From the late 60s Jands manufactured a range of lighting equipment including strobes, color-organs, chasers and lighting effects units. Jands lighting equipment was used for the 1969 Australian production of Hair, University Balls, and many other local productions and events. The March 1970 rental price list is reproduced below. Tweet

One of the first outdoor shows Jands provided audio for was a concert was held at the Heddon Greta Speedway near Newcastle. The PA system included two Jands 4 x 12″ speaker columns shown on the left side of the photo. Microphones were AKG D190s. The mixer was designed and largely built by Philip Storey [...]

This was Elton John’s first tour of Australia and New Zealand. He played outdoors and Jands provided what was then the largest sound system every assembled in Australia. Elton’s personal monitoring system consisted of JBL studio monitors supplied by Clair Brothers. Sound System 2 x RCA W Bin with 2 x 15″ JBL K140 4 [...]

About Alpine Sound In the early 70′s cigarette company Alpine sponsored a series of outdoor concerts at various venues in and around Sydney. The photographs show the FOH mixer which was the first large mixer designed and built by Jands and one of the beach concerts at Manly. Note the blue 6 channel sub-mixer alongside. [...]

For the second time within a year the Bee Gees will play to capacity houses throughout their Australian tour. Originally it was planned that there would be only one concert in Melbourne and Brisbane but because both were sold out on the first day of bookings, promoter Paul Dainty decided to include extra concerts in [...]

This was Led Zeppelin’s only Australian tour. Portions of the Sydney Showground concert were filmed for GTK and appears in the “Down Under” segment of the Led Zeppelin DVD released in 2003. The Sun-Herald, 5 March 1972, p109 David D. Bryant The Led Zeppelin concert at the showgrounds last Sunday must rate as one of [...]