Seriously, though... whoever thought up the "projection screen with lights around it" idea had better have gotten a raise that day.

1 The ring of spots around the arena doing that wave motion effect, I could watch that for HOURS, never mind the rest of it. Wowza.

2 I could probably write a whole essay on the change and evolution of the original Pink Floyd vs later performances.  The lighting here is amazing indeed, but the music itself... I'll stick with the Pulse or Echoes recordings.

3 Know what gets me?  Around about the 1:45 mark on Run Like Hell, the lights around The Circle aren't really illuminating anything.  They're just nodding to each other.  Left-right-left-right...
I saw that and immediately started looking for other easter eggs in the lighting rig...

4 "We're gonna need a lot of Vari-Lights."
"How many?"
"All of them."

5 Mauser, I suspect I can narrow down the first time and place that was ever said.
September 26, 1981.  The day AFTER Genesis began their "Abacab" world tour in Barcalounger Spain, but the day before the second concert.
While it's not from either of those shows, let's go back to the wonderful time of 1981, and watch a lighting crew in action.
"Some of them are airplane landing lights."  Cue me falling over from laughter.

6 I worked for a guy once whose claim to fame was installing lighting at Studio 54. One of his other installations was in a hotel in Mexico where he installed rectangular car headlamps in the stair risers. Apparently if you run 10 of them in series, it's fine to hook them up to the mains. At least in Mexico....

7 Eighty aircraft landing lights. Oh how things changed in later years, eh? I sort of wonder who in the band really pushed for the Vari-Lite deal, or if that was a Tony Smith thing.


Also: It's weird to see the Genesis trio when they were big-ish but not post-Invisible-Touch big. Total dorks, all three of 'em.