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from canoe.jam.ca
(I tried to find entire rider on Smoking Gun website, but all they had was Bridges to Babylon one)
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A look at the Stones concert rider
Cricket TV, weeping eucalyptus, snooker among Stones' demands
By CHRIS LAMBIE -- Halifax-Chronicle Herald
When the Rolling Stones come to Halifax next month, they'll want to watch cricket on the telly and play billiards on their own table.
The concert rider for the Bigger Bang tour, posted on the Smoking Gun website, specifies how the band wants each of its large shows to run. For example, Mick Jagger's dressing room, dubbed Work Out, needs to have a high-speed Internet connection and satellite or cable television.
"Please find out what channel is showing cricket," says the rider. "That is the channel we need most of all."
Don't worry about providing a TV, though. Sir Mick brings his own.
In his dressing room, the strutting front man also demands four electrical circuits, a pair of two-metre-long banquet tables and four folding gig chairs.
Stones riders used to call for Ping-Pong tables and video games. But the geriatric rockers seem to have dropped the kids' stuff, preferring to unwind now in their own snooker room.
"The tour carries their own snooker table," says the rider.
Last year, when the band played Moncton, they signed the table and left it behind to be auctioned off for charity.
The dressing room for Keith Richards is called Camp X-Ray, after the U.S. navy's detention facility for suspected terrorists in Guantanamo, Cuba.
The 62-year-old guitarist, who has reportedly recovered completely from a head injury suffered in an April 27 fall from a tree while vacationing in Fiji, needs three banquet tables (two of them skinny), a phone line, four folding gig chairs and one large trash can.
X-Ray also needs "one medium white, Casablanca lily arrangement with weeping eucalyptus, delivered in a vase." The other two band members demand the same, but Sir Mick is adamant he doesn't want any flowers.
Guitarist Ron Wood's dressing room, Recovery Room, and that of drummer Charlie Watts, Cotton Club, both need a banquet table, two folding gig chairs and a trash can.
The female vocalist dressing room needs one medium white lily arrangement with white freesia and weeping eucalyptus and one small fresh lavender plant.
The two supporting bands get bouquets of wildflowers. The backstage lounge must have two more lily arrangements and four dozen long-stem white roses.
The roses have to be de-thorned and wrapped in paper. "We will arrange these ourselves," says the rider.
If the dressing room compound is composed of trailers, they need to be of the "clean, late-model" variety, says the rider.
In fact, the self-described "greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world" seems to be a tad obsessed with tidiness.
"All dressing rooms and rest-rooms should be thoroughly cleaned before our load-in and arrival," says the rider. "On the morning of show day, we will be requesting another cleanup! Please be sure the cleaning staff has a working vacuum cleaner and uses it thoroughly!"
Concert organizers won't need to worry about providing couches and curtains for the Stones.
"We carry our own furniture and pipe and drape," says the rider.
More than 100,000 people are expected to cram the Halifax Commons for the Sept. 23 concert.
"In outdoor situations without toilets, we will require an executive toilet trailer with facilities for men and women," says the rider. "This trailer must have flushing toilets with hot and cold water. These toilets are to be used only (by) band members and staff. If functioning toilets are not available for non-principals, portajohns may be used as a last resort."
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| Bitch |
Work Out
X Ray
Recovery
Cotton Club
Charlie is the coolest, most well adjusted Stone
IMO. The other 3 are self absorbed but Charlie's room is about the music. The Cotton Club was an orignal black music hall in NYC, legendary and trend setting in it's day, going back to the roots of jazz and R&B. Cool. |
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| Steel Wheels |
I'd love to drop into the Cotton Club. I'm sure Charlie spins good tunes in there! |
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| GotToRollMe |
Oh yeah? Well, get a load of this:
http://www.slovakspectator.sk/clanok.asp?cl=24291
IGGY Pop, who will be the headliner of the Hodokvas music festival taking place at the airport in Piešťany between August 17 and 19, has asked the organizers to provide a live crocodile for his dressing room as one of his demands.
“He wants to have a crocodile in the cloakroom because he allegedly likes to feed them before each performance,” Miloš Oríšek, the co-organizer of the festival told TASR, adding that he hoped, however, that the musician was not being serious.
“Let’s hope he’s not really serious about this. Probably it’s just some kind of a joke and we hopefully will not have to look for a crocodile,” Oríšek said.
He also said that Iggy Pop had sent 20 pages of various demands, some of which are quite bizarre.
Apart from the crocodile, the singer also wishes to have two mega fans placed on the stage so that his hair blows in the wind as in one of Jon Bon Jovi’s music videos.
Apart from Iggy Pop, the festival will feature a lineup of 150 music bands including the US group Living Colour.
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| Furtrader |
I think some successful bands may have lost touch with where they came from and that it's still supposed to be about the music,not crocodiles,blue M&M's,or any of that crap.All WE really care about is the music............ |
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