Production Load-In

Information--stadium show only

 (updated: July 11, 2006)

Production Personnel

Dale Skjerseth:             Rolling Stones Production Manager

Tim McWilliams:                 World Tour Promoter Rep, Concert Productions International

Mark Fisher:                            Set Designer

Patrick Woodroffe:                  Lighting Designer

Dave Natale:                            Sound Engineer

Ethan Webber:                         Lighting Director

Christine Strand:                      Video Director  

 

Stage dimensions:                     204 feet wide

100 feet deep

                                                  92 feet high

                                                  25 feet from front to drum riser

                                                  32 feet from front to visual backdrop

     3 feet from ground to top of sub-deck

     3 ½ feet from top of sub-deck to top of stage

                                                     Raked from 10 feet in back to 8 feet in front

                                                     56 feet from stage center to end of screamers  

 

Stage weight:                            300 tons-total

170 tons-just the steel

130 tons-just the universal production  

Distance A to B-stage:              70-204 feet (depending on venue)  

                              Drive time A to B stage:            3 minutes 15 seconds @ 204 feet  

B-stage dimensions:                  34 feet x 30 feet (drive out portion is 34 x 14)  

B-stage movement:                   Hydrolics level stage, drum riser pushed out, then forward movement starts

 

10 production crew

·      1 driver (rides on rig)

·      4 cable pullers

·      6 carpenters to supervise drive  

 


Touring stages:                         3          sub decks

                                               2          sets balcony steel

                                               1          universal stage

                                               1          set of balcony fascia    

 

 

 

 


Stage build:                        Day 0   site coordinator in

Day 1  teel load-in  (8 hours-60 local labor)

Day 2  steel build    (12 hours-60 local labor)

                                                Day 3  steel build    (12 hours-60 local labor)

                                                Day 4  steel build    (12 hours-60 local labor)

                                                Day 5  production load-in (10 hours-106 local                                                            Labor)  

 



                                                            lighting focus   

                                                Day 6 sound checks

                                                            show

production load-out (6 hours-100 local             labor)                                                             steel load-out (24 hours-60 local labor)

                                                Day 7   all out Personnel:         



Personnel:                                335  to touring personnel

295 total touring crew
 
              40   total touring band entourage  

125 universal production crew

36 truck drivers-production crew

60 steel crew (2 crews @ 30 each)

70 truck drivers-steel crew (2 crews @ 35 each)

4 bus drivers-steel crew (2 crews @ 2 each)   

 



Trucks:                   126      total

36  production

                                                                              70  steel

                                                                               20  misc.

 

                              Buses:                                11   production

                                                                         4    steel (2 crews @ 2 each)

Power:                                 2   semi trailer generators

                                                                        Enough juice to power a small village  

Cable:                                                                36        miles cable

                                                                          Sound System:        Claire Brothers system  

                              Lighting System:                           4       trucks

                                                443      lights

          • 60 Mack 2K Profile
          • 82 Mack 2K Wash
          • 23 Syncrolite B52           
          • 8 Syncrolite 7K
          • 6 Hungaroflash
          • 40 Palco LEDs
          • 22 VariLite VL5 Arc
          • 36 VariLite Vl5
          • 29 Moies
          • 34 source 4 PARS
          • 24 Atomic Strobes
          • 64 Bus ACLs
          • 6 Lycian M2 Spots
          • 12 MR-16 Battens

Video System:                    High res LED wall

Biggest ever on a tour

                                                                              50 feet x 49 feet 

Inflatable-lips/tongue:                30        feet high

                                                                              35        feet wide  

                              Pyro:                                      470      pieces  

 

 

Cranes:                                     In some of the classic stadiums (such as Fenway Park), all things loaded-in and loaded-out for the show must come up and over the walls of the stadiums via crane

 

The diaper                                Plastic tarpaulin under the gantry areas to catch bits and pieces dropped by the stage ticket holders  

 



<<<  Vielen Dank an Tom, der am Auf- und Abbau dieses Monstrums beteiligt war und diese Fotodokumentation  kreiert  und zur Verfügung gestellt hat.
Die technischen Fakten  (c) Rolling Stones Management


Thank you to Tom, who helped to build this monster up and down again
and created this picture documentary.
Technical facts (c) Rolling Stones Management