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Jovian · 02-04-2003, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by bjslippery

so I guess it's not their problem, but the promoter's

Actually, I think the problem is probably not the promoters but the band themselves and especially their record company. Cause at least the Scandinavian (or actually Swedish) promoters have stated that they did absolutely everything they could to get the band to play here, but it was the band and their representatives that refused to accept the promoter's offer.

If we want to look for alternatives to the worst possible scenario, that it really is the band members themselves and Jon in particular who doesn't want to play for example anywhere in Scandinavia or in Spain, Italy and France this year, we can always blame their record company and the touring industry in general as well as the overall downturn in the economy.

For a band as big as Bon Jovi touring *is* very expensive. They've got to have two or three stage constructions travelling with them as well as one PA and one or two full sets of instruments plus god knows how many spare parts for the instruments & microphone systems, etc. Their tour crew is usually between 100-150 ppl and naturally they've got to pay full board & lodging for the entire crew (apart from local crew members, of course) plus catering at shows and some actual spending money for all of them... And we're not talking about some $20 a day but rather $150-300 a day, I think. Then come the band members and their personal staff, insurances, merchandise, trucking, etc. So it really is quite expensive, and because of that, if the band and/or their record company don't believe touring in certain areas would be profitable enough, they can easily leave such areas out of the tour schedule.