a decidedly prickish little English guy
Yea, there were a lot of them! I remember a gig, I think at the Allentown fairgrounds where the union crew got so sick of the LD, the cut the com cable! I think it comes from touring your guts out until you are just burned out and mad at the world.
Super troupers made it into a number of songs, the one running through my mind has lyrics (paraphrased due to neuron death):
"Under the hot lights, where the
Super Trouper shines, you got to keep your love, keep your love alive."
The kit shown above, fitted into a regular Trouper, was the one often found in Lighting Dimensions magazine. The kits I got were different. I think I got them through Bash lighting in NJ at the time. Not all that different. Light output seamed as bright, but "thinner" as in not as strong a spectrum. (some colors, especially reds, were weak compared to the
carbon arc.) The big problem was that you had to keep the heavy
transformer mounted in the
base (old style) for stability, and now you were also carrying around and equally heavy
ballast box too!
