Why no Boston, MA concert date???
 

Okay, so maybe they aren't gonna play Boston, MA but this would be the first winter tour that I can remember that they did not play Boston. Also, no NY shows scheduled either and they always play Albany, NY. Maybe Mohegan Sun just outbid everybody and the 2 nights in CT will do it for the East Cost. Any thoughts or inside info????

I'm guessing they're going to play Foxboro over the summer.

Well, between the 10 Nights in Jersey in Oct/Nov and the fact that they're (most likely) gonna play 2-3 Giants Stadium dates, hat explains the lack of NY/NJ stops.
As for Mass., I'd think they'll play Foxboro and/or Fenway Park in the summer, so they won't play any winter dates to keep a demand.

Fenway Park. July 19 AND 20.

Source: Boston Herald said they pulled permits for that date.

Those same dates have been posted on the Backstage message board, but there's been nothing announced offiically.

The Pru shows and Giants are close "local" shows for people in New York City. The rest of New York State has gotten nothing! I NEVER EVER dreamed for a second that there would not be a show in Albany or Buffalo! I feel for you Panda, can't believe Boston isn't getting a show this tour. Also no Cleveland. Yet other cities are getting multiple shows. And all of those markets (Boston, Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland ) ALWAYS sell out each tour. It pisses me off.

I have (mostly) always gone to the Albany shows and this year there isn't one. As Lizz said, Albany always sells out for Bon Jovi - for Bruce too for that matter. It seems strange that they aren't playing there.

Don't have the Pru numbers but at first Billboard reported them as not sold out (short by about 3,000) but then ran an ad congratulating them on 10 "sold out" shows but that said, for this tour, I bet they do all right. Here is the latest showing the two Sydney shows as sell outs:

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/boxscore.jsp

In the latest Rolling Stone based on the 10 Pru Shows plus Canada, they were the #6 tour in 2007. Not bad considering they started in late October.

deb

Maybe they wanted to cut this tour a little shorter. 10 nights at the Pru Center and Giants did it for this area I guess. I thought I heard they were doing 50 cities, but I could be wrong. I have never been to a show that wasn't sold out.

Aloha !

Last time they did the stadiums they couldn't sell them out and some of the stadiums dates were cancelled before the anouncement went out, which is probably why they skip those area's this time.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan