Road Stories: A Successful Tour Back In The Day, Except For One Particular Show...

ProSoundWeb: Over the years I’ve had some gigs go sideways for various reasons, but I can only think of one that seemed to have been deliberately sabotaged. For most of the 1980s, one of my freelance gigs was mixing front of house for a Toronto-based nine-piece Latin-jazz band. In the summer of 1988, we had a western Canada tour lined up, all fly-in dates, with the last at a large folk festival. About a month out, I was sitting in the office that I shared with four other sound folks when I got a phone call from a woman who identified herself as the artistic director for that festival.