I’ve run the stage for every one of these and plan on doing it for the rest of them.  This, and the Slack Key Festival, are my two favorite shows of the year.  I simply love running the stage for these shows – cool, talented, people make what I do the best job in the world!

There’s no issues with the talent for these shows.  They’re all relaxed, want to show the audience what the ukulele is all about, and there just to have fun – which really allows them to do whatever.  The audience loves it…

I play the uke myself – so I’m all over it!

Wow…

This gig took me back!  Pretty scary when you know every song and have a vivid memory for each one…

Good show!

I’ve done this show bout 30+ times – the guy calling the show wasn’t calling spots at all, so I called spots from spot.  Kinda funny (weird, not ha-ha) that we had to do it that way (but no one was calling us and there was definitely a call for it)…

This show ran from the 10th to today (the 15th). I was part of a two man team that ran the speaker ready room. This job was a little different – half of the computers were Mac. I was in heaven, usually my computer/s is/are the only Mac’s onsite on a gig (other than the tech’s personal computers).

The speaker ready room had four Macs networked to two Mac Servers across the hall in video world, the Windows computers had the same – me and another guy checked people in, helped them with whatever they needed, and when they were happy with the way it all ran we would shoot it over to the show computer where his sister ran graphics for the show…

If a presentation had a video in it, we backed it up: I had one Mac, and one Wintel, running to a 1024 which was outputting to a DVD Recorder. We copied the slide with the video on it (grabbing the whole slide, not just the movie itself) so if a slide had issue with a video, the video engineer could switch to the DVD backup and no one would know it (I recorded the entire slide, not just the movie within it).

My station in the Speaker Ready Room looked like this:

This ran from the 5th to the 9th – I ran camera.  We had a dark day on the 7th which was very cool – we had a crew BBQ – very rare we all get to enjoy each other outside work.  Great times!

Great production crew!!!

I don’t know what to say…  If I could re-live this day over I wouldn’t have wasted it being where I was, doing what I was doing, for who I was doing it for…           We all (the techs) just felt that we needed a shower after this one. There’s really no other way to describe it – just felt dirty…

Intentional…Fraudulent…Abominable…Prevarications – I need 5 showers, with a brillo pad, to get the goo off me…

I wish I could write more…

You have to understand something if you’re going to continue reading my posts, more than half of what I do (50-70%) I can’t say/write anything about.  Confidentiality is a big thing in our business…