Greg Frisbee - Outdoor show tips

You work in the summer -- I assume -- at the fairs and the festivals. You deal with the heat. Any heat related topics you can talk about? Wear sunscreen. Yeah, it gets really hot. You know, in my contract I actually have it like you know, shade -- if possible. You know, a lot of times you'll be on a stage and then sometimes the audience is in sun while you're covered in shade, but sometimes they've covered the audience and you're just you know, beating down in sun on the stage, and yet the audience is nice and comfortable and they don't understand why you're sweating bullets up there, you know? So I do try to say like you know, where possible, try to have a shaded area for the performances. That goes -- even if I'm doing like, a grounds -- like a street show style on the fairgrounds where I will go out and gather a crowd and do a show -- I'll try to find a shady area you know, that there's trees or some sort of like shade from a building or something because if people are comfortable, you're going to be comfortable, and they're going to be comfortable. They're going to just have a better experience doing it. Okay, yeah, that -- when I did fairs, I know that I used to do a thing called burning in Bedford. I'd go there for a week and they put me on a wagon out in the middle of the fairgrounds, and they covered it with black plastic so the rain wouldn't you know, affect it, and as soon as you walk close to the stage, the temperature goes oh, about 80 degrees. Yeah, yeah. So, very miserable. My worst experience was I was doing a fair in the middle of the desert -- it was the Mohave Desert. Like, fair didn't even open until 5pm because it was just too hot during the day, and then the fair would be open until 2 in the morning because it's just like -- that's when it starts to get actually cool and enjoyable for people. But I remember going on the blacktop and it was so hot because it was 100 and whatever degrees during the day, you go in the blacktop and your sneakers would melt when you hit the stage -- like, you can feel the stickiness -- the tackiness -- of your shoes as you're walking across the stage. It's like that movie theater feet, but it happened every time you hit the stage which was funny, so.