I would love to the Rolling Stones perform a show in a small auditorium with minimal sound equipment. Go back to basics as it was in 1962. Some amplifiers and other sound equipment. No flashy lights or other stage theatrics. I am aware that this will never happen for the simple reason that they will make no money and the planning logistics would be a nightmare. Maybe broadcast this type of show on some type of a pay view menu. Not the same as a live show and being there.
Just a thought.

They have done a good handful of club and theater shows over the years. Nothing new.



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Hardly possible, there would be only 2/5 (maybe 3/5) of the "basics" still available



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I would love to the Rolling Stones perform a show in a small auditorium with minimal sound equipment.

Weren't their private shows, e.g. like in 2021 - [iorr.org] - a 'back to basics' with minimal equipment and no stage frills?

Has anyone noticed the thread about Georgia’s 5 month old daughter is getting more views than this? That’s where we are, lol.

I know what you mean but I would echo statements that their club shows and rehearsal shows are basically what these are. It would be cool, I totally picture what you mean, but it'll never look like 1965, and what it would look like is what they still occasionally do.

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I would love to the Rolling Stones perform a show in a small auditorium with minimal sound equipment. Go back to basics as it was in 1962. Some amplifiers and other sound equipment. No flashy lights or other stage theatrics. I am aware that this will never happen for the simple reason that they will make no money and the planning logistics would be a nightmare. Maybe broadcast this type of show on some type of a pay view menu. Not the same as a live show and being there.
Just a thought.

At this point in their lives as The Rolling Stones, my own view is that they've pretty much done everything there is to do .....

What could they come up with that they haven't in some form or other already done ? Nothing that comes immediately to mind, that's for sure !

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Only if they go the whole way
and arrive in thee ole Beast Of Burden van .........



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Has anyone noticed the thread about Georgia’s 5 month old daughter is getting more views than this? That’s where we are, lol.

Yes, because it exists 6 times longer. Very soon this thread will have more views. But honestly I'm glad If they ever hit the stage again. I'm fine with a football stadium.

hockenheim95, I doubt they would do anything less than a stadium show. Be it good or bad. But yeah, imagine if they did go back to basics. That would be absolutely amazing for people like us.

be great but my bet is we'll get another stadium tour and a new album sometime in the next 12-18 months and more then likely a smaller venue show tacked on at the end

very slim chance they'll do a warmup club show before the tour

it's happened before but it's been a long time since they last did one (no i don't count private shows for robert kraft)

maybe maybe another short show in a small venue like the racket in 2023 if they wanna do something to promote the new album there working on when they release it

all this of course is dependent on them all being in good enough health

does this pretty much sum up where we as group stand on what's likely gonna happen in the near future?

The club shows are rare and almost unavailable to most fans. Phoenix, Trabendo, Echoplex and Fonda are the only one that comes to my mind, since 2005, i.e. four or so in 20 years. May be I forgot one. I don't count the private shows, as they are private, unavailable to normal fans. Also, I don't count the promotion show in NYC 2023, just a few songs for TV snd promotion purposes.

The club gigs during the Licks tour 2002-2003 were great, but they are large theatres of some 2,500 + capacity, just like Brixton academy was a club, but it takes 3,900 fans, similar to the Hard Rock Live show in Hollywood FL 2021, with 6,800 capacity.

They would never braodcast such a small show live. These real basic shows do not have any backup, no Bernard, no Tim, no carl, so it is just the core band, they do overdubs and "clean" the show before they publish it.

The small shows were for rehearsals purpose only, to get the first instant reaction on new songs. Mick used to say these shows are like one week of rehearsal.

I don't see any more club shows coming, but who knows, if a super rich person want to pay $5++ million for a 90 minutes rehearsals gig, then I am sure they might do it, but not for us, just for the super rich party people.

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I would love to the Rolling Stones perform a show in a small auditorium with minimal sound equipment. Go back to basics as it was in 1962. Some amplifiers and other sound equipment. No flashy lights or other stage theatrics. I am aware that this will never happen for the simple reason that they will make no money and the planning logistics would be a nightmare. Maybe broadcast this type of show on some type of a pay view menu. Not the same as a live show and being there.
Just a thought.

At this point in their lives as The Rolling Stones, my own view is that they've pretty much done everything there is to do .....

What could they come up with that they haven't in some form or other already done ? Nothing that comes immediately to mind, that's for sure !

Well, “It’s just my imagination”, but they could give it another try in Hanging Rock (Australia). I missed out twice in 2014
Antarctica? Well, Metallica were ahead)?
Iceland (based on the population we foreign fans need to help them out then)?,
or maybe the Colloseum in Rome? (risky, because it may collaps under the pressure we fans may cause
Greenland? Before some naughty country takes over

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The club shows are rare and almost unavailable to most fans. Phoenix, Trabendo, Echoplex and Fonda are the only one that comes to my mind, since 2005, i.e. four or so in 20 years. May be I forgot one. I don't count the private shows, as they are private, unavailable to normal fans. Also, I don't count the promotion show in NYC 2023, just a few songs for TV snd promotion purposes.

The club gigs during the Licks tour 2002-2003 were great, but they are large theatres of some 2,500 + capacity, just like Brixton academy was a club, but it takes 3,900 fans, similar to the Hard Rock Live show in Hollywood FL 2021, with 6,800 capacity.

They would never braodcast such a small show live. These real basic shows do not have any backup, no Bernard, no Tim, no carl, so it is just the core band, they do overdubs and "clean" the show before they publish it.

The small shows were for rehearsals purpose only, to get the first instant reaction on new songs. Mick used to say these shows are like one week of rehearsal.

I don't see any more club shows coming, but who knows, if a super rich person want to pay $5++ million for a 90 minutes rehearsals gig, then I am sure they might do it, but not for us, just for the super rich party people.

Although Vredenburg and Cirkus Stockholm only held 1900 respectively 1700 people, quite smaller than places like Brixton Academy. Astoria London only holds around 2000 (in 2003 around 1700). Olympia and Cirkus Krone hold considerably larger crowds (around 2400-2600) though.



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