Dimmer Beach: It’s 7:45 a.m. and I’m sitting in an almost empty Bridgestone Arena. There are only five other people in the venue that holds 20,000, cleaning it from the thousands that were here at the hockey game the night before. In less than twelve hours this empty shell in downtown Nashville will be filled with a sold-out crowd reveling in their favorite Christian music acts on Winter Jam 2014.
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I am always fascinated by articles about concert tours. This article also confirms one of the things I've heard quite a bit recently, that once you have a few tours under your belt you will have met most of the heavy hitters in the touring industry since he talks about meeting up with guys he worked with as long as 10 years ago and hit it off with them as if they had just been working together the day before. Hopefully I will have a similar experience once I start touring and am able to fit into that community.
This is article is really informative because it goes into such great detail with the timeline of the day. This article made me think of a friend of mine who once referred to touring shows as a calculated science. This article proves his point exactly and in essence what my friend refers to as a calculated science is ultimately a critical path. With such a short time frame for loading in a tour the critical path becomes even more important than a theatre load in drawn out over a week. I look forward to the day where I am overseeing a concert load in for the lighting department. I think the concert touring industry is nothing but excitement and thrill the entire time.
This is a pretty neat article. I love the timeline format, as it makes me feel more like I am witnessing it then reading about it. The thing that suprised me most about the article was that such a big concert was being thrown for a Christian music festival, which is a genre I would not have guessed was very popular.
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