The Babe's asking price was $15,000 for one season, or about five grand less than Winfield O'Connor, only 15, had earned as a contract rider in 1900.
–A Wu-Tang Pridertions contract ridenumeratinging backstage catering requirements for a Wu-Tang artist named Shyheim: "baked fish (whiting and flounder), 1 case of Heineken beer, 1 case of Ballantine ale, fried chicken in vegetable oil only for 14 people…bread (fresh Italian bread only), mints, Centurion vitamins, ice, condoms, 1 box of White Owl cigars, 2 tables for merchandise".
Mr. Bettenhausen, the AEG executive, said the contract riders were a good tool for spreading the word about safety.
The Beach Boys, ZZ Top and Cher all stipulated in their contract riders that it be put in their dressing rooms when they toured.
Twenty-year-old long-haired guitarists ate low-carb meals (many specified in contract riders), guzzled Red Bull energy drink and played tight, well-rehearsed sets.
The clip sets up the premise of the show: Six teams, each composed of two people, will compete against each other in a race to find must-have items that five musical acts specify in their contract riders, also known as backstage riders or tour riders — the requests (or demands) that performers make as conditions for their concerts at an arena, theater or stadium.
Lawyers have modified their contract riders to add representations about the bugs and managing agents get queried to make sure a buyer isn't walking in to an infested apartment or an infested building.
However sensitive and observant, the ordinary child lacks property and the capacity for sexual engagement; he exists, therefore, on the margins of the social contract — a rider, as it were, on the imperatives and compromises of others.
Perhaps the weirdest expression of this is seen in the bottled water demands in contracts and riders that celebrities require when they perform, or speak, or otherwise appear in public.
This July, the Tour de France organizer Amaury Sports Organization, or A.S.O., will haul in at least 20 million euros (about $26 million) from its French TV contract alone; the rider wearing yellow on the Champs-Élysées will make 450,000 euros, about $580,000, which he will divide among his eight-man team.
This July, the Tour de France organizer Amaury Sports Organization, or A.S.O., will haul in at least €20 million from its French TV contract alone; the rider wearing yellow on the Champs-Élysées will make €450,000, about $585,000, which he will split among his eight-man team.
