While it's not surprising that the current Guns N' Roses world tour is a big old-fashioned three-guitar arena show with enough pyro to make you think you're in Boston on the Fourth of July, it's not the typical flash and trash lighting rig. And even though the increasing importance of video in rock shows is nothing new, this one stands out.
Promises, Promises production stage manager Michael J. Passaro calls PLSN just after his show has brought Molly Shannon in the key supporting role of Marge McDougall. It's the same role that won Katie Finneran her second Tony Award this year.
Shortly after Eric Marchwinski graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston with a degree in Music Production and Engineering, he found himself in the hot seat of his first concert tour.
ELC calls this unit the Checker Handheld DMX512/RDM toolbox, but unlike your father's toolbox, this one is digital. It does fit easily in the hand and it is battery operated, making it truly handheld, and it does work with both DMX512 and RDM. But what, exactly, does it do?
Collaboration between academia and business has become, well, big business. Since 1980 there have been over 4,300 start-ups that were incubated in U.S. universities, and new spin-off and technology and patent licensing deals are cut seemingly weekly.
Fred Flintstone was a member of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes Lodge #26 and was continually trying to gain leader status of this group by becoming the "Grand Poobah." This high-ranking position would have allowed him to rule over all others and reign supreme over the group's members.
Suppose that you are a high ranking U.S. naval officer just before World War II. Germany has successfully controlled the seas with superior numbers of submarines, Winston Churchill is very nervous about it, and the U.S. is feeling threatened. Along comes someone with an idea that could provide an edge in the undeclared war to keep shipping lanes open, thus insuring the survival of the Allied countries.
Sometimes I think that no concert-going audience enjoys a good light show more than the hippies who attend "jam band" concerts. These bands don't follow a set list like 99 percent of the other bands on tour. They usually start one song and then drift into an avant-garde jam session before finding their way back into the original song, or segue into another. They also tend to cover other artists songs at a different tempo than the original version. And the audiences tend to dance along as if they were in a trance.
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Showtime Sound LLC
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Pier Six Pavilion
Baltimore, MD
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Beachsound and Light
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Aventura Arts & Cultural Center
Aventura, FL
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Epic Production Technologies (Vancouver)
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PNE Forum
Vancouver, BC
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Showcall
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Immanuel's Church
Silver Spring, MD