Lighting designer Paul "Arlo" Guthrie of Minneapolis-based Toss Film + Design is Fleetwood Mac's long-time lighting designer. "I have to cater to four different personalities (Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks) and bring them together as one team," he explains. "For this show we have four big soft box panels and 32 Clay Paky Sharpy Washes on curved lighting pipes, some of them on the floor, some on the rigs and some in pods that come out. They hang on weird angles and move during the show - some are on 45, 90 and 120ยบ angles. They're well featured - the main workhorse washlight of the rig."
The lighting designer brought his own grandMA2 full-size on tour to run "the whole show" and reports that "it's working as good as it always has. It's super comfortable; it's like hanging out with an old friend each day. My grandMA2 is more than capable of running everything, including the video."
(Jim Evans)
