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John Garberson and Creative BackStage set mood for Arizona Bike Week with Chauvet

This year, the annual Arizona Bike Week drew over 75,000 bikers from across North America to the Phoenix area between March 29 and April 2. The production crew from Creative BackStage put up a massive lighting rig on a stage with a 50-foot ceiling, all without a catwalk, using only a boom lift.

“It was our biggest challenge in this project”, John Garberson, Director of Creative BackStage, says of the rigging, which took almost a full day to complete. “In the end though, we got the job done on time.” Taking advantage of the stage’s 92-foot width and 48-foot depth, Garberson and his team put together a multi-layered rig that allowed LDs to create immersive and textured looks for headliners Megadeth, Billy Idol, Staind, Texas Hippie Collection and a host of supporting bands.

A collection of over eighty Chauvet Professional fixtures - including Maverick Force 2 Profiles, Rogue R2Washes, and Strike 4 blinders - was supplied by Creative BackStage with some support from LIT Lighting. All the headliners, except for Texas Hippie Collection, brought their own lighting team. Garberson’s sixteen Maverick Force 2 Profiles were key in adding to the rig’s versatility. He had four of the 580 W units flown down stage and four mid-stage, with the remaining eight on back truss.

The Megadeth design team also requested that added spots be positioned on the deck for their show. Garberson had six Maverick MK2 Spot fixtures brought out for this purpose. For Garberson one of the visual highlights of the event came during Staind’s show when the rig’s Rogue R3 Beam and R2 Washes were used to cover the stage with a shimmery blueish-white cover of light.

(Photos: Chauvet Professional)

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