For years, lighting designer Giovanni Pinna has been responsible for ensuring that Vasco Rossi's summer tours are even more exciting.
Set design is by Giò Forma Studio of Milan, who chose to decorate the stage with a background of round mirrors (the same ones you find used as traffic signals). Pinna incorporated a huge number of Martin fixtures: 63 MAC 700 Profiles, 50 MAC 700 Washes, 55 Atomic 3000 strobes, 78 Stagebar 54 L and 22 Stagebar 54 S LED bars, plus two Jem Roadie Compact fog and haze effect generators. The Martin gear was provided by Limelite of Rome.
Pinna turned to LED for the first time in 2001 and has been increasing its use on Vasco tours ever since. For Vasco 2008, he placed 100 Stagebar 54s behind the band, in vertical columns, to generate graphic effects and lighting 'explosions.'
"The Stagebar 54 is versatile and easy to install, to set up and to use," Pinna comments. "I loved it from the first time that I saw it." Giovanni also appreciates the fact that both a transparent and an opaque diffuser are included and that they are so easy to change.
(Jim Evans)
