Benefit Concert- Saturday 7am-1am (Pics)

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Djcarolina

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Its sunday night at 8:45pm and i've been up 5 hours lmao. Possibly the longest day of my life yesterday but for a worthwhile cause. My company was the leading sponsor for a benefit concert for a student at my school who was paralyzed this summer in a car accident. We began setup at around 8:30 and finished just in time for the 4:00 start time. 7 bands performed and i learned just how hard it is to keep up with what is controlled by which channel when it changes every 5 songs lmao. In the pictures below, everything on the stage is mine except for the amps, and instruments. The board and snake were rented by me for the day. the mics, cables, speakers and lights, however were all mine. And yes the truck is mine, and yes it stayed there all night as a very sexy backdrop, its actually off the stage so there was no chance of it getting scratched or anything. We used the vue3 on the wall behind the bands and it looked awesome. The wires weren't too bad but we did the best we could, a setup like this can only be so neat.

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how many showed up and what did the cause take in if you dont mind sharing also liked your technician GLoves hehe. Nice bacdrop it was a bit off center however. Good Show.
 
It was off center. unfortunately, because of the odd shape of the stage, it felt like everything was off center. Oh well. Theyre estimating approximately 1400 showed up at various points of the night, i couldnt tell how many were there at any given time but i'd say the amphitheater had a solid 400 all night. The night pics were taken at the very beginning and it was about 39 degrees outside so yeah, liked having the gloves. The proceeds benefitted Brittany Riffe, a fellow student who, while en-route to leadership training 6 days before the start of her senior year, was involved in an auto accident. The accident, in which she was partially ejected from a Jeep Wrangler, left her paralyzed from the waist down. It is believed that she will gradually regain control over her body and eventually walk but at the cost of some very expensive therapy. The benefit raised an estimated $13,000. $4000. of which came from an annonymous person who heard of the concert on the news, drove 2 hours from Myrtle Beach SC and wrote a check for $4000. to the girls working the ticket/parking booth, he then turned around and left without even giving his name. A very good cause, to which i"m happy to associate my company name.
 
Guess you know I'd recognize that Carvin 8X10 Red Eye bass cabinet. :D

Seriously, congrats on a good show. Running sound with a mixing console can be challenging. It couldn't have been easy with them gloves on, lol.
 
It wasn't easy, which is why i got rid of them after the first band. Having the board's configuration (what channel controlled what) changing every 5 songs didnt help either.
 
I do a little live sound for my wifes bellydance festival... we have a number of live acts and I found that it made my life much easier buying colored mic cables,,, I look up, see the red cord, I know the red cord in on channel 5,,, makes it easy when you don't have to write, bass, or keys, or whatever, you just look and see..
 
We had some cables done like that with the snake running to either a DI or mic which helped a little. Unfortunately, every band wanted to use their own everything.
 
Next time you have a show like this, let me know. I can get you a ton of bands that would have the place packed all night.
 
I love it when a huge donation is made by the iunknown person who does it merely from his or her heart.
Excuse the doubt my next comment might offer. How would one know that an unknown donator heard it on the radio and drove 4 hours from Myrtle Beach?
 
Kool so he didnt even come inside? Thats really heart warming and makes us realize the Earth has a bit of humanity left.
 
Not to get off topic but how do you post pictures that big? I noticed they were not posted as an attachment, which is the only way I know how. I tried to post some pictures one time and it said they were to big, but were half the size of the ones you posted.
 
I upload directly to www.Photobucket.com and then past the image code directly to the thread. The forum doesn't recognize the link as a pic, so it doesn't try to limit the size, but when you post, the link kicks in and displays the image @ the size I uploaded it at.
 
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