My appearance on Hannity Friday night regarding ACA/Obamacare

[Buddyblazon]

74. I'm used to it...

I've been doing this for nearly 20 years. When I started, it was seen as trade. Like plumbing. Or carpentry. "Stagecraft" to be exact and all that entailed (audio, lighting, video, staging, pyro, rigging, yada yada)

Now that the corporations have taken over (and it's been that way for more than a decade now), they view the people that do stagecraft as simple slack jawed yokels that can be replaced by any crackhead or ready temp off the street. Hey...they don't have to pay them jack and they could care less if those people get hurt. And the public view has gone the same way.

I'm the boss now, but on a regular basis I have to field complaints from some guy that has a nice stereo at home about the quality of sound. Forget that it's $750,000 PA that's been tuned for the room and that the sound guy has 30+ years of experience. The guy with the Kenwood at home is positive he can make it sound better if you'd just take his advice.

What are you gonna do? They've been lowering the bar for so many years, you just have to deal with it. It's a dying industry (for any average Joe at least) and as soon as the corporations can figure out how to automate it all, the stagecraft guys will be gone, and us production managers will all be downsized for a couple dudes in New York to do all the prep work via email and skype.