I had to remove these bits from the main video because it was subjected to an automatic music copyright claim.
The main backstage video is here:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GNiiGrKWBY
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The main backstage video is here:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GNiiGrKWBY
If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
http://www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm
This also keeps the channel independent of YouTube's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty.
Great video Big Clive
thanks for a great moment
As much as I love pyro stuff I will have a permanent ringing in my ears because of that stuff.
@bigclive – just a fyi for your watchers… they just added the show (last years?) to britbox.. the streaming service
Clive, will you be following the tattoo to Australia in October?
If the Tatoo is ok with it being filmed and shared on platforms like YouTube, why does YouTube so aggressively take down or mute the videos of the show? I have yet to find any videos of more than brief moments from the show online.
Great video here as well…I have a good pyro story to share with y'all from my days at Knott's Berry Farm in Southern California:
I was a follow spot operator on the roof of the building, and the theme of that year's show was "A Salute to Hollywood". I would chase the spot over the crowd during the intro music ("Hooray For Hollywood") and at the end of the show I'd focus a tight spot on a mirror ball hidden in a tree across the lake.
In the tech booth in Fiesta Village overlooking Reflection Lake (Things have changed at the Farm since then., I worked there in the late 1980's) there was an old relay-logic pyro control console. I once asked the pyro company why it wasn't used anymore, they didn't know. (They used their own controllers.)
My supervisor enlightened me. A few years back, a different pyro company used that controller for many shows. It was a "hardwired" system, with all of the firing leads running underground (and under water) from the console to each pyro effect. Over time, the water (probably aided by a few rodents) shorted out the firing leads.
At the fateful show, my super had played the intro tape, and when it was over the pyro crew armed the console.
When the switch was thrown EVERY PYRO detonated at the same time! The concussion literally knocked people off their feet.
With ears ringing, all my super could do was play the show outro tape: "We hope you enjoyed Knott's Fireworks Spectacular. (and so on..) "
And that is why that old boat anchor was still up there, rusting away. It did make a great desk to sit things on though. (It was deemed too heavy and impractical to remove from the tight access stairs.)
Lived in Edinburgh for 5 years. What a great city. Maybe one day I’ll be back… oh wait, I forgot about Brexit.
So they dont have an as live singer?
I was just getting into it so to speak & it ended !! o we are watching back stage so to speak -good one
Who claimed copyright, was it Freddie Mercury from beyond the grave? Maybe he shares the same ghost lawyer as John Lennon who had Techmoan mute a section of video several years after it went live.
great, thanks for sharing some of what you do , behind the scenes is far more exciting than in the audience sometines