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T411 that is for darn sure I was a union stagehand down there since 1980 for a small mixed local , sadly it was at best part time work so no retirement or real health and welfare benefits .

Over the years I've worked for many rather big named groups and stage shows , plays and opera's and even 6 major motion pictures .
I'm still a member and my union,card is active , I believe I've got the earliest initiation date of any one in the state who,is still working , which also means I can operate a carbon arc spotlight ha ha !

So yes its a labor of love and I've ran quite a few crews to set up rodeos and stock shows and in a few cases I've been a house camera op which I enjoy a great deal , even a cable page since I can still coil camera cable with the best of them even when my hands are hurting from my arthritis !
 
I have a buddy who was a promoter for Columbia Records…he had a lot of gold records on his trophy wall. He was asked by a radio interviewer what Buddy Rich and Lawrence Welk had in common….he replied “Music.” But when I was a kid, when this guy started playing, I would find something else to do.
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Rusty in Montana said:
T411 that is for darn sure I was a union stagehand down there since 1980 for a small mixed local , sadly it was at best part time work so no retirement or real health and welfare benefits .

Over the years I've worked for many rather big named groups and stage shows , plays and opera's and even 6 major motion pictures .
I'm still a member and my union,card is active , I believe I've got the earliest initiation date of any one in the state who,is still working , which also means I can operate a carbon arc spotlight ha ha !

So yes its a labor of love and I've ran quite a few crews to set up rodeos and stock shows and in a few cases I've been a house camera op which I enjoy a great deal , even a cable page since I can still coil camera cable with the best of them even when my hands are hurting from my arthritis !
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Before I joined the military I did a few odd jobs - Digital Equipment Corporation (before they went tits up), Duke City Studio, & sheet rock - taping, finishing & texture (God damn hard work).

DCS was a lighting-grip-movie camera equipment company. Next to machining & welding that I did in the military, DCS was definitely one of the more enjoyable & exiting jobs that I did. I did lighting & grip work for them - putting all the packaging together with Matthews Studio equipment including camera dollies, booms and tracks. I had a lot of fun doing that work! It sounds a lot like what you do. We had a full up studio and did numerous national television commercials for all sorts of companies, professional sporting events including back-up grip & camera packages for Super Bowls and World Series games. This was before much of the movie studio stuff moved here to the Southwest so we had a monopoly on any of that type of work outside of Hollywood so ABC, CBS, NBC, & CNN (before cable news really blew up) all knew us and fed us work. It was such a cash cow for the owner that Matthews Studio Equipment bought him out since we were already using all of their equipment. That was a hell of a good time so I know why you dig it! I wouldn’t want to race you in coiling camera cable but I ustacould hold my own.

Yeah that sucks about the healthcare and retirement! More & more of America is in the same situation!

We better get back to the funny 5hit!
 
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I have a buddy who was a promoter for Columbia Records…he had a lot of gold records on his trophy wall. He was asked by a radio interviewer what Buddy Rich and Lawrence Welk had in common….he replied “Music.” But when I was a kid, when this guy started playing, I would find something else to do.
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When I was 14 and delivering newspapers, I remember a story covering the 1967 riots and looting in Detroit. One record store had been broken into and all of the records were stolen except for the rack of Lawrence Welk records which were left untouched.
 
Rusty in Montana said:
T411 that is for darn sure I was a union stagehand down there since 1980 for a small mixed local , sadly it was at best part time work so no retirement or real health and welfare benefits .

Over the years I've worked for many rather big named groups and stage shows , plays and opera's and even 6 major motion pictures .
I'm still a member and my union,card is active , I believe I've got the earliest initiation date of any one in the state who,is still working , which also means I can operate a carbon arc spotlight ha ha !

So yes its a labor of love and I've ran quite a few crews to set up rodeos and stock shows and in a few cases I've been a house camera op which I enjoy a great deal , even a cable page since I can still coil camera cable with the best of them even when my hands are hurting from my arthritis !
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I have coiled a few cables. However when the band got big enough to hire roadies I wasn't around. Coiled a cable or two for old times sake and really pissed off the paid help!

A friend and his band opened for Fleetwood Mac. Lee thought he needed to impress so went and bought a new ax. $1,000 on credit a long long time ago. FM ended up shy a guitar player and asked Lee to fill in. He did, everybody happy, until Lee's new guitar went down the road with Mac. Lee was so pissed off that he swore off of stage work, only doing studio work with cash up front. He was a true guitar freak so it kinda worked out for him. He was the kind of guy that would wake up in his apartment at two or three AM, an idea in his head and fire up his guitar and concert amps in his apartment. Naturally the only setting was WFO. He couldn't understand why he was always getting booted out of apartments!

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Hey now Lawrence Welk was born and raised not to far over the Montana \ North Dakota state line from me For me the best part of his show was some of the female singers and dancers were darn good looking , and I was just starting to learn how to dance with a young gal friend of mine and my Grandparents kept trying to convince me to keep singing and I may make it on the TV some day !
 
My dad tried a few times to teach me how to play a guitar and a mandolin which I wish I'd of taken it more seriously I like the mandolin very much !
Since i,was working for all these bands I'd trade them out of guitar picks and give them to my dad , which was great until my oldest stole his guitars cases and pawned them , we got the guitars and cases back but all the picks were long gone !

Now I've got my pick collection locked up in a safe and have forgotten what the combination is ha ha !
 
Rusty in Montana said:
Hey now Lawrence Welk was born and raised not to far over the Montana \ North Dakota state line from me For me the best part of his show was some of the female singers and dancers were darn good looking , and I was just starting to learn how to dance with a young gal friend of mine and my Grandparents kept trying to convince me to keep singing and I may make it on the TV some day !
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I've heard more than once from people that “made it” in Hollywood that the only people that don’t make it in Hollywood are the people that don’t hang out long enough. You know those older ones are the ones we shoulda listened to!
 
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