Dang, those producers are sassy!
"The producers have no comment on the matter except to wish Mr. Kobak, who is currently in the 'American Idiot' tour, well."
"The producers have no comment on the matter except to wish Mr. Kobak, who is currently in the 'American Idiot' tour, well."
So he makes all these "hard landings" with gear that wasn't calibrated for him? Shouldn't he have brought this up before he performed the stunts?
He probably did, but he was filling in. I imagine if he refused to go on until it was re-calibrated the producers would have just found someone else to do it and he wouldn't have gotten paid.
With the term "recalibrated" that would be my guess as well rather than dealing with weight, instead it's adjusting how much travel there is, even if he's only a little taller that could make a big enough difference with the stuff they are doing. The change in weight wouldn't do too much to effect the speed or force with which he was being moved. Maybe not its not even the deceleration that's too hard on him its that because the other guy was perhaps shorter, when he hits the deck it is at a slower rate, but because his feet get there sooner the rig hasn't slowed his landing enough and he's hitting too hard.
A couple of strokes on a keyboard should be able to fix that for an automated system. I cant imagine no one would have done that.
One would also assume they had an SOP for making sure people were properly hooked into their harness, but we know they didn't.
A couple of strokes on a keyboard should be able to fix that for an automated system. I cant imagine no one would have done that.
Are you sure it's computer controlled. Physical limits would have been cheaper, and given that the show was built to never move venues just as effective. They would also be a lot more of a pain to reset (or "recalibrate").
All you would need though, is different show files. I am assuming that the automated system would use three step process for movement, as weight isn't a recalibration issue as a digital system would sense it. So it would be an acceleration phase, travel after acceleration phase and deceleration phase. The only thing that would have to be different for each show file/performer would be the travel phase. Just take 6 inches off or whatever the height differentiation would be and you would be set.
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