Queen Pizza Oven Lighting Rig

Check out the jacksons live album of that tour.

Queen pizza oven lighting rig. It was nicknamed the pizza oven due to the massive amount of heat that the lights generated. The pizza oven utilized 320 blindingly hot lights on its main truss. For some reason the tape of god save the queen starts playing about a minute after they finish we are the champions. Lighting rig on the crazy tour 22 11 1979 26 12 1979 for crazy tour queen used a smaller version of the pizza oven to accomodate small venues in london.

The centre spread of the double lp shows the lighting rig landed facing out to the crowd just as queen s did at the end of the game. This tour featured their pizza oven lighting rig which consisted of 320 par lights arranged on a massive moveable rig above the band. For the first time the band travel in their own private plane between cities on this tour. Well sets of different items which could change from one night to the other roger had dozens of items and his roadie assembled the kit based on his specifications but it also varied depending on the venue the set list and the general mood of the moment.

Interestingly the jacksons toured in 1981 with a very similar lighting rig to queen s game tour with the rig known as either the gii razor or the fly swatter. Many songs are dropped from the set to make way for tracks from the new album jazz. We built a big stage rig and recreated some of queen s iconic lighting rigs what they call the pizza oven and basically created a modular system for both the stage dressing and the lighting with different drum risers gear and wings on the stage so that within a day or an overnight we could switch from madison square garden to rio just. Their new lighting rig has rows of lights that are so warm underneath that it has earned the nickname pizza oven at the beginning and end of the show when the lighting rig rises and descends respectively the intense heat from all the lights is felt by audience members in the first few rows.

15 nov 04 16 03 imho from the pictures i ve seen the works tour had the best lighting rig i like the stage design as well. Live in rio and was later. Out of all the instruments drums are the most difficult ones to document and an error proof list cannot be made as the drum sets were. Also this is probably the only time when freddie doesn t say anything to the audience at the end of a show.

A selection of highlights of both nights was released on vhs with the title queen. This is the final show the band would perform under the giant pizza oven lighting rig. Instead of 5 columns of green and red they were reduced to 4 columns like the white columns were. Also for the u s tour a new lighting rig is unveiled in the shape of the pizza oven a massive rig of hundreds of lights in blocks of red green and white.