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articles:brown_m_and_ms [2019/08/03 11:43] – [Visual Management... the Van Halen way] rrandallarticles:brown_m_and_ms [2019/08/03 11:45] – [Visual Management... the Van Halen way] rrandall
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 "//Van Halen was the first band to take huge productions into tertiary, third-level markets. We’d pull up with nine eighteen-wheeler trucks, full of gear, where the standard was three trucks, max. And there were many, many technical errors — whether it was the girders couldn’t support the weight, or the flooring would sink in, or the doors weren’t big enough to move the gear through.//" "//Van Halen was the first band to take huge productions into tertiary, third-level markets. We’d pull up with nine eighteen-wheeler trucks, full of gear, where the standard was three trucks, max. And there were many, many technical errors — whether it was the girders couldn’t support the weight, or the flooring would sink in, or the doors weren’t big enough to move the gear through.//"
  
-So... to make sure that the promoter had read the entire contract, Van Halen included a few nonsensical requirements that were intended to serve as the proverbial "canary in the coal mine", warning them of potential danger / problems. The best known of these was, of course, the legendary requirement for M&Ms to be provided, with the warning: "__ABSOLUTELY NO BROWN ONES__".+So... to ensure that the promoter had read the entire contract, Van Halen included a few nonsensical requirements that were intended to serve as the proverbial "canary in the coal mine", warning them of potential danger / problems. The best known of these was, of course, the legendary requirement for M&Ms to be provided, with the warning: "__ABSOLUTELY NO BROWN ONES__".
  
 [{{ :articles:van_halen_contract_page_40.gif?direct |Page 40 of the 1982 Tour Van Halen contract}}] [{{ :articles:van_halen_contract_page_40.gif?direct |Page 40 of the 1982 Tour Van Halen contract}}]
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-{{ :articles:van_halen_contract_extract.pdf |Read 11 page extract of the Van Halen contract.}}+{{ :articles:van_halen_contract_extract.pdf |Read an 11 page extract of the actual 1982 Van Halen contract.}}
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