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This isn't fun anymore. All my projects are on hold.

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bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on July 21, 2021, 12:12:34 pm ---Old discontinued projects!!!
Even Aliens make us laugh...


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It is becoming increasingly difficult to find vintage components.

ajb:

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--- Quote from: rx8pilot on July 18, 2021, 11:48:21 pm ---Anyone looking for a career change right now?
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The only other thing I can do for income is front-of-house mixing for rock bands.

Talk about an industry that was killed dead.

(I have a couple of shows scheduled for November. Maybe we'll actually do them.)

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I'd expect that industry to boom soon, people have 1.5year of build up hunger for concerts

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I'd be "cautious" about the "soon" here.

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Yeah, the live event industry is kind of teetering right now.  There is definitely pent up demand for events on the attendee side, and pent up demand for the revenue on the artist/promoter/venue side, but no one wants to schedule a big festival or tour just to have it cancelled because of another surge--or end up being a superspreader event.  Plus the ongoing risk is still significant, a crew member touring with KISS recently died from COVID, supposedly in part due to lax safety measures and (allegedly) fake vaccine cards.  That's starting to slowly get better, but the persistent hesitancy of so many people to get vaccinated, and the attendant risk of new and potentially more dangerous variants developing among the unvaccinated is really holding the recovery back. 

The labor issue as Bassman59 was describing is also very real.   I was talking with someone who does a lot of work at a big arena a few months ago, who pointed at the posters for some upcoming events on the side of the building.  The very first show after a year and a half of shutdown was Guns N Roses, with some other equally big act the very next day.  These are big shows that will gross millions of dollars a night, with multiple truckloads of equipment each and tens of tons of that getting rigged overhead, and the second one will start loading in as soon as (if not a bit before) the last one finishes loading out.  He told me "I do NOT want to be on that call.  So many good people have left the industry, and anyone who hasn't is a year and a half out of practice.  I might get sent up to high rigging just because there aren't enough real riggers left and I do not belong there. It's going to be dangerous."

It'll get better eventually for sure.  It's just impossible to say when that'll happen at this point.

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