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The Rolling Stones performed the first arena show of the 14 On Fire tour tonight in Macau, China, featuring the same arena stage as used during the 2012-2013 shows.
This of course is not entirely the case. The 'upper lip' is missing, as you can see in the JJF video. In 2012/2013 the upper lip was there for the first few songs. The idea of the circular ramp forming a part of the tongue-and-lip design logo is way less clear this way.
Off course, not bringing the upper lip is cheaper. And naturally, ticketprices of arenashows give every reason to cut costs.
Here's what I mean:
source: the iorr.org O2/1 review page.
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gotdablouse
Thanks for the detailed info, I think latvianinexile meant the "upper teeth" instead of the "upper lip" though for the first few songs in 2012/2013, after that it looked like this (...)
I can't see how the 2012/2013 stage would need 30 trucks and the 2014 one a lot less...there must be options to either loan the whole "setup" and then move it around or just carry the basics (in this case the floor possibly, mixing desk, lightning) and have the local promoters figure out the rest.
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drbryant
I also think that the intro is improved over the 50 and Counting Tour. The new approach, which just uses the pulsating red visual, is great - it builds anticipation for just the right amount of time and then the Stones hit the stage. I think it works. On the previous tour, the film plus the drums against a darkened stage backdrop just went on for too long in my view.
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Monkeytonkman
Lips and teeth for Europe please!!!!!!
\m/\m/
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gotdablouse
Would they be in storage in the US at this point?
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Monkeytonkman
Lips and teeth for Europe please!!!!!!
\m/\m/
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gotdablouse
Would they be in storage in the US at this point?
I'm not sure where the "50 and Counting" stage is at the moment. It might be at the warehouse of the company that built it (Tait Towers in Pennsylvania, USA). Or it could be in storage somewhere in England. In any case, it's very likely it will see more action this summer in Europe - at least for the arena shows. That stage was custom-built and cost millions of dollars. And it's practically new having only been used for about 20 shows so far so it wouldn't make sense to scrap it. My guess is it will be around for the rest of the Stones' touring days.
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gotdablouse
Would they be in storage in the US at this point?
I'm not sure where the "50 and Counting" stage is at the moment. It might be at the warehouse of the company that built it (Tait Towers in Pennsylvania, USA). Or it could be in storage somewhere in England. In any case, it's very likely it will see more action this summer in Europe - at least for the arena shows. That stage was custom-built and cost millions of dollars. And it's practically new having only been used for about 20 shows so far so it wouldn't make sense to scrap it. My guess is it will be around for the rest of the Stones' touring days.
Makes sense, someone posted here once that they still had all their older stages in storage, well maybe not the giant stadium stages? The Lotus one would be nice to see again, maybe in a museum one day? ;-)
As for the "Tongue" stage it doesn't look like it will be getting much action this summer after all, only Oslo and Cologne left in the list on 12/03/2014 and just as "rumours" : [www.iorr.org] only
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gotdablouse
Would they be in storage in the US at this point?
I'm not sure where the "50 and Counting" stage is at the moment.