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Skip Rickert is a music tour manager, songwriter, and film producer. He co-wrote, 99 Ways to Die, recorded by Megadeth which charted at #23 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Airplay chart in 1993. He was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award in 2014 for producing the music documentary, Santana: Corazón - Live from Mexico, Live It to Believe It.

He is the long-time music tour manager and director for Carlos Santana and Santana and former music tour manager of Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Backstreet Boys]. He has worked with the [[Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, and Guns N'Roses, among others.

Early Life and Education
Paul "Skip" Rickert grew up in the Birch Valley section of Levittown, Pennsylvania. While attending UCSD as a theatre major, he set up lighting and staging performances at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. After graduating in 1979, he became the tour manager for the Little River Band which led to managing music tours for George Benson, John Denver, Diana Ross and Ozzy Osborne.

Career
Rickert was the production manager for "Kenny Loggins on Broadway" at the Neil Simon Theatre November 1-6, 1998.

Ricker is the music tour manager of Santana and has worked with ZZ Top, Korn, the Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, and Guns N'Roses, Green Day, Ozzy Osborne, Ice Cube, and Paris Hilton.


 * Santana

Rickert has managed all of Santana's live dates and tours since 2005, including 12 overseas tours and a two-year residency at the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. In 2012, he was named the head of "All Things Touring" (tour planning, production and management, budget projections and analysis, contract negotiations, and settlements) for Santana's newly formed company, Cristalino, Inc.

Rickert was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award in 2014 for producing the music documentary, Santana: Corazón - Live from Mexico, Live It to Believe It was the music director on Santana IV: Live at the House of Blues, Las Vegas' live album in 2016.

Management - Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time

Santana 2022

Rickert began managing Stevie Ray Vaughan's music tours in 1986 on Vaughan's world, Live Alive Tour as well as managing his The Fire Meets the Fury Tour (1989) and In Step Tour (1989 - 1990). Vaughan died  in a helicopter crash on his way to the airport after a concert in 1990.
 * Stevie Ray Vaughan

Rickert co-wrote, 99 Ways to Die recorded by Megadeth which charted at #23 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Airplay chart in 1993. The single was featured on Beavis and Butt-Head as well as on the Soundtrack, The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience, which charted at #5 on the US Billboard 200 and was certified Platinum.
 * 99 Ways to Die

The Ottawa Citizen Tue, Apr 05, 1988 ·Page 35
 * https://www.newspapers.com/image/462949755/?match=1&terms=%22skip%20rickert%22

Tucson Citizen Tue, Dec 12, 2006 ·Page 5
 * https://www.newspapers.com/image/580210088/?match=1&terms=%22paul%20skip%20rickert%22