How to make sure they read the contract.

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Thursday Jun 23, 2005

Van Halen had this provision in their contracts to make sure it was read.

They had a provision in their contract demanding M&Ms backstage with the brown ones removed. This was a way of seeing if the promoters read the contract. If they saw brown M&Ms, they knew there would be problems with the show.

esa · Post by **esa** » Thursday Jun 23, 2005

That's a smart idea.
MnM's are the only things that could possibly rival beans. Much much better than them...
I wish the purple ones were here to stay though....Blue's are even better. And greens...well the green ones are good for you!

Quail Whale · Post by **Quail Whale** » Thursday Jun 23, 2005

If they saw brown M&Ms, they knew there would be problems with the show.

i hope they checked to make sure that the 'brown m&ms' weren't just eddie van halen's teeth before they bitched!

PastorofMuppets · Post by **PastorofMuppets** » Thursday Jun 23, 2005

that sounds like part in wayne's world 2. that burnt out guy was funny.

Mistress_DB · Post by **Mistress_DB** » Thursday Jun 23, 2005

It is actually true. Alot of bands will put some of the most cornball stuff in a contract just to see if the venue really reads it and pays attention to detail.

Here's the current tour rider for the Rock Never Stops Tour

http://www.paradiseartists.com/pages/ro ... stops.html

You'll need adobe to read.

ERiC_AiXeLsyD · Post by **ERiC_AiXeLsyD** » Thursday Jun 23, 2005

That Smoking Gun site has all kinds of this noise.

If I ever got huge, I'd add a football helmet full of cottage cheese and naked pictures of Bea Arthur.

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Thursday Jun 23, 2005

PastorofMuppets wrote:that sounds like part in wayne's world 2. that burnt out guy was funny.

"....But the owner and his son were a different story. I had to beat them to death with their own shoes."

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Sunday Jun 26, 2005

I read a DLR interview awhile back that said the band indeed put the M&M thing in for a good reason... to check adherence to the contract tech rider... seems they loaded into a high-school gym early on, and their tech rider ( a part of the contract that is the same for every buyer is called a rider) specified a floor weight-bearing amount... they took the time to weigh everything they had on truck scales, because even in the beginning they had a lot of gear. Anyway, you guessed it, the gym floor caved in, thankfully before the audience was allowed in, and when the school and promoter/talent buyer tried to sue the band, they simply pointed out that the contract covered it, but was not adhered to. Not only did they not get sued, but counter-sued for damages and breach of contract and won. The M&M's simply showed whether the contract was held to, and while they never cancelled a show because of M&M's, it warned the band to check out all technical aspects of the show.------>JMS