B4

When a band or a musician goes on tour, they have to sign a contract with the concert promoters. These contracts often include requests for things the musicians want, and these requests – or riders - are often more unusual than you might expect.

 UNUSUAL

B5

The rock band Van Halen always has a rider in their contracts  asking for bowls of M&M chocolates in their dressing room-but

 HAVE

B6

with all the brown ones taken out! The band included this rider because they wanted to check if their promoters read the contract properly.

 TAKE

B7

If the band found any brown M&Ms while they were getting ready to go onstage,

 FIND

B8

they knew there would be problems at the gig(=concert).

 BE

B9

For exampie, the following accident happened when they were doing a gig in Colorado. While the technicians were putting up the equipment, some of it crashed to the floor. It cost $80,000 to repair the damage.

 DO

B10

Interestingly, the promoters at that gig had forgotten to take the brown M&Ms out of the bowls.

 FORGET