FALSE CEILING
Steve Green, who sang six years with Bill and Gloria Gaither, tells about getting to know some of the work crews in the large auditoriums where their concerts were held. The Gaithers prefer concerts in the round, which means extra work for the riggers. These men walk the four-inch rafter beams, often a hundred feet above the concrete floor, to hang sound speakers and spot lights. For such work, understandably they are well paid. “The fellows I talked to weren’t bothered by the sight of looking down a hundred feet,” says Green. “What they didn’t like, they said, were jobs in buildings that had false ceilings, acoustical tile slung just a few feet below the rafters. They were still high in the air, and if they slipped, their weight would smash right through the flimsy tile. But their minds seemed to play tricks on them, lulling them into carelessness.” Satan’s business is not so much in scaring us to death, as it…
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