
Chris Daniels is an assistant professsor at the College of Arts and Media at the University of Colorado Denver. This writes this for Digital Music News:
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen artist tech problems kill the show — and I’ve seen it both as a teacher working with young bands and as a professional playing festivals and gigs all over the world. Last month at a student run festival on the CU Denver campus I saw a well-known ‘headliner’ with tons of national experience blow the set up and tear down. Their tech rider was vague and did not specify essential parts of their equipment needs… and these were pros! It hurt their show – and it should have been great. So a few “rules” you should learn… or guidelines as Jack Sparrow might call them.