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From left, Antony King (FOH engineer), Richard Trow (systems engineer) and Terence Hulkes (audio crew chief & FOH tech). Photo by Steve Jennings

Depeche Mode ‘Global Spirit’ Tour

For more than 30 years, Depeche Mode — comprised of Dave Gahan (lead vocals), Martin Gore (guitar, keys, vocals) and Andrew Fletcher (keyboards) — have dominated the scene with their mix of electronic pop/rock/new wave and dance music. They have had 17 Top 10 albums in the U.K. charts and sold more than 120 million albums. On the road for the current Global Spirit tour, which runs until July of 2018, the band is accompanied by Christian Eigner (drums) and Peter Gordeno (keyboards, bass, backing vocals).

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Neil Diamond tour photo by Ari Michelson

Neil Diamond’s 50th Anniversary Tour

Stanley Miller Recounts his 49 Years with Neil

A lot has changed in 50 years of touring for Neil Diamond, save for one: his fierce loyalty to his band and crew. At the top of that list is Stanley Miller, who has been on the road with him for 49 of those 50 years. There’s no one saying that he or she has been with one artist working audio for as long, and it’s hard to image anyone topping Miller’s longevity with a single artist.

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NAMM 2017, during one of the rare moments of clear weather. Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for NAMM

Live Sound Products Shine at Rainy NAMM 2017

Okay, I was wrong in last month’s “Editor’s Note” (FOH, Jan. 2017, page 4) where I believed a long-range 10-day forecast from The Weather Channel predicting a warm, dry Winter NAMM show. However, in 2017, we live in uncertain times, and after a seven-year drought, the usual sunny January skies of Southern California turned into a deluge from Jan. 19-22, 2017. Yet a few raindrops couldn’t dampen the enthusiasm for some 100,000 audio and music pros that descended on the Anaheim Convention Center for four days of fun, new technologies and new products.

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Coldplay tour photo by Steve Jennings

Top 10 Tours of 2016: Gear and Crew

LAS VEGAS – The year-end numbers are in, and whatever else you may have been thinking about how things in 2016 went down, live concert ticket sales are up, according Pollstar. Total sales for the top 10 tours worldwide, featuring, in order, Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band, Beyoncé, Coldplay, Guns N’ Roses, Adele, Justin Bieber, Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks, the Rolling Stones and Celine Dion hit $1.67 billion — an 11.3 percent gain on the $1.5 billion pulled in by the top 10 tours in 2015.

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