Tremonti

Last weekend I went to see a band that goes by the name of their lead singer and guitarist, Tremonti.  Some may already know him as the guitarist of Creed and Alter Bridge and to say he in under-appreciated would be an understatement.  He just released his first solo album and this was his second show in Orlando.  His first show was in The Social and a rather small event, so lighting wasn't anything spectacular.  This time around he upgraded to The Beacham and had a much larger audience.  In terms of lighting, the rig wasn't particularly impressive: The overhead truss only held a handful of lights, about 8 or 10 at max and  there were only a few pars over the audience.  Also, all the lights hanging from the truss were movers, and even though there were a very limited number of them, the lighting designer made them count.

The LD didn't go over the top moving the lights during the songs.  Most of the songs were very fast paced and up beat but instead of moving the lights like crazy, the LD chose different color schemes to accent different parts of the song, always transitioning on beat.  The colors contained a lot of shades of red and orange to match fit the energy.  In one of the songs there was a pause and he took the opportunity to completely cut the lights just for that second.  When Tremonti went into their  one ballad he went to a cool blue scheme that was very relaxing and fitting and helped the audience to get into the song.  In spite of the fact that the audience didn't have as much energy as I feel like they could have, the LD did a noteworthy job during the concert and really knew the material.  Now that I have taken a few lighting classes, I feel like I can appreciate his work.