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Originally Posted by Thomas Anderson
Well they all have families now, they don't have to tour or work at all but they still do.
I don't really feel anyone has a right to complain. You buy the cd's, you buy the merchandise, you go to see shows, you are paying for something specific, not a part of that band or a say in what they do.
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I don't mean to be rude Thomas, but you live in the UK, yes?....perhaps if you lived here, where the band has not toured since 1995, instead of a country where they have never NOT toured, you'd be somewhat more sympathetic to those of us who 'complain'....'you go see the shows'...to whom is that part of your post directed?...surely not to the aussies or the kiwis.
Had I been at the listening party and had the opportunity to ask Jon a question it would have been:
"Do you and/or the band suffer from equatophobia?" [the fear of passing over the equator from north to south]
Oh...and before anyone starts with the 'it's too far away... it cost so much to take a tour downunder...if the Cd does well, maybe they'll tour there' stuff - just as I have no insight specifically into what exactly it costs to bring a tour here, people not living in Oz do not appreciate the fact that many big name acts DO come here ['03 The Stones, Springsteen, - '04 Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles], and that BJ do
phenomenally well here...from NJ through to Crush, all those albums debuted at no. 1, despite the fact that the band had not toured here since '95.....Bounce may have debuted at No. 1 instead of No. 4, but went head to head with the Elvis album. It's going to be hard for the album to do well here when the band have not been here [please do not include the Universal Appeal gig or worse still, Rumba] into the BJ tour history of Oz....I think even the band wonder why they did Rumba.
S.