-: I'm Andy Annicks, I work for Jonas Productions.
I'm a repair technician.
Jonas Productions is a full service back line company.
We provide band gear for concerts
from festivals to cruises to one off shows.
We actually take equipment to shows
and there's a tech on site to make sure
that everything is going well,
so it's not so much one off, you know,
send a person with gear, more like
sending a truck full of gear.
The repairs are anywhere from someone just
pressed the wrong button to days where we're waiting
on the right components to be brought in
and all that sort of thing, so.
Day in and day out I show up and fix whatever's broken
from vintage keyboards, synthesizers, guitar amps,
electronic keyboards, stuff like that.
I do anything from just routine swapping out reverb tanks
or tube issues to service mount component troubleshooting
and things like that.
So it depends a lot, that I've done all kinds of stuff
from like, they call them briefcase gigs,
you show up to the venue, everything's in place,
you just run the show, to when I'd work freelance
with a production company,
we're bringing in a small line array,
we set up the stage, we fly the speakers,
we pin everything and make sure all the channels work.
And then the show, we gotta set up for the band
and then run the show, you know,
mixing live and making sure everything sounds good
and the artists have what they need.
We're national, somewhat international.
We do cruises and festivals, we'll provide
all of the back line for a cruise or festival
and going across borders and doing cruises and things
we have to have manifests of all the gear that's going
and so it's very organized chaos.