The next tour gimmick?....what else is there left to do??? all the major TV manufacturing/movie companies  are hyping this technology so why not the Stones to take this into the concert arena (grrrr stadium?) Mick projected into the middle of the crowd???!!! ...plus imagine the additional revenue for special glasses? the $200 pair have additional audio features??.......crazy?..or pure genius??..or i'm loaded..

KISS did this back in 1997/98 with the Psycho Circus tour...really cheesy 3D...with the glasses and all!!!

Edith Grove wrote on Dec 28^th, 2010 at 8:50pm:


I wasn't aware U2 had done this before.......so been there done that then........

gonna play on the moon bitches

Paranoid Android wrote on Dec 29^th, 2010 at 8:37am:

U2 did a 3D movie.

I think an idea such as this could excite MICK! A new gimmick is a tour necessity! Remember the "On Stage Seating" they came up with for ABB? That idea got canned after a drunken brawl within the "on stage" seating and another incident with a crazy mama upchucking on the stage. There were multiple seating problems with that idea as well, and security issues, so I think next time they may opt for something simpler. 3D or another new technology just might be interesting enough to entice MICK!  

Steel Wheels wrote on Dec 29^th, 2010 at 1:22pm:

Well according to Keith in Life. All of the Stones puke on stage. So what's a little more?

How about this for a left-of-field, off the wall 'gimmick' for the next tour ?



This other bollocks has been done to death. Theyve proved they do all that better than anyone else. So, its time to move on and has been for some time.

Now, since they're known as the 'greatest rock n roll band in the world' after all, how about proving (or at least trying to) that they can do THAT better than anyone else as well. Ideally, while there are still enough people around who can remember them for music as opposed to pyrotechnics.

Leave the cartoon stuff to bands who need to have gimmicks to pad their shows out to disguise the fact that they dont have the songs.

I deliberately passed on U2 this tour for two reasons - their new album was shit and the reports about their stage show just screamed "self indulgent wankery". Almost everyone I knew who went to see them came back raving about how spectacular it was. Hardly anyone commented on the music, which convinced me I'd made the right decision.

I sure as hell don't want the same scenario for the Stones.

Bitch wrote on Dec 29^th, 2010 at 12:36pm:


Is that right about the reason it was canned? I've never heard that before.

I just assumed it was because it was so poorly organised that the demand was poor. It was far from the most expensive ticket on the US leg, but when they brought it in for the first Euro tour in 2006 they only put the tickets on sale a couple of weeks before the gig (after everyone who wanted tickets had already bought them!), priced them WAY higher than the most expensive seats and as a result they couldnt give the damn things away. The gimmick was dropped for the 2007 leg.

Plus, the whole thing was (until then) a scam that PT Barnum would have been proud of - ie, call the gimmick 'onstage seating' when in reality it was 'above stage standing' and the ticket buyer couldnt even see the whole band for a couple of songs. They had a similar venture on the No Security tour when they had seats behind the stage. Back then, they admitted they were the worst seats in the house and priced them accordingly ($40). 'Onstage seating' was proof that if you rebrand 'shit' as 'chocolate', people will queue up to buy it!

This, unfortunately, is what we are left with -

http://www.pollstarpro.com/files/Charts2010/2010YearEndTop50WorldwideConcertTour...

So long rock 'n' roll, it's been good to know yuh.....!

Yeah, disorderly drunken females in short dresses and high heels were screaming really loud during the show being obnoxious, then one of them threw up on the stage.  MICK wasnt happy about that! The same night some guys were arguing about not sitting in the correct seats, or not being able to see from their seats and no venue security was around to sort it out. They got loud, a fight broke out in the 'on stage' cage during the show, cops showed up, were escorted out, someone went to the hospital, someone got arrested and thats why it was in the news. It was the first leg of the tour, Giants Stadium. After that they beefed up security for the remaining shows, then eventually they dropped the on-stage nonsense. I have to admit I wanted one of those seats, just couldnt get one!

Bitch wrote on Dec 29^th, 2010 at 8:58pm:


I wouldnt have minded experiencing the show from that vantage point once to see/hear what it was like for a bit of novelty. Would have been something different and probably OK for the likes of me or you who go to a lot of Stones shows. Don't think I'd have cared for it had it been my ONLY show, though.

I'm with Gaaza, if we as fans are focusing on the gimmicks and fluff, we are not really satisfied fans... they need to have a nice stage and what not, but they need to focus on playing, not the props.