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Originally Posted by Captain_jovi
If Richie was funding the tour then the label support wasn't all that great. Wasn't this from a time that labels funded the tour and the album promotion or am I remembering that?
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It probably wasn't great... But it was probably better than what a new artist would get. They probably have certain deals for an artist like that. He's an instant star with a solid fan-base but is still considered a new artist in terms of musical abilities. He's gotta prove himself...
One, Richie's album was already dead in the water by the time the tour started. The album was out two months, the single three... The record company knew it wouldn't have impacted it (which it obviously didn't)
Two, it was different back then. Today, the money is in the tour, not the album. Back then it was the opposite or both but I think it's maximized now with ticket prices. A million albums sold was considered a failure. There was no internet to raise buzz about a tour. MTV was it for major artists but if you were a fan of a smaller band, you had to figure it out yourself by calling Ticket Master.
I was actually at the academy theater show in NYC show and still have my ticket stub to prove it... I walked out of the show and down the streets of NYC with the guys from a band called Trixter... talking about how great the show was...
I remember going to a Ticket Master booth in the mall asking for Bon Jovi tickets and they said no but we have Richie Sambora tickets. That's how I ended up at that show...