Billy Joel World Tour

[Elwell2004]

Hi again

 

My mom and dad have been to billy joel this friday and they commented to me that the lighting was out of this world.

 

Just wondering if anyone has any info of wat the rig consisited of.

 

thanx in advance

Matt

[i_hate_fisicks]

My mom and dad have been to billy joel this friday and they commented to me that the lighting was out of this world.

 

I should think it is, the amount the bloody tickets cost!

 

I'm going next week. Looking forward to it!

 

Paul

[Elwell2004]

According to the parents they neva sat down and he is a pure entertainer and they enjoyed every minute.

[colourwatt]

They might be using vari-lite series 300 equipment from the U.S.A.

[i_hate_fisicks]

Well they were right! Someone put a lot of money and effort into that lighting rig! Now I'm not a fully paid up lighting bore, but it looked to me like there were in the region of 60 Vari-Lite VL3000s, 40 Studio Colour 250s, 30-40 Mac2000 wash, 20 or so VL500s, a shed load of 4 cell blinders, some crazy big things that looked like they belonged on a ship with colour and gobo scrollers on them. There were 6-8 of these, and from where they were hung over the stage, they could make a lovely colour wash on the back wall of the arena. Then there were 10 truss mounted follow spots. They had a good proportion of them set around the back of the stage, maybe 3m above the main performace area, and the rest way up in the roof.

 

There was a cool circular stage with a trapdoor from which the piano rose at the beginning of the gig. Piano was also on a revolve.

 

Sound looked like Clair I4, and some digidesk that I couldn't identify from a distance. Not a bad sounding rig, but the vocals could have been clearer.

 

All in all a cool show. They even let one of the roadies come on and sing Highway to Hell!

[Seano]

Well they were right! Someone put a lot of money and effort into that lighting rig! Now I'm not a fully paid up lighting bore, but it looked to me like there were in the region of 60 Vari-Lite VL3000s, 40 Studio Colour 250s, 30-40 Mac2000 wash, 20 or so VL500s, a shed load of 4 cell blinders, some crazy big things that looked like they belonged on a ship with colour and gobo scrollers on them. There were 6-8 of these, and from where they were hung over the stage, they could make a lovely colour wash on the back wall of the arena. Then there were 10 truss mounted follow spots.

 

Just home from the gig? Me too (the load out that is, I only saw the last 10 mins or so of the show).

It looked like there were some pretty lighting states.

 

I didn't count accurately, but I reckon you're pretty close there. Is a "Studio Colour 250" the same thing as a "Studio Beam"? If not, thats what they were.

The dustbin sized moving heads were Synchrolights, and you missed 3 truss spots (there were actually 13) - 2.5k Lycian something or others.

 

Here's a snapshot for you, a 'riggers eye view' of the rig as a whole during the in:

http://www.deepsoup.f2s.com/BR/joelsheffthumb.jpg

 

Sean

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[Pete]

I didn't count accurately, but I reckon you're pretty close there. Is a "Studio Colour 250" the same thing as a "Studio Beam"? If not, thats what they were.

 

They're about the same size so itd be easy to confuse the two.

 

Id hedge a guess that they were lycian M2s-everyones favourite spot of the moment (apart from myne ** laughs out loud **)

[i_hate_fisicks]

I didn't count accurately, but I reckon you're pretty close there. Is a "Studio Colour 250" the same thing as a "Studio Beam"? If not, thats what they were.

 

They're about the same size so itd be easy to confuse the two.

 

Well hey, I was a long way away and it was dark (not that I can tell the difference from up close I don't think - as I said, I'm not a fully paid up lighting bore!).