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Bandit Provides Lighting for Montgomery Gentry Tour
Bandit Lites is supplying lighting again for Montgomery Gentry’s current tour. Released in October of 2006, their latest album, ‘Some People Change’, features 12 new tracks.
Lighting Designer Michael Shucher said that the main objective for the Montgomery Gentry show was to portray a big look with a minimal amount of lights. The initial challenge was to find lights that could compete with the arched video wall. Shucher needed the lights to cut through the video wall while still being light in weight and not too bulky. He also wanted the lights to be hard edge and have rotating gobos. The Vari*Lite 2500 achieved all of these requirements.
Shucher also found the High End Systems Studio Beams to be very beneficial. He placed them on the side towers to act as fans. The HES Studio Beams were also used to wash various set pieces, which include anything from flying motorcycles to mudflap girls (mounted on either side of the arch upstage).
This was Shucher’s first time using the Coemar LED Pars. “I primarily used them as truss toners and for the silhouette reveal at the start of the show,” he explained. “After the reveal, the upstage floor LED Pars were refocused as floor fans.”
Shucher also used the LED Pars on the downstage floor to wash the beer kegs (another set element).
A unique feature to this particular show was achieving a variety of looks using similar colors. Montgomery Gentry is very patriotic and the theme of this tour is no exception (lots of red, white and blue). Shucher said the challenge was to use lighting that consistently featured the same color scheme (red, white and blue) while still providing a diversity of looks.
Other equipment staples included Martin MAC 2k Profiles, MAC 500s and MAC 600s. Lighting was controlled by a grandMA Lite.
Bandit vice president Michael Golden commented on Bandit’s relationship with Montgomery Gentry and crew. "It has been our privilege to work with Montgomery Gentry for the last seven years and we are very proud to be associated with the entire production team,” he said.
6th November 2006
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