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Olly
The B-Stage added another dimension to the show and seemed to bring out the best in the band. Some of the best performances by the Stones came on the B-Stage, particularly during the Bridges to Babylon and Licks Tours.
Why do you think it hasn't featured since 2007?
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philrock90
It would be good if their was a compilation from btb and licks tour of the b stage performances
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philrock90
It would be good if their was a compilation from btb and licks tour of the b stage performances
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tatters
I loved the B-stage. If you had lousy seats, the B-stage could, for 15 minutes anyway, transform a stadium into an arena, and an arena into a theatre. In 2005 at Comerica Park in Detroit, my wife and I had seats on the field; not the $450 ones, but the $160 seats that were way off to the side. I knew the setlist, and I noticed there was really no one hanging around where the B-stage was going to be, so when Keith began singing "Infamy," I said, "Okay, now's the time to start wandering on over there." Seeing the Stones do "Satisfaction" while they were only 10 feet away from me remains one of the highlights of my concert-going career, and I didn't even have to pay top dollar to see it.
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Spud
It did however sometimes cause sound problems when less than "autopilot" type numbers were chosen for it.
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podiumboy
Mick got the b-stage idea from seeing U2 on the Zoo TV tour in 92-93...
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Spud
It did however sometimes cause sound problems when less than "autopilot" type numbers were chosen for it.
If you were right near the B-stage, the sound was terrible, though this was more than made up for by the (for some of us) once in a lifetime intimacy of the experience. At a stadium show, the B-stage was so far from the main stage that it would take the sound coming from the main stage PA two to three tenths of a second to reach the B-stage, so what the people near the B-stage were hearing was the sound of the band's B-stage amplifiers, followed 0.2 or 0.3 seconds later by the sound coming from the main stage PA. By the time you heard Mick sing "I can't get no," his lips were already mouthing the word "satisfaction." It made it kind of difficult to sing along.