Today we’re in port in Jamaica and I’m not getting off of the boat. I might have had time this morning if I wasn’t recuperating from the past couple of days. While we (I) don’t actually have to do much on the charter cruise, we are on the clock longer hanging around just in case aka babysitting.
The Festival at Sea brought all their own equipment and personnel, so we just help them hook up to our system and make sure they don’t break any of our stuff. At least, for sound and backstage that is the case. Lights actually have to work and I’m on rotation for running spot, but haven’t had to do that until tonight.
The best gig yet was the O’Jays concert, two nights in a row. I was assigned to backstage and basically just got to watch the show from there. If you don’t know them by name, they’re the band that does the theme song for Trump’s tv show the Apprentice. “Money-money-money money… money!” 3 singers, 2 keyboardists, electric guitar, bass guitar, percussionist, drummer, 2 trumpets, trombone and sax. I sat by the sound guy that adjusts the quality of the sound – changing the levels for the different types of sound and then there is another guy out in the audience making the main mix. Real pro gig.
Yesterday I also ran sound for the Bachelor Auction. That was quite amusing for the first half an hour. Then it was tedious. The best looking guys, in my opinion, were first, but what made the other hour and a half drag was that they had four people on microphone acting as auctioneers all at the same time. They’d lose track of where they were in bidding, what they already had and what they were looking for. And they all were yelling into the mics. Combined with the massive sound system they brought, the deafness of the clientele and the technicians, I’m sure the decibel levels were off the charts. I wore earplugs in the audience (where the sound board is) and still was exhausted from the barrage of sound by the end.
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