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unusual facts about tour manager



Sam Cutler

Following the events at Altamont, Cutler stayed in the U.S. to deal with the aftermath, was befriended by Jerry Garcia, and subsequently hired by the Grateful Dead as their tour manager.


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Ali McMordie

Since 1994 he has been the tour manager for American artist Richard Hall AKA Moby (with whose band he has sometimes played bass).

All I Need Is a Miracle

In the video, "All I Need is a Miracle" is the final song in the band's fictional set, so Mike + The Mechanics' tour manager (played by Roy Kinnear) attempts to settle up with the restaurant owner (played by Victor Spinetti) for the agreed sum of £250.

Anthony Davie

He is currently manager/tour manager for Los Mondo Bongo (celebrating the music of Joe Strummer) which includes Joe Strummer's post-Clash bandmates Pablo Cook (percussion) and Smiley Culture/Steve Barnard (drums) from The Mescaleros, as well as bassist Derek Forbes (Simple Minds), guitarist Steve Harris (Gary Numan) and vocalist Mike Peters (The Alarm), plus Ray Gange of Rude Boy film fame DJing.

Australian cricket team in India in 1986–87

Team officials - Bob Simpson (coach), Alan Crompton (tour manager), Errol Alcott (physio), Charlie Pinto (transport), Govind Bawji (baggageman)

Chad Urmston

In addition to being the band's tour manager, three songs, Sybil I, Sybil II and Sybil III, found on Us Against the Crown, Year of the Crow and Let It Go, were written by him about her.

Daniel Amalm

Daniel's first performances were as a busker in Brisbane's Queen Street Mall with his brother where they were spotted by George Benson's tour manager and invited to Benson's sound check.

John L. Reese

That led to Guns N' Roses manager Doug Goldstein hiring him to become the band's tour manager for their 1989 Los Angeles Coliseum concerts with the Rolling Stones, then as the tour manager for the massive Use Your Illusion Tours and then as a partner and personal manager with Big FD Entertainment, representing a number of artists including Guns N' Roses, The Stone Roses, Blind Melon and many more.

Mickey Finn's T-Rex

In September 1997, former T. Rex members Mickey Finn, Jack Green, and Paul Fenton were invited by Mick Gray (a.k.a. Marmalade), former T.Rex tour manager, to a 20th/50th Anniversary concert to celebrate the music of Marc Bolan, taking place at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, where Gray was manager.

New Zealand cricket team in England in 1949

Jack Phillipps, the tour manager, played in one minor match against Durham (not then first-class).

New Zealand cricket team in England in 1958

Jack Phillipps was also returning for a second visit to England as tour manager.

Sam Cutler

Following the Hyde Park show, Cutler was asked to be the personal tour manager to The Rolling Stones during their 1969 Tour of America, which culminated in the infamous Altamont Free Concert where a young black man brandished a gun to defend himself, due to Hell's Angels anger over his date/girlfriend, who was white.

The Upwelling

The All American Rejects heard about the band through a sound-engineer named Teresa Murray, a tour-manager named Shaba, and guitarist John Lamacia, of Candiria.