CAKEMIX job description for roadies and techs

CAKEMIX's mission is to provide audiences with trancendent live concert experiences.

Those experiences are created by the band members, their musical performances, their physical movements, their personalities as perceived by the audience, their relationships with each other as perceived by the audience, and their relationships with the members of the audience.

The role of each member of CAKEMXIX's support staff is to improve the band members' ability to do these things, and to reduce impediments to the same.

As a staff member, at work you are expected to:
Interact respectfully with all people: other bands, roadies, venue staff, patrons.
Understand your objectives and communicate them clearly to others.
Always have "Yes!" on the tip of your tongue, and the spirit for implementing it.

Everything you do will be attributed to the band. Be nice, be pleasant, focus on the upside and solutions to problems, stop and listen when others speak so you understand their needs, speak clearly about your objectives, and take a break from any interactions to which you find yourself reacting emotionally.

All situations can be resolved win-win. Tag out if you can't see it in a given situation.

You play several important roles in the audience's experience. The audience seeing you helping us, and doing so in a professional manner, subconsciously signals to the audience members that their concert experience will likely be a good one. In this subtle but very important way, you are part of the gang and part of the show!

For all of the tasks you perform, please help develop this outline into a ever-more-detailed documented protocol so the organization can function in your absence, and so that we can all learn from each others experiences, both good and bad. Wrrite down the steps you take, and also note any "gotchas" or failed experiments.

You are helping us:
Conserve our physical and mental energy so we can direct it to the performance.
Take care of pre-show tasks in the busy critical minutes before the performance.
Take care of post-show tasks in the busy critical minutes after the performance.

These are things that critical to the band's success.


Roadie
Arrive at the mustering point on time.
Create a checklist of gear going into the truck.
Load gear from rehearsal space to truck.
Upon arrival, make eye contact, introduce yourself, find the stage manager.
Figure out where things go and when (gear staging? backlining? band schedule?).
Create a checklist of gear going into the venue.
Load gear from truck into venue. Make sure all needed gear gets into the venue.
After the show, move gear from stage to the staging area.
Pack gear, mindful of respect to other performers.
Load gear from venue into truck.
Use checklist to make sure everything that went into venue is accounted for.
Help all members of the band as they need it.

Drum tech
Gear staging for quick setup (stands, cymbals, pedals)
Gear staging in order (scoot pad, kick, snare floor tom, HH, ride, cymbals)
Position pieces of drum kit in proper places on stage.
Preempt routine problems: cymbal post wear, gear loosening during the show.
Prep for worst cases: snare strainer, snare head, kick pedal

Audio-visual tech
Prep tripods and video cameras before show.
Position video cameras to capture band members, audience, with no waste
	High center audience, stage left wide, stage right wide, drum fisheye
	Capturing footage for two reasons: promotion and self-evaluation
Start video cameras right before the show.
Verify cameras are recording throughout the show.
Stop video cameras right after the show, stow safely to prevent theft and breakage.
Disassemble and pack tripods after the show.

Eyes and ears during the show
Is something un-aesthetic or interfering with the audience's experience?
	Can you fix it yourself? Do you need someone else's intervention?
	Will the intervention be worse than the original unpleasantness?
Are the levels generally OK?
Can you hear the backup singing?
Are the cameras actually recording? Are they still positioned well?

Other
Tend to merch booth and customers if band members are unavailable.
	Get email or text number, FaceBook like, buy a CD or tshirt