Have you ever thought about what on earth happens to these giant stages after each tour? And all the elements... The inflatable dolls, the bride,etc, etc.
Do they still have all or do they sell everything (i once heard something about them selling the 81 tour stage)?

Do you imagine what a great Stones museum could be done with all of the past items?

I guess some of the elements of a huge rock stage are used again for other projects. Several years ago though I read about a rich Japanese who was said to have bought some of the giant stages to put them up somewhere on his private property. Can anybody confirm this? Sounds crazy to me!

Contact Stageco in Belgium. They might know



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I'm pretty sure the speaker system from Bridges was recycled for A Bigger Bang. I remember examining the stage in Detroit in 2005 and thinking as much. The units were trimmed in a reflective material, like gold or silver, but appeared in several cases to be pretty worn. Detroit was one of the earliest shows on that tour so I thought they couldn't have gotten beaten up so quickly.

The inflatable dolls go to mitchflorida's home.

The Bridges stage (or if it was the No Security stage, can´t remember) parts were made in to furniture (tables) and sold expensively by a company on the net.

Vilhelm
Nordic Stones Vikings



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Hey,diego,check this out
What ever happen to the Lotus Flower Stage?

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What ever happen to the Lotus Flower Stage?

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I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

Thank you very much swaystones

I think in 1995 Volkswagen took the Voodoo stages.



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I don't recall a bride.

as far as I remember the basic corpus of the stage construction was used from 94/95 onwards for many tour (maybe even since 89/89)

And didn't Keith get the actual bridge from the B2B tour and stick in his garden somewhere?

I'd like to know what happend to the superball stage



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....re make the Lotus....with a re energized sober RW it just might be the right time for that!!!

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What ever happen to the Lotus Flower Stage?

I'm not sure this news, but somewhere I read that if you had bought Keith Moon

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I'm pretty sure the speaker system from Bridges was recycled for A Bigger Bang. I remember examining the stage in Detroit in 2005 and thinking as much. The units were trimmed in a reflective material, like gold or silver, but appeared in several cases to be pretty worn. Detroit was one of the earliest shows on that tour so I thought they couldn't have gotten beaten up so quickly.

Bridges PA was repainted and used by AC/DC on their Black Ice tour. It was Electro Voice. Bigger Bang PA was made by JBL.

i remember hearing at the time that the bridges p.a. was worth somthing like 3 million.it looked and sounded like it.

parts of the various stages are probably everywhere,mostly scrap iron i would think.to bad someone didnt buy a complete one and set it up in the desert at burning man.

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I think in 1995 Volkswagen took the Voodoo stages.

Yes, using it to build 400 Golfs, IIRC.

I read somewhere that parts of the vl stage where sold

Part of the Steel Wheels stage is here in Buffalo. The designer of the stage was a professor at University of Buffalo and got the band to donate the truss and other parts to a local theatre group: 'Shakespeare in the Park'

I haven't been to one of their productions in a few years, but their program used to have a line that said: 'Thanks to Mick, Keith, Bill, Charlie and Ron for use of the truss'

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Part of the Steel Wheels stage is here in Buffalo. The designer of the stage was a professor at University of Buffalo

I find it interesting that a university professor was recruited to design a stage for the Stones.

Anything more you can tell us about this person?

Jake Berry tried selling parts as furniture on the web but that did not go over well. The public was not ready to spend $20,000 + shipping for a coffee table. It was a neat idea and had the bands blessing.

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Bridges PA was repainted and used by AC/DC on their Black Ice tour. It was Electro Voice. Bigger Bang PA was made by JBL.

My sister-in-law worked for Electro Voice at the time of the Bridges tour and she said that the Stones had leased the speakers for the tour. Interesting to hear they were used on the Black Ice tour as well.

In the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio ,there is some of the Steel Wheels stage plus an inflatable doll :


[rockhall.com]


A year later, under a hot summer sun and Ruby, a larger-than-life inflatable from the Rolling Stones’ Steel Wheels tour, the Museum was topped off with the last steel beam in its structure.



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .