Comments by "Kenneth Dean Miller" (@kennethdeanmiller7324) on "The Drydock - Episode 288" video.

  1. Way, way back in 1991 my brother and I drove across a large portion of North America, meaning from Greenville, SC to San Rafael, CA by way of also going 4 hours out of our way to see the Grand Canyon otw. We had seen quite a few Grateful Dead concerts & we had decided that we wanted to see them on the West Coast. Sort of like the difference between seeing an animal at the zoo & seeing an animal in there natural habitat.ie a place they were very use to playing & they could basically drive from home to the coliseum & then drive back home after it was over. We had heard that the West Coast shows were a lot better for that very reason. And so we found out they were playing 3 nights at Oakland Coliseum for Chinese New Year near the end of February. Since we had found out about it early we were able to mail order tickets straight from Grateful Dead Merchandising. They were playing 3 nights & we got 2 tickets for each night. Since we were having to rent a car to drive so far we knew we wouldn't have enough money for a hotel for that long too. So we decided to take camping gear with us and stay at a National Park that was near by called S.P. Taylor State Park. I got to see the Grand Canyon and drive across the Golden Gate Bridge within 24 hours of each other. However, when we got to the park it was 2am & pouring down rain. If my stupid brother had listened to me everything would have been fine. I wanted to just sleep in the car & set up camp in the morning. But no, he said "I've been in this car for 2 days now & I want to be able to stretch out & sleep." He never would listen to me about anything & usually ten times out of ten something would go wrong because of it. And, of course, this wasn't the first or last time. The Ranger woke us up at 8am that morning and we get up to discover that someone had broken into the car & stolen ALL OF OUR STUFF. Including our tickets to the shows & the 2 gas credit cards that our cousin had lent to us to make sure we had gas to get back. I told my brother that I was really glad he got to stretch out & sleep for the night. For some stupid reason he had even left his shoes in the car & they had stolen those too. So he didn't even have any shoes to wear. Well thanks brother, we just drove all the way across the country to apparently get all our stuff stolen cuz you wanted to set up a tent in the pouring rain & stretch out. And that was back in 1991, 35 years ago. I'm fairly certain that by now the number of thieves & robbers in San Francisco has probably doubled about ten times over. If you REALLY WANT TO DO SOME FILMING IN SAN FRANCISCO- If you can afford to do this... rent the equipment you need from a company that is there & have them deliver it to the site, make sure they will have someone there constantly to ensure the safety of the equipment and I do believe if you pay for it with certain credit cards it's automatically insured. But it never hurts to ask & find out. And speaking of "It never hurts to ask & find out." If you spoke to some of these companies that rent such equipment you could probably get a decent discount for "mentioning" their help & that it was filmed using their equipment. Any company, especially a new company just starting out would probably be thrilled to get basically free advertisement and any potential clients get a chance to view their work, which of course is also YOUR WORK.
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