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Originally Posted by ticos_stick
The only way a stadium tour would work for Bon Jovi in Europe now is if all tickets were priced around £30-40. Stadium acts have to work hard to keep the reputation going. U2 build bigger stages, Bruce plays longer shows, what have Bon Jovi done?
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I don't really think that would transate into a huge sold out stadium tour. It's their fault really, shockingly bad albums for the last 10 years and a tour every 2 years.
I'm going to quote myself from another thread
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In 2008 their ONLY Spanish show was highly anticipated. They hadn't been in Spain for 5 years!!!! I guarantee you the stadium was not completely sold out, it was pretty packed but still some room in there. They had done arenas for the Bounce tour and 2 shows then, all sold out if I remember correctly. The numbers have been disminishing for a long time"
They have (more like had) a pretty good following in Spain. They did 4!!! stadiums shows in 95&96. Then nothing until 2003 and then it was arenas, only two shows and they were still big so that was the first fall from grace. Fast forward 5 more years and like I said ony 1 stadium show and not completely sold out. It was highly anticipated, the ads were everywhere, lots of promo in radio/tv/press (I don't remember if promo by the band or by the promoters), lots of buzz in the forums. But still not a complete sold out show. And what happens next? Shows in 2010, 2011, 2013. So we went from a 7/8 years gap to a more reasonable 5 years to almost every year????
Spain is not big and it's reasonably cheap to travel and find accomodation. So the average fan has seen them a whooping 4 times in 5 years, minimum. Insane, absolutely insane
Yeah, THINFS deserves better. But Jon also deserves the reality check. Give your fans shit albums and say bye bye to your precious stadium tours. Die hards are obviously difficult to please, but casuals aren't stupid. Even if it's a dirty cheap ticket there'll be another band that doesn't tour the same damn core setlist and deserves it more. That's not what I think, that's what I've heard fans say for the past 5-7 years