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NASHVILLE – Country rock singer-songwriter Brantley Gilbert kicked off his “Hell on Wheels” tour in late September hitting the road with a complement of Clay Paky Sharpys from Digital Console Rental, Inc. in Nashville.
Gilbert has been a long-time client of Digital Console Rental, Inc., company president Howard Jones even served as his tour’s lighting designer. Tony Fransen handled the programming and Matt Kilgore is the LD / PM. Digital Console Rental, Inc. is handling all of the audio and lighting for the tour.
“I wanted to come up with something that was iconic to Brantley,” Jones explains. “He’s big into motorcycles and has a bad boy image. I had the idea to have the truss over the stage be a giant pair of brass knuckles, we placed a Sharpy in the center of each circle of brass knuckle. We needed a fixture with the fire power to punch through, and Sharpy delivers.” Jones chose eight Sharpys from his inventory deploying four in the truss and four wrapping around the top of the set.
Jones says that most of the lights on the show are LEDs and the Sharpys “fit into the high output-low power profile, which we like. They are working great.” A grandMA console controls the show lighting.
He recalls the first time he saw the Sharpys. “We had heard stories about the Sharpy so when we first got them in we had to see for ourselves. We opened one of the shop’s dock doors and aimed the beam outside, to our surprise we were lighting up trees over 700 feet away like daylight! In a concert situation they can shoot all the way to the back of the arena. The fact that Clay Paky can get a beam to stay that tight and that intense from a 185W lamp is amazing.”
A.C.T Lighting is the distributor for Clay Paky in North America.
