I saw Rush at the Jones Beach Theater in July, first time I’d seen them in 21 years. Still awesome.
Aaaarrrrrg, Jones Beach Theater!!!! I was a touring audio engineer for about 20 years and I used to dreed that shed. I can’t really give a reason why except the strong fish smell that shows up as the sun goes down.
My most memorable experience there was at a hair band fest I worked in the late 80’s. Sorry I won’t name names, but there’s this amazing guitar player from Sweden who’s playing that day and who is notoriously arrogant and just a pure pain in the A to work with. He pushed enough of the crews around that day so we had a group kidney tap meeting, about 15 of us, in his beer/soda cooler while he and his guys were getting ready to go on stage.
Looking back on it now, it was funny to get him, but the rest of his band, and crew, were pretty decent people, and some have gone onto big things.