But Big Thief - whose latest album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You ( ND review), hit #11 in our 2022 Readers Poll - has decided to take the learning a little deeper by inviting teachers to bring students to soundchecks during their 2023 tour.
The band gets a feel for the room, the sound engineers find out each band member’s preferences and needs, lighting gets calibrated, stuff gets plugged in and taped down and fixed. There’s a lot to be learned at a band’s soundcheck.