“En Vogue Tour Journal – Rehearsal 1”: “August 31, 1992
Los Angeles
Rehearsal 1
We do our most important work like elves.
During the day, we work with wrenches, screwdrivers, and meters. We tweak the design, change bulbs, re-assign dimmers…hardware stuff. We’re in the company of band gear guys, the set carpenter, runners, and various other production types. This project has more than a dozen people onstage during the show; players, dancers, and the Funky Divas from Oakland who are En Vogue. During the day, the entire entourage makes this old (1914) silent film stage a very busy place.
K.C. and Greg, the backline gearheads, occupy a dressing room jammed with electronics racks, keyboards, computers, cables, connectors, soldering gear, and guitars. They shuttle gear and floppy disks back and forth to the stage. They do things that we don’t know anything about, except when we hear an occasional blast of sound from the monitors announcing a new keyboard patch or DAT run.
David and Scott (known to us as the ‘Buttata-Heads’) work the sound rig. We don’t know what they do, the almost traditional, invisible walls between sound and lights people being what they are. However, they work quite hard with tapes, patches, mixes, microphones, and who knows what other sorts of hum”
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