I love surprises, and I had the wonderful surprise of hearing the answer to the question I asked Thomas from Highlite Sound "so, how many L-Acoustic boxes do we have out here on this tour?"
and the breakdown for the gear and placements for Gelsenkirchen are:
Main system Left/Right - 14 K1 + 4 Kara underhung per side
Outer system L/R- 16 K1 + 6 Kara underhung per side
Outer outer L/R - 6 Kara per side
9 Kara Center cluster
Two Kara per side as deck fillson the lip of the stage
Three delay clusters each with 12 K1
Totaling a whopping and imprssive:
96 K1, 56 SB28 and 45 KARA
Now on to other curiosities....
So we are all set up in Gelsenkirchen at Veltins Arena and wandering about I notice the seats behind the stage are slid back, ooooh, lets go look!
So, the seats roll back on the these rails
Driven by electric motors
and you can walk underneath
to find a huge grass field outside
that is also on wheels and tracks and
the entire gassy football (soccer) field splits in two and rolls outside to get some sunshine and move out of the way for rock shows and other events. So cool and I ask
"How long does it take to roll the grass out?"
"What? Fourteen hours? wow!" I'm surprised, "why so long?" so she says
"Because it is very heavy" Ha! I guess that's pretty obvious and can you imagine having the gig of spending 14 hours watching the grass roll, heck I bet the grass is taller and needs to be mowed as well after moving.
OK, a soccer field is 100 meters or 330 feet. It takes 14 hours for the 2 halves to slide out and they travel maybe an extra 85 feet or so to clear the bleachers. 1/2x330+85=250feet in 14 hours. 17.85 feet per hour, 3.57 inches per minute or about 300 hours to travel a mile.
And how about a look in that little tent three photos up?Ahh, it's Adam's world! Our European pro tools live recorder guy.
Some new cool graphics have been showing up in the peppers set
So lets give a shout out to Scott and Leif and may as well dig up an older photo of them looking 'cool' as always
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