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 ‘Hair’ and many other local productions and events. The March 1970 rental price list is reproduced below.

This is the earliest photo we have of a Jands sound system. The concert was held outdoors 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 steped input attenuators.

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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 Engineer
Howard Page

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
System Engineer
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

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.

Sound System
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

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

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