Re: Were the arenas really half empty in the US?
Date: November 30, 2006 00:24
People told us all the time how "empty" Dodger Satdium would be. Regardless of how ticket sales were and how they filled it up it was totally packet, which is the whole point. If a stadium like Foxboro outside Boston takes 60,000 and they sell 30,000 then it is not a catastrophy because after all 30,000 got to see the Stones, while only 15,000 would have been able to see them if the same show happend at an arena in the city. I would assume 3 out of 4 venues were totally sold out while 1 our of 4 were less sold out which is not a problem really.
They did 21 shows during the Fall Tour in front of some 700,000 people. To avoid any non-sold out shows they could have made it into an arena tour like No Security tour with an average of 15,000 people per show which would give only 300,000 people being able to see them. Don't you guys care about those other 400,000 people who were happoy to see them now because they took the rsik of not selling out each and every venue?
Tell me the name on any other performing artist in the world who would have sold 700,000 tickets at these venues at the price level the Stones did. Then tell me why it is a problem that some venues were npot 100% sold out. And what you - as a much bigger expert on touring than Michael Cohl - would do it better, reaching out to more people with the same income level, which is needed with this tour.
Bjornulf