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A Career in Production Lighting: Phish

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Hello, my name is Ralph Curtis and welcome to my Blog. Phish, is a small band out of Vermont that played the college circuit in the 90's. They started to develop a dedicated following of college kids throughout New England, and as the band grew in popularity so did the number of people who followed them. They were quickly becoming the 90's version of the Grateful Dead in numbers and Jam style. Capron was involved with the group on a smaller scale until the last tour in '96, when Phish had decided to put on their first large scale outdoor festival at the end of said tour. It was at this point Capron was contracted to handle power, distro and support lighting for the the groups outdoor festivals. "The Clifford Ball" was held at Plattsburgh Airforce Base in Plattsburgh New York August 16th and 17th 1996. This would be the first of 6 Festivals that I would work for the Band culminating with the "IT" Concert held in Limestone Maine in 2003.  ( All my Phish Pr...
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A Career in Production Lighting: Event Production ~ Capron

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Hello, my name is Ralph Curtis and welcome to my Blog. Capron Lighting and Sound located Needham Massachusetts is an event production company that has been around since the 70's. Its Wearhouse facility was this old dog food factory built in 1800 some such. It had an old country style feel to it; wooden beams, exposed brick, creaky staircases, and an elevator built at the turn of the last-last century.  The basement of this building still had the original meat grinder embedded in the floor, how crazy was that.  Even though the building was sketchy AF, the events that Capron produced were amazing. We were  responsible for handling the vast majority of events happening in or around New England, there were other production companies of course, however, Capron was at the top of every client lists. We handled damn near all of the Political events in the area: Presidential junkets, Congressional visits, Corporate events. We also handled all of the major college and university c...
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A Career in Production Lighting: Cruise Line Industry

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Hello, my name is Ralph Curtis and welcome to my Blog. During the Mid 90's I started to get burned out on Club Med, the lifestyle was fan-freakin-tastic, the relationships and friendships I made will last a lifetime, but I wanted to try something different. The Club taught me all I was going to learn as far as Cabaret lighting goes, it was time to move on.  What I couldn't quite let go of was the traveling beach bum lifestyle, that was a hard drug to kick, so I decided to move up a notch and revisit the idea of Cruise Ship Lighting again. When my last Club Med contract was over, I returned to the Cape and landed a series of Jobs, I needed to buy another car, so I started working 3 Jobs to build up funds quickly. I worked UPS overnights, then a Construction gig during the days, while 3 days a week I would work at a Supermarket in my town from 5pm to 9pm decorating cakes... yeah, I did that.  I worked this madness for a few months until a coworker from UPS told me about a produc...
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