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GasLightStreet
I wish I'd gone to see ZOO TV. Saw the PopMart tour. It was a great show. Better than Voodoo Lounge. Which I liked.
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Naturalust
I mean if he wants to end world hunger, save African nations or stamp out AIDS why would we care?
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Naturalust
I mean if he wants to end world hunger, save African nations or stamp out AIDS why would we care?
Sure but you don't solve the world's problems by shaking hands with criminals like Bush Jr Tony Blair or Jacques Chirac. You fight against these types as they're part of the problem not the solution.
Bono just wants to look good on the picture : "hey look everybody, that's me at the White House".
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Naturalust
I mean if he wants to end world hunger, save African nations or stamp out AIDS why would we care?
Sure but you don't solve the world's problems by shaking hands with criminals like Bush Jr Tony Blair or Jacques Chirac. You fight against these types as they're part of the problem not the solution.
Bono just wants to look good on the picture : "hey look everybody, that's me at the White House".
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DandelionPowderman
Lead singers are pompous in different ways. There are a lot of Stones fans and non-Stones fans who don't/didn't like Mick anno 1975 too much.
Whatever rocks your boat, I'd say. IMO, Bono was cool in the early 80s, but his relevance washed away with the increasing superstardom...
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dcba
Two arena shows per city... sounds good!
(though I don't care at all about U2).
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Limbostone
The era of the big stadium tours seems to be definitely over! This is arenas too.
During the 90s and 00s, the Stones, U2 and other big acts took their mammoth Mark Fisher stages across the globe. Just seeing these stages for me was worth going and paying for. I would go see U2 in a stadium, but probably not in an arena.
Now times have apparantly changed (or the acts did some recalculating) and arena tours are more profitable in terms of relative higher income and lower costs.
In 2007, the Stones will have noticed that there's more income in half a stadium for 150/ticket than a sold out one for 60/ticket.
For the incidental outdoor/stadium concert, the Stones had a much cheaper stage designed for the current tour, which at some locations they didn't even manage to build up completely. And they could use a lot of festival stages of course, which imho is a main reason for doing festivals, apart from the 'legacy'. Of course they had to get confident enough for doing other peoples' stages musically, which luckily they did.
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Limbostone
The era of the big stadium tours seems to be definitely over! This is arenas too.
During the 90s and 00s, the Stones, U2 and other big acts took their mammoth Mark Fisher stages across the globe. Just seeing these stages for me was worth going and paying for. I would go see U2 in a stadium, but probably not in an arena.
Now times have apparantly changed (or the acts did some recalculating) and arena tours are more profitable in terms of relative higher income and lower costs.
In 2007, the Stones will have noticed that there's more income in half a stadium for 150/ticket than a sold out one for 60/ticket.
For the incidental outdoor/stadium concert, the Stones had a much cheaper stage designed for the current tour, which at some locations they didn't even manage to build up completely. And they could use a lot of festival stages of course, which imho is a main reason for doing festivals, apart from the 'legacy'. Of course they had to get confident enough for doing other peoples' stages musically, which luckily they did.
Good post! This was also the observation I made. I am not particularly interested musically in U2, but since they are about the only act in the world in the league of the Stones, it is interesting to follow their doings, that is, what is going on in the business. Their tour doesn't much differ from the pattern the Stones especially did the American leg of the tour.
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Limbostone
The era of the big stadium tours seems to be definitely over! This is arenas too.
During the 90s and 00s, the Stones, U2 and other big acts took their mammoth Mark Fisher stages across the globe. Just seeing these stages for me was worth going and paying for. I would go see U2 in a stadium, but probably not in an arena.
Now times have apparantly changed (or the acts did some recalculating) and arena tours are more profitable in terms of relative higher income and lower costs.
In 2007, the Stones will have noticed that there's more income in half a stadium for 150/ticket than a sold out one for 60/ticket.
For the incidental outdoor/stadium concert, the Stones had a much cheaper stage designed for the current tour, which at some locations they didn't even manage to build up completely. And they could use a lot of festival stages of course, which imho is a main reason for doing festivals, apart from the 'legacy'. Of course they had to get confident enough for doing other peoples' stages musically, which luckily they did.
Good post! This was also the observation I made. I am not particularly interested musically in U2, but since they are about the only act in the world in the league of the Stones, it is interesting to follow their doings, that is, what is going on in the business. Their tour doesn't much differ from the pattern the Stones especially did the American leg of the tour.
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rbk
U2 are like Madonna. They just refuse all entreaties to go away.
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Limbostone
The era of the big stadium tours seems to be definitely over! This is arenas too.
During the 90s and 00s, the Stones, U2 and other big acts took their mammoth Mark Fisher stages across the globe. Just seeing these stages for me was worth going and paying for. I would go see U2 in a stadium, but probably not in an arena.
Now times have apparantly changed (or the acts did some recalculating) and arena tours are more profitable in terms of relative higher income and lower costs.
In 2007, the Stones will have noticed that there's more income in half a stadium for 150/ticket than a sold out one for 60/ticket.
For the incidental outdoor/stadium concert, the Stones had a much cheaper stage designed for the current tour, which at some locations they didn't even manage to build up completely. And they could use a lot of festival stages of course, which imho is a main reason for doing festivals, apart from the 'legacy'. Of course they had to get confident enough for doing other peoples' stages musically, which luckily they did.
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Happy24
So why did The Stones do the European stadium tour this summer?