Sound on house power, lighting on generators. Amazingly enough, the old (now defunct) Market Square Area only had 1600 amp 3 phase house power. After you subtract the house loads, there was around 400 amps left for the talent. Woefully inadequate for the large arena shows that started up in the late 70s.
We would bring a 300kW Cummins set on a Landoll lowboy with a 300 gallon fuel tank. It got parked on Market Street below the arena. They core drilled a hole through the floor of the arena where we ran the cables to the distribution boxes backstage. Show up, park the truck, find the road manager, get paid, sit back while the electricians ran the cables (union facility) and flip the switch for the sound check and later for the show itself. Otherwise it was down time wandering around backstage, eating and staying out of the way of the crew. Did a lot of shows there, and at the Clay Courts on the IUPUI campus in the summertime. Not a bad deal for part time work that paid cash and gained one access to backstage and the buffet for the crew. Dan "are you with the band?" Man --- On Sat, 4/23/11, Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: > From: Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: We Be Slammin' > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Date: Saturday, April 23, 2011, 5:29 PM > Were you able to give them enough > power to turn their amps to 11? > > --R > > On 4/23/2011 3:57 PM, LWB250 wrote: > > Dan (who worked three Rush concerts in Indianapolis > providing auxiliary power from 1978 to 1986) > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
