Today I learned that Van Halen have that rider in their contract about “a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed” in order to know at a glance if the promoter read the entire contract. And the reason they do THAT is because they once had a stage collapse because a promoter hadn’t read the proper way to set up all the specific technical stuff.
So if the band goes in the dressing room or catering and sees brown M&Ms, they know they have to double-check the stage setup for safety.
I heard about this on Freakonomics Radio. Turns out the bit about no brown M&Ms is HUGE, in BIG font, bold, underlined and quotated like they’re on the Group W Bench.
The band was all, “We have fifty-pound lights hanging over our heads and fire being shot out of cannons. We had to know whether they read our safety regs so we didn’t flamebroil any roadies.”
interesting how this has become a meme in the music industry about divas. i’ve always heard jokes that amount to “this stuck up celebrity hates the green gummy bears!! they’re refusing to perform just for that???” and its reading stuff like this that i realise how that joke might have come about. people get grumpy that the band refuses to play but cant admit its because THEY’RE incompetent, so they make it all about the M&Ms. another example of artists using a creative method to ensure they have a perfectly reasonable request fulfilled that is then bastardised by lazy people who wanna make money off them.
…this is like the music industry version of hearing the truth behind the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit
@ critics: i could not care LESS about the narrative arc of venom. it could’ve been written by a predictive text generator and i still would’ve had a BOPPIN time because ALL i ever wanted from an action movie is a musclebound alien nerd and a dumbass running around fucking up fake elon musk
i mentioned the possibility of this happening in my last post but i had no idea it would be this bad. we are being put in a desperate situation because of the incompetency of the educational system and we will be evicted once this financial aid gets taken away. we are students living off of one disability income and student aid. basically what happened was we went to the financial aid office at my wife’s college and asked REPEATEDLY whether or not it would be okay for her to drop a class which they assured her time and time again that there would be no problem doing so. after she had already dropped it they suddenly say it’s a problem and that she MIGHT owe back money that already has gone to rent and bills. we will have no way to pay our rent if and WHEN the aid gets taken away. i am unable to get a job without her SSI being taken away. we have no support from family or anyone local to help us through this situation so i have to turn to you guys again. we need 1016.00 within 45 days or we will have no means of living. im trying to get back into school but that’s a long process that is complicated now that im married. literally days after our wedding and have to deal with all of this.
if you want to be rude, just don’t. this really is no fault of our own because we had talked to several people at the college who assured us it would be fine without explaining anything about having to owe back money and giving misinformation after misinformation, which now is somehow our fault and no one will listen to anything we have to say after spending all day at the college. WE WOULD DO ANYTHING EVEN PAY SOMEONE BACK THE MONEY if her aid wasn’t taken away we would be able to pay back this amount, but they are saying it needs to be paid within 45 days which wouldn’t be enough time.
im desperate for this to be over with. we were hoping to be financially stable finally until this happened and as a gay couple no one wants to help or deal with us. we’re basically cornered. let me know if i can do ANYTHING, and absolutely anything would help to get out of this debt even the change you have leftover in your account. i can write, help with homework, i can do pretty much anything.
my PayPal email is divynem@gmail.com and its the same email for my venmo. if you don’t have either of those and still want to help, let me know and I will figure it out. And if you cant or dont want to help, PLEASE at least reblog. im sure a lot of other people have been in this situation or similar but after everything we’ve been through i don’t want to have to lose the only stability we have and have to give our animals to others or away.
1.61 in my PayPal out of 1016.00 thank you. anything and I mean ANYTHING helps
54 out of 1016 thank you so much you guys please keep reblogging
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