![]() "I blame Led Zeppelin for the two hour-long show. ![]() A two-hour show, as has become the standard for such an event, is a far cry from what the Stones were doing when they started out. That's how the world of doing what we do has gone."īut stadium shows also necessitated longer gigs. "It's our own fault, or pleasure, of whatever you call it. ![]() "And that's what we've become," Watts continued. The move to arenas/stadiums, of course, allowed the Stones to "accommodate" more fans in a single night. "Where would you play, in a 3,000-seater hall?" "You'd be playing a month in a town to play to 30,000 people," Watts recalled in one section of the book (via Billboard). Charlie, however, as is revealed in his official biography, Charlie's Good Tonight, by Paul Sexton, longed for the days of smaller venues, more intimate performances and, in particular, shorter sets. The Rolling Stones have never been allergic to money, and the band seized the opportunity to begin playing stadiums. But it wasn't until the following decade when Led Zeppelin took off that 'stadium rock' or 'arena rock' became genres of entertainment. ![]() ![]() The Beatles began to change that in 1965 when they sold out a concert at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York. When Charlie joined the Stones in 1963, stadiums were only used for sports theaters, bars and clubs were where music was played. During his long career with The Rolling Stones, late-drummer Charlie Watts probably played more stadiums concerts than theater or barroom gigs, but that wasn't necessarily Charlie's dream. ![]()
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