Rikk Beatty's Infinity Within Tour 2004

[rikkbeatty]

Hey guys! Well the band has gone through some changes and ended up in a great spot I think. Thanks to allot of hard work and some incredible sponsors we will be doing a 10 day 10 show tour down through Washington, Oregon, and California.

I have a new album that just came out titled "Infinity Within". Its a 12 song album and consists of 11 vocal tunes and one instrumental. The show for the tour will be a 2 hour set that will be a mix of instrumental and vocal tunes. We are still confirming one of the shows for the tour but I will post the tour schedule as it stands at this time:

Thursday 04-15 "The Matrix" (Chehalis Washington)

Friday 04-16 "Little Creek Casino" mainstage (Shelton Washington)

Saturday 04-17 "Mt Tabor Theater" (Portland Oregon)

Sunday 04-18 "Holleywood Tavern" (Salem Oregon)

Monday 04-19 "Mulligans" (Eugene Oregon)

Tuesday 04-20 "Billy Bombay's" (Redding California)

Wednesday 04-21 "Touvelle Amphitheater" (Central Point Oregon)

Thursday 04-22 DAY OFF

Friday 04-23 "La Fuente" (Grants Pass Oregon)

Saturday 04-24 "The Hidden East Tavern" (Portland Oregon)

STAFF for the tour
4 band members
1 Guitar Tech
2 Road Crew

Tour Sponsors
JEMSITE.COM
EKG CUSTOM GUITARS
IN TUNE CUSTOM GUITAR PICKS
TURTLE ROCK HORSE RANCH
LIVING GOOD TRUCKING COMPANY
LITTLE CREEK CASINO HOTEL

PA System
1200 power amp
500 watt power amp
500 watt power amp
Four Peavey 15's (Black Widow) and horns all on stands
100 foot snake
Behringer 32x8 mixing console with flight case
Three Peavey 15" stage monitors
SKB 16 space shock mount case
SKB 6 space case
Two ART 352 Mono 31 band EQ's
Peavey Kosmos
Digitech Studio Quad
Peavey feedback eliminator
Behringer Tube Composer (stereo tube compressor)
Peavey PVM DMS-5 Drum mic system
Two AKG C1000's for overheads
Two SM-57's for the guitar cabs

Lighting system
15 foot truss system on 10 foot stands
8 PAR 56 can lights
2 lasers (1 green and 1 red)
H20 special effect light
Fog Storm 1200 fog machine (7,000 square feet per minute)
DMX Digital controller that controls all lights and fog machine

10 foot truss system behind the drummer that hangs our 8 foot x 8 foot full color backdrop that has 2 more PAR 56 can white lights to illuminate the banner


AS A SPECIAL FOR ALL JEMSITE MEMBERS; IF YOU BUY ONE OF THE NEW CD'S FROM EITHER MYSELF OR CDBABY.COM (AND YOU LIVE IN THE WASHINGTON, OREGON, CALIFORNIA AREAS)YOU WILL RECEIVE A SATIN STICKER BACKSTAGE PASS THAT WILL GET YOU IN FOR FREE TO ONE OF THE SHOWS LISTED ON THE TOUR!!!!

CD Baby will have CD's available for sale shortly. If you purchase a CD from them it will email me your name and address and I will then mail you one of the passes. I want to say thanks to Kit from Band PAsses.com for the awesome work on the passes for the crew, sponsors, press, band, and guests. These guys make back stage passes for the big guys (Satriani, Vai, Queensryche......) as well as smaller bands and events and do just an incredible job!!

We are all pretty excited about the tour and I cant wait to try out my new and upcoming 7 string fretless from EKG guitars!! Doesn't Eddie just ROCK?!?!?!?!?!?

In the works at this time is also the plans for our summer tour in 2005. We will be touring Japan for 1 month!! We have a tour agency setting this up for us though to make sure everything gets done just the way it should be.

[davester1234]

wow man, sounds like you really got big plans here!

If you come to Toronto Ont, make sure you pm me, i'm there.

all the best,
Dave

[the.godfather]

How kool is that, I bet your having the time of your life touring and on the road. Japan will be the ultimate dude. Have fun! If I was in US I would go see ya dude. No doubt you will be coming to good ole UK at one point in the future though!
Gary - The.Godfather

[rikkbeatty]

Thanks guys,

Yeah this is just going to be allot of fun!! I wanted to make sure that if and when I did it, I did it right!! So we have some road crew to help, hotel reservations made, reliable vehicles for transport, good media coverage in each city for advertisement, high quality posters made for advertisement (100 get sent to each venue 1 month before the show) and have all of our passes and itineraries being made through WWW.BANDPASSES.COM. We have tour shirts with the album art on the front, tour dates and venue names on the back as well as the sponsors, 2 other band t-shirts, 5 albums for sale total, CD singles, buttons, stickers, custom Rikk Beatty Band guitar picks, the UnPlugged DVD.....

I have played lots of shows where I have seen bands on tour and not only do some of them not get paid well but they had not planned out the hotels, money for food, had no merchandise to sell, no lights or not a very good sound system..... Basically I have just tried to think of everything and make sure that the show we give is nothing short of what you would expect from any other band that you pay good money to see.

The show at Little Creek Casino is going to be VERY exciting. They will be advertising on 3 different radio stations, the Olympia, Tacoma, and Seattle newspapers, on their huge reader board billboard sign on the freeway, and will be doing giveaways in the casino to help promote. The main stage has cameras at every angle and can be broadcast to the rest of the casino as well as to their hotel rooms as "Pay-Per-View". The casino will furnish the band with security for the door, stage area, and greenroom and has given us a budget to order food and snack trays to have in the greenroom! They REALLY know how to treat their entertainers!!

[OlafLenk]

please come to belgium!

[OlafLenk]

please come to belgium!

[weserman]

good luck with it all, sounds exciting! I'm listening to your music over in your other thread, sounds good so far.

[rikkbeatty]

Check it out now that I have the new clips uploaded. The old ones were before the album was mastered and mixed correctly. Its night and day!!

[crossjem]

Man!

I totally want to go to Belgium!!! Europe is awesome!! Well, most of it at least. I lived in Germany for 5 years. Interesting climate!! Spain would be very cool too.

Maybe when we do the European tour we will make it to Belgium. Of course that will be after the Japanese tour, unless I can talk Rikk into playing Europe first!!!



-Jason
Do you have an Infinity Within?

[rikkbeatty]

Well the shows are booked, sponsors are secured, equipment ordered and ready, flight cases all in line, transpo and hotels set..... just waiting for 04-15-04 now! lol

The tour posters came out AWESOME. I will post a picture of them when I get home. They are 13" x 17.75" printed on high gloss 100 lb paper with water resistant UV coating. No one that has seen these in person has not been impressed. They all say "Ok so who has all the money in the band?" lol If you go to http://www.psprint.com you can get 1,000 of these for $382.50!! Obviously its not something you would want to do for each show but for a tour or for an album release it sure beats the local print shop or Discmaker's price of $590 for $1,000 11" x 17" posters!!

[rikkbeatty]

Here is a picture of the tour poster:

[rikkbeatty]

Hey folks,

Here is a picture of the tour shirts!!

http://www.rikkbeatty.com/tourshirt

[Jem7RB MK]

Originally Posted by rikkbeatty

Here is a picture of the tour poster:

Hey i got one of them, Some git scribbled over the front of it :-)

Rob

[davester1234]

Rikk,

those plans are definately grand and exciting! Are you actually getting sponsorship dollars from your listed sponsors, or are you footing the bill for all of this yourself?

Don't get me wrong here...i only ask because I'd love to know more about how you arranged everything. You've thought of things that I never would have, right down to the last detail...right down to billboard advertising!

[rikkbeatty]

Well I can honestly say they would not be very good sponsors if I was not getting money from them! lol BUT awesome as it is that 9/10 of the sponsors gave cash for the tour, it was still a costly venture. When considering advertising, gas, food, lodging, general repair/wear and tear on the instruments, sound system, and lighting system I am definitely in the red on this one (until we start playing shows that is) lol.

Most shows give a guarantee of some sort. Obviosuly the casino is a HUGE guarantee. Others we play for 2/3 the door (as long as we knew they could draw people on a weeknight).

Merchandise is where it is at though. You want to make your money back you gots to have t-shirts, stickers, CD's, buttons, picks.... WHATEVER to sell!! Now that does not mean you sell the shirts for $40.00 a piece like at your normal concert but if you order the right amount from the right places, you will get an EXCELLENT quality shirt with 4 color printing on (front/back) for under $8.00 a piece. We sell our shirts for $12.00 a piece and no one has a problem spending $12.00 on a shirt that is excellent quality with a cool design. BUT I definitely sold guitars to do all this. Jason and I have both made sacrifices for this tour but it will be well worth it.

Touring Japan will be another story. Someone else will be handling all of that for us (for a fee of course). BUT Japan LOVES guitar oriented music and does not care if they have never heard of the band before. THAT will be fun. Gotta brush up on my Japanese. All I know is whats on the Teriyaki menu! lol Oh and a little Mr Miyagi from the Karate Kid. lol

Get ahold of me by email with any questions and I will let you know what I know.

Rikk