From the excellent Imagining U2’s Next Stage, here’s a quote from a certain Wolfe “Master Mind” Mastürbaight, U2’s Stage Designer and Architect-
Someone was talking to me at one point and they told me that Chuck Berry tours with one guitar and he plays on just, you know, the venue’s stage. You know, the point being, here is this legend and he tours with one guitar and … nothing else, really. And I thought: that’s sad. All he has is the music. In a perfect world he’d be able to present those songs from a 170-ton exoskeleton that’s got, say, even just twelve camera operators. You know? I mean, if he’s playing, say, “Lucille” why isn’t he coming out on a giant heart that he could float out over the crowd on, then the heart literally “breaks” and he comes out with a headset microphone—you know, get him a little more mobile on the catwalk—and I could have Millennial Scope® laser hits following him out to the … Anyway, someone was telling me that Chuck Berry tours with one guitar.
