Backstage Stories
4 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGlamorous or a grind - take your pick. Life on the road as part of a concert tour crew can be either or both. From the intensity of loading in and loading out, setting up and tearing down, to the anxious, white line drudgery of highway travel in the middle of the night to get to the next city on time, it’s a roller coaster ride of sacrifice and reward. Backstage Stories: Crew Are People Too is dedicated to the unsung ranks who toil in the shadows of the live entertainment industry. Without their passion and dedication, there would be no show. These are their stories - from backstage, from the road, and from the heart.
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Episodes
Terry Dimonte: Stacks and Stacks of Money on the Table
October 22, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBMontreal rock radio icon Terry DiMonte took an interesting detour on his way to the Canadian Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame. For three years in the early 1980s - between the afternoon drive shift at CITI-FM in Winnipeg and the morning show at CHOM-FM in Montreal - Terry was a record company liaison for the Regina bands Streetheart and Queen City Kids. With his trademark gift for compelling and funny storytelling, Terry shares his music industry experiences with his longtime radio p...
Myles Goodwyn, April Wine: It Was So Loud, My Hair Would Move
September 12, 2021 14:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBTruck 'N Roll sales manager Steve Traynor sat in on this week’s episode with iconic Canadian rock artist Myles Goodwyn, and reminisced about mutual backstage acquaintances, including a sound man who was notorious for being TOO loud sometimes. It’s been 50-plus years since his first girlfriend Bertha lugged his equipment (“She could carry a Marshall under one arm”), and in the intervening decades, Myles has witnessed and experienced the evolution of backstage life, from the heyday of...
Ghislain Arsenault: My Life Changed
September 12, 2021 00:06 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBGhislain Arsenault was running a modest provincial trucking company out of Montreal when Celine Dion’s husband and manager, Rene Angelil, approached him in 1996 about providing transportation for Celine’s North American tour. Sensing something big was in the offing and overcoming his own self-doubt, Arsenault took the job - with three rented trucks and three used trailers. The gamble paid off. In 1997, the movie Titanic spawned Celine’s breakthrough signature song, My Heart Will Go ...
Welcome to Backstage Stories: Crew are People Too
September 12, 2021 00:05 - 1 minute - 1.22 MBThis is Backstage Stories: Crew Are People Too. Hosted by Ted Bird Thanks to Ghislain Arsenault and Steve Collard from Truck 'N Roll for supplying the guests. Please give the show a FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE in your favourite podcast app. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.