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On their European Tour 1973, The Rolling Stones play at The Olympiahalle, Innsbruck, Austria, Europe.Full article:
Brian Croft (director, ESP, touring company for Stones' tours) : Later (during the tour) we used flame devices to open the shows. The hall was blacked out, and the kids would have been waiting for, say, half an hour,. Then my disembodied Cockney voice would introduce the band and two pillars of flame would appear in the darkness on each side of the stage. All the kids gasped and nearly jumped out of their seats and then the band were on.
We also used flashes and bangs, but new effects are very hard to think up. We had enormous balloons filled with confetti which Mick threw out into the audience, but it became a very specialist job to put just the right amount of gas in them so that the crowd could play with them without them floating up to the roof. Temperature changes always made a few float up, so someone suggested an airgun.
(Source : interview in Beat Instrumental, December 1973)
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We also used flashes and bangs, but new effects are very hard to think up. We had enormous balloons filled with confetti which Mick threw out into the audience, but it became a very specialist job to put just the right amount of gas in them so that the crowd could play with them without them floating up to the roof. Temperature changes always made a few float up, so someone suggested an airgun.
(Source : interview in Beat Instrumental, December 1973)