A truck carrying some of Metallica’s gear for their M72 World Tour was on its way from MetLife Stadium in New Jersey when it got into an accident in upstate New York enroute
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Years ago on a previous Beyonce tour, a rumour about her contract rider leaked out her stop in Toronto. One of the things she apparently demanded for her dressing room was red toilet
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It’s been a long, long farewell. But it’s also been a profitable one. With the final, FINAL show in Stockholm last night (July 8), Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour has brought
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A band on tour is like an army on the march. The day-to-day logistics of a roadtrip are insane and require dozens of people to keep it moving. And the bigger the band,
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Motley Crue, who once signed a contract (in blood!) saying that they would tour no more, are back on tour. For some fans, this is great. Others feel ripped off after spending money
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This isn’t exactly the best kind of tour support. When Depeche Mode went on tour in 1993, the band was a mess. Part of the entourage included both a drug dealer and a
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When we go to a show, the lights go down, the music starts, it ends, and we go home. Here are the insanely complex logistics behind that. (Via Open Culture)
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I noticed a couple of posts on Reddit by Foo Fighters fans who are worried about Dave Grohl on the current Foo Fighters tour. They note that he seems to be out of
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Being on tour as Nirvana must have been a pretty intense thing. There were all those nights where Kurt (and sometimes the rest of the band) smashed all their gear onstage. The label
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Here’s one more story about how musicians fought technology and lost. In the 1970s, Barry Manilow would take a large orchestra on tour in order to faithfully reproduce all his hit songs. This
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One night on the way home from work from Winnipeg to our small town, a big deer bounded out of the ditch in front of our 1978 Dodge Magnum. Although the thing was
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