Zzzzzzzz
Boy, I am sleepy today! I only had to drive 5 hours last night but I'm trying to stay awake until noon. That's because our "load-in" time at the next venue is not until noon tomorrow. Every night after the concert we get a "hot sheet" - this contains all the information we need pertaining to the next city, venue, hotel, promoter, etc. It provides the scheduled times for load-in, sound checks, meet and greets, concert start time, etc. Load-in is the time that the production equipment (lights, sound, etc.) gets UNloaded from my truck by a volunteer crew that meets me at the venue. My job is to simply drop the truck off at the venue at the scheduled load-in time.
Tomorrow the load-in time is later than usual. Most crews me meet around 9:30AM, which is great, because I can usually be "run" to the hotel and be in bed by 10AM! The crew tomorrow can't come to "work" until noon because they have church in the morning! So... I am trying to push my sleeping schedule up a bit so I can arrive later.
The production team - the people who actually run the equipment - supervise the volunteer crews. They start by praying with the crew each day, set-up the lights and sound, perform sound checks, do the show, tear it all down, load the truck, thank the crew, pray with them again, go to the hotel for showers and then try to get some sleep on the tour bus before they wake up in a next city and have to do it all over again!
Whew! Thank goodness I'm just a DRIVER!
Tomorrow the load-in time is later than usual. Most crews me meet around 9:30AM, which is great, because I can usually be "run" to the hotel and be in bed by 10AM! The crew tomorrow can't come to "work" until noon because they have church in the morning! So... I am trying to push my sleeping schedule up a bit so I can arrive later.
The production team - the people who actually run the equipment - supervise the volunteer crews. They start by praying with the crew each day, set-up the lights and sound, perform sound checks, do the show, tear it all down, load the truck, thank the crew, pray with them again, go to the hotel for showers and then try to get some sleep on the tour bus before they wake up in a next city and have to do it all over again!
Whew! Thank goodness I'm just a DRIVER!
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