I once was a band roadie working for a number of bands, and for those who don’t know what this is – I will explain further. The roadie is the person who delivers the concert equipment, sets up the stage and prepares the equipment for testing. As a fan, you turn up at the ‘gig’ and have a great time, not only marvelling at the performers but also the lighting or stage design. But how many people actually spare a thought for the person who has assembled or transported the equipment?
Some see it as a glamorous job, obviously because you get to meet the band members, and at the start it is pretty cool. But having after three or four months on the road at a time, they soon become just ‘normal’ people.
If your employers are a well known bunch of musicians, you will like find yourself using some of the best equipment that it is possible to buy. The end of tiny transportation is nigh – what we mean here is mega articulated vehicles, and many of them. You could look at it as if it were a mark of the band’s success.
In the old days someone would own an old Transit van, more than likely the driver would be a mate of one of the musicians. That is exactly how it started for me, back in the late sixties. I owned a Commer van once in the sixies, until the arrival of the Ford Transit in the early part of the nineteen seventies. From that point onwards, I never considered another brand it has been Fords forever! In those days cheap van leasing did not exist to the extent that it does today. Any way we would not have been able to afford it had we wanted it.
If leasing products had been available, I would have been looking at medium or small van leasing or pick up truck leasing, which has bundles of style and fun.
