Tank wrote:

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I'd like to play a gig where all the toting, loading, set-up and tear down of the equipment is handled by roadies. All I have to do is show up five minutes before the show starts and play.
*sigh* Just five more minutes! Please!

Okay, I'll wake up.

Unless you're the STAR!!! of the show, that's not going to happen. And it probably won't happen even if you're the bassist for the STAR. Believe me, I know. I have the same kinds of aches and pains from lifting speaker cabinets and amps and carrying stuff through doors that your dolly won't go through because there's a huge crack in the concrete or the aisle is too narrow to wheel the stuff past the furniture or the person with the keys showed up forty minutes late and the sound check is out the window and you barely have time to tune everything, much less set your own volume levels.

Or, like me, you could be the one who knows how to do it all.

"Terry, can you help me with the equalizer on the sound board?"
"Terry, can you help me set up the keyboard?"
"Terry, can you tune my twelve-string for me?"
"Terry, can you help me set the monitors up?"
"Terry, why aren't you ready for the sound check?"

I got that last one once too often. Thereafter I learned to say the magic word: "No."

Funny how quickly the other folks in the band learned how to take care of their own stuff.

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