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Troubadours...road stories and roadies
Great moments like this one with our Troubadours hotel rooms |
Willie's bus Honeysuckle Rose |
Moments like this on Haggard's bus where he and Buck were singing some songs to each other while Merle waited to play with Bob Dylan |
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Merle Haggard's bus in by the backstage door... somewhere on that long and winding road. |
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Dave Somerville is founding member and lead vocal for the World Famous Diamonds...remember "Little Darlin'"? |
Haggard and the Strangers sound check before Dylan show. We'll take you to other sound checks and this exciting part of the shows that people never get to see... |
Running On Empty Looking out at the road rushing under my wheelsLooking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
one-o-oneI don't know where I'm running
now, I'm just running on
Jackson Browne's top-selling album was the 1977’s 7-times platinum, life-on-the-road concept opus Running On Empty
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Troubadours John Andrew Parks, Ramblin Jack Eliott and Bobby Carradine... |
Bob Neuwirth said about Rolling Thunder:
"It's going to b a new living room every night.
a closed set...it's rock 'n' roll heaven and
it's a long time. He is the one that taught us all, and the dream is coming true..."
"The best thing I learned on that tour was
that is a small step from the lemo to the
CHECK SOME SHOTS BELOW FROM THE BOB DYLAN AND MERLE HAGGARD TOUR |
Took this pic of this Troubadour at House of Blues in Hollywood |
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We plan to take our viewer to the time the big trucks back up and the concert halls and venues, where we will show the roadies as they unload the trucks and begin to build the elaborate stages, set up the rigging, fly the sound and get ready for the sound check. We will show how the catering companies and the security companies get ready for the nights performance. Then to the backstage rooms where we see the band members and the stars get ready to entertain.
Then we will show the road crews breaking down the stage and lighting and loading on the trucks. We will talk to the truck drivers as the prepare to hit the road and drive all night to make the next city and the roadies begin to set up the stage for the next crew. We will show the life on the rock and roll busses as the acts then move themselves down the road to the next gig. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "What keeps us going and always will keep us going is getting out on the road. That ole bus window and me are really good friends after 30 years." John Anderson |
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"We're on the road babe! It's heavy stuff. New blood, new places, new faces...we're getting our first taste of what the future holds in store: A steady diet of greasy burgers and cardboard in-flight dinners, burrowing from one backstage bunker to another, through interchangeable airport lounges and indistinguishable hotel rooms.
Rock Skully and David Dalton... LIVING WITH THE DEAD
"Yup, we're Roadies. Just a Backstage Pass away from being homeless." |
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BELOW SEE PICS FROM THE ORIGINAL PIONEER TROUBADOUR TOUR
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