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:: Monday, September 29, 2003 ::

So, the Smoking Gun riders got mailed around the office and the Nine Inch Nails rider ended up in the inbox of someone from our San Francisco office who has toured with NIN. Apparently that rider is the real deal, and was defended as not that bad in comparison with some of the competition. The "Two (2) Boxes of Corn Starch (VERY IMPORTANT)" is for throwing on themselves to give the impression of being dead (of course!). It was defended as normal practice to put some crazy stuff on your rider just to make sure that people read it. If you don’t spell something out precisely, you get shit, and you probably won’t realise that something’s missing/not up to standard, until it’s too late. The classic "No red M&Ms" is used as a simple check, you get to the gig, you look at the M&Ms, if there aren’t any red ones you can relax knowing that everything you asked for is supplied, if there are red ones, you go through the check list of the things you really want. This can back fire if you don’t explain your priorities. In light of this, from now on Gusset’s rider will simply say:
1. Toffee
2. One million pounds in used ten pound notes, without any notes with a 3 in the serial number.
That should sort the men from the boys.

:: Dan 29.9.03 [Arc]    ::
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