Today has been a very long day but it was great. I woke around 4am and left Fultons house at 4:30 bound for RDU to fly to Atlanta. I landed around 7:30 and Marta'ed up to Tech to drop in at Theta Xi and drop off my bag. I went up to the student center to pick up my package and some mail. Then I was blown away by how amazing the Lord is as he has provided for my support for Bosnia.
After picking up my stuff and rushed back to the house before catching a train down to Philips Area. I had been given a great opportunity to experience how Bon Jovi tours work. Therefore I showed up around 10:15 and got VIP treatment by Mike Savas, the Head of VIP relations and Head of Tour Management.
We went through all of the amazing physical attributes of the set, stage, rigging, video, and audio. This stuff is really cool for all of us Engineers who were able to go because of my English teacher. Then he went into the managerial side of his job and all of the people in the crew. I cannot think much right now because I am running on 3 hours of sleep and have been up all day running all over the place. Our group also got tickets to the show and that was really cool because I had not ever been to show that big.
This day was amazing as we were able to learn a lot about the inner working of the most successful rock show of the past few years. The entire crew was very nice and they showed us some of the amazing aspects of the show that people(mostly drunk) don't really understand or appreciate. Shout out to my English teacher Phillip Auslander for getting us into this amazing opportunity to learn from the best in the business for performing rock shows.
Paul Shackelford
After picking up my stuff and rushed back to the house before catching a train down to Philips Area. I had been given a great opportunity to experience how Bon Jovi tours work. Therefore I showed up around 10:15 and got VIP treatment by Mike Savas, the Head of VIP relations and Head of Tour Management.
We went through all of the amazing physical attributes of the set, stage, rigging, video, and audio. This stuff is really cool for all of us Engineers who were able to go because of my English teacher. Then he went into the managerial side of his job and all of the people in the crew. I cannot think much right now because I am running on 3 hours of sleep and have been up all day running all over the place. Our group also got tickets to the show and that was really cool because I had not ever been to show that big. This day was amazing as we were able to learn a lot about the inner working of the most successful rock show of the past few years. The entire crew was very nice and they showed us some of the amazing aspects of the show that people(mostly drunk) don't really understand or appreciate. Shout out to my English teacher Phillip Auslander for getting us into this amazing opportunity to learn from the best in the business for performing rock shows.
Paul Shackelford