Aloha !
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Originally Posted by rolo_tomachi
Richie made a good tour, he filled some sites. In Spain, he came only with his voice and acoustic guitar, and it was fantastic. Jon did not come to Spain.
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Yeah, it was so fantastic that the entire European tour never broke even, Richie lost money with it and a subsequent tour was cancelled because of a record company backing out of supporting him. It was that fantastic.
Jon never came to Spain because he never really tried to do a real tour, it was only because of the huge success of Destination Anywhere in Germany that a string of dates were booked. Pretty much everything else were promo shows, and Jon was booked for a lot, lot more festivals and award shows than Richie was.
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Originally Posted by IML88
Proof is in the Destination Anywhere tour. Arguably the height of popularity and awareness, Jon's solo shows were smaller venues, if he or promoters didn't think he could sell out stadiums on his own then, they sure as hell wouldn't now.
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If Jon would've told promoters back then he was willing to do small stadium shows, he'd have been able to. You just don't set up a stadium tour in a few months, like you do with smaller arena shows. The difference there isn't the popularity, it's the production and organizing that takes a lot more time.
Jon will always be able to play venues holding 5.000 to 10.000 people. And as soon as he's selling it as a Bon Jovi show and do a bit of promo for it, he'll most likely will be able to sell out the smaller stadiums 15.000-30.000 as well. But as for the really big venues? Bon Jovi haven't sold those out for over a decade, so that's certainly not going to change once Jon starts handling business on his own.
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