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Psychadelic backdrop?

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kearney

Jul 5, 2004
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how do you get a MOVING pyschadelic backdrop as pictured used by the who in monterey, its really cool lookin and i was wondering how to get this effect,

see the kids are alright for motion,

anyone know what im talkin bout?
 
#4
There is a company in KC which does lighted backdrops for a lot of jamband shows around here. They get a number of overhead projectors (like teachers used when I was in school) and have a transparent plate of some different colored oil suspended in water(?) on the bed of each one. Then they play with the droplets of oil. It's a very cool effect.
 
#5
like jefferson airplane ?

JeffersonAirplane.jpg


:crying: a picture used to be worth 1,000 words... ...but then inflation happened...
 
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msquared said:
There is a company in KC which does lighted backdrops for a lot of jamband shows around here. They get a number of overhead projectors (like teachers used when I was in school) and have a transparent plate of some different colored oil suspended in water(?) on the bed of each one. Then they play with the droplets of oil. It's a very cool effect.
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yeah thats what my dad just told me, actually they still use overheads, i can vouch, im 14
 
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msquared said:
There is a company in KC which does lighted backdrops for a lot of jamband shows around here. They get a number of overhead projectors (like teachers used when I was in school) and have a transparent plate of some different colored oil suspended in water(?) on the bed of each one. Then they play with the droplets of oil. It's a very cool effect.
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Yes, this is how they do it. I've watched them do it at many shows in San Francisco. Good times!
 
#9
Check out Live At The Fillmore East: A Photographic Memoir by Amalie Rothschild. There's pictures & a chapter on the people who performed these psychedelic collages as a backdrop for the live music.
These people were artists/performed in their own right...the images were performed live each night. How well they performed maybe depended on how well the Grateful Dead's road manager hooked them up pre-show. ;)
Not sure if the same group did Monterey Pop(I'm thinkin' maybe they did).


The recent Allman Brothers DVD(at The Beacon?) has some of the psychedelics going on behind them...probably 'compooterized'/pre-programmed.
 
#10
I do a lot of lighting for live bands. You can do the gel/overhead thing but it's major pain in the ass for a lighting guy to deal with. Advise: don't put together a system and show up at a venue doing the "Oh, by the way..." to the house lighting guy. The main problem will be pre-focused lights that will wash out your effect; a 200W overhead projector is no match for a bunch of 1000W pars. Advance this info.

One way of more easily approximating it is with moving lights with a gobo (in this case a glass plate) designed to simulate this effect. In High End fixtures (Technobeames, Studiospots are you most likely choices) this gobo is called Lumoil.

Another way is to get a video company that specialized in content to provide that kind of image and project it. Again this is info the lighting guy needs in advance.
 
#11
My band Caribou Foot is puting together a light show backdrop using the "visual skins" used in music programs like Windows Media Player and of the such. We're trying to figure out a way to run a signal line through the "visual skin" and project it onto a backdrop for each musician. So there would be 6 different skins "dancing" along with what each musician would be playing. So if I stop playing and let the groove cook for a little bit, my visual will be still untill I come back in. It's pretty tricky to get everything set up though, but it's coming along.
 

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