The road crew (or roadies) are the technicians who travel on tour, usually in sleeper buses, with musicians and who handle every part of the production except actually playing the music. This catch-all term covers Tour Managers, Production Managers, Stage Managers, Front of House and Monitor Engineers, Guitar Techs, Bass Techs, Drum Techs, Keyboard Techs, Security/Bodyguards, Lighting Technicians, and pyrotechnic technicians, amongst others. A British sleeper bus. ... A tour manager is the person who organises a schedule of appearances of a musical group at a sequence of venues. ... Theatrical production management is a sub-division of stagecraft. ... Stage management is a sub-discipline of stagecraft. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... A guitar technician is a crew person with a specialized skill set (like many crew people must have these days); but unlike many crew members, a Guitar technician (or Guitar tech for short), interacts directly with the artist/musician they are working for, which many crew members do not. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A bodyguard is a person who protects someone (known as their principal) from personal assault, kidnapping, assassination, loss of confidential information, or other threats. ... Lighting technicians are involved with setting up and controlling lighting equipment for entertainment venues (film or theater). ... The word pyrotechnic (literally meaning fire technology) refers to any chemical explosive device, but especially fireworks. ...

The road crew are generally uncredited, though many metal bands take care to thank their crew in album sleeve notes; Pantera and Motörhead even go so far as to feature their crew in their tour videos, and Motörhead wrote the song "(We Are) The Road Crew" about their crew. Pink Floyd showed theirs on the rear sleeve of Ummagumma and recorded them speaking on The Dark Side of the Moon. Jackson Browne wrote his famous song "The Load-Out" (usually heard in a live version hybrid with a cover of the Maurice Williams tune "Stay") in order to honor his roadies. The DVD version of Dire Straits' album On The Night features an extended introduction to their song "Calling Elvis", while the video shows the preparatory work of the roadies. Lynyrd Skynyrd went as far as to feature their road crew on the cover of some of their albums as members of the band. Simple Plan has an entire chapter on their DVD A Big Package For You dedicated to their roadie, Patrick Langlois. On each of the KMFDM live dvds, roadies play huge parts. Most are interviewed and some are given the spotlight. Problem Child (1990) child actor Michael Oliver has been a roadie for the past 8 years for several bands. Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that emerged as a defined musical style in the 1970s, having its roots in hard rock bands which, between 1969 and 1974,[1] mixed blues and rock to create a hybrid with a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterised by... Pantera was a popular heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas, that formed in 1981. ... Motörhead are a British heavy metal band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy Kilmister (real name Ian Kilmister) after his ejection from the iconic space-rock band Hawkwind. ... Motörhead are a British heavy metal band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy Kilmister (real name Ian Kilmister) after his ejection from the iconic space-rock band Hawkwind. ... Pink Floyd are an English rock band noted for philosophical lyrics, classical rock compositions, sonic experimentation, innovative cover art, and elaborate live shows. ... Ummagumma is a progressive and psychedelic double album by Pink Floyd released in 1969. ... The Dark Side of the Moon (titled in the 1993 CD release as Dark Side of the Moon) is a 1973 concept album by Pink Floyd. ... Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948) is an American rock musician, whose introspective lyrics made him the long-haired, Southern Californian poster child of the confessional singer-songwriter movement. ... Maurice Williams may refer to: Maurice Williams (doo-wop artist) - doo-wop and soul artist - born 1940 Maurice Williams (basketball player) - current NBA player for the Milwaukee Bucks ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... On the Night is the third live album by Dire Straits. ... A song by Dire Straits (written by Mark Knopfler). ... Lynyrd Skynyrd (pronounced /leh-nerd skin-nerd/) is a U.S. Southern rock band, described by All Music Guides Stephen Thomas Erlewine as the definitive Southern rock band, fusing the overdriven power of blues-rock with a rebellious, Southern image and a hard rock swagger. ... Simple Plan is a pop punk& emo band formed in 1999 in Montreal, Canada—all five members are French-Canadians who were born and grew up in the province of Quebec. ... Simple Plan is a pop-punk band that formed in 1999 in Quebec, Canada (all five members were born in and grew up in the province). ... KMFDM is an industrial rock band and the brainchild of founding member Sascha Konietzko. ... // Tagline Hes So Bad, Even The Nuns Refused To Keep Him! Attila the Hun. ... The term child actor is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion the latter is also called a former child actor. ... Michael Oliver, (born October 10, 1981), is an American film and TV actor and former child star of the 1990s. ...

A number of roadies have gone on to join bands. For example, Rick Biddulph was a roadie for Hatfield and the North and National Health and then went on to play in several bands with members of those bands, while Noel Gallagher was a roadie for Inspiral Carpets before he formed Oasis. Hatfield and the North took its name from the roadsigns out of London directing motorists toward the A1 or A1(M) — the old Great North Road — which runs north through Hatfield to Edinburgh; this is one such sign, although as can be seen, the old Hatfield and the North has... National Health was a progressive rock band associated with the Canterbury Scene. ... Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born May 29, 1967 in Longsight, Manchester, England) is the lead songwriter, guitarist and occasional vocalist with the English rock band Oasis. ... The Inspiral Carpets is an alternative rock band from Oldham in Greater Manchester, England formed by Graham Lambert in 1986. ... Oasis in the Libyan part of the Sahara For other uses, see Oasis (disambiguation). ...

Professional wrestler B.G. James wrestled as "The Roadie" for a period in the mid-1990s. Professional wrestling is generally any form of performance art in which pro-wrestlers receive payment for participating. ... Brian Gerard (B.G.) James (born May 20, 1969) is an American professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as The Road Dogg Jesse James; a former member of D-Generation X, and the tag team partner of Billy Gunn, with whom he comprised... See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from the late 1980s and shortly after the year 2000. ...

External links

• Roadie.net
• Roadiejobs.com
• rocktheroadie.com