Friday, July 24th at Wd River Cellars

I'm almost a month behind on my blog but I'm going to do my best to catch up because that seems to be the only way I can make sense of what has happened!! Otherwise it's all just a blur of setting up and tearing down with a little paperwork, housework, and sleep thrown in every now and then. I'll just have to keep the commentary short.

The concert at W00d River went really well. All of my worrying was for nothing.


We were (mostly) ready when the tour buses pulled in. . .

The bands traveled with their own back line so we finished up our line checks while they set up. . .

Tyler was nice enough to take a few pictures for me. . .

There's always the chance that an artist will refuse to play due to unmet rider requirements but we've been lucky not to have that happen. . . The bands loaded in without comment even though the stage the two bands had to share was pretty tiny. . .

At these types of concerts, the artist usually leaves the air-conditioned tour bus just long enough to have a short sound check and then they get right back on the bus until the concert starts. The Junkies were no exception. . .

Both bands had plenty of time to set up and sound check before the gates opened, letting in about a thousand fans. . .

Tyler got in a little practice at the lighting board since Kurt had to run monitors for Son Volt. . .

We were double booked that night so Rob had to miss this band in order to run a show at The Egyptian . . .

I wasn't familiar with Son Volt before this concert but I guess they have quite a following and have been around since 1994 . . .

http://www.sonvolt.net/

They even posted a small blurb about the concert on their blog. . .

The Cowboy Junkies were on next and put on a pretty decent show. . .

They also mentioned the concert on their blog. . .

http://latentrecordings.com/cowboyjunkies/

Taking it all down. . .

Rob's show, The First Annual Rock Like An Egyptian, went well except for a very small turn out but things went amazingly well at both shows considering how much work was involved. . .

Cowboy Junkies and Son Volt on YouTube:

Thursday: River Cellars Set Up AND Nampa Nights . . .

I'm writing all of these catch-up posts in retrospect several weeks later so the pain associated with them has faded a bit. I do most of my worrying leading UP to an event, I carry a little bit of stress the day OF an event, depending on the type of show it is, and then AFTER an event I'm left with a few residual mental scars. . . I admit I dreaded all of July from the beginning. The events seemed to be piled on top of one another and several of them were WAY outside my comfort zone. Events the size of Nampa Nights or smaller are inside my comfort zone. Anything bigger tends to wake me up in the middle of the night weeks before the event fretting about what MIGHT happen. . .

One of the events that had me a little worried was a concert at W00d River Cellars . . .



Part of the problem for me was the the lack of information. The show wasn't even confirmed for us until about a week and a half before the show and then we still had to make sure we had everything the riders required. Oh, AND we were double-booked which means I would actually have to talk to these bands at some point on the day of the event. . .

The concert was on Friday night but we set up as much as we could on Thursday morning before heading over to Nampa Nights. I was able to forget my worries there for awhile with Lori's good company . . .

Hailey is good company, too, so it was a double treat. . .

The band was Straight Away so there were no surprises at all. . .

I like it when there are no surprises. . .

Ahhhh, my comfort zone. . .

Too bad I'm never allowed to stay comfortable. . .

Wednesday, The Install. . .

(Still way behind, these posts are from mid-July)

Just to recap a little, we spent close to a week in Roseberry, got home late Sunday night, unloaded and reloaded the truck on Monday so we could be out at the Civic Center early Tuesday morning for the Ladysmith show and had to be back in the office early Wednesday just to catch up on the day to day stuff of running a business. I'm not complaining, I'm just sayin'.


This was actually a pretty simple install but it took several hours to complete from start to finish. . .

The guys just had to run a cable from a back room cabinet through the ceiling into a mixer behind the piano in a fancy downtown restaurant. . .

These guys are getting a lot of calls these days for stuff like this and it's usually prefaced with "I was told you're the best people to call for what I need. . . "

All in a day's work. . .

Tuesday At The Civic Center

We were back in the Civic Center on Tuesday setting up our speakers for Ladysmith Black Mambazo. . .


It was a pretty easy set-up and an entertaining show. . .

Sunday, Roseberry, Day 5 of 5!!

The next few posts will have to speak for themselves. I'm trying to get caught up to the good stuff. These are pictures of our very last day in Roseberry - taking it all down and soaking up the realization that we can check one more big event off the list. . .