The painting of Whiskey a Go Go hanging at GEKAI on Stage brings us back to the roots of our craft. It is the temple of live performance, the place where talent meets reality: a small stage, the sweat of the audience, and no room for cheating.
Now we handle tours and organize events the size of San Siro, but this painting is a reminder that it wasn’t always this way. It reminds us that the live business doesn’t “magically appear overnight,” it is built in the clubs.
If the system forgets to protect these spaces, it is literally cutting the roots of the future of major tours.
Managing the complexity of a stadium production is a privilege that requires enormous technical skills, but as far as I’m concerned, my true privilege has been being able to learn the sensitivity to understand if an artist truly has the “fire” by standing at the back of a three-hundred-person venue.
That’s where you see if a project pierces the screen or if it’s just an illusion built in the studio. Having that historic logo in the office should serve to remind us that, no matter how big the stage becomes, respect for the grind and for the places where music is born is what keeps us anchored to the reality of the supply chain.
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I am Andrea Corelli, Music Industry Professional and Advisor.
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