Ah yes, running the "Oil Drum!"
Crazy shape, good spot.
Hello!
Back in post #20, the
Colortran I toured all the way to Broadway's Shubert MAY not be what others are remembering.
The
unit I was referring to was a Strong Super wanna be originally imported from somewhere like China-ish and introduced in US trade shows. Over maybe a decade it passed through about 3 distributors, at some
point under one name in the US and a different name in Canada simultaneously.
Overall, if you received a factory sealed box, if it arrived with all of the parts, one person tuned and optimized it and was its only operator, it COULD be a reasonable
unit if it sat
in one place and nobody else touched it.
The first four I met became the originally spec'd spots in a brand new
arena. Without consistent handlers they went downhill quickly. You could put in the time to finesse all four for a touring rock show / film shoot / what have you, run your day or two, come back the following weekend and repeat as necessary.
Maybe about a decade later, a show I'd been with through production / rehearsals / previews / opening and initial run was about to leave on tour. At the last moment I was asked if I'd go with it. Lucky me; the producers proudly announced they'd negotiated one of these sad Super wanna be's for the full tour and Broadway run.
With initial finesse, careful hand-bombing down to
deck level, crating, loading and trucking coupled with the lone operator (Moi) it held up fairly well all the way to Broadway's Shubert where I last saw it precisely six weeks past opening night.
Routinely a touring crew bringing a production to Broadway, especially from out of the country (Canada), depart with the landing of the opening night's final curtain, party their brains out, and fly home the next day. The only reason I was allowed to stay with the production for the additional six weeks was due to a little back scratching negotiation: I could stay in NYC for the extra month I was interested in IF I'd stay for two additional weeks until the person the NYC PE ideally wanted in the position would be available. As always, there are the rules AND the underlying trading of favors that make things go a little easier.
Wrapping this up:
That '
Colortran' was (from memory) a 2 Kw xenon but no one would ever confuse it with a xenon Super.
Help me out Derek, what the heck were those spots called, they went through at least three names.
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Bottom
Line: Maintaining a positive balance of favors has yet to let me down.
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard