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Day 151 - Albany

Posted by Dave Rat on

Roadies like to make friends. I made two friends just today, would you like to meet them? The first friend I met was not only attractive to look at but very intelligent as well, her name was Zumex. Zumex was really cool and I was very happy to meet her. As soon as we met, the first thing I did was turn her on and then I watched her hypnotic moves as my mouth watered. I left with the most delicious taste in my mouth and quite impressed. And then, not even a minute later my heart skipped a beat as I spotted her from across the room. Heavenly she sat with sleek lines and that flashy look. Without hesitation I glided towards her and instinctively knew which buttons to push to get her going and boy was she hot! Jura, her name was Jura and I think she is Italian. Deliciousness was what she had to offer and with a start like this, today is going to be a good day.

Sometimes as we travel around the world with tons (literally) of high tech and complex gear there are mishaps which cause the equipment to get an 'owie.' As you may recall, we had some amp racks get big owie's when the fell of the fork lift. Well when the sound gear gets an owie it is important to deal with it appropriately. The decision of whether to rush it to the sound hospital or wait to get it looked at by a sound physical later on depends on many factors. In the photo below you can observe a V-Dosc cabinet being operated on by the sound roadie surgeons Lee, Nick, Neal and Jamie. If you look to the right side of the photo you can see a smaller speaker with an ipod atop. This is important and is playing music while the operation takes place. This music acts as an anesthesia for the larger speaker of the operating table and helps reduce it's level of distress.

What had happened was during a load out Nick the Fly had decided to land the V-Dosc a bit differently than we normally do. This resulted in an abrupt modification to speaker cabinet, here you can see Nick the Fly holding the resulting creation. Though similar to the original, the little silver colored owie's toward the right side made it difficult to continue using, hence the operation.

In the photo below you can see roadie Jamie and myself holding a metal bar that also has an owie. Since we together made it slightly curved rather than straight, we proudly pose together with our creation.

This particular metal bar assists in preventing the tilt stand under my mixing board from falling over. Nick the Fly has devised an alternate plan to replace the metal bar rather than attempt to straighten it, I will photo that when done as well as the cool tilt stands.

The missing my friends,

Dave Rat

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Monique on :

Yowza. Even I'm attracted to Zumex. *is jealous*

Don on :

Hey i met a girl named Zumex200 earlier this summer as well, She hung around the crew for about three days and then she went off with the talent.

Dave Rat on :

Don, What? A roadie friend absorbed by the band, never! Except for maybe all the time. It is ok though, your Zumex was most likely wanting to be with the band the whole time, boring! It is the rare and more desirable friend that prefers the roadie.

Monique on :

Dave, I'm curious--(and I know I'm going to get the lingo wrong)--does every single speaker have its very own travelling case? I hope that makes sense...

Dave Rat on :

Hello Monique, No, they travel in various ways, the V-Dosc come from the factory with removable wheel plates on the fron and a soft cover. For big tours like this, we stack them 4 high on carts and roll them in that way. The Rat subs just roll in upright on removable wheels. Smaller speakers like stage monitors are usually packaged two to a case in out systems.

Ricky from Canuckistan on :

I usually use a text browser (LYNX) when groping around the outer limits of the *internet* Unknown websites are like groupies, you just never know where they've been... anyway, your descriptions of Zumex and friend made me light up Firefox to have a look. You fooled me and I had a laugh. Strong work.

HowdThatTaste on :

was nobody weird like me played? cool if so.

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