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.

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 and featured 10 channels with rotary level controls, 2 band eq and stepped input attenuators.

Howard Page mixed the show, on headphones, from the back of a rental truck.

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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 x Jands U Bin with 2 x 15″ JBL K130
2 x RCA Multi-cell Horns with Altec drivers
8 x JBL 075 high frequency drivers
10 x Jands 150w Power Amplifiers
1 x 16 Channel Jands Mixing Console

Jands Crew

Howard Page
Philip Story
Eric Robinson

Promoters / Sponsors:

I.B.C./Rock Concert Club of Australia/Go-Set/ 6KY, 5KA, 3AK, 4BC, 2SM

1971 Tour Dates and Venues:

16 October – Perth, Subiaco Stadium
22 October – Adelaide, Memorial Drive Tennis Centre
24 October – Melbourne, Kooyong Tennis Centre
26. October – Brisbane, Festival Hall
31 October – Sydney, Randwick Racecourse

Support Groups:

The Birds (Perth)
Mark IV (Perth)
Headband (Adelaide)
Ilo (Adelaide)
Chain (Melbourne)
Aztecs (Melbourne)
Pilgrimage (Melbourne)
Gentle Art (Brisbane)
Leroy (Brisbane)
Country Radio (Sydney)
Melissa (Sydney)
Asleep At the Wheel (Sydney)

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.

Jands 16 channel FOH Mixer
16 Mic / Line Inputs, 4 Stereo Group masters
Stepped input attenuator
3 way eq section
2 auxillary sends
PFL switch

Jands 6 channel Mixer
6 Mic / Line Inputs, 4 Stereo Group masters
Stepped input attenuator
3 way eq section
PFL switch

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 both cities. An amazing effort when you consider that the Bee Gees first tour was only in July last year.”
- Go-Set, 5 February 1972

Sound System
2 x RCA W Bin c/w 2 x JBL K140
4 x Jands U Bin c/w 2 x JBL K130
2 x RCA Multi-cell Horns
8 x JBL 075
16 Channel Jands Mixing Console
10 x Jands 150w Power Amplifiers

System Crew
Howard Page
Promoters:
Ron Blackmore, Paul Dainty & David Trew

Cities, Venues, Dates:
29 January – Melbourne, Kooyong Tennis Centre
30 January – Sydney, RAS Showground
1February – Brisbane, Festival Hall,
3 February – Adelaide, Memorial Park
4 February – Perth, Subiaco Oval

Links

BeeGees 1971 Tour

Led Zeppelin - Sydney

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 the best ever held in Sydney – but, if the crowd had not stormed the fences, it could have been the worst.
The official attendence figure was 27,000 but senior police officers at the concert estimated the crowd at “at least 30,000″. According to showground officials the three stands used last Sunday have a maximum capacity of 25,000 – so whatever way you look at it the ground was dangerously overcrowded.
Despite the fact that there were no seats left at mid-day and no standing room by 1.30pm., people were still coming through the gates at 2.30pm. The overcrowding that existed before the fences were stormed must never be allowed to occur again because next time someone could be killed in the crush. Once capacity is reached the gates should be closed.

Showco Sound System

Jands (Additional) System

2 x RCA W Bin c/w 2 x JBL K140
2 x JBL 4550 c/w 2 x JBL K130
2 x JBL 2350 Horn + 2480 Driver
2 x JBL 2355 Horn + 2440 Driver
2 x JBL 2356 Horn + 2480 Driver
8 x JBL 2402
12 x Jands 150w Power Amplifiers

System Crew

Philip Storey
Eric Robinson
Paul Mulholland
David Mulholland

Tour Details

16 February – Perth – Subiaco Oval
19 February – Adelaide – Memorial Drive
20 February – Melbourne – Kooyong Tennis Courts
27 February – Sydney – RAS Showground
29 February – Brisbane – Festival Hall

Set List

1. Black Dog
2. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
3. Going To California
4. Heartbreaker
5. Immigrant Song
6. Since I’ve Been Loving You
7. Stairway To Heaven
8. Tangerine
9. That’s The Way

Links

ABC – Led Zeppelin pics uncovered after thirty years
Wikepedia – Led Zeppelin Australasian Tour 1972

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