Roadies Of Color United: At the end of the year, Pollstar caught up with veteran tour and production manager Bill Reeves, who’s worked on tours with Prince, Anita Baker, Maxwell, D’Angelo and Anthony Hamilton. Reeves well knows many of the challenges currently facing the live industry, including inflation, labor shortages, supply chain hold-ups and this constantly morphing pandemic. Here, Reeves, who also co-founded Roadies of Color, an organization focused on bringing greater diversity and equity to the live industry, discusses what he’s currently seeing out there, including constant COVID testing, a lack of backstage workers turning up for calls, no room service and why, after more than 40 years in the business, he has no intention of changing careers (unless, of course, he hits the numbers).
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