At first glance, this appears to be nothing more than an example of a rock band’s narcissistic excess. Van Halen’s tours were among the first to bring highly technical, very complex stagecraft to venues. Their legendary lead vocalist David Lee Roth says, “We’d pull up with nine eighteen-wheeler trucks full of gear, where the standard was three trucks. And there were many, many technical errors. When I would walk backstage, if I saw a brown M&M in the bowl, we’d line-check the entire production. Guaranteed you’re going to arrive at a technical error. Guaranteed you’d run into a problem.” Yet
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I’ve heard this anecdote but never quite this variant. Sloppiness is one area indicates lack of attention in others. There’s a sushi restaurant near work that’s dusty as all hell, despite otherwise attractive finishes and sushi. I stopped eating there because I can’t trust it.
