With all due respect to fans of *real* country musc, I always get a good laugh out of people who ooh and aah at the staging of country concerts by Garth Brooks, Shania Twain et al. They are using the same stages (round, etc.), lighting rigs, effects and video screens that rock acts used 20+ years ago. Brooks has even acknolwedged his debt to theatrical acts like Kiss.
I remember him saying that. All the fireworks, flying on wires over the crowd, having the crowd sing half the song...all lifted out of arena rock.