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Bandit Lights Jackson Browne World Tour

Bandit Lites is on tour with Rock & Roll Hall of Fame singer-songwriter, Jackson Browne. Promoting his 2008 album, Time the Conqueror, Browne is currently out on a world tour including stops in the United States, Asia, Australia and Europe.

Browne will be touring through March of 2009. Lighting and production designer, Dave Davidian chose to use an LED-based rig including American DJ PAR LEDs, ETC Source Fours, Coemar Impressions, Pulsar Chromabanks and 4lite inline moles. He also added Martin MAC 500s. Lighting is controlled by two High End Systems Whole Hog IIs. Davidian said the concept behind the design was in doing a smaller theater-based tour, to give the artist as many different angles and levels of lighting that they could within that format. Davidian provided Browne different levels of height with vertical trusses, horizontal trusses and sidelight angles both upstage and downstage.

Another key element to the design was to be environmentally aware when making design and equipment choices. It was something very important to Jackson Browne and something that he was very specific in his request to do.

"The fact that we're using a lot of LED fixtures saves a lot of power. It was important to (Browne) to use less energy and to leave a smaller carbon footprint as he comes and goes in each town," Davidian explained. "We believe it'll be the difference between a system that would normally be a 500 amp- 3 phase to a 200 amp- 3 phase per leg, so it's a significant reduction. It isn't a financial savings, and that wasn't his goal as much as he wanted to do all that he could to leave a greener planet."

Davidian added: "This is my first venture into LED fixtures. It's certainly new territory for me. This isn't the first ‘green' full LED system but it is one of the first. It is both interesting and challenging for me to break in new technology, especially because it mixes colors differently than we're used to."

Davidian said the big challenge that he dealt with was to provide a multi-layered, leveled rig within a system that has to be flexible with a quick set-up. Jackson Browne does early afternoon sound checks so Davidian had to create a lighting system that could be up and away by lunchtime everyday. "In the past Jackson has used a lot of straight trusses to facilitate set-up time but I really wanted to break away from that this time around and give him a little more varied looks," Davidian explained. "This is also the first tour that Jackson has multiple moving light fixtures. By going green, he has actually changed the look of his show from what is traditionally a par can system to more of a moving light, led system. It will certainly provide a different look for the show for him, his fans and for me."

Bandit general manager, Dizzy Gosnell added: "At the design stage, Dave (Davidian) and Dennis Scrimo (the production manager) asked if it was possible to provide an all LED par can system in addition to the Impression LED moving wash light. Jackson was keen to have a regular touring lighting system be as environmentally efficient as possible on power, and the 132 LED Pars and Impressions have certainly achieved that. Dave has been able to re-think how you work with the trusty Par and created a really fresh and inspiring show. The design options using it are really exciting for the future, and we are really proud at Bandit to be able to showcase this technology with such a well respected artist."

Bandit crew on this tour includes programmer, Nathan Alves and lighting technician, Steve Comer.

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23rd October 2008

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