High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The road crew (or roadies) are the technicians who travel with a band on tour, usually in sleeper buses, and handle every part of the concert productions except actually performing the music with the musicians. This catch-all term covers tour managers, production managers, stage managers, front of house and monitor engineers, guitar techs, bass techs, drum techs, keyboard techs, lighting techs, pyrotechnic techs, security/bodyguards, and caterers, among others. The road crew are generally uncredited, though many bands take care to thank their crew in album sleeve notes, but there are exceptions.