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Metal/Hard Rock Bands that used Lasers

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riffer

May 19, 2008
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Calgary, Alberta
#1
So yesterday coming back from Metallica I mentioned to my friend how I thought the fact that they used lasers was kinda lame, imo laser dont belong at a thrash (or what was thrash haha) concert, which got me thinking what other other hard rock/metal bands have used them?

LASERS SHOULD BE RESERVED FOR RUSH ONLY:p
 
#7
I think this is why the whole trance/techno rave thing caught on in its day, they just replaced the awesome music with lots of drugs and a back beat...

unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce.....
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ROFL

I see the trance thing coming out of the party drug shift, from LSD back in the day to E now (albeit with that whole coke and speed thing in between). From what I understand about E that Unce, Unce, Unce isn't about the sound its about the feeling of the bass vibrating your body, and the steady-ness of it suits the need to give everyone in the room friction burns.

Just like when the drug of the day was LSD the music needed to be free and spacey and improvisational so your mind could follow something rather than turn inwards on itself....and so you can dance like a mentally disabled bird underwater.

Music and drugs always seem to evolve in response to one another.
 
#9
DudeistMonk said:
ROFL

I see the trance thing coming out of the party drug shift, from LSD back in the day to E now (albeit with that whole coke and speed thing in between). From what I understand about E that Unce, Unce, Unce isn't about the sound its about the feeling of the bass vibrating your body, and the steady-ness of it suits the need to give everyone in the room friction burns.

Just like when the drug of the day was LSD the music needed to be free and spacey and improvisational so your mind could follow something rather than turn inwards on itself....and so you can dance like a mentally disabled bird underwater.

Music and drugs always seem to evolve in response to one another.
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wow! that's a really interesting correlation that I never thought of before! Methinks somebody should start a study of that sorta thing. It'd be a cool History channel documentation.
 
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#18
Happynoj said:
Wow. Was that entire stage a video screen? It was making me feel a bit queasy watching it...
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Yeah, it was fantastic in the flesh. They had white screens that they would lay over the stage, and the same graphics that were being played on the screens behind the band were also being played below the band.

The other thing about their show was that the lasers and lights started out fairly restrained, and by the end of the show it was totally above and beyond the call of duty.
 
#19
Triumph (serious laser show at least for the 80's. I remember they had a Giant laser Head floating above the stage talking I cant remember what it was saying...but If I rember corectally they opend with Fight the Good Fight.)
The Who
Yngvie Malmsteen
Judas Priest
Black Sabbath

These are all concerts I went to back in the 80's and they all had lasers.
 

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