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[–] 4 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

I used to work in a roadhouse, and I remember one band had this in their rider as a joke… But our producer actually took the time to pick out all of the brown ones from a giant fishbowl.

The band was equally amused and horrified when they realized. The lead singer was like “yeah we added that to our rider as a joke. We’ve never had anyone actually do it before. Now I feel kinda bad that she had to sit there and dig all of them out…”

Meanwhile, she had an entire bowl of brown M&Ms sitting on her desk to snack on.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    So, it was originally more than a joke.

    More a heuristic to verify whether the venue manager had bothered to read and comply with the contract for a pyrotechnics heavy performance.

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  • Oh, I know the origins. I just thought it was funny that a band added it to their rider as a joke many decades later, and then was aghast when they realized they had contractually obligated someone to sit there and sort through their entire fish bowl. Like I said, every other venue they had been to simply ignored that line.

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