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Steve Miller was memorable, too. First concert with ‘laser beams’ and lots of cutting edge ‘ee-lec-tronics.’ I can only imagine what paying customers expect these days, LOL!

The "Fly Like An Eagle" 30th anniversary CD, came with a DVD with an interview with Miller, and most of recent San Francisco concert by him and the band. He spoke about those laser shows. They used a water cooled laser that was set up behind the amps and had a constant fountain of water flowing over it, to keep it cool. They were very high powered lasers and put on spectacular show. They put mirrors all over the stadiums for the lasers to bounce off of. He had a great photo of them in action. They were totally unregulated at the time, and you will never see the likes of those types of lasers at an outdoor show anymore. I worked at a Jethro Tull show (I think) at Colt Park in Hatford CT in 1976 where a similar laser display was part of the show. It was a cloudy night and lasers shooting up through the clouds GREATLY concerned commercial airline pilots coming in to Hartford Airport. Shortly after that concert, they stopped using lasers at those shows.
Miller also had a funny story about a freon hose used for fog effects breaking loose during a concert and spraying him until his guitar was nearly "frozen" before they got it turned off.