Red Mosquito

BurtReynolds wrote:

hlniv wrote:Can you imagine trying to get a ticket to a PJ show on a tour of 3000 seat theaters? Talk about pissed off PJ fans

yeah i've had fun at huge festivals and tiny clubs, so i'm good either way. i dont have to be up front.

Good luck getting into the shows you want on this mythical 3000 seat tour.

I didn't say it wouldn't be great. I said you couldn't get a ticket.

Prices would be thru the roof, and you would have to be extremely lucky and/or extremely rich to attend.

hlniv wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

hlniv wrote:Can you imagine trying to get a ticket to a PJ show on a tour of 3000 seat theaters? Talk about pissed off PJ fans

yeah i've had fun at huge festivals and tiny clubs, so i'm good either way. i dont have to be up front.

Good luck getting into the shows you want on this mythical 3000 seat tour.

I didn't say it wouldn't be great. I said you couldn't get a ticket.

Prices would be thru the roof, and you would have to be extremely lucky and/or extremely rich to attend.

they'd just have to play more shows , not that I would.

BurtReynolds wrote:

hlniv wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

hlniv wrote:Can you imagine trying to get a ticket to a PJ show on a tour of 3000 seat theaters? Talk about pissed off PJ fans

yeah i've had fun at huge festivals and tiny clubs, so i'm good either way. i dont have to be up front.

Good luck getting into the shows you want on this mythical 3000 seat tour.

I didn't say it wouldn't be great. I said you couldn't get a ticket.

Prices would be thru the roof, and you would have to be extremely lucky and/or extremely rich to attend.

they'd just have to play more shows , not that I would.

Or we can just wait for the casino tour in about 15 years

bodysnatcher wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

hlniv wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

hlniv wrote:Can you imagine trying to get a ticket to a PJ show on a tour of 3000 seat theaters? Talk about pissed off PJ fans

yeah i've had fun at huge festivals and tiny clubs, so i'm good either way. i dont have to be up front.

Good luck getting into the shows you want on this mythical 3000 seat tour.

I didn't say it wouldn't be great. I said you couldn't get a ticket.

Prices would be thru the roof, and you would have to be extremely lucky and/or extremely rich to attend.

they'd just have to play more shows , not that I would.

Or we can just wait for the casino tour in about 15 years

That's called a residency.

Imagine the Hunger Games 10C would put people through to get tickets to that tour.

numbers wrote:Imagine the Hunger Games 10C would put people through to get tickets to that tour.

Hunger Strike.

Oops...another reference..

stip wrote:the experience of being in the who or the rolling stones (or pearl jam or U2) is, I suspect, fundamentally different from the experience of being in the Melvins.

No shit.

For the record, I respect the Melvins more than I enjoy them.

Big Business, on the other hand, are the bee's fucking knees.

numbers wrote:Imagine the Hunger Games 10C would put people through to get tickets to that tour.

"Dance for Daddy Bierman little ones... dance...."

hlniv wrote:Can you imagine trying to get a ticket to a PJ show on a tour of 3000 seat theaters? Talk about pissed off PJ fans

The venue size isn't as simple as put in the interview. It is related to demand and has been around as long as popular music has. The argument makes more sense when applied to ticket prices than the sizes or quality of the venues.

Birds in Hell wrote:

stip wrote:the experience of being in the who or the rolling stones (or pearl jam or U2) is, I suspect, fundamentally different from the experience of being in the Melvins.

No shit.

Which is why I was not particularly impressed with much of his his advice for/judgements about those bands

hlniv wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

hlniv wrote:Can you imagine trying to get a ticket to a PJ show on a tour of 3000 seat theaters? Talk about pissed off PJ fans

yeah i've had fun at huge festivals and tiny clubs, so i'm good either way. i dont have to be up front.

Good luck getting into the shows you want on this mythical 3000 seat tour.

I didn't say it wouldn't be great. I said you couldn't get a ticket.

Prices would be thru the roof, and you would have to be extremely lucky and/or extremely rich to attend.

Exactly

The boot where they play binaural in its entirety followed by a moody encore for shits/giggles/creative curiosity would be fun to listen to though.

You're right though, the venue size doesn't reaally matter. It would just be interesting to see what they'd do with something different. They could do interesting stuff in a larger venue. Tbh I'm just hoping they cut out the on cue 'eruptions' and the 'let's party' wine bottle props, and eds climbing frame etc etc.

Springsteen's entire Devils and Dust tour was almost exclusively to 2-6,000 seat venues. He played some larger buildings, on occasion, but with curtains walling off sections of the venue...I think the largest number of tickets made available for any show was 7,100, and I might be overshooting even with that. There were no big increases in ticket prices or scalping, and no resulting hassle-mad fans ranting on the internet. Prince just finished up a run of shows that were in under-2,000 seat spots....tickets were more expensive than his usual, but again, no big trouble was to be had. Pretty sure Radiohead did a small venue run a few years back, and Green Day had one scheduled that got nipped by Billy Joe's whatever problems. Plenty of other artists of varying sizes have played that game in the past. Hell, even U2 plays small multiple small venue shows to warm up before a big jaunt. The Stones did that for the longest time, too.

The point is, there's precedence for the fact that it doesn't become a huge problem on either side of the equation. Really, the only reason for an artist to never do small shows is also the simplest one: they don't want to.

stip wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

stip wrote:the experience of being in the who or the rolling stones (or pearl jam or U2) is, I suspect, fundamentally different from the experience of being in the Melvins.

No shit.

Which is why I was not particularly impressed with much of his his advice for/judgements about those bands

Start your own band, start your own fanclub, etc.

give your own interview, you think it's so easy

Sirens was playing when I was on hold ordering from my favorite local pizza place.

Monkey_Driven wrote:Sirens was playing when I was on hold ordering from my favorite local pizza place.

did you demand a discount?

sorry, I'll get my coat

malice wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:Sirens was playing when I was on hold ordering from my favorite local pizza place.

did you demand a discount?