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Originally Posted by Supersonic
With every subsequent tour Bon Jovi has been drawing fewer and fewer people at concerts all over Europe. There's a reason they're playing cities like Gdansk, Lisbon and Sofia nowadays; those cities make up for the tickets they can no longer sell in Germany and the U.K..
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Right. I read this three lines of yours about 4 times and I am still surprised how many times you can actually contradict yourself...all of it in just 3 lines. Reminds me of a discussion we had about the Scorpions and their drawing power.
So - first - they are losing crowds ALL over Europe....but wait - places like Gdansk and Sofia are completely sold out. So it's not all over Europe then...in fact, they are actually gaining audiences across Europe, but losing audience in saturated markets with decreasing levels of disposable income. Like Berlin. Surprise surprise. If anything, it's bad planning. Munich still sold solidly. And so do most of their 'Core' cities. It's the 'periphery' that changes.
Also - I liked your 'nowadays' qualifier for Lisbon. As if they never played the city before. They played there in 1989, and they actually played a stadium gig there in 1993 (one of the fewer stadium gigs on that tour). They played in 1995 again...and then in 2008 again. As an example, they never played Amsterdam before 2000 (and the only time they played a stadium there was 200
but in your imagination Lisbon is one of those new cities on their map.
Anyway - it's not that I give a damn, it's just that you have a tendency to portray your 'perception' as 'facts' when, in fact, they are nothing but opinions really and should be classified accordingly.