Bon Jovi tour's big payoff

I think they are speaking in terms of dollars. The average ticket price of this tour is around $90. The average price of the SWW and NJ tours was around $25. So, even with doing half the shows (with the same capacity venues) the HAND tour would bring in more revenue.

deb

[QUOTE=bjcrazycpa]I think they are speaking in terms of dollars. The average ticket price of this tour is around $90. The average price of the SWW and NJ tours was around $25. So, even with doing half the shows (with the same capacity venues) the HAND tour would bring in more revenue.

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It's obvious that the gross income would be far higher than the 80's. They should compare it by actual numbers of people attended rather than the money generated.

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why?

I doubt the shows were even $25 back in 1987. The tickets were $17 when I saw them in 1989. I do wish the ticket prices were lower, but they're in line with other big name acts and even some not-so-big name acts.

Becky, yep, I agree. I dug out my 7800 show ticket stub and it was $15.50, lol!!

deb

Exactly...the thing is that BJ do not need to tour here anymore...and that is pretty obvious with the past 3 tours missing this country.
Why they didn't with Crush being so big here is anyone's guess...but post that, we know that Jon only wants to play stadiums here..and the days of BJ being able to do that here are gone. They are still popular here, but it is waning...what in roads they made with a new audience [and they were substantial] with IML and Crush are beginning to disappear. I too have U2 tickets for Adelaide, having all but given up on Jovi coming here.

The article is very complimentary for the band and a good read...but it is starting to gripe me that the words 'world tour' keep being mentioned when it is not.

S.

I assume, perhaps incorrectly, that this comment is said in jest.

How would you like to call it if not world tour? Half world tour? 3 continent tour? i don't get it? It's obvious they call it world tour.

And even if they played Australia and South America, there wouln't be more than let's say 6-7 additional shows so it would not change anything really.

In my opinion, if they play North America,Europe and Asia it IS a world tour.

I remember back in 92 when Keep the Faith came out and everyone wrote the band off. I remember hearing reports that during the first leg of the US tour the arenas were less than half full.

What made that album huge (correct me if I am wrong but the total sales of that album equal that of New Jersey give or take a couple of million) was there reletentless touring and promoting.

The album spawned 6 singles and it made a resurgence in the charts in mid-93 through this touring.

This gave Bon Jovi the base for the success of Crossroads (I believe if it were not for the success of Keep the Faith then Crossroads would not have been the hit it was and we would not have had the extensive These Days tour).

We come to this centuary and Bon Jovi's tours hit the US and some European shores. The tours do not last as long as they once did and the band does not seem to give, outside of the US, the promotion they need to do.

To me this is costing the band popularity. The band is more than the US (again remember what made Bon Jovi big in the 90s was the support they got from the world outside of the US) .

I think HAND could follow KTF. It is a good album and it is the best potential they have produced since 95. They need to get it out there, and like everything, to do that will take work. They have families now and they may not want to do it....I hope they do.

Woodstock tix back in 1969 were $6 so imagine...

But I mean, in the past, BJ they dragged a whole bunch of opening bands after them so you would se also Goo Goo Dolls, Live, etc...bands that you would normally also pay at least 30-40$ to see them. Now they are completly alone. Probabaly that's why tickets sell so good

The thing with tickets and its price is all the same in all the world and in all bends... SO, its not problme of Bon Jovi.

And, yes, they should add at least 6-8 more dates in Europe, some dates in Australia, some in South America to call this really word tour... I hope they will do that...