Miley Cyrus MUST HATE LASERS!!!

[Mr.Coffee]

I dont mind packing my gear, in fact I insist on it, and I dont mind pushing it to a spot for loading, but I wont stay all friggin night loading lighting, sound, trussing & staging and all that bs especially if ORDERED to do so by some hyped upped dousche bag. I dont load trucks, been there done that and have the blown out back to proove it

Couldn't agree more, that is somebody else's job. I'll help if asked nicely, but that stops at pushing, 'cause I don't know your truck and you don't know mine, and it gets tight in there. Mine is the second to last truck loaded, so I usually stick around for the end of the out, but if we finish really early, I'm allowed to walk away early too. ('course when I do that it's usually lay in a supply of beer for my compatriots, but we all know how that goes).

[mixedgas]

There is the opposite effect:

Last time I had to deal with the union was:

Ok, your guys can shadow me,but they sure as heck are not touching my gear. This after hearing only the union can run even control cables on my gear and move/unpack crates. No way I'm standing there telling some roadie which cable goes where or try to align the laser into the projector. Its not a DMX fixture.

I did let them hang the bounces. They spent a while arguing over which knot to use to haul each bounce mirror up the scaff. They ended up with a bowland on a bight, but it takes 3 guys to hang a bounce. I did give them goggles. Aligning the down cone was a exercise in patience.

That was the gig where the roadie stood on the projector to adjust a fixture and misaligned all the bounces with the curtain closed. Well, he was a roadie. Ever wonder why my projector never comes to SELEM? Its tough enough to take a person's weight. Gives a new phrase to the term "solid aluminum". base plate is 3/8ths inch with a half inch optical deck, and its 48" x 16" x 16" with solid riser posts for the corners. I'm gonna have to cut it back a few inches so it fits in more modern cars. Designed to exactly fit the back seat of a 1990 4 door Chevy.

Steve

[Mr.Coffee]

I dont mind packing my gear, in fact I insist on it, and I dont mind pushing it to a spot for loading, but I wont stay all friggin night loading lighting, sound, trussing & staging and all that bs especially if ORDERED to do so by some hyped upped dousche bag. I dont load trucks, been there done that and have the blown out back to proove it

I have my locals do the unskilled part of my load in, it's a good way to see how much they know. except in a few cases, I always connect my mults myself. though my rig is designed to be put together by somebody who's drunk, hungover, colorblind, and illiterate. That's the thing about locals, some are great, some aren't. Your last experience would fall into the latter category. Lasers are on the rarer side of things, but almost all of my crews are familiar with them (our head electrician has even used pango gear before)
I'm from one the smaller locals, the #140 out of Chattanooga, and most of our guys have hung bounce mirrors.

I'm sure you know this game, but any time a steward is giving you shit about how his guys "have to do the work", that's not true, they have to be there so you're not taking work from them, they can watch and learn, and schlep cables. You may not be able to go in the air, and they might have to have riggers for anything over ladder height. And if the steward is really a dick, start talking to them about insurance, though hopefully it won't get that far.

Again, pretty sure you know all about those last bits, but that's my $0.02
I'm a card carrier, and I'm pro union, but I understand the Stigma that has gotten attached to the system, and it is a hard one to fight, or even to explain properly.

[GooeyGus]

Ok, Im front row center at Miley Cyrus Concert last night in Portland Oregon.