Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Cheap Trick lobbies Congress; band seeks stage regulations
chicagotribune.com: The sky was falling on Cheap Trick when the band was playing the Ottawa Bluesfest in mid-July. Most of the band scattered to the back of the stage to escape when a storm blew through the festival and brought the 50-ton roof crashing down on the temporary stage. Guitarist Rick Nielsen bolted to the front of the buckling stage. "I felt like I was in a Buster Keaton movie where the building falls down on him," Nielson said Monday in an unexpectedly dramatic Future of Music Summit panel with the band's manager, Dave Frey. "I ran forward looking for the equivalent of daylight" as the blackness descended.
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This only goes to show the need to be aware of safety. If that awareness comes from being trained and certified then that's one way, but it doesn't necessarily need to be via a certification. As long as there is some kind of training and awareness then the problems should decrease. Last summer may have been a season with more high-visibility accidents that before, but just because the previous ones weren't so visible doesn't mean that they weren't there, it only means that they didn't make it to the national news.
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