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eboweddieeboweddie Posts: 923
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I've been watching Arcade Fires tour with the stage in the middle of the arena. It looked fantastic.  Could this work for pearl jam I wonder. Maybe a theme for the layout. 

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    foodboyfoodboy Posts: 988
    i hope not. 

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    tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 38,996
    eboweddie said:
    I've been watching Arcade Fires tour with the stage in the middle of the arena. It looked fantastic.  Could this work for pearl jam I wonder. Maybe a theme for the layout. 
    I would like that!

    Metallica has done it too and I thought that was great.
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    wall232wall232 New York Posts: 1,346
    Seen a few shows in the round and i'm not a big fan. Of course if they did I'd be there.
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    RoleModelsinBlood31RoleModelsinBlood31 Austin TX Posts: 6,147
    Would be pretty badass if the pit was 360 degrees around the stage though
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    pjhawkspjhawks Posts: 12,195
    No
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    KV4053KV4053 Mike's side, crushed up against the stage Posts: 1,449
    "In the round" is cheesy. PJ is not cheesy.
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    helplessdancerhelplessdancer Posts: 5,262
    last time i saw prince play he had his stage in the middle of the floor of the arena
    ya it was super cheesy ha ha
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    KV4053KV4053 Mike's side, crushed up against the stage Posts: 1,449
    helplessdancer said:
    last time i saw prince play he had his stage in the middle of the floor of the arena
    ya it was super cheesy ha ha
    Fair point. I think it would be cheesy for PJ
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    njnancynjnancy Northern New Jersey Posts: 5,096
    I saw Yes and ELO in the round, probably a couple more bands that I don't recall. That was a big thing when I was first going to concerts. 

    I haven't seen anyone do that in a long long time, though.

    You could never do GA in the round. 
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    KV4053KV4053 Mike's side, crushed up against the stage Posts: 1,449
    njnancy said:
    I saw Yes and ELO in the round, probably a couple more bands that I don't recall. That was a big thing when I was first going to concerts. 

    I haven't seen anyone do that in a long long time, though.

    You could never do GA in the round. 
    Exactly.
    I saw Def Leppard in the round. Meh
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    rummyrummy British Columbia, Canada Posts: 4,353
    KV4053 said:
    "In the round" is cheesy. PJ is not cheesy.
    Just curious: What makes it cheesy?
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    NinetytworulesNinetytworules Boston Posts: 454
    In the round is very important.


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    Kearn5yKearn5y Ireland Posts: 2,693
    Imagine the complaints. Qued from the night before, in first to get on the rail. Band come on stage to realise they are behind the stage.
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    PB11041PB11041 Earth Posts: 2,765
    njnancy said:
    I saw Yes and ELO in the round, probably a couple more bands that I don't recall. That was a big thing when I was first going to concerts. 

    I haven't seen anyone do that in a long long time, though.

    You could never do GA in the round. 
    Tell that to all the bands currently doing it.  It actually makes GA less problematic 
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    tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 38,996
    PB11041 said:
    njnancy said:
    I saw Yes and ELO in the round, probably a couple more bands that I don't recall. That was a big thing when I was first going to concerts. 

    I haven't seen anyone do that in a long long time, though.

    You could never do GA in the round. 
    Tell that to all the bands currently doing it.  It actually makes GA less problematic 
    Yep!

    The band moves around to different parts of the stage so you'd get to interact with a different band member during the course of the show.
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    helplessdancerhelplessdancer Posts: 5,262
    i saw peter gabriel in the round. it was fantastic++
    maybe pearl jam are jusy way too kool ha ha
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    mrk2mrk2 Finland Posts: 2,025
    Eddie needs to be surrounded by his 20 monitor speakers when he's singing. 
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    willbarclaywillbarclay Ottawa, Canada Posts: 3,298

    in the round

    in the round

    after reading "in the round" so many times its making my head spin.

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    Spiritual_ChaosSpiritual_Chaos Posts: 28,971
    The idea is good - more people get close and stuff. The problem is that it turns a bit gimmicky live. Like Metallica - with 20 different mics James walks around too and the drum set being rotated. He landed right in front of me for Unforgiven though  :o

    But the basic idea is cool. And as long as it doesn't turn into specially constructed lights to swing on - I'm cool with it.
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    on2legson2legs Standing in the Jersey rain… Posts: 14,425
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    Are we talking a stage that rotates or just a round stage in the middle of the arena?   The rotating stage might be cheesy.  A fixed stage is not. 

    The last three times I’ve seen U2 they have had a regular stage at the end of the arena where they play most of the show but they also have a walkway down the middle of the arena to a small round stage towards the back of the floor.  They do a good job of moving back and forth and it creates a ton more rail space for people on the floor.  

    View from this July at MSG.  Taken with an iPhone from the front row of the seat section. 


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    eboweddieeboweddie Posts: 923
    I'm thinking a stage in the middle of the arena.  That can't move.. And we can see Mike running around the entire stage!!! 

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    mcgruff10mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 27,872
    I would favor a u2 type set up too.  More people get a chance to be close to the band.  
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    pjhawkspjhawks Posts: 12,195
    mcgruff10 said:
    I would favor a u2 type set up too.  More people get a chance to be close to the band.  
    except when I saw U2 in Philly this year the band spent most of the time on the main stage and Bono was up and down the ramp and barely ever in front of the band. It's like the band was just a backup band. it was strange a bad way to watch the show. do i focus on the band or on Bono?  I didn't like it at all.  
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    njnancynjnancy Northern New Jersey Posts: 5,096
    on2legs said:
    Are we talking a stage that rotates or just a round stage in the middle of the arena?   The rotating stage might be cheesy.  A fixed stage is not. 

    The last three times I’ve seen U2 they have had a regular stage at the end of the arena where they play most of the show but they also have a walkway down the middle of the arena to a small round stage towards the back of the floor.  They do a good job of moving back and forth and it creates a ton more rail space for people on the floor.  

    View from this July at MSG.  Taken with an iPhone from the front row of the seat section. 


    I was talking about a rotating circle in the middle of the arena. 
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    njnancynjnancy Northern New Jersey Posts: 5,096
    tempo_n_groove said:
    PB11041 said:
    njnancy said:
    I saw Yes and ELO in the round, probably a couple more bands that I don't recall. That was a big thing when I was first going to concerts. 

    I haven't seen anyone do that in a long long time, though.

    You could never do GA in the round. 
    Tell that to all the bands currently doing it.  It actually makes GA less problematic 
    Yep!

    The band moves around to different parts of the stage so you'd get to interact with a different band member during the course of the show.
    They don't need to move, the stage moves.
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    njnancynjnancy Northern New Jersey Posts: 5,096
    "In the round" and playing on a round stage are two entirely different things.
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    2-feign-reluctance2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,143
    Trap all the line/list weirdos in the round? Let's do it! Haha!

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    on2legson2legs Standing in the Jersey rain… Posts: 14,425
    2-feign-reluctance said:
    Trap all the line/list weirdos in the round? Let's do it! Haha!

    excited owl GIF

    Agreed.  The U2 setup basically blows up most of that lining up nonsense.  Almost everyone on the floor at U2 is only about 3 people off the rail at any given time.  It kind of spreads the wealth around.
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    KevinmanKevinman Atlanta, GA USA Posts: 1,905
    I thought they already did this in Champaign in 2003.  Not positive because I didn’t go to the show, but I thought I remember reading this.
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    mrk2mrk2 Finland Posts: 2,025
    Pearl Jam was considering a separate "acoustic stage" at FOH, ie near the mixing desk in 2013. Taken from Karrie Keyes blog, the band's monitor mix engineer:   https://soundgirls.org/test-run/

    "In the process of designing this acoustic stage – I go to see Fleetwood Mac (which was a fantastic show), and as I sit in the audience, I try to imagine this acoustic stage right in the middle of the audience and honestly it scares me. The acoustic stage eventually gets scrapped and I am relieved."
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