Monday, December 30, 2024
All Nighters: Sometimes It's The Gig… And Sometimes It's "Other Things" That Keep Us Up At Night
ProSoundWeb: It seems like anyone who’s been in this business for a while has, at some point or another, pulled an all-nighter. I know I’ve done a bunch, but fortunately, not recently. Here are a few that I can still remember.
Vancouver to Calgary, 1980. I spent nearly all of 1980 working for the same band. In November, we had reached the apex of our western tour in Vancouver and were due to drive back through the Canadian Rockies to Calgary.
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In this article Ike Zimbel recounts a few of his all-nighters in the 80s, at least those he can remember. From driving over the Vancouver mountains to fixing a Alembic bass to assembling consoles in almost every instance the author questions why it was that he even pulled an all-nighter. I’m the type of person who will stay up as late and as long as needed to finish a project (thank you relentless stubbornness). We have a finite set of hours: 24 in a day, 168 in a week, 730.001 in a month (no idea why it's .001?). If a project takes you 10 hours and you decide to break it up over multiple days and get a decent amount of sleep each night or if you choose to do it all in one night, but get a full sleep every other night, I like to think you’d get around the same amount of sleep. This could very well just be my own justification for the late nights I pull. Then you bring into account the long term effects (this is where it gets less fun). Studies show that sleep deprivation early in your life is a likely cause of Alzheimer’s. Now add that to the fact that Alzheimer's runs in your family and you’re in for a hell of a time. The way I like to think of it is you only live once. The only thing guaranteed is right now, not an hour, day, month, year decade from now, just right now. So mine as well do some living, and if that means losing some sleep then so be it.
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