Re: LAL photo mistake?

[Shane Matheson <matheso@gaul.csd.uwo.ca>]

On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Mason T. Weinrich wrote:

> the interpretation is correct.  If we are looking at the same photo, remember
> that this is a college hall, built primarily for lecturing.  It has doors all
> around for people to get in and out, not amps.  To me, the stage set looks
> very standard at that show.

I wasn't the person who mentioned the amps around the walls, but I am
looking at the picture I think you're talking about (page 17 of booklet)
and looking in the arches there are no PA speakers in them, but I also
noticed that there is light coming in from the windows, which are over hot
water rads which are usually placed near the outside walls of rooms, since
that's where the heat is needed most, and in the write up Amazing Journey,
it says "on Valentine's Night, 1970."  So this is likely from earlier in
the day, perhaps before the entire room was set up for a warm-up or a
photo-op or something.  It could also be that it's just that there aren't
speakers in the 3 arches we can see in the picture, so people can get in
and out, since I doubt the crew would want the audience climbing over the
speakers to get into the room.  I can't really make out the time on the
clock at the end of the arches, but there is a little black line which is
just before about 9:00 so it could be at night and the light in the window
is from a hallway. 

There is also the possibility that there was another band playing over on
the grassy knoll and there was a conspiracy which gave Leeds that great
sound, "and they would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those 
meddling kids."

Just my $0.02 worth of observation and paranoid ravings.


Shane Matheson						MechEng/CompSci UWO

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