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Lose the Lip

Illustration by Andy Au

Lose the Lip

I travel to different venues daily. I’ve done gigs in every grand arena as well as crap hole pretending to be a proper concert venue, on this planet. Of course some gigs are better than others. Some are very tough to load into, but many of them can be overlooked as physically bad gigs because the local stagehands there are just great. But often enough, the opposite is seen. Horrible venues with less than desirable hands are not fun. Especially when the local hands can’t shut their mouths for a minute. Then these gigs just plain suck to work.

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Elation Professional EZ4 LED Display Panel

The EZ4 from Elation Professional is a high-quality, 4mm pixel pitch LED video panel and the highest resolution LED panel offering in Elation’s expanding line of affordable LED displays. Designed for indoor use in installations, broadcast environments, corporate productions, car shows and more, this light weight yet sturdy panel is ideal when outstanding high-definition image quality is required.

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Phish NYE 2013-2014 show, second set photo at MSG by Dave Vann

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Rayzor Beam 2R from Elation Professional

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Christie Q Series 1-Chip DLP

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LD Mark Payne's lighting rig for Rod Stewart, The Hits at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas includes Clay Paky Alpha Spot QWO 800s and Alpha Wash 1500s.

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LAS VEGAS – Rod Stewart performed his Caesars Palace residency show, “The Hits,” under a lighting rig that included Clay Paky’s Alpha Spot QWO 800s and Alpha Wash 1500s, as specified by the artist’s longtime LD Mark Payne. Payne, who has worked with the artist for the past 20 years, also specified the Clay Paky fixtures for Rod Stewart’s 2013 Live the Life tour.

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