For those who are not in the know, a band's rider is beyond important. To make sure you get a quality performance from the band, venues know it's important to keep their booked acts happy before, during and after said performance. So I decided to dig up some of the most ridiculous, hilarious and perplexing demands that have been made to a venue.
Enjoy!
Foo Fighters are known for their wacky and hilarious antics so it's no surprise that Grohl and company would make some random requests on their rider. Here are just a few from riders of years past:
One bag of Pirate Booty
Four bottles of Gatorade in "wacky colors"
DVDs that don't feature Jamie Kennedy,
Martin Lawrence or sports
Martin Lawrence or sports
Their fat roadies eat immediately on arrival so they have energy for "their arduous 70-90 minute workout." The only catch? The band requested vegetarian soups for their plump roadies as to avoid any, ahem, gas issues. (Seriously, I can't make this kind of thing up!)
'Antichrist Superstar' Marilyn Manson's tour rider you would expect to be bizarre, disturbing and off the wall. Hate to disappoint you kids, but his rider is more extravagant than disturbing. Check it:
Various fine cheeses
High quality chocolate
Top of the line champagne (Moet, Cristal) and two bottles of Absinthe
Doritos
Gummi bears- more specifically the Haribo kind (you know the ones that are rumored to give you, well, an undesired effect of the runny poo kind)
Cereal and 2% milk
Now there is a rumor that Manson once requested a bald headed, toothless hooker without specifying a preferred gender. (No judging here, after all, it's a different strokes for different folks kind of thing, right?!)
EDM superstar Deadmau5 may wear a giant flashing mouse head while he performs live but that's nothing when compared to the creepy, yet intriguing demand for a "large inflatable animals, inflated and at least 5' tall" to be provided backstage at EVERY show. Now, what on earth would you do with *that*?! Let your imagination run wild, kids!
Cheap Trick requests in their tour rider that their stage be professional, level and no less than 40 feet wide by 40 feet deep and at least four to five feet off the ground. It's been rumored that the only way the band would compromise the size of their stage would the original lineups of Led Zeppelin, the Who, or the Rolling Stones request it. The only other exception? Little Richard (Seriously.)If you had a tour rider, what kind of requests would you include on it?! Comment below and let me hear em!
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