For Grateful Dead's recent Fare Thee Well Tour, Candace Brightman—the band's LD for 40 of their 50 year-history—left her retirement of eight years to be their lighting designer/director one last time. Paul Hoffman, a principal of Pulse Lighting, programmed the lighting. The two coordinated with Dizzy Gosnell of Bandit Lites, which provided the lighting equipment for the July 4 performances at Chicago's Soldier Field, while Felix Lighting supplied the same lighting rig for the preceding weekend at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Video content developed by Tim Zgraggen filled the screens from Filament Productions. Aaron Stinebrink was the media server programmer/operator. Justin Kreutzmann, son of drummer Bill Kreautzmann, and Obscura Digital provided additional video elements. Check out the lighting plots below and the creative team/crew and gear lists on the following pages.
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Full Gear List
Lighting Gear
- 60 Philips Vari-Lite 3000 Spot
- 36 Philips Vari-Lite 3500 Wash
- 8 Philips Vari-Lite 3500 Spot
- 50 Robe BMFL
- 32 Robe Robin Pointe
- 50 Harman Martin Professional MAC Viper
- 28 Harman Martin Professional MAC 2000 Wash
- 16 Clay Paky Sharpy
- 12 GLP impression X4
- 30 2-light Mole
- 12 Harman Martin Professional Atomic 3000 Strobe
- 70 LED PAR
- 3 MA Lighting grandMA2 full-size
- 2 MA Lighting grandMA2 light
- 8 MA Lighting MA NPU
Video Gear
- 2 26'x48' 7mm LED Screen
- 6 18'x11' 12mm 360° Screen
- 53' HD TV Truck Package
- 1 Ross Carbonite 2 M/E 24 Input Switcher
- 4 Hitachi SK-HD1000 Camera
- 2 Fujinon 72x Long Lens
- 2 Fujinon Wide Lens
- 2 Panasonic AW-HE130 Robotic Camera
- 2 Marshall POV Camera
- 10 AJA KiPro Record Rack with KiSto re Drive
Creative Team And Crew
- Candace Brightman, Lighting Designer/Director
- Paul Hoffman, Lighting Programmer
- Chris Coyle, Lighting Crew Chief
- Mark Hodgman, Lighting Crew (Santa Clara)
- Dan McDonough, Lighting Crew (Santa Clara)
- Trevor Gooch, Lighting Crew (Santa Clara)
- Geoff Martin, Lighting Crew (Santa Clara)
- Robert Going, Lighting Crew (Santa Clara)
- Billy Willingham, Lighting Crew (Chicago)
- Steve Hoover, Lighting Crew (Chicago)
- Terese Fensler, Lighting Crew (Chicago)
- Sarah Eucker, Lighting Crew (Chicago)
- Hap Prater, Lighting Crew (Chicago)
D50 I-Mag Unit/Video Crew
- Fenton Williams, Executive Producer
- Ryan Gall, Producer
- Todd LePere, Associate Producer
- Bryan Bieber, Video Production Manager & Account Rep
- Charlie Harris, Video Director
- Andrew Humprhies, Truck Engineer
- Aaron Stinebrink, Media Server Programmer/Operator
- Bryan Venhorst, Media Server and Spyder Engineer
- David Adam Dragosin, LED Crew Chief
- Ted Cognata, LED Tech
- Tom Braslin, LED Tech (Santa Clara)
- Omar Montes, LED Tech (Chicago)
- Carson Austin, LED Tech (Chicago)
- Rob Horne, Audio Tech/Truck Swing
- Murphy Michael Mulvihill, Truck Swing (Chicago)
- Richard Adams, Truck Swing (Santa Clara)
- Charles Knicklow, Camera Operator (Santa Clara)
- Tito Villasenor, Camera Operator (Santa Clara)
- Kieran Hughes, Camera Operator (Santa Clara)
- Leif Maertens, Camera Operator (Santa Clara)
- Stephen Thomas, Camera Operator (Chicago)
- Kirk Hepburn, Camera Operator (Chicago)
- Mark Sofil, Camera Operator (Chicago)
- Robert Bedford, Camera Operator (Chicago)
- Sanjay Suchak, Camera Utility (Chicago)