i don't mean to drag this old beaten horse of a thread out again, but i went to see the rolling stones at giants stadium, so i feel i have to comment now that i've seen both the bigger bang tour and the vertigo tour...
the stones friggin blow the vertigo tour out of the water.
there... i said it. the onstage boxes... the pyrotechnics... the fireworks... the giant flames... the moving stage... the gigantic inflatable tounge...
frankly... the production values of the stones stage make u2's whole little video curtain thing, which i liked, btw... look like nothing more than a bunch of dangling christmas lights.
and mick jagger... mick fucking jagger. he makes bono look like the 60 year old. he does more running around on one song than bono did for an entire concert. the man is in incredible shape... not just for someone his age... for anyone.
the stage moves... it fucking moves. about a 50 by 50 foot section of stage actually lifts it's self up from the main stage and travels a good 50-60 yards down the field to the opposite side of the stadium... with the band on it, drum kit and all, and they're still playing while it's moving.
say what you will about the stones... they're too old... they're just a greatest hits band... they're not "relevant," whatever the hell that means... like a song like sympathy for the devil could ever not be "relevant." but they put on a production that's 5 times as elaborate as u2's, and they still manage to throw in some setlist changes from night to night. and they play for 2+ hours straight, with minimum time away from the stage, and no 10 minute disertations on west african whooping coiugh.
now... i'm still going to way too many shows than i probably should this fall... and i'm still gonna rock out at every one of them, based soley on my love of the music... even if it is the same songs each ngiht. and i'll absolutely love every minute of it. but frankly, i'm still holding out hope that one day soon u2 will decide to go out on a limb again with their stage production, i.e. zootv and popmart, rather than just settle for doing baisicly the exact same production as their last tour. i'm guessing for the next one they'll have to switch it up... i mean they did a heart, they did an oval... they're running out of shapes to do the same idea. what's next, a square?
i'm done now... flame away.