To knock off a couple of other items on the above list:
1. You’d be shocked by how many venues don’t read the whole rider and miss important items. You can tell when you advance a show with a building what kind of day you’re going to have. If you put certain outlandish things on a rider, it helps alert a building to pay attention and call the manager to confirm it. The Foo Fighters Rider really is one of the best I’ve ever seen. Their manager is a screenwriter.

2. That’s why she’s called a Diva. Most acts of her level, just want you to provide them with an empty room and 2 assistants for the day. Their decor person will travel with everything they need to vibe out their space. David Lee Roth’s Jazz Lounge that he creates actually is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen done to a room.

3. and 4. – It’s all about the after party. Throw a nice party at your house, but pretend there’s nothing at your house. No tv, no stereo, no food. Now make a list of everything you’ll need for that party, see if it looks like their rider.

5. Um, hold on to your hats, but every indoor show you’ve seen with pyro, probably had it’s smoke detectors off. The flashing lights and buzzing sirens that go off when they are left on, tend to kill the vibe. That’s why there are Fire Marshals on site in case of emergency. And way to be respectful of the Hearing Impaired. Many of them can FEEL the music and know the words. In some states, it’s mandatory that you have an interpreter on site. It’s nice to know that Poison demands it. I know a couple of others that due to. (Off-topic: Seeing “Make a dead man cum” signed from the Stones’ “Brown Sugar” is one of the funniest things
I’ve ever seen.)

6. Travel – If you don’t specify what you need transportation why you might end up in a situation where your band/crew is being shuttled back and forth from the venue and hotel by some assistant who has cat fur all over her tiny VW Bug and your guys have allergy attacks the show blows that night because yoru back up singers are sniffling the whole time (True story)
Cash – A lot of bands ask for at least a portion of settlement be in cash. Remember you need to pay your crew’s per diem in cash. If you’re paying each roadie $50 per diem that $350 for the week for anywhere from 10 – 100 guys. You’re going to need cash.

I’m just a crew member and I refuse to drink Dasani and I’m shocked by people who can’t taste the difference.

Lastly – the blacking out of windows. It’s not about them being prima donnas. That’s an indictment of our TMZ crazy society that would pay money for someone to take pics of the Tim and Faith playing basketball. It’s sickening. Until you’ve been followed around all day by papparazzi, you have no idea how effed up it makes you feel.

also, why don’t these people carry some bottled water w/ them? drink tap water in places where the water isn’t hard and gross, & drink thier bottled water when they need it! bottled water is SUPER BAD for enviroment!!!!

I also hope that Tim & Faith whoever actually give thier kids a break, take them to see some sites, send them to stay w/ grandparents or friends for a couple weeks here & there, let them be kids! That sounds sucky & wierd! My kids want to swim in summer, run lemmonade stands, every kid on the planet stuck riding in ANY vehicle is constantly asking “are we there YET!”, poor guys!!!

You know…I wouldn’t make DEMANDS per se…I’d probably have a few requests, but never demands. Jennifer Lopez’s thing about the 43 albums she has to have just gave me an idea. I think that sometimes, I may make the REQUEST (no, not demand) that they have a copy of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea on hand for me. (It’s my favorite album, you know.) But that’s a request, not a demand.

Oh…here’s another (stupid!) request I’d make. I don’t know if they let people hang out with the band before the show or anything. But if they did, I’d request that one of my friends be allowed to hang out with us there. (She’s in a band with me, although I’m talking about if it wasn’t that band…) And if you must ask why she’d have to be there, let’s just say it’s sort of remniscent of John Lennon letting Yoko Ono follow him around everywhere. And I would let her continue that until it started getting on the other band members’ nerves.

Even if I made requests, I – I don’t know. I’m one of those people who are easy to please. This sort of reminds me of something my doctor said (his son is in the music buisness). He said, “There are those people who send you to get that one donut at that one special donut store across town and if you don’t they throw a fit and refuse to play.” Actually….compared to some of these guys’ requests, that’s not so bad.

Stupid rock stars.

They don’t effect his playing however!

I can see where bands can get specific as I am sure they are tired of eating pizza at every stop, or the same food. But, I think what I could not stand was the waste of food. Do you need a jar of everything at each stop! We would sometimes worry over buying things, only to find out the bands did not care.

Dave Matthews brings his own chef and STOVE! I am not a DMB hater, but can’t stand them after dealing with them refusing to meet anyone, or be picky about photos. He was an ass…refused to meet with someone with the make a wish foundation, refused any autographs (even for charity).

People think some artists are just awesome, but it’s how you treat people every day which really matters.