WE ARE THE CREW! Paperback – November 28, 2025

Once upon a time there were epic rock concerts, fueled by passion for music which was high as a kite and cranked to the gills, thundering from city to city around the world. We all remember the bands: Aerosmith, Motorhead, Boston, Van Halen, Metallica, the Allman Brothers, and countless others, but those bands didn’t make it happen alone.Behind the wheel, behind the stage, behind the sound and the lights, there was always the crew. For every concert that has ever brought goosebumps to your skin, an army of support stood behind the curtains, up in the rafters, and waiting by the trucks to make it happen again.WE ARE THE CREW! is a book about stagehands, told by men and women who make live concerts and other theatrical performances possible. Compiled and curated over four years, WE ARE THE CREW! is a labor of love that began during the COVID-19 pandemic when live performances were shut down and stage crews were out of work.Lifetime crewperson Lisa Deyesso reached out to her friends for their stories. Little did she know that her endeavor would snowball into an unstoppable force as more out-of-work crewpersons contacted her to share their experiences. Deyesso interviewed hundreds of industry long-timers about their unbelievable adventures backstage through the 70s, 80s and 90s, the golden age of rock concerts.We’ve put 48 of the best of those interviews into one wild and crazy book. Readers who love rock, theater and music will be amazed by these inside stories, close-calls, near-misses, hilarious pranks, divas and dudes, tragedies and triumphs. WE ARE THE CREW! celebrates the crazy, passionate, diehard crews behind great moments in music history. Read more