CyberSphere rocks with Led Zeppelin, smash hits from '80s
Release Date: 12/29/2007. Expired: 2/23/2008
With its Dec. 10, 2007, reunion concert in London creating buzz around the world, legendary rock group Led Zeppelin is back at the forefront of the international music scene. Playing a full set for the first time in almost 30 years, Led Zeppelin rocked the sold-out O2 Arena for more than two hours in a benefit concert.
Founding members Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones were joined on stage by Jason Bonham, son of the late John Bonham, the band’s original drummer who died in 1980.
Now music lovers and critics around the world have been clamoring for a new tour, but, to date, the band has not indicated a tour is forthcoming and Robert Plant is launching a tour with Alison Krauss in support of their new album together.
For Led Zeppelin fans whose thirst for Rock-n-Roll has been renewed by the reunion concert, the CyberSphere Digital Theater at The Renaissance Center in Dickson is bringing back Laser Zeppelin on Saturdays in January and February beginning Jan. 12.
Laser Zeppelin shows at 9 p.m. Saturdays and tickets are $6.
With more than 300 million albums sold worldwide since their beginning in 1968, Led Zeppelin is recognized as one of the first heavy metal rock bands. Laser Zeppelin includes many of their greatest hits such as Immigrant Song, Black Dog, Kashmir, Whole Lotta Love, Rock-n-Roll and the group’s signature anthem Stairway to Heaven among others, all presented in 14,000-watt Dolby Digital SurroundSound and accompanied by spectacular laser effects.
The CyberSphere Digital Theater is one of the largest planetariums in North America at four stories tall and 60 feet across. Its combination of state-of-the-art planetarium technology and one of the world’s first 360-degree laser projectors makes the CyberSphere a unique experience.
In addition to Laser Zeppelin, the CyberSphere schedule for January and February features the debut of two full-dome video shows that can’t be seen anywhere else in the state, a rock and roll laser trip through the solar system and a trip back to the 1980s.
The CyberSphere is the only planetarium in the state of Tennessee with Digistar 3 technology, a state-of-the-art system utilizing six digital projectors to create seamless, full-dome video.
At 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturdays in January and February, the CyberSphere presents a double feature of Digistar 3 shows for one price.
Microcosm – The Adventure Within takes viewers inside the human body to fight a mysterious virus at the futuristic Center of Miniaturized Medicine. Produced in cooperation with the University of Utah Medical School, this high-speed immersive adventure is not only exciting, but educational as well. Traveling from the base of the eye to the interior of the heart, the adventure searches for clues the virus has left behind and races against time to save the patient on a roller coaster ride through the body.
In Cosmic Safari, viewers get a look at what researchers and scientists think lifeforms could be like on other planets. From giant insect-like forms on low-gravity planets to muscular star-shaped creatures on high-gravity worlds, Cosmic Safari transforms scientific theory into exotic worlds filled with fantastic creatures never before imagined.
Tickets for the Microcosm/Cosmic Safari double feature are $5 for adults and $3 for seniors over 55 and children 12 and under.
At 3 p.m. Saturdays in January and February, viewers can become space detectives in the rocking laser show The Great Space Chase. Follow clues to chase an intergalactic criminal mastermind in an out-of-this-world educational laser show highlighting the planets and solar system. Along with laser effects, The Great Space Chase features music from science fiction films and space-themed rock such as the theme from Blade Runner, Walking on the Moon by The Police, Venus and Mars by Paul McCartney and Wings and more.
Tickets for The Great Space Chase are $6 for all seats.
Laser Retro brings some of the greatest techno hits of the 1980s back with laser effects at 8 p.m. Saturdays in January and February. Hits from groups like Red Rider, Tears for Fears, The Fixx, The Police, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, The Eurythmics and others rock the CyberSphere’s pulsating sound system.
Tickets for Laser Retro are $6 for all seats.
To find out more about the unique CyberSphere experience available at The Renaissance Center, call (615) 740-5600 or visit www.rcenter.org.
The Renaissance Center is a fine arts education and performing arts center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.
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