Anything goes (almost)

Before the flight due East some years ago I was the manager of a rock club where bands were engaged to play. When you bring a band to your venue they have at least two so called "riders" with "requirements", both for equipment on stage and what just must be available in their dressing room and/or the green room. Most of the time it's quite easy to meet their "demands", as long as it's legal just about anything goes.

At times one do have to go above and beyond though, like when a band demanded that there would be a poster with Bobby Kimball of Toto wearing nothing but swimming trunks which proved to be a challenge as there are no images readily available of the man without a shirt. To cut a long story short I found an image of Clint Eastwood in trunks and photoshopped Kimballs head into it. According to the band that particular item had been on their rider for well over a decade and this was the first time they actually got the demands met.

A little apology to Kimball and Eastwood for the "missuse" of their pictures, it's all in good fun...