A huge rubber Satan has started inflatin', He towers up over the drums. Then pyrotechnics and stuff give a blast loud enough, To rattle your teeth from your gums. This incredible set is the best vision yet, Of our stage designer's craft. And it helps to distract the crowd from the fact, That the music is really quite daft. Mitch Benn, Never Mind The Song (Look At The Stage Set) Hard rock bands, and especially "Hair Metal" bands, with their aura of "Greek gods walking the earth," sometimes have a rather unfortunate tendency to rely heavily upon special effects such as fog, lasers or, more commonly, Impressive Pyrotechnics in their videos and stage shows. It's as much about the visual BANG as it is the music, sometimes more so — anything to perpetuate the notion that these beings are so far above and beyond us mere mortal music... [read full story]
