Posting.
Hey, All.
Matt, thanks for the prompting on the post. I know. I've been a slacker, but that's only because I haven't actually hit ground at my apt. for almost all of August.
So I don't really have many pictures of Puerto Rico. It was a really fun trip and the Caribbean is absolutely beautiful, but a couple things kept me from photo-snappin. One was the additional 40 hours we put into getting the Barco D7 screen (jumbotron, see below) working. The other was the fact that my camera was with me, but not altogether charged. Ah well. Next time. :)
On the other side of things though, it was a lot of fun to work in San Juan, which I found is actually the OLDEST city in the United States-- founded by the explorer Pico De Gaillo in the latter half of the summer of 1967... alright that's just to see if you're paying attention. It was Ponce De Leon in 1508. That's older than Jamestown by a long shot and actually the second oldest (western) city in the Americas according to Wikipedia. Cool.
The picture you see off to the left there is from Old San Juan. It's really where all the life (and tourism) happens in the city, but it's a very cool place because it really does feel very old world. The street and the city centers were designed and planned hundreds of years before they thought of cars or trollies, so the place can be a pain to travel around in, but it's cool being a part of something in the "new world" that holds a lot of "old world" feeling. Never been anywhere like it and I'd really like to go back and spend some time the more I think about it. It's like a lot of the older areas of Barcelona... only it's a port town with a history of high-seas piracy, slave trade, and all kinds of dubious international border confusions. My kinda place. :)
The venue we did the show at is called El Coliseo de Puerto Rico. It's out in the financial district of the "mainland" San Juan. It seats about 18,000 which, to give you perspective, is slightly larger than Madison Square Garden in New York and slightly smaller than the Staples Center in LA. They brought in some of the top people in the business to do the show. I'm still amazed at how much money people drop in this industry. Just on shipping it's in the hundreds of thousands. I guess it's not easy to move thousands of tons of gear all over the world! Dad, you'd be impressed. The gear fits in something like 5 semi-trailer sized shipping containers and travels either by ship, by plane, or by truck to each city depending on the cost and delivery time and where on earth is! It takes about 6-10 hours to set up once you have it all dialed in and about 2-3 hours to pack it back in the trailers for the next gig... which I'm hearing can make for a REALLY hectic pace when you schedule three shows over a weekend-- like this weekend for example they did New York City on Friday, Washington D.C. on Saturday (tonight), and Connecticut tomorrow. You can see why they call these dudes roadies! :)
Anyways, enough rambling. Here are some pics below. Wish I had some more for ya, but I was shooting with a borrowed cam as is!
Love you guys! Enjoy!
5 comments:
looks like a ton of fun...cool city...you should definitely go back...and maybe take me with you! anyway, its good to see what you've been up to! love ya
wow, Don!
Just checked in on the blog - thank you! It's one thing hearing, "Oh. it was a great time. Spent alot of time fixing the screen." But to see it! And to read in a little more detail what it was like was great. What a concert! It must have been fun to be a part of something that big - in real time.
Great to get a glimpse into your working world.
Love you, kiddo!
Amazing! Great pics!
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