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This is to comment on the way they build the stage these days, as a reply to a question in the Hamburg thread:
The stage is 100% flexible and modular. Since these tours started in 2012, the whole concept has been flexibility, modular stage to fit into any arena or stadium, with a minimum of crew.
Dale "Opie" Skjerseth, The Rolling Stones production manager, talking about how they came up with the current stage concept (Sao Paulo 2016 interview)
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Quotes from the interview:
- "They are spectacular (The Rolling Stones). There is nobody else on that level."
- "We made the structure so it is modular. We can take it anywhere."
- "At Bigger Bang we were 500 crew. Now we are 70."
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I think the stage is like LEGO pieces. They have core stuff they fly in and the rest is just steel and other material stuff they may get locally. For this tour may be they do some trucking as well, I haven't checked if trucks can make it beetween shows easily, may be. Still, it is the guys on stage that matters, the rest is simply decoration. And of course they bring the world's best crew within management, security, sound and visuals. That makes the whole difference between average and perfection.
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-- "At Bigger Bang we were 500 crew. Now we are 70."
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-- "At Bigger Bang we were 500 crew. Now we are 70."
At first this loss of 430 jobs upset me. By then I remembered that the band has passed those personnel savings along to fans in the form of lower ticket prices! Win-win!
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-- "At Bigger Bang we were 500 crew. Now we are 70."
At first this loss of 430 jobs upset me. By then I remembered that the band has passed those personnel savings along to fans in the form of lower ticket prices! Win-win!Yeah thats the way they are our streetfighting men
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-- "At Bigger Bang we were 500 crew. Now we are 70."
At first this loss of 430 jobs upset me. By then I remembered that the band has passed those personnel savings along to fans in the form of lower ticket prices! Win-win!Yeah thats the way they are our streetfighting men
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-- "At Bigger Bang we were 500 crew. Now we are 70."
At first this loss of 430 jobs upset me. By then I remembered that the band has passed those personnel savings along to fans in the form of lower ticket prices! Win-win!Yeah thats the way they are our streetfighting men
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I wonder what they will put in the middle above the see through ("no filter"?) roof??
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-- "At Bigger Bang we were 500 crew. Now we are 70."
At first this loss of 430 jobs upset me. By then I remembered that the band has passed those personnel savings along to fans in the form of lower ticket prices! Win-win!
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How's the accidented stage worker doing by now?
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- "At Bigger Bang we were 500 crew. Now we are 70."
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bv
This is to comment on the way they build the stage these days, as a reply to a question in the Hamburg thread:
The stage is 100% flexible and modular. Since these tours started in 2012, the whole concept has been flexibility, modular stage to fit into any arena or stadium, with a minimum of crew.
Dale "Opie" Skjerseth, The Rolling Stones production manager, talking about how they came up with the current stage concept (Sao Paulo 2016 interview)
[www.youtube.com]
Quotes from the interview:
- "They are spectacular (The Rolling Stones). There is nobody else on that level."
- "We made the structure so it is modular. We can take it anywhere."
- "At Bigger Bang we were 500 crew. Now we are 70."
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bv
I would not worry so much about the statement "500 crew in the past vs 70 now".
What this means is rather than having 2-3 shifts of 60 trucks on the road, with two or even three complete stages, they have modernized the travel and touring, so that the dedicated crew needed is less numerous. Still they need hundreds on site, lots of local bits and pieces and so on, so all in all it is different logistics, but not really 80% less people in total. Also, I believe it is more travel and envir onment friendly, which is important these days. We don't want to see the sealevel increase by a lot simply because the Stones tour, do we?
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We don't want to see the sealevel increase by a lot simply because the Stones tour, do we?