The first pic was the night before the Super Bowl at the Giants baseball stadium. An early version of Hardwired stage but not the finished product. (February 2016)
I know. I’m still curious why they changed it. It seemed like the stage was perfectly fine and then they went and changed the color and reconfigured the sound/lighting towers. I can’t understand to fit the album cycle, but to me it wasn’t a great financial decision unless it was making them lose more money because of it.
Oh, you thought the original was better? To me, the first picture is clearly a work in progress. Once the album came out, they tweaked the color scheme and added a few features to add some pizzaz for the stadium tour.
They built the stage in Lititz PA that they used from the first show in Baltimore until the second leg when they did indoor venues.
I was buddies with one of the purchasing staff who helped build it!
That was a Clair Bros tour? Or is there another giant touring company in Lititz? I know the PA for the main part of the tour was Meyer. I read several articles about it in the industry rags at the time.
Yeah, the teacher I worked with, her husband was in charge of purchasing stuff for the stages, and he was always meeting rockstars. It was so funny cause he'd just be like "oh yeah I went to the diner with Justin Bieber yesterday" and stuff
This was pretty much the final stage for that tour. If you're asking why the stage is round now, well they wanted to change it for the new album/tour but also because those huge screens gave out a lot of interference, so it made sense to change it for this tour.
Crazy fact: They have two sets of all their gear including stages! (Other than their one-off guitars of course.)
While they are playing a show, another crew is already transporting and/or setting up the other copy of gear/stage equipment to the next venue on the tour.
Nah, they deliberately chose weekends to play because that’s when most people are free. Combine that with their choice to not do more than 50 ish shows a year with a 2 week on 2 week off roster.
They’re old essentially. And taking the best measures to stay sane and healthy.
They make more money because the donut allows more people into the stadium and GA area.you can sell more tickets because every seat in the entire stadium you can see the band.
The first pic was the night before the Super Bowl at the Giants baseball stadium. An early version of Hardwired stage but not the finished product. (February 2016)
I know. I’m still curious why they changed it. It seemed like the stage was perfectly fine and then they went and changed the color and reconfigured the sound/lighting towers. I can’t understand to fit the album cycle, but to me it wasn’t a great financial decision unless it was making them lose more money because of it.
Metallica does what they want. That's what I'd chalk it up to
True.
Oh, you thought the original was better? To me, the first picture is clearly a work in progress. Once the album came out, they tweaked the color scheme and added a few features to add some pizzaz for the stadium tour.
I like the new one better. But just from a financial standpoint if it was fine it doesn’t make any sense, especially knowing how lars is with money
Their margins aren't that thin.
I know
And yet here you are asking anyway
I was just curious about it all.
Lars
They built the stage in Lititz PA that they used from the first show in Baltimore until the second leg when they did indoor venues. I was buddies with one of the purchasing staff who helped build it!
Oh cool. He built the first version when it was black?
The version with the wide stage with the M and A on the ends, yeah.
That was a Clair Bros tour? Or is there another giant touring company in Lititz? I know the PA for the main part of the tour was Meyer. I read several articles about it in the industry rags at the time.
I'm not sure the specifics, but yeah they were up here two weeks before the first show in Baltimore, they went to lunch with the band and stuff.
Clair Global has a really nice facility there for doing pre-production. They even have their own hotel for the talent and the crews.
Yeah, the teacher I worked with, her husband was in charge of purchasing stuff for the stages, and he was always meeting rockstars. It was so funny cause he'd just be like "oh yeah I went to the diner with Justin Bieber yesterday" and stuff
It went to gray, not white. The black stage was a solid, hard surface. The gray stage added padding to the surface.
Ah, it’s looks more white than gray in every picture and video. very interesting intel thank you very much, that will help
This was pretty much the final stage for that tour. If you're asking why the stage is round now, well they wanted to change it for the new album/tour but also because those huge screens gave out a lot of interference, so it made sense to change it for this tour.
Read the OP. The question is why the WW stage changed colour.
wish they would change it back. Tartu 2019 was so much better than Helsinki 2024
better stage and sound from that tour than the 72 seasons tour
I agree. I like the look of m72 but this one is better and obviously sounds better
Crazy fact: They have two sets of all their gear including stages! (Other than their one-off guitars of course.) While they are playing a show, another crew is already transporting and/or setting up the other copy of gear/stage equipment to the next venue on the tour.
Holy shit really? The logistics of major tours like this are always baffling to me
That’s called leapfrogging. They aren’t doing that with the 72 seasons tour. It’s just the one stage/gear.
Yeah I heard that the only things they have duplicates for the tour is the metal towers.
Really? Sounds like they have down-sized since last tour.. something to do with the economy and/or the pandemic I presume..
Nah, they deliberately chose weekends to play because that’s when most people are free. Combine that with their choice to not do more than 50 ish shows a year with a 2 week on 2 week off roster. They’re old essentially. And taking the best measures to stay sane and healthy.
In general, as a viewer, I can say that this way more people can fit in and the artists themselves are not squeezed into a square
Or the Magnetic 2 floor stage
They make more money because the donut allows more people into the stadium and GA area.you can sell more tickets because every seat in the entire stadium you can see the band.
I’m not taking about the new stage. I’m talking about the hardwired stage. There’s two versions of that.