Iron Maiden 1982

Just about all the lamps in this rig were 250w 28v ACL bulbs apart from the 12 lamps on each side downstage left and right which were 1kw washes. This rig was lifted on 6 x SL24 Superlifts (not towers) on ground support days, and on days when we could fly the system it was flown with 6 x 1t Felco manual chain blocks (no electric hoists on this one).

Close up view of some of the 32 Pan Cans installed on the short nose cans on the front truss. The Peter Wynn Wilson designed Pan Can was a pan and tilt mirror inside a cage controlled by a custom 0-10v Electrosonic desk. It was clipped onto the short nose par using the gel frame clips. The light beam fired at the mirror and the mirror moved, just like Intellabeams, Mac1200's and CyberLights etc did half a decade later.

Your humble narrator is in the red spandex all-in-one suit and rubber devil mask on the right of this picture (Stage Left). Roger Grybowicz (Grybo) another one of the lighting crew was on Stage Right. This was on the song "Iron Maiden" near the end of the set. Warren Poppe our token American on the crew doing band security was inside the walk-on Eddie costume which was about 10ft high. He walked on stilts, actually developed for plasterers and sheet rock guys that enabled them to put up ceilings in houses really quickly without the need for ladders and trestles. He could almost run in those stilts and was quite nimble. Warrens head would look out through Eddies chest, his T shirt was a kind of mesh material so he could see out. That framework was the model for all of the walk on Eddies to come including recent tours. Throughout all Maiden tours lots of the crew had walk on parts during the show.