{"id":25158,"date":"2017-09-03T17:23:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T22:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25158"},"modified":"2017-09-03T17:23:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T22:23:43","slug":"van-halen-mms-and-the-next-market-downturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25158","title":{"rendered":"Van Halen, M&Ms, And The Next Market Downturn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Van Halen, M&Ms, And The Next Market Downturn<\/a><\/h3>\n
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How watching the right indicators will avoid disaster<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The planet-sized egos of rock & roll performers are legendary.<\/p>\n

Few things symbolize this better than the outrageous requests they often make when on tour.<\/p>\n

These requests are referred to as “riders”, and appear in the contract a tour venue receives in advance of the artist’s arrival. These contract riders specify the physical conditions that the singer\/band requires to be in place before arriving to perform. Stage lighting settings, sound equipment, furnishings, etc — that kind of stuff.<\/p>\n

And these rider requests can get pretty funky – often extremely so — when it comes to backstage perks the performers want.<\/p>\n

For example: A wooden pond filled with koi carp (Eminem). A driver who will not speak or make eye contact (Katy Perry). 20 white kittens and 100 doves (Mariah Carey). Seven dwarves (Iggy Pop). 50,000 bees (Slayer). A sub-machine gun (M\u00f6tley\u00a0Cr\u00fce).\u00a0And, yes, even a great white shark (Hank III).<\/p>\n

The practice of making these kind of outrageous demands stems from a rider Van Halen\u00a0inserted into the contract for its 1982 world tour, which insisted on a bowl of M&Ms to be provided backstage, but with all of the brown M&Ms removed<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As this image below of the actual rider shows, the band was very explicit in its seriousness about this:<\/p>\n

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Once the media got whiff of this, it had a field day roasting the band’s narcissistic chutzpah. A new high-water mark of diva capriciousness had been established, which quickly became legend. A feat of\u00a0prima donna<\/em> pampering that subsequent performers have been trying to top ever since.<\/p>\n

But as crazy as it sounds, Van Halen’s “no brown M&Ms” rider had nothing to do with caprice. There was a solid rationale behind it.<\/p>\n

In fact, it was quite brilliant.<\/p>\n

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