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11 hours ago, 6lake sa66ath said:

Which other band would you guys have suggested?

System, Aerosmith……theyve had these guys as a backup since day 1 and thats my issue. Oz was prob always a longshot, the problem is replacing him with a band that cant half fill an arena and is far from a headline act for the prices they are asking. Its a major screw job to the fans….But what else is new. 

48 minutes ago, GoBucky said:

That's disappointing. Priest is still a solid band, but they barely fill theaters anymore. For the price of those tickets, I was hoping for a bigger act. 

You said it, this is a major kick in the teeth after spending almost 2k per ticket.  They just replaced ozzy on a bill loaded with stadium bands with one who can barely fill 5k venues…and is a secomd tier headliner at US metal festivals.  Hopefully a class action lawsuit is on the way against the promoter for fucking the fans over yet again.  This thing isnt selling well to begin with, Priest wont move any tickets.  Horrible decision. 

Wrigley prices have dropped significantly across the board on cubs.com (field GA appears to be ~$100 lower after fees).

3 hours ago, allwaystired said:

Yep. To be honest too, I can't see many business models where booking a stadium and selling few tickets is a good one, no matter how you want to cut it! 

There's no way on earth the plan was ever to book a venue and NOT sell it out! 

Theyll be lucky if these venues are close to HALF full.

I agree exactly with what youre saying above - I want this to be the hottest ticket of the summer (esp the Wrigley show), but this was a bust from the start.  they got a break w/ covid bc these shows werent selling at all prior, couldve cut their losses then and cancelled/downgraded venues.  Nope.

Just now, allwaystired said:

Oooh, you'll be in trouble now! 

Hater, negative, sad person, no life, etc etc.  

Didn't you know they're all selling out, and it's only people that aren't fans that think they're not based on such nonsense as looking at how ticket sales actually are? 

haha - just to be clear that's not my intention, i want it to be a success - more of a quick business analysis that maybe this wasnt priced or planned correctly.

Just did a quick look at some of the major market venues - this is trouble, seats available everywhere: NY, LA, Chi, Dallas.  Playing to a half empty football/baseball stadium has gotta be concerning.  Can they move venues?  This looks like it was really poorly managed/planned.

16 hours ago, Ixtlan said:

I missed the point of the argument. The venues they are playing are baseball stadiums, which hold 30-40k less people than NFL stadiums. My point in saying that is it’s not crazy to think the band can sale tickets to these venues. Wrigley and Fenway will have no issues selling tickets. There is no evidence to support the band had to book arenas because of poor sales. The Arlington baseball park is booked on September 1st, so maybe the band just couldn’t book that venue. 

im not so sure at this pt - when Wrigley was originally announced i bought tix immediately thinking quick sellout, i was way wrong - tons of tix were avail (then the world ended and thankfully got a refund).  Now with the everyone clamoring for shows, there are still prime seats available all over the ballpark; floor, lowers, you name it.  i think they've priced themselves out of the market.

6 minutes ago, dontdamnmeuyi2015 said:

OMG! GNR is coming to Dallas TX Wednesday September 1.

Tickets go on sale Friday at noon. It's in AA in Dallas which is like 20 minutes away!

I'm so damn excited about this! Can't wait. So glad GNR got a new Dallas Date.

Cancelled my Crue tickets to get GNR. Love it! Something amazing to look forward to at the end of the summer!

im with you - i get it people are pissed no new tunes/album but cmon, gnr live is always a blast - assuming the band will still sound great, if axl steps up (i know, big if), he should be rested and ready to go - this will be a lot of fun (esp at wrigley).

Something has to be brewin’, still no announcement of another opener and pretty much zero promotion regarding this tour. Im tryin to be optimistic that something bigger is coming.
 

Either that or this tour is gonna completely fail and end this whole comeback with a whimper. 

Whole rage tour just sold out in about 20mins - no one is buying tix for this gnr tour. Market is so saturated right now, there will be no demand unless they cut prices by at least 50%. 

3 hours ago, Stryker said:

Sister lives in Wrigleyville and she has an ad on her metro stop. 
DC market has it on TV and on video billboards outside Capital One Arena. It’s a hard push.

Im pretty sure a few posters around the venues arent saving this tour.  They need a BIG name to either co-headline or open to draw people in. Simple econ, promoters are going to get financially destroyed when they end up playing football stadiums at 1/4 capacity. 
 

Any rumors floating around about other bands, or potential theories??

4 hours ago, bigpoop said:

Fenway show are like events in themselves. A lot of people just go because it's a show at Fenway.  

Thats why i jumped on the wrigley show so quick, but sales appear to be really thin there as well. Its hard to tell bc tix availability is so secretive but it doesnt seem like theyve sold very many. 

7 minutes ago, Gibsonfender2323 said:

Tour is not gonna be cancelled. Again just because the first day of ticket sales is slow doesn’t mean the sky is falling 

Look nothing is 100% but the first few days of sales are extremely indicative of demand for shows of this size. When what appears to be less than 20% of available tix have been sold thats usually a very clear indication there is lackluster demand. Generally there isn't a run on tix to these stadium gigs in the weeks/days leading up when capacity isnt even near 50%.  Unless something drastic changes this is def a financial failure, 5 days in or not. 

9 minutes ago, k12 said:

there is just no way this tour is going to happen, unless they announce Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham are going to be playing the warm up gig between 6- 6:45, there is just no way they are going to have this tour, the overwhelming majority of tickets are usually sold by the first day of the on sale for most events, these shows look like they barely sold even 15% of the tickets, I do not care what kind of buzz a new GNR album is going to create, I do not think it is enough to make hundreds of thousands of people go out to see them again in a stadium when I am guessing anyone who wanted to see them saw them in the last couple of years, just really poor planning on GNR'S part, I am guessing the next couple of months they are going to announce "scheduling conflict" or some crap and announce the tour is "postponed"or cancelled.

Agreed, this will come down to paying out whatever insurance policy they set in place prior to the tour announcement.  when they do the math if cancelling is a cost savings over playing to empty stadiums it will he a no brainer. 

Only thing that saves this tour is if they announce metallica as co-headliner. 

2 minutes ago, Axl_morris said:

Any shows sold out ? MetLife looks like nothing left 

Are u joking?!?  im looking at the seating chart, id say 90% of the seats are blue. Its 100% accurate right now to call this tour a complete failure.  Ive actually never seen a stadium run ive been interested in sell this poorly. This tour is getting cancelled.  They are on pace to literally be playing empty football stadiums. So sad. 

When you guys refer to “papering”, does that mean they’ll just give away tix or theyll cover the upper seats with tarps?

The whole stadium is empty, this is gonna get cancelled or moved to a local high school gym. 

29 minutes ago, BadApples87 said:

So Pumpkins at a few shows.  How bout the rest of the shows?

Racking my brain to think of viable options for the wrigley show. 

so disappointing, schedule lined up perfectly

fantastic story, thanks for sharing

20 minutes ago, Underhardy said:

How can you have as many posts as you do and be an obvious fan of the original line up and slash and no have listened to TSI? Maybe you're just lazy considering you requested a link to something that can easily be googled or youtubed

outside of a song or two i've also never listened to it....after all these yrs its been 100% out of spite, it signaled the end of the band.  

great effort by the guys putting them all together, i think these would look great combined (after the tour ends) for one large piece of artwork/gnr history.

On 7/20/2016 at 2:39 PM, Albertr212 said:

I made a rough little collage of all of the US stadium show lithos that have been released so far. In my opinion they have all been great! I like some more than others but even the "worst" of the bunch is still something I would hang up on my wall. 

Waiting to see what the design of each show's lithograph is going to be has been really exciting and fun! Glad that there seems to be a lot of other people here that really enjoy the reveals as well. 

any chance you could update this??  i'd love to have a large litho/poster made with each "small" litho.