When the recent five-day Rock in Rio Festival in Bela Park, Lisbon, it played daily to crowds of 70,000 or more. To cover the teeming masses, audio provider Gabisom Audio Equipment from Brazil fielded the largest Martin Audio MLA rig ever put together for a single stage.
by Clive Young There's been plenty of rock star autobiographies over the years, almost always penned by a ghostwriter whose job it is to turn the endless pursuit of happiness—that is to say, sex, drugs and rock n' roll—into a page-turning bestseller. Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor League Rock And Roll, by Joe Oestreich, is not one of those books. Yes, it is an autobiography and it is about rock n' roll, but that's where the similarities end. To provide a baseline of comparison, let's remember that rock stars have hits. As the co-frontman of Columbus, OH-based Watershed, Oestreich most assuredly never had any of those.
"When one of those patients sits up at that desk with a set of headphones on and that microphone and the on-air light comes on, they forget about why they're in the hospital. It really is a beautiful distraction." - Mitch Robertson
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