Your Backstage Rider

Discussion
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Imagine you are a famous musician with millions of fans and millions in the bank. Like Justin Bieber, except with pubic hair and credibility. What does your backstage rider look like??

Mine:

Chai tea
fruit platter
sushi platter
selection of potato/corn chips
selection of dips
6 pack Corona beer
6 pack Pear Cider
chilled water
bucket of ice
espresso machine
selection of coffees
selection of pastries
plate of Indian Samosas (vegetarian and beef)
tissue box
cushions
selection of pornographic magazines
local newspaper
portable stereo
framed photograph of Mahatma Gandhi
masseuse (on call)
dart board
darts

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I’m gonna steal a few of yours.

Lots of Gatorade (preferably Frost Glacier Freeze of Cool Blue)
24 pack of Corona or a bunch of tall cans of PBR for after the show
Gallon of Captain Morgan for after the show
Shot glasses
Makeup artist if I’m dressing in drag
Masseuse
Pot brownies/cookies for after the show
Pizza
Stereo with an iPod hookup
Tissue box
Dart board and darts

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Imagine you are a famous musician with millions of fans and millions in the bank. Like Justin Bieber, except with pubic hair and credibility. What does your backstage rider look like??

Mine:

Chai tea
fruit platter
sushi platter
selection of potato/corn chips
selection of dips
6 pack Corona beer
6 pack Pear Cider
chilled water
bucket of ice
espresso machine
selection of coffees
selection of pastries
plate of Indian Samosas (vegetarian and beef)
tissue box
cushions
selection of pornographic magazines
local newspaper
portable stereo
framed photograph of Mahatma Gandhi
masseuse (on call)
dart board
darts

Except for the alcohol, which I limit myself to only on social occasions when I’m not driving, and the chai tea (I’m an Assam man), I’d say your rider is nearly perfect for me. I’d add some nice cheeses, parmigiano reggiano and smoked gouda, and some low-salt triscuits but the rest is all a good idea. On second thought …vegetarian samosas only, of course.

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I want to see Gunnar’s.

Imagining that his would include:

punching bag
selection of 1980’s metal band t-shirts (freshly pressed)
shotgun
axe (for breaking shit)
dvd copy of Eddie Murphy’s Delirious
telephone (for making prank calls)
beer
donuts
cheeseburgers
selection of metal magazines
industrial strength jackhammer
dvd copy of Bachelor Party (starring a young, fresh Tom Hanks)
poster of Gene Simmons
darts (for throwing at poster of Gene Simmons)
coffee

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Wow. Not too bad a guess, actually. I was going to delete your Gene Simmons poster, but then I saw it actually had a purpose.

I don’t really care about coffee. I’d like to substitute that for bacon instead. And I’d like a full staff comprised entirely of LITTLE PEOPLE (that’s “midgets” for you insensitive types). And candy. Lots of candy.

I would also like a blackjack table and a craps table.

Other than that . . . yeah, I think I should just make you in charge of my tour altogether. You seem to know what I’m going to need even before I need it.

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pinball machine?
air hockey table?

Agree with the bacon part. Needs to be smothered in something though. Like Jack Daniels.

You should also have a naked hottie in a cage. Preferably one who doesn’t speak English.

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Oh and you should also have a golf cart buggy. So that you can drive around backstage at ridiculous speeds (you are rich remember…and can pretty much get away with anything.)

And you should have at least ONE endangered animal locked in a room somewhere too. A Siberian tiger will do the trick.

And a drunken posse of guys you went to college with. Make sure they are the right type of drunks though. The playful ones - the ones who live in shitty downtown apartments filled with pizza boxes, condom wrappers and empty beer crates and who still party like they’re nineteen. Not the angry, grudgeful drunks who beat their kids and tailgate old ladies while driving down the freeway.

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Donuts. That’s all I need.

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Fun thread. [:)]

Thirty of Rolling Rock bottles
Handle of Cuervo Gold
Margarita salt
Limes
Oranges
Lemons
Grapefruits
Bananas
Mangos
Hookah with all the fixins
Ginger chick with a cute pixie cut
Black chick with epic Sideshow Bob hair
Some kind of mattress or mattress substitute

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Mad Dog 20/20,a hooker and a donkey…

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pinball machine?
air hockey table?

Good call! A few pinball machines (“Elvira” and “Theatre of Magic” will do) and a PING PONG table.

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Beck’s beer and a original Hulk comic book…

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A few pinball machines (“Elvira” and “Theatre of Magic” will do)

What about T2 or GNR?

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[reply]A few pinball machines (“Elvira” and “Theatre of Magic” will do)

What about T2 or GNR?[/reply]

T2 really wasn’t that great of a game. There was a lot of cosmetics but not a lot of actual muscle behind it. The ball was slow and the play a bit chunky. One of the worst elements of it, though, was that stupid gun that shot the ball out. Launching the ball is the first move in a pinball game. It’s your first chance to control where the ball starts and the pace of the game. They took that away for a stupid silver gun.

G’n’R I only played once (at the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas). I remember it being kind of hard, but don’t recall any memorable specifics or cool obstacles/ features. I don’t recall anything particularly bad about it, but it wasn’t really memorable either.

A pinball game should be fast, but not impossible, and should have a bunch of cool obstacles and features . . . and there should be a physical connection between the player and the machine (you should be able to nudge and tap just a bit)

FUNHOUSE is a badass 80’s classic that fits all these criteria, by the way!

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Dr. Who pinball was pretty cool as I recall.

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The only pinball game I was any good at was South Park, but that one’s kinda easy compared to others I’ve played.

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2 x crates of beer (no Carling or Fosters)
1 x bottle opener if beer is bottled

that was actually the last rider we had. except we forgot to ask for a bottle opener. d’oh.

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[reply]pinball machine?
air hockey table?

Good call! A few pinball machines (“Elvira” and “Theatre of Magic” will do) and a PING PONG table.[/reply]

Elvira Queen of the Party Monsters
and
Rock N Rollergames

are still my 2 favs to this day.

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Yeah! That’s the one, Dude! I love how the machine had the same monster finger puppets that my mom used to by me at the dime store when I was a kid. Plus . . . . Elvira! Pinball is always better when there’s boobs on the machine.

I don’t recall ever coming across Rock and Rollerball. I’ll have to look for it.

If any of you ever go to Vegas . . . . this is a MUST VISIT.

http://www.pinballmuseum.org/

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I miss table top video games…