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  • George Benson 1978

    Tour Dates 1978

    March 17 Festival Hall Brisbane
    March 18 State Theatre Sydney
    March 19 Palais Theatre Melbourne
    March 21 Apollo Theatre Adelaide

    Promotor

    Garry Van Egmond

  • Electric Light Orchestra 1978

    ELO Sydney 1978
    ELO Sydney 1978

    1978 was the peak of Electric Light Orchestra’s popularity with Out Of The Blue as their best selling album yet, a wildly popular stage show, and general high respect from radio and music critics. ELO brought their symphonic rock and laser lighting show to Australia in February 1978. Nothing on this scale had been seen before, in Australia.

    Commenting on the Randwick Racecourse show violinist Mik Kaminski said: “But the best thing of all was the concert we did at Sydney Outdoor Stadium, where we played to 26,000 people.”

    The speaker system for this tour included 18 of Jands newly developed all-in-one Concord cabinets along with a conventional 4 way system. Jands also supplied the lighting and stage roof.

    The lighting system was made up of Par64s and Strand profiles for specials. At the end of the Australian tour ELO airfreighted Jands lighting system and crew to Japan for concerts in Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto and Osaka. The 20ft trusses, in use at the time, were a special problem for the Qantas freighters.

    Tour Dates 1978

    January 29 Western Springs Auckland, NZ
    February 1, 2 Festival Hall Brisbane
    February 4 Randwick Race Course Sydney
    February 7, 8, 9 Myer Music Bowl Melbourne
    February 16, 17 Entertainment Centre Perth
    February 22 Budokan Tokyo, Japan
    February 23, 24 Festival Hall Osaka, Japan
    February 25 Kaikan Kyoto, Japan
    February 26 Kyuden Taiikukan Fukuoka, Japan
    February 28 Nagoyashi Kokaido Nagoya, Japan
    March 2 Shizuoka, Japan

    All images © Jands Pty Limited. Click to enlarge

  • Rockarena 1977

    Rockarena was promoted as the biggest outdoor concert ever staged in Australia, with headliners Fleetwood Mac supported by, Santana, Little River Band, Kevin Borich Express and Creation.

    Dates – 1977

    Nov 11 RAS Showgrounds, Sydney
    Nov 13 Calder Park Raceway, Melbourne

    Sound System – Clair Brothers

    32 x Clair S4 Speaker Cabinets, each containing:
    2 x JBL 18″
    4 x JBL 10″
    2 x JBL 2″ Compression Driver
    2 x JBL Slot Tweeter

    Clair Bros Crew

    James ‘Trip’ Khalaf
    Chuck Hull
    James Devenney
    Steve Paterno

    Additional System – Jands Concert Productions

    12 x Hurler (sub-Low) c/w 4 x JBL 2205
    4 x RCA W Bin c/w 2 x JBL K140
    16 x JBL 4560 c/w 1 x JBL 2220
    16 x JBL 4580 c/w 2 x JBL K120
    24 x JBL 2350 Horn + 2480 Driver
    16 x JBL 2355 Horn + 2440 Driver
    10 x JBL 2356 Horn + 2480 Driver
    48 x JBL 075 Tweeters

    Jands Crew

    Eric Robinson – Production Manager
    David Mulholland – Audio
    Vagn Stenvei – Audio
    Peter Rooney – Lighting

    All photos © Jands Pty Limited. Click to enlarge

    Vibes Magazine 1977

    by Christine Chidiac
    The coming Fleetwood Mac, Santana, Little River Band tour looks like it is going to be an even bigger smash than Rod Stewart’s blockbuster tour in February this year

    Currently the group in the world, who swept all before them at the recent America Rock Music Awards, the five superstars in Fleetwood Mac will get the ultimate star treatment while they are on their “Rockarena” tour of Australia

    They will arrive in Sydney on November 10, aboard a chartered Boeing 707 along with a road crew of more than 100 technicians and musi- cians and one half of their support act in Australia, Santana. Accompanying them will be one of the biggest rock promoters in the world, Bill Graham, of Woodstock and Led Zeppelin fame, who will compere the Rockarena concerts in each city

    Promoter Paul Dainty and publicist Patti Mostyn will have their or- ganizational work cut out for them backstage too. They will have to arrange transport for equipment for three groups instead of the usual one, and feed the always hungry road crew

    Six marquees will be set up back stage to feed them, with breakfast beginning at 6 am, followed by a continuing barbecue lunch from 11 am to 4 pm and then dinner, complete with white tablecloths, silverware and waiters, from 5 pm until the concert starts

    To keep everybody happy, there will be a marquee for pinball players, another for games, and 12 luxury caravans for dressing rooms. As Paul Dainty says, these concerts are not just music presentations — the quality and the organization behind the line-up ensure they will be events

    Audiences will appreciate the inclu- sion of our own Little River Band in the Rockarena tour. Loyal fans have bought more than 100,000 copies of their latest album, “Diamantina Cocktail” and the cash registers are still humming with LRB sales.

  • Fleetwood Mac 1977

    Rumours was released on the 4th of February 1977 and on 28 February, after rehearsing at SIR Studios in Los Angeles, Fleetwood Mac started a seven month-long promotional tour of America. In late 1977 they arrived in Australia and headlined the massive outdoor “Rockarena” shows in Sydney and Melbourne. They also played smaller indoor shows in Brisbane and Perth.

    Jands supplied the lighting and audio to supplement the Clair Bros S4 system the band toured with.

    All (except main) photos © Jands Pty Limited. Click to enlarge

    Sound System – Clair Brothers

    32 x Clair S4 Speaker Cabinets, each containing:
    2 x JBL 18″
    4 x JBL 10″
    2 x JBL 2″ Compression Driver
    2 x JBL Slot Tweeter

    Clair Bros Crew

    James ‘Trip’ Khalaf
    Chuck Hull
    James Devenney
    Steve Paterno

    Additional System – Jands Concert Productions

    12 x Hurler (sub-Low) c/w 4 x JBL 2205
    4 x RCA W Bin c/w 2 x JBL K140
    16 x JBL 4560 c/w 1 x JBL 2220
    16 x JBL 4580 c/w 2 x JBL K120
    24 x JBL 2350 Horn + 2480 Driver
    16 x JBL 2355 Horn + 2440 Driver
    10 x JBL 2356 Horn + 2480 Driver
    48 x JBL 075 Tweeters

    Jands Crew

    Eric Robinson – Production Manager
    David Mulholland – Audio
    Vagn Stenvei – Audio
    Peter Rooney – Lighting

  • Bryan Ferry 1977

    Tour Dates 1977

    May 12 Festival Hall Brisbane
    May 15, 16 Hordern Pavilion Sydney
    May 19, 20 Festival Hall Melbourne
    May 25 Apollo Theatre Adelaide
    May 30 Entertainment Centre Perth

  • Alice Cooper 1977

    Alice Cooper Perth

    The Welcome To My Nightmare Tour began in spring of 1975 and continued until 1977 when Alice brought the show to Australia and New Zealand.

    Jands Production Services provided audio and lighting for the tour.

    The elaborate travelling stage set included a large gothic looking bed in the center of the stage. There were huge pillars on either side of the bed, which would at one point in the show support an over-sized spider web for the performance of Devil’s Food and The Black Widow. And, at the height of the show the bed would slide back and a large split screen was raised.

    Alice and the dancers were on the screen and then would emerge through the screen onto the stage. Sheryl Goddard, who would later become Sheryl Cooper, played the ballerina role for Only Women Bleed.

    The touring band included Dick Wagner, Steven Hunter, Prakash John and Whitey Glan.

    I Never Cry was added to the set during the Australian and New Zealand leg of the tour.

    Tour Dates

    March 1977
    14, 15 Entertainment Centre, Perth
    18 Westlakes Football Stadium, Adelaide
    21, 22, 23, 24 Festival Hall, Melbourne
    26 RAS Showground, Sydney (40,000 people attended, breaking the Australian record at this time)
    29, 30, 31 Festival Hall, Brisbane

    Images – click to enlarge

    Video

  • Abba Tour 1977

    Abba, Myer Music Bowl Melbourne, 1977

    When Abba toured, in 1977, Jands supplied the sound, lighting and a custom built hydraulic stage that was used to raise and lower the 17 piece Australian orchestra who provided backing for several songs including “Dancing Queenrdquo;

    In a radio interview, after the Melbourne concert, reporter Don McLean said:
    “…a big speaker bank either side of the stage and then they had another one half way up the lawn area. I think possibly because of the use of strings and synthesizers and just the band themselves playing and the whole lot was blended so well, it was just unbelievable, the sound was perfect. And of course you could hear every word that ABBA sang which was what the kids were there for anyway.

    Also the lighting, the stage was all white. They had big blue curtains hanging down on either side with ah sort of flowers all round the stage. And ah, I wouldn’t be sure exactly how many lights they had, they had a lot of lights on stage, on the sides of the stage and it was just one big colour bath the whole way through. It was brilliant.”

    Tour Dates 1977

    March 3 & 4 Sydney Showgrounds
    March 5 & 6 Melbourne Myer Music Bowl
    March 8 Adelaide Westlakes Stadium
    March 10, 11 & 12 Perth Entertainment Centre.

    Sound System

    Jands Sound, Lighting & Staging Crew

    Howard Page, Peter Rooney, Paul Mulholland

    Tour Organisation

    Promoter Paul Dainty
    Tour Manager Michael Chugg
    Assistant Tour Manager Graham Maddigan
    Production Manager Eric Robinson
    Publicity Patti Mostyn

    Links

    More images from the 1977 tour
    ABBA in Perth

  • Rod Stewart 1977

    Rod Stewart toured Australia, for the first time, in early 1977. His Sydney concert set a new attendance record of 32,000 at the RAS Showground.

    Sound System
    FOH Console
    Jands 24 / 16 / 2 mixer

    Effects
    27 band stereo graphic eq
    2 x DBX 160 limiters
    2 x Jands. 4-way crossovers

    Amplifiers
    8 x Amp racks with 3 Crown DC300A or Phase Linear 700B or Jands J600S

    Speaker System:
    12 x Jands 4130 (4 x JBL 15)
    4 x RCA W Bin (2 x JBL 15)
    24 x JBL 4560 (1 x JBL 15)
    16 x Jands 4580 (2 x JBL 12)
    20 x JBL 90° horn
    16 x J8L 60° horn
    8 x JBL long throw horn
    48 x JBL 075 high frequency

    Monitor System
    Monitor Console
    Jands 20 in 6 out monitor mixer

    Side Fill
    1 x JBL 4550 (2 x JBL2220)
    2 x JBL 4560 (1 x JBL2220)
    2 x JBL 90° horn
    1 x JBL 2390 lens
    Drum Monitor
    4 x JBL 4560 bass bins
    2 x JBL 90° horns

    Floor
    4 x Jands wedge (1 x JBL 15, horn and driver

    Lighting System
    Jands 48 ch 2 preset console,
    16 Scene masters
    6 ch chaser

    Dimmers
    70 Jands 2kW (miniset) dimmers

    Fixtures
    100 x Par64
    Strand Pat 763 Profiles
    Mirror Ball

    Tour Dates 1977
    February 7, 8 – Perth
    February 11, 12 – Adelaide
    February 14, 15 – Melbourne
    February 18, 19 – Sydney
    February 21, 22 – Brisbane
    February 28 – Christchurch NZ
    March 3 – Auckland NZ

    Jands Crew
    Vagn Stenvei, Dennis Braham, David Mulholland, Michael Oberg, Phil Eastig

    Rod Stewart Crew
    Pete Buckland, Patrick Woodroffe, Robin LeMesurier,

    The April 1977 edition of Electronics Today featured an article about the equipment used on this tour.
    Read the Electronics Today Story [PDF 1.9m]

  • Queen 1976

    Queen 76 T-Shirt



    A Night At The Opera was Queen’s first full tour of Australia. Previously they had performed at the 1974 Sunbury Festival where they had received a hostile reception.

    Tour Dates

    Sun 11th April – Perth, Entertainment Centre 
    Wed 14th April – Adelaide, Apollo Stadium 
    Thu 15th April – Adelaide, Apollo Stadium 
    Sat 17th April – Sydney, Hordern Pavillion 
    Sun 18th April – Sydney, Hordern Pavillion 
    Mon 19th April – Melbourne, Festival Hall 
    Tue 20th April – Melbourne, Festival Hall 
    Thu 22nd April – Brisbane, Festival Hall 

  • Sunbury 1975

    BSunbury 1975 System
    The Sunbury music festival was Australia’s answer to Woodstock in the early 70s. It was first held on the Australia day long weekend of 1972 in Sunbury, about 35 kilometres north-east of Melbourne on the Calder Highway.
    BSunbury 1975 Stage
    Sunbury took place annually from 1972 to 1975. In 1975 Deep Purple headlined and brought a Tycobrahe sound system with them and this was stacked inside the Jands system.

    The Tycobrahe system was made up of integrated three-way cabinets that included 2 JBL 2220A’s, a 2482 driver with midrange horn and 2 075 tweeters. The integrated approach was the way of the future but it was many years before the idea was successfully implemented.