I looked up Arena Rock and it didn't quite match what I thought it would be. Our niece's husband is a partner in the entertainment architecture firm in London called Stufish. They are most famous for designing and constructing some of the best known major concert venues. They started in the early '70's with the original partners designing the flying pigs for the Pink Floyd Animals concert and they have gone on to do major concerts around the world, most recently, with the Rolling Stones current tour. We got to see the retrospective exhibit of their work with Pink Floyd through the years when it started in London (at the Victoria and Albert Museum) a couple of years ago, called Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains.
Here is an interview with Stufish senior partner Ray Winkler talking about working with the Rolling Stones for over 20 years of tours.
https://www.dezeen.com/2018/09/10/ interview-rolling-stones-stage-architect-stufish-ray-winkler/
BTW, Stufish redesigned Abbey Road for Deutsche Gramophone and our nephew is arranging a tour for me on our next visit to London this summer. Should be very much fun.
I was already in college in the mid '60's and heavily into classical music, so I missed the great rock bands (other than the Beach Boys and Elvis when I was in high school and the Beatles who came to fame when I was already in college). I wasn't aware of the groups of the '70's until audiophilia hit me in the late '70's and '80's and I bought DSOTM (of course the Japanese Toshiba Pro pressing) and the Eagles Desperado and Dire Straits Love over Gold, both in their British pressings because Harry Pearson said so. This was a decade or more after they had become famous. The closest I got to a contemporary group was the Moody Blues 'Days of Futures Passed' which my brother told me to get because it had a full orchestra playing in it.
This all changed four years ago, when I bought a huge collection (200 reels) of safety master tapes and the owner was a great fan of jazz and rock, especially Miles Davis and Pink Floyd. I found out that there was more to Miles Davis than KOB and more to Pink Floyd than DSOTM (although having 1/2" safety master of both is very nice). It also allowed me to trade dubs for tapes from other collectors, and I found my trading partners were much more into rock than I was. So now I have big collections of Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, Supertramp, the Doors, Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Genesis, and even Led Zeppelin (which I still don't understand or appreciate). Almost all the albums are from the analogue era, so they were recorded and mastered on tape, although a few made it to tape from digital sources, like Brothers in Arms. Not sure whether Renaissance (first learned from an Absolute Sound recommendation of their 'Novella' album is rock (glam, arena or other category). Also have a bunch of tapes of Joni Mitchell whom I did start collecting in vinyl in the late '60's.
This all from someone who is in his mid-70's!
Larry
Here is an interview with Stufish senior partner Ray Winkler talking about working with the Rolling Stones for over 20 years of tours.
https://www.dezeen.com/2018/09/10/ interview-rolling-stones-stage-architect-stufish-ray-winkler/
BTW, Stufish redesigned Abbey Road for Deutsche Gramophone and our nephew is arranging a tour for me on our next visit to London this summer. Should be very much fun.
I was already in college in the mid '60's and heavily into classical music, so I missed the great rock bands (other than the Beach Boys and Elvis when I was in high school and the Beatles who came to fame when I was already in college). I wasn't aware of the groups of the '70's until audiophilia hit me in the late '70's and '80's and I bought DSOTM (of course the Japanese Toshiba Pro pressing) and the Eagles Desperado and Dire Straits Love over Gold, both in their British pressings because Harry Pearson said so. This was a decade or more after they had become famous. The closest I got to a contemporary group was the Moody Blues 'Days of Futures Passed' which my brother told me to get because it had a full orchestra playing in it.
This all changed four years ago, when I bought a huge collection (200 reels) of safety master tapes and the owner was a great fan of jazz and rock, especially Miles Davis and Pink Floyd. I found out that there was more to Miles Davis than KOB and more to Pink Floyd than DSOTM (although having 1/2" safety master of both is very nice). It also allowed me to trade dubs for tapes from other collectors, and I found my trading partners were much more into rock than I was. So now I have big collections of Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, Supertramp, the Doors, Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Genesis, and even Led Zeppelin (which I still don't understand or appreciate). Almost all the albums are from the analogue era, so they were recorded and mastered on tape, although a few made it to tape from digital sources, like Brothers in Arms. Not sure whether Renaissance (first learned from an Absolute Sound recommendation of their 'Novella' album is rock (glam, arena or other category). Also have a bunch of tapes of Joni Mitchell whom I did start collecting in vinyl in the late '60's.
This all from someone who is in his mid-70's!
Larry
