In California, he had hogtied horses and thrown them from canyons; in London, he let off pyrotechnic charges that shook the pavements, encouraged his actors to hurl themselves into the Thames, and set fire to anything his employers would permit.
When the band played at the Stone Pony on Feb. 14, it set off a pyrotechnics display but, according the club, had not warned the club's manager.
The blaze at the Station nightclub in West Warwick on Feb. 20, 2003, was set off when pyrotechnics for the band Great White set fire to flammable foam that lined the club's walls.
Members of Great White, the 1980s rock band whose tour manager shot off the pyrotechnics at the start of a concert, agreed to a separate $1 million settlement in court papers filed Tuesday.
Five months after a blaze that was touched off by pyrotechnics killed 100 people at a a nightclub in West Warwick, R.I., the state yesterday adopted a new set of fire regulations that Rhode Island officials praised as the toughest in the nation.
Kevin Beese, the manager of the Station, a popular live-music club that took just minutes to burn to the ground, said the foam covered the walls surrounding the stage where a band set off a pyrotechnic display.
Under a plea agreement announced last week, Daniel M. Biechele, a band tour manager who set off a pyrotechnic display that ignited a fire that killed 100 people, pleaded guilty to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter.
A new Olympic-standard white water course at the Tees Barrage opened with a bang when the Queen hit a button to part the floodgates and set off a pyrotechnic display.
The fire was touched off by the pyrotechnics display of the band Great White.
Partly because television is not best suited to carrying off big-screen pyrotechnics, but mainly because they want to keep faith with the notion of a ghost story in its literary rather than cinematic tradition".
In 2003 in Rhode Island, also fire set off by a pyrotechnic display at a club killed about 100 people.
