Larry
"Uncle Larry"
I really can't stand the look of LED stage lighting. It makes people look washed out and ghastly. Saw a local band last weekend. The guy had a PRS guitar. I had one exactly like his before, same red finish. It's a really beautiful shade of red, but under the LED stage lights, it looked like an old weathered barn, kind of a dark grayish nothing color. It looked bad. As do the people onstage. That doesn't seem to be a concern. The LED's do save a lot of energy, and generate much less heat, but they look sooooo bad. They have plenty of applications for sure, but IMO stage lighting should not be one of them.
Does this bother anyone else out there in drummer land? I would rather see compact fluorescent lighting through a gel than a colored LED. The compacts save 75% of the energy compared to incandescents and are fairly cool running. The regular incandescent PAR lights look the best. If I was a band leader, I wouldn't allow LED's. The look of things is kind of important don't you think?
Does this bother anyone else out there in drummer land? I would rather see compact fluorescent lighting through a gel than a colored LED. The compacts save 75% of the energy compared to incandescents and are fairly cool running. The regular incandescent PAR lights look the best. If I was a band leader, I wouldn't allow LED's. The look of things is kind of important don't you think?
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