Road Crew Quotes

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.

The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.

I love looking out at 27 semis and being like, every single one of those semi trucks is there to put together my stage.

I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.'

I have a wonderful road manager, and he travels with me. And my valet and friend travels with me. My little entourage is great, and they take good care of me.

Technology is 50% of rock 'n' roll - the magic, the art, the performance. If you don't have good technicians and a strong road crew who are devoted and believe in you and protect you, you're totally naked.

Bonnie Raitt and Lynyrd Skynyrd were two people I went on the road with.

Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.

I've asked these guys in rock bands with all the 18-wheelers driving to the venue how they make money. I just don't understand it. But I don't understand a lot of things.

When you go backstage at a Bruce Springsteen show, you don't see a circus.

As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.

There are quite a few very funny people in my life. You know those people who don't mean to be funny, they just come out with these zingers that just make you howl with laughter. Usually you find these people in the road crew. A good crew is a key to a healthy funny bone.

By the time Guns n' Roses spent 28 months from 1991 to 1993 touring the 'Use Your Illusion' albums, the tour staff sometimes approached 100 people. We were carrying not only backup girl singers, a horn section, and an extra keyboard player, but also chiropractors, masseuses, a singing coach, and a tattoo artist.