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2 unusual facts about Road crew


Dougal Butler

Peter "Dougal" Butler is a British author and retired roadie.

Roadies

Road crew, the technicians or support personnel who travel with a band on tour


Comfortably Numb

A large group consisting of Pink's manager (Bob Hoskins), the hotel manager (Michael Ensign), paramedics, and roadies burst into Pink's hotel room to find an unconscious Pink sitting in a chair.

Drivin' My Life Away

The song, a look into the life of the roadies and the long periods of time they spend away from home, was featured on the soundtrack of the 1980 movie Roadie starring Meat Loaf and Art Carney.

Jerry Busher

1He served as roadie for Fugazi in the '90s, as well as providing additional percussion and trumpet to their live performances. His percussion work is featured on the Fugazi releases The Argument and Furniture + 2, and John Frusciante's DC EP.

Rocket Queen

Slash stated in his autobiography that he and Duff McKagan wrote the main riff to "Rocket Queen" when they first got together in the short-lived band Road Crew with Steven Adler, prior to Slash and Adler joining Hollywood Rose.


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Bellylove

Lisa Rae Black, a veteran of the Los Angeles music scene, recruited Valenta after the demise of her project featuring Barbi Von Greif, which was produced by Dave Rouse and Pierre de Beauport of the Rolling Stones' road crew.

Paleontology in Oklahoma

In 1931, University of Oklahoma geologist J. W. Stovall received word that a road crew grading for the construction of U.S. Route 64 uncovered a rich deposit of fossils east of Kenton.