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GeirGG
In my opinion the 60 tour was great for 2022, but will seem a bit daft in 2023. I think the rather cheap stage and not so good lights of this tour could be a signal that the «60» thing was just that - a one off. It would give them a chance to come up with something spectacular for the next tour. Also I don’t think they want to to do «60» til they drop/stop (hopefully lightyears from now) - that is just a bit uncool in my humble opinion.
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Nikkei
The setup at Hyde Park seemed like a practical joke. They could have made full use of the screen but intended not to
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GeirGG
In my opinion the 60 tour was great for 2022, but will seem a bit daft in 2023. I think the rather cheap stage and not so good lights of this tour could be a signal that the «60» thing was just that - a one off. It would give them a chance to come up with something spectacular for the next tour. Also I don’t think they want to to do «60» til they drop/stop (hopefully lightyears from now) - that is just a bit uncool in my humble opinion.
Yes they should ditch the rather cheap stage, and brighten it up a bit more, and maybe come up with an entirely different name and new theme.
They could start where they finished by playing smaller venues as they did in Berlin (capacity apprx. 20,000)- arguably the best show of the summer, and no cheap stage in sight.
Or if stadiums are the only way to make it happen, a single massive screen ala Desert Trip would be much less distracting than the confusing chaotic eyesore of the red/orange/yellow design
And whether they keep the SIXTY theme or not, they could make it more celebratory by bringing in Bill and/or MT for a show as I previously mentioned, though that might be hoping for too much.
Whatever happens, it will be good to see them continuing on anywhere and in any way...hard to imagine the day when the Stones stop rolling...North America 2023 certainly has a nice ring to it...
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GeirGG
In my opinion the 60 tour was great for 2022, but will seem a bit daft in 2023. I think the rather cheap stage and not so good lights of this tour could be a signal that the «60» thing was just that - a one off. It would give them a chance to come up with something spectacular for the next tour. Also I don’t think they want to to do «60» til they drop/stop (hopefully lightyears from now) - that is just a bit uncool in my humble opinion.
Yes they should ditch the rather cheap stage, and brighten it up a bit more, and maybe come up with an entirely different name and new theme.
They could start where they finished by playing smaller venues as they did in Berlin (capacity apprx. 20,000)- arguably the best show of the summer, and no cheap stage in sight.
Or if stadiums are the only way to make it happen, a single massive screen ala Desert Trip would be much less distracting than the confusing chaotic eyesore of the red/orange/yellow design
And whether they keep the SIXTY theme or not, they could make it more celebratory by bringing in Bill and/or MT for a show as I previously mentioned, though that might be hoping for too much.
Whatever happens, it will be good to see them continuing on anywhere and in any way...hard to imagine the day when the Stones stop rolling...North America 2023 certainly has a nice ring to it...
A much better alternative for 2023 than a 60 Tour theme would be to finish the studio album and use its title as tour name, by including five or six songs from it in the setlists.
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RisingStone
I have noticed one thing. The Rolling Stones played the Tokyo Dome 29 times between 1990 and 2014, which has made it the dome they played more often than its cousins anywhere else in the world.
Being picky I know, but I count 28 x Dome plus x 1 x Budokan.
1990 x10
1995 x7
1998 x4
2003 x3 (includes Budokan)
2006 x2
2014 x3
Please tell me what I got wrong, I like my data set to be correct!
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calipachangero
They should use the giant screen U2 used in 2017 for the Joshua Tree tour. Or one similar, but that stage and screen must be somewhere in storage I guess?
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calipachangero
They should use the giant screen U2 used in 2017 for the Joshua Tree tour. Or one similar, but that stage and screen must be somewhere in storage I guess?
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Topi
The stage they had at Waldbühne was really scaled down. Like, no frills at all. So is that better than the "Sixty" stage they had the rest of the way (except for Hyde Park, where they used the BST festival stage)?
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River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires is there ready for 3-4 shows next year, or as soon as they can come up with a plan, probably including Sao Paulo, Mexico City and a few ones in USA.
They can sell out 5 or more shows in Argentina in a day, the demand is very high, Coldplay sold out 10 shows in record time, Harry Styles 3 shows in a single day, the problem is the 3 days off between shows, they can't book the River Plate stadium during two weeks for 3-4 shows only.
It is all a matter of price. And time. Coldplay do 10 shows in 15 days in Buenos Aires. The Rolling Stones pay for the venue, 16-20 days for four shows, the ticket prices will be higher, but they will do four shows or so at River Plate whenever the rest of that part of a tour could be ready.
The main challenge is the fact that the entire world want to have The Rolling Stones coming to do shows, but they do not play that many shows per year these days.
Harry styles is 28 years old. Chris Martin of Coldplay is 45. Mick is 79. Keith is 78. The Stones did 100+ shows per year 20-30 years ago, not anymore.
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MisterDDDD
Interesting that the anniversary tour stage was designed specifically for Europe in the summertime. I don't believe we'll see it again .. whether we see a new one is yet to be determined, but it does help explain the minimalist aspects of the sixty stage design.
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"W*: What are the most important elements of the stage design for the Sixty tour?
MN: When tours like this [go to] other parts of the world [other than Europe], quite early on in the performance, night has fallen and the stage becomes an opportunity for lighting designers to make something of it.
But when you’re touring in Europe in summer, in most cases it doesn’t get dark until 10.30 at night, so the show needs to have a physical form that works in daylight. I don’t always do material that is so viscerally central to the look of the stage, but on this occasion, I got asked whether I could contribute to the look of that daylight form, because it had to be a big static printed piece of art.
This great big piece of art has to be – excuse the rock ’n’ roll language – a bit f uc k off. You want something that says you have arrived at a Rolling Stone stage. Because we’re working in a world now where branding moves, whereas it didn’t 33 years ago. You must consider all of the social media components; when you’re designing a mark, you’re also thinking about how it can be eye candy, how it can attract somebody’s attention in the top corner of the screen. So it’s the same idea as it was 33 years ago, but it’s done using the media of the moment, for the medium of the moment.
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Spud
Some folks I think yearn for the "shock and awe" of the fire breathing cobras and cathedral like architecture of the 90's stadium stages.
You don't need them so much today partly because the quality and size of the big screens is now so much enhanced.
They can be the focus of the stage set up, rather than the peripheral add ons.
Surely nice big clear images are the most helpful thing for stadium conert goers?
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hockenheim95
They show pictures of the No Filter stage and call it the Sixy stage
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hockenheim95
They show pictures of the No Filter stage and call it the Sixy stage
Messed up on the lead photo caption, but they do show several of their stage designs including the Sixty stage.
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Topi
Yes - in fact, the Stones did not have a stage of their own at any of the shows this year. The base stage was provided locally.
Where applicable, the Stones only brought the frames/decorations, the screens and the catwalk etc.
Similar arrangement to 2014.
The actual stage was used by other acts at the same venue, as was the case in Milan, Vienna and Paris at least. (Thanks to erikjjf for pointing that out earlier!)
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Nikkei
I must admit I didn't watch all of it. It just looked so promising with the leafy background and then suddenly there is the red and yellow. Hmm
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Nikkei
I must admit I didn't watch all of it. It just looked so promising with the leafy background and then suddenly there is the red and yellow. Hmm
The Hyde Park stage is owned by the venue and used by every act during the summer, since 2013. Different groups make different amount of use of it - Pearl Jam, for instance, who never have screens behind them normally, did turn it on for a few songs, to pretty dramatic effect. But it’s not brought in by the bands. Funnily, it’s the same stage/screen/fake plastic tree that the Stones played in front of in 2013.