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When Jeff called me for Roadies, I was
very excited to be working with him, Don
and Cameron again. This would be my
fourth project with Cameron Crowe. Sev-
eral of the other department heads were
also veterans of Cameron's fi lms; such
as Production Designer Clay Griffi th, who
I had worked with on Almost Famous,
Vanilla Sky and Elizabethtown.
Live Record for Roadies
At our fi rst pre-production meeting, Bill Lanham was
introduced as the technical consultant. I had planned
on providing a simplifi ed stage monitor mix which
I had used for similar situations, but Bill wanted to
use the bands full rider contracts verbatim. We upped
the technical gear to handle thirty-two inputs and a
dozen stage mixes with house and side fi lls in addition
to my eight-track sub mixes for Post. Depending on
the bands riders, we provided several stage monitors
as well as In Ear Monitor mixes, side fi ll and house
stereo mixes as needed. All inputs were split before
the mixers and I created two eight-track sub mixes for
Post. These were recorded on two Pro Tools rigs, one
for backup.
by Gary Raymond
