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...

Bob Neuwirth said about Rolling Thunder:

"It's going to b a new living room every night.
This is the first existential tour...it's a movie...

a closed set...it's rock 'n' roll heaven and it's
historic...It has been Ramblin' Jack's dream

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
gutter."  Kinky Freidman

CHECK SOME SHOTS BELOW FROM THE

BOB DYLAN AND MERLE HAGGARD TOUR

Ramblin Jack Elliott

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.  

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"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

"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 back-

stage bunker to another,  through interchangeable airport lounges and

indistinguishable hotel rooms.

Rock Skully and David Dalton
LIVING WITH THE DEAD