Jim Lenahan, longtime LD for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, describes the 2012 tour, now underway, as a “super-simple scaled-down look…We’re basically turning arenas into a proscenium theatre look with classic red velour swags, legs and travelers.” Stanley Green, who will again program on this tour, notes some differences this year, including Lenahan’s use of “all hard-edge fixtures and no video behind the band — back to beautiful Old School beams of light!” The I-Mag will fly high, above the band instead. Green will control a few robotic cameras on his console, while Lenahan will be able to busk video, lights and cameras on the fly if the band performs a song that hasn’t been programmed. “It will be a lot more simplified,” Green adds.
—Debi Moen from “Designer Watch,” PLSN, April 2012
