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and comments.
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Still in the earliest stages of an
extensive concert program series, we experienced some technical
difficulties in 1978, but the shows continued to be great fun
and the work was rewarding in one way if not another.
The best part of the whole music scene
was that everyone wanted to be there: The Bands, the crews, the
agents and promoters, and even the audience who paid for it
all. Well, everyone except Greg Baron, of course, but the
joyous thunder of 3,500 people at the Capitol, 75,000 at Giants
Stadium, or 300,000 at Englishtown was itself a very special
kind of music for the soul—and a tribute to the good
nature of our human spirit.
The lighting director is invisible to
most show goers, but s/he is there among the audience, enjoying
the best of both on- and offstage worlds. The concert programs
were fun too, if you didn’t mind 5 to 10-hour stints at
the drafting table and the last-minute midnight runs to the
printing plant. But you do get to meet interesting people on
the graveyard shift. Thank you Bill and Steve for your
war-weary but fascinating late-night entertainment and burning
binge.
By the way, these drawings were mostly
done with a 00-gauge Rapidograph. I always enjoyed the lines as
they revealed themselves to me, one at a time, except when they
drew themselves because I was sound asleep. If you look
carefully, you may see the manual moiré developing long
before I did.
The the art of lighting is essentially
transient, however exhilarating, while the programs and
illustrations are still hanging around, ready to remind us of
all those great shows. —Moyssi
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