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CARGO AIRCRAFT A GLOBAL LEADER IN MUSIC INDUSTRY CHARTERS N.AMERICA | S.AMERICA | EUROPE | AFRICA | CIS | MIDDLE EAST | ASIA 1 mobile production monthly 2 mobile production monthly volume 5 issue 10 2012 contents IN THE NEWS 10 New Hires 6 Lighting 12 Harness Screens Bandit Clients Dominate at CMA 14 Warriors of the Road Awards Venues Reunion Venues Inside and Out, Harrah’s Sounds 18 BRAD PAISLEY VIRTUAL Good with Community REALITY TOUR: Well Planned and 7 Sound Even Better Executed DiGiCo is in Total Control of 23 Brad Paisley Crew Cirque du Soleil’s MJ World Tour 24 In the House with the Thin Workshops Lizzy Crew 2012 Milos Runs 2012 Safety Work- 28 A Gig from Hell with the shop in China Twins of Evil: Rob Zombie and 8 Special Effects Marilyn Manson Justin Beiber’s “Believe” Tour 32 Obituary Believes in Special Effects from Strictly FX mobile production monthly 3 FROM THE Publisher It is hard to believe that the Country Music Award shows are all here. For me, those events always signal the beginning of the end of the touring season. Everything starts to slow down and people start to come home from the road. HOME OFFICE STAFF ph: 615.256.7006 • f: 615.256.7004 2961 Armory Dr • Nashville, TN • USA 37204 This is also the time that our office switches into high gear with both the annual mobileproductionpro.com Road Book and the Tour Link Conference to deal with. I can assure you, it is a For advertising inquiries: challenge. At least, with the conference, we have some new, young and energetic [email protected] people involved this time and it is really refreshing. Publisher: Larry Smith [email protected] Managing Director: Chris Cogswell Speaking of refreshing, that is just what our cover feature, Brad Paisley’s Virtual [email protected] Reality tour is….refreshing. The show is crisp, clean and professional. I think you Chief Writer / Photographer: Michael A. Beck [email protected] will enjoy reading about it. Inside this issue, we also take a look at the Rob Zombie Art Director / Graphic Designer: Anna Cherry and Marilyn Manson Twins of Evil tour and the Thin Lizzy crew deal with the [email protected] challenges of using in-house great for a one-off club gig. Office Manager: [email protected] Contributing Writers: Bill Abner / [email protected] So, I hope your year is going well and that you close out strong. Also, please try to Hank Bordowitz / [email protected] Richard Bennett / [email protected] attend Tour Link this coming January. We will be honoring A GREAT group of Bill Evans / [email protected] inductees to the Touring Hall of Fame and the event is shaping up to be one of our Todd Kramer / [email protected] Bill Robison / [email protected] best. You can still register at HYPERLINK “http://www.tourlinkconference.com” Mike Wharton / [email protected] www.tourlinkconference.com. See you all in sunny Arizona January 24 - 26, 2013. 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Member of: 4 mobile production monthly 4 mobile production monthly mobile production monthly 5 >> IN THE NEWS a part of. Superstar Kenny Chesney was racetrack area is covered by 15 R1 all-weather awarded the CMA for Best Musical Event loudspeakers, and the multi-tiered, glass- for his “Feel Like a Rock Star” duet with enclosed Clubhouse overlooking the track is Tim McGraw. served by seven iBOX-Series loudspeakers. A selection of I/O surface-mount loudspeakers Additionally, Toby Keith can raise his glass covers the Racing Lobby and adjacent sports to Music Video of the Year with “Red Solo bar. Cup,” and multi-instrumentalist singer- songwriter Mac McAnally took home is fifth One of the casino’s most popular watering CMA “Musician of the Year” award. holes is Barleque’s, a bustling restaurant and lounge that offers drinks and dining all day Michael Strickland, chair of Bandit Lites, and live entertainment in the evenings. Six celebrated the success of Bandits’ clients of Community’s Distributed Design DP6 saying, “Bandit Lites is very fortunate to Pendant Loudspeakers provide background work with the top artists in the world. It is a music for the dining area. BSS London responsibility we take very seriously and we BLU80 series audio processors handle signal strive daily to help them reach new heights. drive and distribution. We develop relationships early in their careers and are a part of their family as they grow and achieve monumental success. We are blessed to have these opportunities and will never sway in our commitment to Lighting excellence.” Bandit Clients Dominate at CMA Awards www.banditlites.com Bandit Lites, Inc. is thrilled to announce that Bandit clients were the big winners at the 46th Annual Country Music Association Venues Awards. The event was broadcasted live Inside and Out, Harrah’s on Thursday, November 2, 2012. Country Sounds Good With Commu- superstars Brad Paisley and Carrie nity Underwood hosted the event, which was held in Nashville at the Bridgestone Arena. Drive through the parking lot at Harrah’s Philadelphia Casino and Racetrack any Of the twelve awards given, almost all went time, day or night, and you’re likely to find to clients of Bandit Lites. Blake Shelton it packed. With the Philadelphia area’s only took home Male Vocalist of the Year and 5/8 mile harness racing track and a casino the ever-coveted Entertainer of the Year in larger than three football fields, Harrah’s addition to winning Song of the Year with draws a steady stream of customers coming wife, Miranda Lambert for the song Over to play, eat, drink, and be merry. You. Lambert also won Female Vocalist of the Year for the third consecutive year. With the casino’s close proximity to busy Little Big Town celebrated two wins, both Philadelphia airport, selecting the right Vocal Group of the Year and Single of sound system took on a critical role. As the Year with their first #1 hit, Pontoon. Jim Esher, Harrah’s Technical Director of Thompson Square, comprised of husband Entertainment, explains, “We’re so close to and wife team Keifer and Shawna the end of the runway, I can tell you what Thompson, were awarded Top Vocal Duo, kind of sunglasses the pilot’s wearing.” breaking Sugarland’s five year streak. Esher specified Community Professional Country newcomer Hunter Hayes won Loudspeakers across a wide range of the Best New Artist. Hayes has been a part of venue, including more than 140 Community Underwood’s current Blown Away Tour, R.5 loudspeakers for the main casino and which Bandit has had the privilege of being gaming room. The expansive outdoor 6 mobile production monthly “The system in Barleque’s is designed for sections, with a focus on the key musicians; I two racks, Ray has two, and there are a flexibility,” explains the casino’s AV manager can always tell if there’s something not quite further three that we share; I don’t think Nelson Brittin. “It’s configured as two zones - right going on by the faces they pull – it’s a there’s another manufacturer out there that one for the dining area, the other for the bar. really neat function!” can accommodate those kind of numbers,” Volume and source selection is handled via a Pare insists. “And in terms of quality of local BLU-10 controller. That way, if there sound, what’s coming out of those pre-amps are customers who want to hear the game is pretty amazing. You don’t have to do too on TVs over the bar, they can do so without much to make it sound great – just plug it in, disturbing the customers in the dining area.” and away you go.