This clip is from a show the Stones did in 1969 at Madison Square Garden, New York, with a capacity of about 18,000. What interested me about the clip was how, by modern standards, really primitive was the show: in comparison with today's shows, there is actually very little stage space; there are pretty basic stage monitors; no backing singers, horns, keyboards, etc.; there are no jumbo screens or pyrotechnics; the audience is at the very lip of the stage. In terms of performance, this could have been done in a small club or hall, with the same equipment. It sometimes makes me wonder if the up-scaling of musical shows is actually an improvement or a detriment to the actual performance...
I saw the Stones, on this tour, on their stop in Oakland, CA; at the time, the promoter, Bill Graham, started using large video screens suspended over the stage with a live feed in order to give visuals to those seated father from the stage; this was considered a very big innovation in 1969; it was nothing compared to the stages now where the entire backdrops are massive screens...
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