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The Silo When I first entered this club, we had about 6 hours to set up, and what I saw horrified me! The back of the stage had a curved top, and there was NO backstage area! We had to think fast and hard! Lighting Since the back of the stage was like an upside-down half-pipe, we had a lot of depth to work with, but no height! We quickly decided to partition off the back four feet with our backdrops. This gave us a small area to set up special effects and hide props. The main room was actually two stories with a wrap-around balcony. The bulk of our front lighting was hung in front of this balcony. I limited the back lighting plot to the "mystery" colors of cobalt blue and true green. These were almost always in contrast to what was falling on the front of the stage and added optical depth. Sound Sound was a bit easier as there was ample side room for speaker stacks. (see balloon shot below) There was an acoustic trap in the rear that made it hard for the drummer. To fix this, a small speaker stack was hidden behind the backdrop directly behind the drummer. It worked! By
the time we did our sound check, things had fell well into place. In
fact, as years went by, it became one of our favorite venues to
play! ;)
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