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Corona: Wes Youngblood lights Smith & Myers drive-in show with Chauvet

Lighting designer Wes Youngblood lit a drive-in show for Smith & Myers, an acoustic side project by Shinedown frontman Brent Smith and guitarist Zach Myers, at the Malco Summer Theatre in Memphis, Tennessee.

“The promoter and I spoke at great lengths about steps we could take to create a fully encapsulating experience in a setting where the stage is relatively small and the audience is very spread out in cars”, says Youngblood, the owner of Skunk Werkz Productions. “We had delay towers for audio scattered around the parking lot, and had IMAG on three screens to bring the show closer to people.

“From a lighting standpoint, I relied on a concept from my electronic jam band and metal time - that is to have some light on the crowd, some on the stage and some on the band, then keep flipping them”, he continues. “So, we didn’t rely on your typical blinder looks. In a perfect world, this show would be like what Candace Brightman and Paul Hoffman designed for the Grateful Dead ‘Fare Thee Well’. At the end of the day, though, we created the kind of audience experience we were after.”

Helping Youngblood accomplish this were his rig’s 14 Rogue R1X Wash, eight Rogue R2X Wash and 10 Rogue R2X Spot fixtures supplied from his own Skunk Werkz Productions inventory. “I just rotated out my Chauvet Rogue R1 Washes for the new Rogue R1X Washes and replaced some static Colorado fixtures with the new R2X Washes”, he says. “This was the first time since COVID-19 hit that they had made it out of the shop for use in a show.”

Youngblood flew 14 R1X Wash (in White Mode) and 10 x R2X Spots upstage on his 3’ x 10’ front truss and 12’ x 18’ back truss. He also had eight R2X Wash units (White Mode) downstage on front truss and back truss. “All my key lighting was the R2Xs in White Mode. I purchased the R2X wash to replace some Colorado VW pars”, says the LD who ran his drive-in rig with a ChamSys MagicQ MQ80.

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