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The Rider

Een Rider, een lijst van verzoekjes of eisen die de artiesten willen hebben voor het optreden. Sommige artiesten nemen dit heel serieus of maken er gewoon een uitdaging van voor het organiserende comité. Op deze website vind je een heus archief van riders van verschillende artiesten, zeker eens de moeite waard om er een paar door te nemen! De riders van Iggy Pop en de Foo Fighters werken serieus op de lachspieren! Een selectie van de opmerkelijkste eisen bij Meer Lezen!

Foo Fighters 

• Artist shall not be required to share dressing rome with any other performer, except Supergrass, Oasis or maybe Led Zeppelin.
• Please have signs visibly posted from crew entrance to catering prior to our arrival. Fat roadies have to eat immediately so they can begin their arduous 70 to 90 minute workday!! 
• One deli tray of various cheeses (Cheese, unlike humans, does not sweat) Dave loves stinky cheese….
• Ten Energy Bars – Tiger Milk of Granola type bars. Ask a hippy for a better suggestion. 
• Selection of cereals – unopened. Do not recycle from last night’s Dio show. 
• Pasta / Italian food dishes (By pasta, we do not mean spaghetti soup as your town already has a homeless shelter. We live out of suitcases for goodness sakes.) 
• Bag of Pirate Booty. Not Johnny Depp’s.
• Large Bath Towels – If they are new and unwashed, you will receive a wedgie. 
• Day Parted Rider Items aka ‘Wow Rock Stars Ask For Some Stupid Crap” 
• On Saturday Shows Only: DVD’s, choose wisely or we will make fun of you. 
• 4 Bottles of Gatorade (Remember, Wacky Colors Please!) 
• *** Please make arrangements for leftover foods to be collected by a local soup kitchen, homeless shelter or our roadie that looks like Osama Bin Laden. 

Iggy Pop 

• 3x Marshall JCM 800 100watt Amplifiers that have been recently tested. (And when I say ‘recently’, I don’t mean “Sometime in the three weeks preceding the occasion when it fell 5 metres off the top shelf in the warehouse’ as we were fork-lifting it back up, after it came back from that Insane Clown Pussy gig where they had the ‘Piss On The Live Marshall Amplifier Competition’ (“If you make smoke and sparks come out, and you are still alive afterwards, we’ll give you a bottle of Miller Lite, a go on the band’s skateboard and some clown make-up!”) No I mean recently, within living memory, preferably that of a goldfish. 
• Oh yes we do not have our own monitor man, because in the future robots will work for us and make the world a better place. 
• We need to have a selection of chicken, fish and vegetarian. (Er…calling Germany… vegetarian means ‘does not have any meat in it’. That includes sausage! And whatever ‘speck’ is) 
• Iggy Pop’s dressing room: Make this room look less like a typical rock & roll dressing room and more sort of… Interesting? Are you with me? Just let someone with a little bit of artistic flair… Er, do you know any homosexuals? And am I allowed to say that? Probably not! 
• Somebody dressed as Bob Hope doing fantastic Bob Hope impersonations and telling all those hilarious Bob Hope jokes about golf and Hollywood and Bing Crosby. 
• NO cauliflower / Broccoli, it will be thrown immediately into the garbage. I fucking hate that! 
• 10 packs of American Spirit cigarettes, Actually, I know unless you live in the united states you won’t be able to find these. But they’re fantastic! They’re made of pure, organic tobacco with no additives. That’s brilliant, isn’t it? They must be really good for you! In fact, fuck it, I’m going to start smoking again! 
  

Van Halen 

• M&M’s (WARNING: ABSOLUTELY NO BROWN ONES). 
  

The Rolling Stones 

• The band brings their own Snooker Table.
  

Paul McCartney

• Sweep the entire venue by bomb-sniffing dogs before the show.
  
   

Meer riders? The Smoking Gun

Bron: The Smoking Gun
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