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Eric Price debuts Elation SOL I Blinder on Taking Back Sunday tour

Taking Back Sunday lighting designer Eric Price is the first to tour with Elation’s new SOL I Blinder, integrating the LED light into the rock band’s set on their current North American outing. The tour kicked off on May 19, 2024, in New Orleans and continues through the summer.

Price and tour manager Andrew Sprague talked design ideas with Taking Back Sunday vocalist Adam Lazzara, who Price says is very hands on with the look of the show. Looking back at styles as diverse as Queen shows of the 1970s and the iconic sets of Soul Train, Price says Lazzara wanted a bold, traditional aesthetic with eye candy looks on stage and minimal moving lights.

“Obviously we weren’t going to bring out 100s of PAR cans so we explored custom set pieces”, explains Price. “Looking at venue sizes and logistics, we needed something efficient and effective and we settled on an idea of a lot of blinders.” After talking to Jason Reberski at lighting vendor JRLX, as well as Ross Blitz at Elation, Price says he realized that the SOL fixtures were an interesting option.

The setup includes a 24-ft wide by 4-ft tall riser with steps, a drum riser stage left and a vocal riser stage right, all skirted with 44 SOL I Blinder fixtures. The SOL live on pipe in racks of four which clamp onto the back of the legs of the riser decks, a quick set-up and tear-down rigging plan that was worked out by stage provider Gallagher Nashville, along with JRLX. Elation SixBar 1000 LED battens provide side lighting.

The band’s music, a mix of heavy numbers with quick transitions into quieter more emotional songs, gives Price the opportunity to use the fixtures in a variety of ways. “I enjoy transitioning from big white CTO looks or saturated color sweeps down into a dark moody blue, just following the music”, he says. “You don’t need a lot of gobos, just color and tempo.”

Taking Back Sunday music pairs well with strobe looks, which Price turns to at medium to low intensity. “They would destroy the crowd at full intensity”, he says, noting that he generally runs the SOLs at 30-35 percent with an end-of-show walk-off look at up to 60 percent.

Ryan Kestler is the LX/Video Tech on this tour. Worm serves as Stage Manager/Carpenter. Video Vendor is DCR Nashville.

(Photos: Salma Bustos/Glenn Cummings/Charlie McCarty)

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