Queen rigger interview

Link to a nice article from earlier this year about Michael Wiesman, one of Queen's roadies:


http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/03/my_life_touring_with_queen_the.html

Nice story:
--> At one point during Queen's run of April 1985 shows in Australia, the band called Michael Wiesman into their dressing room. Weisman had been working as a member of the "We Will Rock You" hit makers' road crew since 1980 as a rigger, hanging lighting, speakers and other equipment at concerts.

And at this very moment though, he was wondering, "OK (expletive), what have I done?"

But Weisman hadn't messed up. Queen, a group who treated their crew like family, had heard Wiesman and his wife Margie's 15th wedding anniversary was coming up, right when the tour promoting their "The Works" album, which contained the hit "Radio Gaga," would be in Japan. In that Australia dressing room, the band presented Wiesman with a plane ticket to fly Margie over to Japan from the U.S., so the couple could be together on their anniversary.

Weisman was moved. Looking back to that moment, on a recent morning while sipping coffee out of a Double Bubble mug underneath a skylight in his kitchen, Wiesman, now in his late-60s, says. "That's the kind of spirit there was on that tour - on all their tours." <--

Thanks! Lovely article. There is more about Queen as you scroll down as well.

Very nice

That was very nice. I wish journalism were more like that, instead of highlightning the crap and the misery.

[QUOTE] [b]Doga wrote:[/b]

That was very nice. I wish journalism were more like that, instead of highlightning the crap and the misery.[/QUOTE]

It depends on the journalist and which publication they are writing for. I think many if not most are total A holes but it would be unfair to bump all of them in the same shit bucket.