We've had both ends of the genre and demographics today. Our 2:00PM show with Mike Posner, alternative, pop rapper to our 8:00PM with a flashback to the 60's with the Happy Together Tour, featuring The Buckinghams, The Grass Roots, Gary Puckett, Mickey Dolenz, and The Turtles. Either way it's been a pretty easy day. I'm now just waiting on one acts flight info and I'll be completely done with the pre-advance for this fair. Once we get through tomorrow it will be smooth sailing.
I completely screwed up yesterday with Mike Posner's group. I had taken my day schedule (with all the things to happen during the day) and hadn't saved it properly. What I had printed for the runners didn't include Posner's flight information. I didn't realize it until they called looking for their ride. It continued to snowball with miscommunication with the pickups and even getting dropped off at the incorrect hotel. UGH! I hate it when I screw up but finally accepted that, "it happens". They showed up this morning and the sound company had told them they had newer ear packs (how they hear the band and themselves during the show) than they had on site. Thankfully they had the correct ones available and they hurried them over. Crisis resolved. Apparently Mike isn't happy unless he has his setup perfectly. Once he was on site I realized wise. This kid had everything handed to him. I supposed he is in that generation though. I didn't realize he was more of a songwriter and had written songs for many others. Those were the songs he was playing so I thought it was a set full of covers. He did a few interviews, signed autographs for the 100 or so that stuck around for the possibility of meeting him.
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The creepy things you see at a fair
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| Mike Posner entertaining the crowd |
I knew it was going to be an early evening after having worked with the Happy Together Tour in Iowa. The tour manager has everything down pat and the groups now exactly when and where they need to be. The biggest hassle was having to coordinate the groups while the parade was going on. Of course it was the biggest parade of the fair and it blocks off our gate. No one out, no one in. And of course the acts were all coming in during this time frame. Several were following our runners in their rental vehicles and weren't the happy campers when they finally got here after sitting in traffic. Turns out the group was 5mins late meeting the runner so they missed the gate being closed by 5mins. Whoops, their fault. Once Flo (the Turtles) had the delicious chicken with catering he said "I was in such a grumpy mood when I came in. This chicken is amazing and now I'm so happy!" Thank goodness for the chicken! This is the last date on the tour for the group. They have all been so sweet to each other. Thanking each other for such a great run as they'll all go their separate ways tomorrow. The tour manager said it's like high school buddies getting together. The show is such an amazing concept. One band- 5 Acts. They have no set change and roll from group to group. Each group plays for 20-30mins so you get a 2.5hour show with hit after hit of each group. A complete flashback to the 60's. With the records sold combined from all the groups it's over 100million! Maybe we can just bring these guys back every night? Unbelievably enough 'The Grass Roots' remembered me from South Plains several years ago and came up to say hello. They were all such nice guys!
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| The end collaboration with the 5 groups on stage singing 'Happy Together' |
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