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Linkin Park and show effects: A grateful combination. Since the comeback with new singer Emily Armstrong, an album (“From Zero”) and the largest open-air concerts that they have ever completed, they have been playing in ever larger dimensions. Pyro effects are simply part of it. Laser too. And this requires increased attention of all six band members as soon as they are on stage.
Stage instructions with security function
This also explains a detail in Linkin Park’s set lists. “Avoid Wings”, “Avoid Center” is often said. “Avoid wings”, “avoids the center”.
Such stage instructions should help Armstrong, Mike Shinoda and the others to find their way around with certain songs – and not to be wrong. Otherwise you get into the range of your own pyros or stage lasers that can blind. After all, the network is full of stage fails that show burning musicians. Doesn’t have to be.
Three setlists, many effects – and clear rules
Linkin-Park fans are even more precise on Reddit. “The band varies its live shows mainly with three setlists, which they call Set A, Set B or Set C,” writes one. “‘Avoid Center’ and ‘Avoid Wings’ are stage instructions. One of the greatest differences between the ‘from Zero’ tour compared to the previous tours of the band is the increased use of stage effects, in particular light. These instructions are to avoid information for the band so that they are not made by lighting effects (which can lead to accidents) and to prevent the view of the view of the view Audience is unintentionally affected.
And “avoid thrust”, ie the “pre -stage”? “In the theater, a front stage is surrounded by the audience on three sides, so this term is adopted here to describe the part of the stage that protrudes beyond the normal rectangular stage.” Avoid Thrust “=” Do not stand on the protruding section there is pyrotechnics “.
A Linkin-Park fan refers to an old video in which a playful-looking Panese-looking Mike Shinoda waves his Linkin Park buddy Chester Bennington on a sound check (from minute 1:11). Bennington was probably in the wrong place for the wrong time. And would almost have been blinded …