The Rock Concert

I've been watching the six part documentary on the Taylor Swift Eras Tour and it's amazing. I love getting to see an inside look at what was the biggest tour ever. 10 million people went to the show. The mind boggling logistics of that kind of traveling circus. They showed the end of the European leg and then showed them packing the entire stage up to ship to Miami for the final leg of the tour. You also get to see what goes on under the stage and how they manage 20 costume stages and the pulley system they use to move her around. She does 8 miles on the stage every night of the tour and had to start training 6 months before they even went to rehearsal.

One of my favorite things about live music is band audience symbiosis and the Taylor tour has that. I would say 80% of the people at the show knew all the words to every song and there was real community there, and what is different from what I'm used to is it seems most of the audience was sober. 

Watching it made me think of how we got to stadiums filled with people, and video screens, and choreographed dancers, and pyrotechnics, and stages that move all over the place. Wiki says Bill Graham is the inventor of the Rock Concert but I think Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Elvis, and the Beatles at the Cavern would have something to say about that or maybe it goes back further than that. I would love to see a documentary on the history of the Rock Concert I don't think it has been made.