Pink Floyd / Concerts and Tours

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This is an overview of the concerts and tours of the British rock band Pink Floyd . As early as the mid-1960s, the band was experimenting with light and sound effects that turned their performances into events and at the same time served as models for later bands.

The lighting effects

Pink Floyd was one of the first bands to use lighting effects at their concerts. Initially, so-called liquid light shows were an integral part of their appearances; colorful oils were projected onto screens behind the band, which formed constantly changing bubbles under the influence of heat. In addition, there were stroboscopes that threw colorful flashes at the audience. Mike Leonard, the band's lighting technician, developed new methods of generating graphic light patterns.

In the 1970s, scaffolding and lifting platforms from the construction industry were used to carry the light installations, some of which could be raised and lowered during the show. In the mid-1980s, the lighting designer Marc Brickman used hundreds of freely movable headlights and lasers that corresponded to the current state of the art. In the 1990s, laser technologies developed for atomic research and high-speed photography were used.

From the “Dark Side of the Moon” tour, a round projection screen appeared on the stage, nicknamed “Mr. Screen ”received. Specially made films and animations were shown on it. In later appearances, the edge was equipped with colorful movable headlights.

Also from the “Dark Side of the Moon” tour, disco balls were part of the show, and they got bigger and bigger over time. On the "Division Bell" tour, a diameter of 4.90 m was reached. The sphere was pulled to a height of over 20 m, where at the climax of the show it opened radially and released a 12 kW headlight.

Concerts and tours

literature

  • Vernon Fitch: The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia. Collector's Guide Pub., Burlington 2005, ISBN 1-894959-24-8 .
  • Nick Mason : Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London 2004. ISBN 0-297-84387-7 .
  • Nicholas Schaffner: Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey. Sidgewick, London 1991. ISBN 0-517-57608-2 .
  • Glenn Povey and Ian Russell: Pink Floyd: In The Flesh: the complete performance history. St. Martin's Griffin, New York 1997. ISBN 0-312-19175-8 .
  • Gerald Scarfe: The Making of Pink Floyd: The Wall. Da Capo Press, [New York] 2010. ISBN 978-0-306-81997-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mike Leonard: The Man Who Created Pink Floyd's Light Show Magic on DangerousMinds.net (English)
  2. ^ Catherine McHugh: Welcome to the Machine . Lighting Dimensions, September 1994 (English)
  3. ↑ James Hall: David Gilmour, Royal Albert Hall, review: 'the full Floyd experience in all but name' . The Telegraph , September 24, 2015 (English)
  4. ↑ Own a bit of Pink Floyd history! on brain damage - pink floyd neys resource
  5. ^ Lemmy Kilmister: White line fever: die Autobiographie , Heyne, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3453-67525-4 , p. 67.