I'm back from RFM and just wanted to take a moment to reflect on this weekend. As time goes on and I gain experience in the business, I have learned that the old homage still holds true that "the show must go on". Let me explain. My little company was hired to produce a house band on the members deck. The house band basically hosts any band or musician and if someone wants to get up and play, they turn the stage over to that person or try to support them in some way. My production runs daily from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Sunday at 5:00 rolls around and I'm just glad it's done because my feet are killing me and I've been baking in the sun for two days. My system get's torn down and ready to load into the trailer. I head up to my site to enjoy a much earned bbq supper and have a few drinks. Then all hell breaks loose as one mother of a storm rolls through. After the rain I head out to bbq and was just about to sit down and eat when Grant Butler rolls up and says: "Are you Terry Ross?"
I replied "yes" thinking that something was wrong with my gear because of the rain.
Grant then says: "Tom wants to see you right now".
So I get on the back of his quad and I head down to the production line which is behind the members deck. Tom isn't there but I see his wife Jan and I ask her what Tom may be thinking. She replied "Tom is thinking that both stages are destroyed and we need you to set your system back up to produce Glass Tiger, The Kings, The Northern Pikes and The Mudmen". I'm thinking ya right........I don't have the capacity to do that and I definately don't have the time because my system is torn down. After waiting around for about 20 minutes and still not having anything solid to go on I decide to head back up to my site and enjoy my supper while it is still hot. I'm am literally just about to sit down and eat when Vaughan Boles (event organizer) roles up and said "Terry, we need your system setup now". Holy shit - this is the real deal so down I go. I meet up with Tom (production manager) and he confirms that my system is needed immediately. He gives me a tonne of human resources to get the gear setup and bang - before you know it the place is full of people - actually it's over full and the band The Northern Pikes are coming out of my speakers. What a great bunch of guys. Who knows what they think of it now but at the time they were very polite and I appreciated that. They put on a great show and everyone appeared to have loved them so all was good.
What I have learned from this is that no matter what happens, when the people unite to support a common cause that they can make great t