Las Vegas - Rhythm Devils Featured In New Mirage Volcano

The faux rock fountain first erupted in 1989 and its bursting spray of water lighted red to look like lava is among the city's classic sights for strolling pedestrians. The volcano was among the flashiest early casino spectacles - added to deliver whimsy, wow factor and gamblers.

Still, the casino concluded, it could be so much more.

The volcano is getting 120 new fireball-throwing devices that will be choreographed to erupt in sync with a rumbling drum score co-composed by former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart and piped into the desert air through a high-tech sound system, according to company officials.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MIRAGE_VOLCANO?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/sep/10/mirage-volcano-erupt-december-after-facelift/

N.B. Bill Kreutzmann's name isn't in the press release, so maybe it's not exactly technically the Rhythm Devils.

I'll have to stop by the strip next time I'm in town and check it out. I still think the Mickey Hart show I went to in '91 was one of the most incredible concerts I've been to.^

I'll have to stop by the strip next time I'm in town and check it out.
It will be but a hallucination until it opens in December.

Are you sure they're not just cutting costs and serving more beans at the buffet? :D

It will be but a hallucination until it opens in December.

Ahh, good to know. Thanks for the heads up. I usually don't get anywhere near the strip as my family is in Summerlin. This will save me the hassle until December.

So there is no volcano till Dec?

The volcano is dark (http://mirage.com/attractions/volcano.aspx) until it reopens Monday, Dec. 8.

See contest (http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=865676), blog (http://miragevolcano.blogspot.com/)