Well, I am sitting here writing my rider for our next gig. I’ll be honest, I don’t like the trivial demands that more famous bands like Pearl jam, Aerosmith, Florence Henderson, and Blind Melon request, but we almost have to, just to keep up. For example, I’m eating my usual lunch of frozen grapes with sour cream and who’s going to complain when I need it for a session or performance. I guess I will have the typical M&M’s with the brown ones removed or the generic Perrier water with half the bubbles colored red or silly things like that just to be “band like”
We have to make it seem like were eccentric or people will think were not superstars. I do need my food delivered by Remote Control truck because I can’t have people touch my food but that’s not weird. I also like to make my own snickers bars so I get all the ingredients separate, but who doesn’t. I also have to have chairs that look like big hands, it gives me that ‘taken care of’ feeling.
Now I recall with my band mates times when we had to travel from fair to circus to late night bar and our only rider was to have a 6 foot sub with the olives lined up from smallest to largest. Times were hard and most places just told us to shut up a play so we would park the matching Dudecks and jam.
I going to get this finished now. I have the bananas’ that are peeled by a monkey and the Jell-O full of spaghetti O’s but I cant remember how many n’s there are in ‘minnows’, see you at the show and listen for our new song ‘Greg Brady’s car’…sure to be a classic.
Peace…Cazek
