Lets see it all started on Wednesday the 6th of August 2008, it was about 10pm when I hoped in the back seat of JD’s car with Drew and Andy; we were on our way to Trinumeral. Trinumeral simply put is a hippie festival. Three stages, three days of shows, in the middle of the woods, mountains, and a random orchard. So let me back up a little. 3am Thursday morning, I wake up in South Carolina in extreme pain, seems sunburn on my back does not like a car with no air. I look outside the car to a familiar sign of BP Gas station, I decided to get some Aleve for my back. Fast forward to about 7am. The car wont stop swerving, but it is only the road, or a sad excuse for a road. 7:30 am we arrived at the Festival grounds, which was good since load-in was scheduled at 9 am, and i didnt have anywhere to lay down. Fast forward to about noon and the load-in is in full swing. Production company out of Florida is providing audio for 2 stages and conventional lighting, only thing is that half the audio rig has been on tour for the past 5 weeks, i hope this doesnt come back to hurt us. Lets see, we take our sweet old time tuning the PA, and monitors, we had hours to kill before 9pm when we could get our laminates to leave the campground. Only something doesnt sound right with the PA, Its a 5×5 system with 4 brands of PA, oh yeah, this will be fun. so after swapping out a NL4 with swapped pins, replacing 2 cones in a JBL dual 18″ and 2 hours later, of re-aiming the system, it is now time to try and go to the hotel. But wait, our shuttle already left. See for a crew of about 15, they gave us 2 rooms. But most people were camping anyway, only 3 of us actually slept in the room, everyone else destroyed our bathroom taking showers and cleaning up. It is now 9:30 am Friday morning, and although the last rant may have sounded like complaining, I had a blast, although nothing has been in my favor, everyone feels good after a good night sleep. And the fact that I am about to eat everything in the Continental breakfast. HA. Well, I dont have to be back on the grounds until 830pm, my shift is from 9pm-5am. so ill be back tomorrow.
Until Later,
JFaz
