Jonas Brothers. Yep. Disney at it's monolithic titanic overproduced best. I will say this; those boys can sing stupid pop crap bubble music like no ones business. Well, except for the Disney marketing business.
Once again subjected to the contact-etching shrill screams of 10,000 16 year old girls. Got a laugh from one of the female stagehands when I started wiping my arms and muttering "estrogen, Christ I'm covered in estrogen..."
Advantage to working these shows; 90 percent of the audience are women under 19. No beer or (yechhhh) to step over/around or, sadly, once in a while, in. Very few nachos, unlike WWE.
However, these idiots had a WATER CURTAIN! Yep, that's right, untold gallons of questionably clean water raining down.... around millions of dollars of sound, lighting, video and hydraulic staging. Well what do I care, it's not MY stuff that will get blowed up.
On a positive note, we had 112 local hands to do the load-out, and a road crew who knew what to do when, and where to move it. I was fortunate enough to get the "Pusher" job, which meant for the most part I just walked back and forth from loading dock to arena floor, grabbed the next road box ready to go away, and pushed it to the dock. No coiling of 10,000 feet of 4-0 cable, no handling stuff that got dragged on the floor, no lifting endless small but heavy stage sections, or barricades, or audio.... whooo hoooo! In at 10 PM, show ends right on time at 10:30 PM, and at 1:30 AM we are pushing the last stacks of lighting truss into the trucks, and saying farewell.
My yardstick of talent still stands; Eric Clapton, 8 trucks. Jonas Brothers, 22 trucks. When you have real talent, you don't need a water curtain.
Oh, but they did have Jordin Sparks! Talented as hell, very sweet, and OMG she lost 25 pounds on this tour, and looks HOT!
Tiny Korean girls (Wonder Girls?). Never heard of them before. Very cute actually, no idea if they have talent as I was not there while they were on. Did stop two from walking off the edge of the dock instead of the (admittedly narrow and hard to see) staircase. Since they were not texting while walking I felt obligated. Had they been texting however... hmmmm... tough choice. Save pretty women, or help Darwin?
Last week while stopped at a light I looked over at the driver next to me, frowned and shook my head. He looked at me and said "What?" "You are not supposed to talk on a cell while driving, which includes sitting at a red light" "Dude, this isn't a cell phone! It's an i-Phone!" So, I killed him and stuck him in his trunk..... told him it wasn't a 9mm, it was an i-Gun....
