will be hitting the road later this year. It’s a trend that marks a new wave of holographic tours that is much more sustainable than one-offs, like the Tupac hologram at Coachella in 2012.
“Our technology gives us an enormous amount of freedom,” says Robert Ringe, Base’s CEO of distribution and touring. “It gives us the ability to have the hologram walk onto the stage from the wings and interact with either the band, the orchestra, the musical director, the audience, et cetera.” Experiences like these can only grow, though, and the tours going on now are small potatoes compared to what could come in the future.Outside of holograms, Soundgarden recently testdrove a “concert experience” where they showed a concert film with audio mixed in “live” surround sound, and Queen continues to superimpose imagery of Freddie Mercury on screens next to Brian May for performances of “Love of My Life.
Of course, not everyone has been so keen on the idea of hologram shows. Music journalist Simon Reynolds has called these sorts of tours “ghost slavery,” Dionne Warwick described the Whitney Houston event as “stupid,” and Amy Winehouse’s ex-husband decried her upcoming posthumous tour as a “moneymaking gimmick.”
Dumb
ZeppelinCurse Kind of creepy
People already watch an entire concert through a phone screen Time to start watching a concert that isn't really there through a screen so you may as well not be there Next yeah I am selling tickets to a shitload of empty arenas. Pay 100 bucks to come film fuck all!
Lame...
Wasn’t this an episode of Black Mirror?!?
Noooooooooo to these hologram travesties! All it does it make me want the real artists back.
MarkDavis Really low when you start making money off dead people.
Nope
The greatest live album in history
No
No thanks
I certainly hope not.
when you´re really bored at home