It’s not as creative, but it’s less-stressful once you’re started and rolling. Once it’s on the road, one simply needs to continue. Sometimes this happens, key personnel have to leave for other concerns, but that hard part is done figuring out the show, getting it ready and stable. So Robert’s gone off and will hand over the reins to ‘Chopper’ who works with Robert daily, handling the overall sound system. But he’s got a summer tour with Eric Clapton, a longtime employer as well. Usually Robert Collins is at the board, as he has done for years and years. The show is slightly different as we’ve changed our mixing-man. Yet this orchestra also puts up with the heat and turns in a spirited rehearsal. Everyone is soaked and our only respite is the meal breaks inside where the AC is cranked. Since we came in about 9.30am it has been blazing, part of a heatwave hitting these Eastern states this coming week. I neglected to mention the key factor here HEAT. They were chatty and started working on their individual parts – always a good sign. In fact, though it may not have been the most precise of the orchestras, this crew came in and set up with good enthusiasm and smiles. Our big surprise here was – the orchestra! After the debacle at the last show (Nashville) we weren’t expecting much out among the trees, at least 35 minutes away from a major city. Our feeling is that this is largely a summer resort area, with gorgeous houses and close enough to NYC that the wealthy can get away to a second home here. It’s a wooded area, and the city itself is about two blocks of buildings from the 1800s that have been nicely restored and kept up. We’ve been here before, to the CMAC amphitheater, a little over a year ago with The Who. Beautiful wooded areas and a large set of lakes called the Finger Lakes, for obvious reasons. It’s up in Northern New York state, not far from Rochester and then Buffalo. Roger Daltrey performs Tommy: CMAC, Canandaigua, NY, June 30, 2018īack again – Canandaigua is not a major city.
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