Nektar concert photos from the North East Art Rock Festival
Nearfest June 29, 2002
from the Patriots Theater – War Memorial in Trenton, New Jersey featuring:
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Roye Albrighton
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Mo Moore
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Taff Freeman
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Ron Howden
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Mick Brockett
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Guitars
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Vocals
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Bass Guitar
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Vocals
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Hammond B3
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Vocals
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Drums
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Vocals
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Liquid Lights, Slides, Lazers, & Video Background Projection
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With Special Guests
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Larry Fast
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Scott Krentz
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Michelle Eckert
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Maureen McIntyre
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Moog Synthesizers
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Mellotrons
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Percussion & Backing Vocals
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Backing Vocals
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Backing Vocals
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When The news broke out that the original line-up of Nektar would be performing at the Patriots Theatre in Trenton, New Jersey
for Nearfest 2002, tickets for the event sold out in just 45 minutes. This concert is a recording of the first time the whole
original band played together in 26 years where they blew the roof off the place with standing ovations throughout the show.
Adding to this unique event and made Especially for this show, visual effects designer Mick Brockett recreated the 1970's original
liquid light show which made Nektar famous. Concert footage, rare archive material, backstage film, interviews and documentary
film are combined to produce a magnificent portrait of an emotional return by one of the true legends of rock.
What can we say about this performance? Go buy the DVD and the Greatest Hits Live!
Give them a listen and a look/see and see what all the hype was about.
Mick recreated the original Nektar light show (1 center screen for the whole stage) for this special event. The projectors were
taken down from the attic after 24 years, two of them re-wired, lenses and reflectors were cleaned and light bulbs were found.
Undried purple, green and red inks were found, drive wheels for the kaleidoscopic and slide wheel projectors were fixed and an
entire slide collection was sorted.
A chance was taken, one surviving 16mmm movie projector was fired up and fingers were crossed. The acetate film the film was
threaded and was run backwards–the edited movie footage was very brittle and had not been rewound since the last show Mick
used them–only once while Mick recorded it onto videotape before that 16mm projector also died. Only a small portion of
the original footage was eventually used. At the 11th hour Mick decided to create a NEW backdrop, using pertinent scenes from
62 different copy written blockbuster videos and specials from his library of movies. Ideas were floated for the set and a 2
Cd set named (Aggro)was burned and passed around for all the band to practice to. A show was born!
In the end four carousel projectors, one video projector with a mixing unit for three inputs (TWO VCR's + my own camera close-ups
on Roye or soloists), four liquid projectors, four effect projectors, strobes, laser, and one wide screen was used. Jim MacDonald
(R.I.P.) assisted Mick on that brief reunion tour and supplied the video projector and assisted with many complex visuals...
Pete Lango worked the stage lighting.
Due to the fact that the band was being recorded on film. The Trenton audience saw a distilled show because the bright lights
washed away much of the lightshow's depth and color. Since the DVD doesn't show some those clips what we can do is show you some
pictures that you will not see like the ones below.
Even after 35 years, THERE IS STILL NO CAMERA THAT ADAPTS TO LIGHT AS PERFECTLY AS THE HUMAN EYE!!! (An unfortunate scientific
fact that Mick had always battled with when it came to recording Nektar shows, thus, no video exists that ever duplicated that
which was experienced by an actual Nektar audience).
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Roye is thinking, "After all these years this going to work right?"
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Mick's thinking, "If we scratch and rub the lamps hard enough, the Genie will appear".
But what Mick really is thinking is, "Do You Believe In Magic? Then watch me pull a rabbit out of my ___" lol
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Some of the photos below our from our good friend Kenny Solomon.
"Maureen's thinking,
"WTF Roye"
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The return of the dinosaurs taken from "Remember The Future" part 1
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Where the buffalo roam taken from "Remember The Future" part 1
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Scene from
"A Tab In The Ocean"
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Scene from
"A Tab In The Ocean"
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Roye and Mo with lightshow in background
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Mo Moore
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Roye Albrighton
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Taff Freeman
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Ron Howden
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Larry Fast
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Scott Krentz gave his all!
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