Beastie Boys Get Ill For Charity
There’s not much I wouldn’t do to see the Beastie Boys live. I basically grew up listening to these guys, and it was especially nice to check them out for a good cause—last night’s show at NYC’s Terminal 5 (See Live Design Take 5 Feb. 2008) was a benefit for the Bronx-based Institute for Music and Neurologic Function (INMF). The INMF’s mission is to promote neurological health and well-being based on the healing power of music, and I totally get it. Some might argue to the contrary, but I do believe that music helps us tremendously, and by default, good lighting at a show can accentuate that music and make it even more powerful. Mike “Chicken” Lamb was the LD for last night’s show, and he provided a fair amount of different looks, working with the venue’s six moving lights (Robe ColorSpot 1200s) as well as 18 six-lamp PAR bars with Altman PAR64 NSPs, four 4-lamp ACL bars, and four 4-light blinders, 8 Source Four ellipsoidals (five 19° and three 26°), and eight High End Systems Cyberlight CXs. The venue has since added a number of plasma screens to help with the limited sightlines. Now if only we could get some better sound in there…
