Zac brown band Beats pj attendance at Fenway

mcgruff10

Just saw on facebook that the Zac brown band just broke the record for single show, two night stand and three night stand attendance record at Fenway. Damn pearl jam needs to get back there and break this! Four nights guys!!!!

myoung321

Ed stops show because of douchebag in GA - I heard, If you stopped a Zach Brown concert for every drunk asshole ready to fight the show would last 5 days...

RiotZact

What's even more impressive is that those crowds will most likely be 95% new each night rather than a bunch of people doing multiples like with PJ.

The real question though? How long will their merch line be?

AceCool

I'm sure Zac is proud of his success. Who knew there were so many rednecks in Boston?

nycrats

A sell out is a sell out though? What are we talking, a few dozen extra people configured on the floor or in an obstructed view? I'm sure whatever number of available seats that went on sale pj would have sold. Doesn't compute.

demetrios

Sorry, I've NEVER heard of this band before.

JimmyV

nycrats said:

A sell out is a sell out though? What are we talking, a few dozen extra people configured on the floor or in an obstructed view? I'm sure whatever number of available seats that went on sale pj would have sold. Doesn't compute.

Red Sox ownership hasn't been exactly honest in the past about attendance records, too.

http://www.businessinsider.com/red-sox-fake-sellout-streak-is-now-officially-over-2013-4

JimmyV

This is pretty much the only thing I know about the Zac Brown Band. From their Fenway run last year:

https://youtu.be/btda2JIBmH8

Wma31394

chicken fry

mpedone

AceCool said:

I'm sure Zach is proud of his success. Who knew there were so many rednecks in Boston?

Bro-country bros are everywhere these days.

weddingparade

LOVE ZAC BROWN BAND

PP193448

Zac Brown Band is the Pearl Jam of country music. Lots of dedicated faithful fans that travel to see them. Great musicians that give it all during the shows for the fans. I've not seen them live, but my brother has and said they put on one hell of a show.

droptheleash9

Zac Brown Band is a hell of an act to see live. Fantastic musicianship, variation in their setlists, good covers (last time they were at Fenway they actually covered Porch and Hunger Strike), and have a big following. Do I think they'll have the lasting significance that Pearl Jam has had? I don't know; I think they're part of the country craze over the last few years that will lose popularity eventually. That being said, ZBB are the good guys when it comes to country music in that they actually write their own music (which country artists do not) and have a decent amount of talent.

LukinFan

I saw ZBB last year - they put on a great show

phan84

AceCool said:

I'm sure Zach is proud of his success. Who knew there were so many rednecks in Boston?

There are TONS. Kenny Chesney is playing 2 nights at Gillette. The country concerts in this area have more arrests than any other musical genre. It is a fairly a new phenomenon I think. I don't remember hearing about any country concerts in this area 10 years ago. Maybe Zac Brown Band is different, but I swear every time I hear a country song every other word is about drinking beer and the fans lap it up (pun intended).

A sold out concert is a sold out concert though. How can one sell out at the same venue have more in attendance? Maybe the stage is smaller and they put in an extra row of seats? It can't be more than a few hundred extra people though.

mikerl

Sold out, and attendance, are different things. They scan the tickets on the way in, that accounts for people actually coming through the doors. A show can be sold out, but still have secondary market tickets lingering on stubhub, eBay, Craigslist.

Paul McCartney had a couple thousand tickets on stubhub the day before his Fenway show, just as an example.

The foo fighters shows last year were sold out, but I had empty seats all around me.

Gern Blansten

Country concerts have taken over the outdoor venue in Noblesville/Indpls. Black Sabbath is coming to town next weekend but it's been one country show after the other this year. Yuck.

lotsalemon

MP59559 said:

AceCool said:

I'm sure Zach is proud of his success. Who knew there were so many rednecks in Boston?

Bro-country bros are everywhere these days.

They all travelled down from New Hampshire

mikerl

lotsalemon said:

MP59559 said:

AceCool said:

I'm sure Zach is proud of his success. Who knew there were so many rednecks in Boston?

Bro-country bros are everywhere these days.

They all travelled down from New Hampshire

Ok ok... Take it easy, pal.

Wma31394

Now when we refer to the country artists..dont we mean "bubble gum pop rock" artists?? Not zack Brown but the rest of those yo yos..

pdalowsky

yep this is a new artist in my world too. had never heard of this one

Suziemay

Classy bunch, us PJ fans

Chris Cornell liked them enough to record a single with them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiIfqEdpEyU

gnaztee

ZBB definitely not the "Bro Country" set. Sure, they have some mainstream songs, but so does PJ. I'll say this, for PJ fans who hate bro country or even the stuff I rejected growing up in the 90s (Tim McGraw, Brooks and Dunn, etc.) as a PNW kid, living a couple of years in Texas and finding the world of independent/red dirt country was an eye opener. I seriously recommend people check out Hayes Carll or the Turnpike Troubadours (both very different from each other) for the antidote to the bros. Smart lyrics and better music have made me a fan of, dare I say, "real country" when I never would have thought I'd say that. Sturgill Simpson is another good choice, although more recent and still different than the first two.

Strangely, I picked up most of these listening to a great, small radio station in Dallas called KHYI "The Range". A station so fiercely opposed to the bros that they have radio spots openly mocking mainstream country radio.

lotsalemon

mikerl said:

lotsalemon said:

MP59559 said:

AceCool said:

I'm sure Zach is proud of his success. Who knew there were so many rednecks in Boston?

Bro-country bros are everywhere these days.

They all travelled down from New Hampshire

Ok ok... Take it easy, pal.

Just kidding!
BTW nice guitar in your sig - telecaster w P90s?

AceCool

I don't go in for modern country acts much at all (I'm more of a Waylon Jennings and George Jones guy) but my wife, who is a huge PJ fan, loves ZBB and Brad Paisley. I've heard the music when she listens to it. It's not terrible but it's not my bag either.

My sister-in-law lives in Nashville and she was the first person I ever heard use the term bro country. I found that description so amazingly apropos especially after seeing the video on YouTube where they overlay like 5 or 6 modern country hits on Pro Tools and every single one of them are the exact same. I couldn't even name these dudes but they all look the same in their designer jeans and backwards baseball caps singing songs about driving down the road in summer time with their special chicks going to a beer drinkin' party down by the swimmin' hole with all the rest of their bros on a Saturday night. Basically they're all just ex-frat boys from SE Central Tennessee St or some other directional school that are putting that mentality to a formulaic musical soundtrack.

mpedone

gnaztee said:

ZBB definitely not the "Bro Country" set. Sure, they have some mainstream songs, but so does PJ. I'll say this, for PJ fans who hate bro country or even the stuff I rejected growing up in the 90s (Tim McGraw, Brooks and Dunn, etc.) as a PNW kid, living a couple of years in Texas and finding the world of independent/red dirt country was an eye opener. I seriously recommend people check out Hayes Carll or the Turnpike Troubadours (both very different from each other) for the antidote to the bros. Smart lyrics and better music have made me a fan of, dare I say, "real country" when I never would have thought I'd say that. Sturgill Simpson is another good choice, although more recent and still different than the first two.

Strangely, I picked up most of these listening to a great, small radio station in Dallas called KHYI "The Range". A station so fiercely opposed to the bros that they have radio spots openly mocking mainstream country radio.

They might not be "Bro Country", but I think they do well up here because of the "Bro Country" phenomenon. I could be wrong.

tweedyfanjen

gnaztee said:

ZBB definitely not the "Bro Country" set. Sure, they have some mainstream songs, but so does PJ. I'll say this, for PJ fans who hate bro country or even the stuff I rejected growing up in the 90s (Tim McGraw, Brooks and Dunn, etc.) as a PNW kid, living a couple of years in Texas and finding the world of independent/red dirt country was an eye opener. I seriously recommend people check out Hayes Carll or the Turnpike Troubadours (both very different from each other) for the antidote to the bros. Smart lyrics and better music have made me a fan of, dare I say, "real country" when I never would have thought I'd say that. Sturgill Simpson is another good choice, although more recent and still different than the first two.

Strangely, I picked up most of these listening to a great, small radio station in Dallas called KHYI "The Range". A station so fiercely opposed to the bros that they have radio spots openly mocking mainstream country radio.

I would also recommend Jason Isbell, Robert Ellis, American Aquarium and maybe even Lucero for the more country throwback kind of stuff.

djklambake

Country/Pop doesn't count. That's not even music.

lolobugg

tweedyfanjen said:

gnaztee said:

ZBB definitely not the "Bro Country" set. Sure, they have some mainstream songs, but so does PJ. I'll say this, for PJ fans who hate bro country or even the stuff I rejected growing up in the 90s (Tim McGraw, Brooks and Dunn, etc.) as a PNW kid, living a couple of years in Texas and finding the world of independent/red dirt country was an eye opener. I seriously recommend people check out Hayes Carll or the Turnpike Troubadours (both very different from each other) for the antidote to the bros. Smart lyrics and better music have made me a fan of, dare I say, "real country" when I never would have thought I'd say that. Sturgill Simpson is another good choice, although more recent and still different than the first two.

Strangely, I picked up most of these listening to a great, small radio station in Dallas called KHYI "The Range". A station so fiercely opposed to the bros that they have radio spots openly mocking mainstream country radio.

I would also recommend Jason Isbell, Robert Ellis, American Aquarium and maybe even Lucero for the more country throwback kind of stuff.

American Aquarium- really good band!!!

tweedyfanjen

lolobugg said:

tweedyfanjen said:

gnaztee said:

ZBB definitely not the "Bro Country" set. Sure, they have some mainstream songs, but so does PJ. I'll say this, for PJ fans who hate bro country or even the stuff I rejected growing up in the 90s (Tim McGraw, Brooks and Dunn, etc.) as a PNW kid, living a couple of years in Texas and finding the world of independent/red dirt country was an eye opener. I seriously recommend people check out Hayes Carll or the Turnpike Troubadours (both very different from each other) for the antidote to the bros. Smart lyrics and better music have made me a fan of, dare I say, "real country" when I never would have thought I'd say that. Sturgill Simpson is another good choice, although more recent and still different than the first two.

Strangely, I picked up most of these listening to a great, small radio station in Dallas called KHYI "The Range". A station so fiercely opposed to the bros that they have radio spots openly mocking mainstream country radio.

I would also recommend Jason Isbell, Robert Ellis, American Aquarium and maybe even Lucero for the more country throwback kind of stuff.

American Aquarium- really good band!!!

Yes! B.J. is the best. And I love their name came from a Wilco song.

bootlegger10

Haters gonna hate.