I worked for a security company in the late seventies and early eighties that did crowd control for rock concerts. Sometimes I was backstage. One time, we were working a .38 Special concert, and someone had locked the band’s guitars in a storage room backstage for safekeeping. When it came time to setup, no one could find the guy with the key. I took a butter knife off the buffet table, and deftly jimmied the lock so they could retrieve their guitars. Donnie Van Zant thanked me personally.
That’s a cool story!
I’ve been wracking my brain trying to recall the concerts from my younger days…somehow that era is a bit “blurry”.
I know there was a Frank Zappa one in there somewhere but the details are forever lost to time.
Oh yeah. At the first concert i turned to my partner and said “I must be getting a contact high, it seems like they have been playing the same song for a long time”- he just laughed. It is all a blur. It was a long time ago, too.
I’ve been backstage at an arena concert in 2017 because we worked with the mom of one of the musicians. Besides it being a very good show, I think my favorite part was how proud his mom was of him, and how anxious she was that he have a good performance.
I’ve been backstage both as a fan and as a producer. A very long time ago I co-produced a Buffy Saint Marie concert in my hometown as a benefit for wild horses. Since then I’ve been part of a bunch of Meet & Greets for various acts, mostly folk or Celtic.
Those are not vegetables. They are fruit.
They are culinary vegetables. And the poll includes both okra and squash, which are also botanical fruits.
I am only disappointed that I couldn’t vote for cauliflower twice.
I’ve been backstage at quite a lot of venues in London and a few elsewhere as a chorister. Backstage areas are not very exciting, and the “talent” tend to stay in their dressing rooms.
I couldn’t pick a vegetable I like least. Some are rarely available, like okra, but when I get fresh okra I love it.
A friend worked for RCA/BMG in the country division, so I used to go backstage all the time. I wasn’t into country/western, but it was always fun.
Yeah, people think there’s a party happening back there, but it’s literally just where the real work of the show occurs and it’s completely utilitarian. It’s not fancy, it generally looks like the hallways around your high school gym. Mostly what you see is people doing accounting and running around working. The bigger acts tend not to even use the rooms we set up for them, they go on stage straight from their coach, and straight back after the show.
Yeah, I hit the limit on poll choices. I would have liked to add about 10 more choices for various vegetables, some of which have already been named here.
They’re damned either way, but it’s their own fault, because they chose to use monkeys in the first place. So whether they include Obama or not, the point they’re choosing to make is a point involving depicting Obama in a racist fashion.
Didn’t vote.
I voted. They are indeed damned either way, because they chose to depict Democrats as monkeys. Whether or not they include Obama.
When you think about it, the thought process of “I shouldn’t draw the black guy as a monkey, so I’ll draw everybody but the black guy as monkeys” doesn’t really neutralize the racism.
I’ve been backstage quite a few times as a pianist in high school at concert halls. The worst was needing to pee while waiting in the backstage yet being unsure when the pianist (who was currently playing) would be done. Every time I thought she was about to finish, she’d go on longer yet. But I couldn’t afford to be stuck in the restroom when my name was called.
That would have been horrible. I know I wouldn’t have been able to stop repeating to myself, “I’m a pee-anist, I’m a pee-anist…”, which would have made it worse.
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I picked “$1 million put into your 401k right now, but you can’t withdraw until age 59” in the money poll. But then I realized $1 million is way more than the IRS annual 401K contribution limit, which I believe means I will have to pay taxes on the amount that exceeds the limit. So am I going to get stuck with a large tax bill that I wouldn’t have been able to afford to pay when I was 20? Maybe the annuity would have been the better choice.
Am I supposed to answer according to what I think I would have done when I was 20, or according to what my currently 70+ year old self is likely to wish I had done when I was 20?
And would that be in what those amounts were worth when I was 20, or in what I could buy with them now?
I’ll take the $500K now (at age 20) please. Over 30 years, if all of it invested in mutual funds that pay an average of 5%, with compounding, would likely be over $2M when I am 60. $20K annuity is only totaling $600K over the same period. And yeah, with 401k limits, you would be paying some penalties with a $1M dump all at once.
Sorry for the mundane poll about bed making.
I wanted to insert a poll for practice to see how it is done.
Actually I would be interested to see how how much of an outlier I am lol.