You see JP talking to his guitar tech occasionally (which I find delightful)...
JP and Maddi are pretty tight. Even after the shows are over, it seems like Maddi is rarely more than a few feet away from wherever John is.
I love seeing that stuff, because it reminds what an insane amount of work and support goes into concerts like that. It's not just 5 guys on stage, there's 20 other people working the ropes in the background.
Yeah, it's really eye-opening to see (1) how many guys and gals there are working behind the scenes to make a tour happen, and doing all the things most of us don't even give a second thought to, and (2) how nonstop busy they are the vast majority of the time they are on the road. I think a lot of people (myself included for a long time) naively just assume there are maybe 10 or so folks that travel with the band who only really "work" for an hour or two before the show setting up, mostly just hang out casually in case something goes wrong during the show, and then work for an hour or so tearing down afterward. It isn't like that. I don't know how big DT's crew and traveling management staff are, since I have not seen them all in one place at the same time, but I would guess close to 30, and maybe a few more (can you imagine a band like Maiden?). And they are working nonstop.
If it is any indication, here's an anecdote: Typically, whenever DT is scheduled to roll through my town, I start getting emails or PM's from Maddi a couple of weeks before the show where we talk about maybe finding some time to hang out and shoot the breeze. We swap a few messages, but don't really connect because he is so busy. Day of the show, I get there several hours early, and when I see him, Maddi is moving at a very brisk pace to do one of the million things on his list, and I barely get to talk to him before the show, if at all. After the show, we maybe get a quick 30 seconds of "hey, how are you doing? How's the new house? How's the tour going?" And then he is off again. And then a day or so later, I get a PM along the lines of, "Hey, sorry we didn't connect." The dude is just insanely busy. And that goes for all of them. The Reno show a couple of weeks ago was a nice exception to the norm, where I got to just sit down and shoot the breeze with him for a good 15 minutes or so after the show.