Yes, the 1975 Lotus beats them all.
But here come the tent thing of 1976.

http://orangecamp.dk/Eng/html/history.html


"The story of OrangeStage or The Canopy Stage as its also called go far back. Actually all the way back to 1976, when The Rolling Stones needed a stage for their european tour.
It was a man named Bill Harkin that made the design of the tent and without his knowledge created what later on would be the icon of Roskilde Festival through all theese years. And by our opinion one of the most characteristic and beautiful rock stages in the world. (Before and later on he designed other tents and stages, and still does today).

When the drawings was complete he needed to test the design. Just as when we build our tent he chose to start with a scale model. He was building a full size rock stage so he chose a size for his scale model that is actually pretty close to the full size of our tent. This model was complete in the early spring 1976."

Thanks for the link ! Nice pics and info.

Of course, a precursor of this was used in 1975 for outdoor shows, including Milwaukee (note beer barrel, giant beer mug and chalet behind stage - yup, Wisconsin) [richzimmermann.com]

Nice! Thanks

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roryg
Of course, a precursor of this was used in 1975 for outdoor shows, including Milwaukee (note beer barrel, giant beer mug and chalet behind stage - yup, Wisconsin) [richzimmermann.com]

Yes exactly thanks

Great story , thank you .

I think Bill Harkin may also have designed the stage used for Queen's Hyde Park concert, also in 1976. You can see it in the opening shots on this video.







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this could have been the model for the Roof of waldbuehne in Berlin (i think the roof is built in 1981)...

[www.max.de]

Wow youre right, could be yes

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roryg
Of course, a precursor of this was used in 1975 for outdoor shows, including Milwaukee (note beer barrel, giant beer mug and chalet behind stage - yup, Wisconsin) [richzimmermann.com]

If you scroll down the same guy took a few photos of the Stones live in 72 in Minnesota as well.

Nice stuff.

J

He did some great work for The Bugle American (a freebie Milwaukee paper in the 70s) including a great spread for the '75 show

What's so fantastic about it???!!

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potus43
What's so fantastic about it???!!

It looked cool. It still does...

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potus43
What's so fantastic about it???!!

It's not the Lotus Ill give you that. But it looked cool on those old pics, like a bat from the 70s. And besides, Keith and Mick were inside that tent.

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potus43
What's so fantastic about it???!!

I was thinking the same thing.

Ok not much, give you that, but it's part of Knebworth 1976!!

At Knebworth the stage area inflated into The Tongue so that was fantastic-ish!

Keith Stweart MSG 1975



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