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pbans wrote:It is interesting....if I were famous and writing a rider....I would make them have 100 boxes of Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies....cold, but not frozen......
I worked with some country acts in the 80's.....they always asked for weird s***....we always did it, it's part of the program.

pbans wrote:

ragtopW wrote:

pbans wrote:It is interesting....if I were famous and writing a rider....I would make them have 100 boxes of Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies....cold, but not frozen......

I worked with some country acts in the 80's.....they always asked for weird s***....we always did it, it's part of the program.

you should see the demands some of the "Gospel singers" Make..

Bottled holy water?

Midnight Flyer wrote:I agree with the earlier comments. Some people take everything too seriously, relax, take a deep breath, open a Corona.

I always enjoy reading things like this (the Rider). It gives you a glimpse into the inner workings of the Jimmy Buffett, Coral Reefer machine that most of us would never see.

I remember seeing an interview with Eddie Van Halen once and he said the reason they put the "No brown M&M's" rider in their contract was because they wanted to see if they could get away with it and then were surprised when they did!

Midnight Flyer wrote:I remember seeing an interview with Eddie Van Halen once and he said the reason they put the "No brown M&M's" rider in their contract was because they wanted to see if they could get away with it and then were surprised when they did!

bckohnen wrote:

Midnight Flyer wrote:I remember seeing an interview with Eddie Van Halen once and he said the reason they put the "No brown M&M's" rider in their contract was because they wanted to see if they could get away with it and then were surprised when they did!

I'd thought the reason behind that was to verify that the venue people were reading the rider. Reason being, Van Halen had an extraordinarilly heavy stage kit, far heavier than normal stage sets. Their weight requirements had always been in their rider, but one venue failed to read it fully, causing a stage collapse. The "no brown M&M's" was a quick way to see if people had read the rider fully, and complied with everything, no matter how silly it seemed.

Granted, my memory isn't what it used to be....

The folks in Pueblo, Colorado, at the university, took the contract rather kinda casual. They had one of these new rubberized bouncy basketball floorings in their arena. They hadn't read the contract, and weren't sure, really, about the weight of this production; this thing weighed like the business end of a 747.

I came backstage. I found some brown M&M's, I went into full Shakespearean "What is this before me?" . . . you know, with the skull in one hand . . . and promptly trashed the dressing room. Dumped the buffet, kicked a hole in the door, twelve thousand dollars' worth of fun.

The staging sank through their floor. They didn't bother to look at the weight requirements or anything, and this sank through their new flooring and did eighty thousand dollars' worth of damage to the arena floor. The whole thing had to be replaced. It came out in the press that I discovered brown M&M's and did eighty-five thousand dollars' worth of damage to the backstage area.

BahamaBreeze wrote:

bckohnen wrote:

Midnight Flyer wrote:I remember seeing an interview with Eddie Van Halen once and he said the reason they put the "No brown M&M's" rider in their contract was because they wanted to see if they could get away with it and then were surprised when they did!

I'd thought the reason behind that was to verify that the venue people were reading the rider. Reason being, Van Halen had an extraordinarilly heavy stage kit, far heavier than normal stage sets. Their weight requirements had always been in their rider, but one venue failed to read it fully, causing a stage collapse. The "no brown M&M's" was a quick way to see if people had read the rider fully, and complied with everything, no matter how silly it seemed.

Granted, my memory isn't what it used to be....

Ding Ding Ding...we have a winner

David Lee Roth explained in his autobiography:

The folks in Pueblo, Colorado, at the university, took the contract rather kinda casual. They had one of these new rubberized bouncy basketball floorings in their arena. They hadn't read the contract, and weren't sure, really, about the weight of this production; this thing weighed like the business end of a 747.

I came backstage. I found some brown M&M's, I went into full Shakespearean "What is this before me?" . . . you know, with the skull in one hand . . . and promptly trashed the dressing room. Dumped the buffet, kicked a hole in the door, twelve thousand dollars' worth of fun.

The staging sank through their floor. They didn't bother to look at the weight requirements or anything, and this sank through their new flooring and did eighty thousand dollars' worth of damage to the arena floor. The whole thing had to be replaced. It came out in the press that I discovered brown M&M's and did eighty-five thousand dollars' worth of damage to the backstage area.

CaptainRRK wrote:I've heard of bands wanting m&m's assorted by color

jaytrader wrote:Sometimes I think the people here couldn't get through the day without playing the "negativity" card or "Jimmy is human!" card. You'd think we were trying to smear Jimmy by posting a link we found online. Where else would you post a link about JIMMY BUFFETT???

FWIW, I posted the same link here last year. People didn't freak out at all either. Strange.

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