The lighting design itself is more abstract, Marrinan notes. Spots are all hung upstage. They are used a lot on the set and the stage for the band. I use them a lot on intros. They are also being used on the audience with the zoom feature all the way out, but with rotations on the audience.
Spots are our main source of upstage lights.
And that's where we can really show the beams off by pointing at the downstage edge. So we figured that was the best place for them. Along with a new show, the band replaced all the patterns in the Studio Spots and Cyberlights with semi-custom patterns from High End Systems. That's 350 new LithoPatterns being shown this year, not counting the patterns in the new x. High End has always been good to us and High End has always made something new every year.