The Rolling Stones at AT&T Stadium

Fan view. (Photo by wwwcrazymama.blogspot.com)

The Rolling Stones

AT&T Stadium

Arlington, TX

June 6, 2015

There were warnings about the sound quality in the cavernous Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, but when The Rolling Stones come to your town, the temptation is hard to resist!

The excitement of the walk-up to the stadium to a big event is always exhilarating: walking by the fans tail-gating in the parking lot, stopping off at the pubs along the way, seeing fans in their Rolling Stone gear, the excitability of the fans, that alone was worth the price which was about $70 in the nose-bleed seats and about $400 to get a good seat.

Once the show started, the excitement, the dancing, the cheering you would expect from a Rolling Stone concerts was all there. But from a sound quality standpoint, the guys in the cheap seats were left cold. May be the pure science of sound travelling such a distance from the stage to the outer seats, poor sound quality should be expected. (Some stadiums like American Airline Center in Dallas have speakers all around so that fans have a shared experience, but Cowboy Stadium after all is a football stadium.)

Judging from the dancing and the merriment, most fans did not have a problem with the sound, but for that guy who wanted to hear all the Rolling Stones hits in a live performance, the sound made it a bummer.

The visual was a bit lacking, too; depending on where they sat some fans never saw the drummer. The humongous screen that was to be the saving grace of the small man, alas, was pushed to the side and not used.