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Sets for the 25th Aniversary 88-concert tour of the Grateful Dead throughout the U.S., 1989-1991. They included: 52 banners painted in acrylic and dyes on canvas; 22 spare banners used for variations of the set, and a lighting system consisting of 380 color instruments, base tracks mounted on moving scaffolds, 120 lights installed on the face and within the structure of the set, four lighting batteries with rotating filters, and two computers sychronizing180 defferent lighting changes.

Banners: Ronald V. Strang/Superior Backing Studios, Hollywood; set engineering: Ian Knight Studio, Hollywood; lighting design/computer sychronization: Candice Brightman/The Grateful Dead Productions.

-excerpt from Visions of Color and Light by Frank Fox
Print Magazine L:III May/June 1996 p.104-105

Greek Theater, Berkeley, CA, September, 1989 - Photo: Bill Smythe

Meadowlands, NJ, July 1989 - Photo: Neil Trager