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Petition for Ten Club only tour
Ten Club only tour... small clubs & theaters... 2-3 shows in each major city... lottery... 1 pair per member limit for the tour... or maybe 1 pair per city limit to ensure sell outs
Chicago
Toronto
NYC
Boston
Philly
Atlanta
Houston (finally)
LA
Seattle
That would be an amazing way to celebrate PJ25 and the HOF induction
I was lucky to see the fanclub only show at The Vic in 2007 and it doesn't get any better than seeing the best band in the world with 2000 other fanclub members
Is this feasible? Or just a dream?
Chicago
Toronto
NYC
Boston
Philly
Atlanta
Houston (finally)
LA
Seattle
That would be an amazing way to celebrate PJ25 and the HOF induction
I was lucky to see the fanclub only show at The Vic in 2007 and it doesn't get any better than seeing the best band in the world with 2000 other fanclub members
Is this feasible? Or just a dream?
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I think it would be great. Logistically it would be a lot easier I would suspect. Bring along 3-4 guitars each like back in high school garage band days and go on the road for 3 weeks for the fun of it (if playing for the experience of it and a regular band's theater show pay is still fun for them).
I've never understood why they wouldn't do small clubs and theater shows more often unless they've agreed they were only going to give each other 8 weeks of their time a year for touring and they don't have time to not maximize revenues.
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That being said I think this is a dream. PJ would earn less money over 3 nights than they would normally earn doing 1 arena show. The guy's aren't exactly gung hoe about touring (they don't really tour that much). They seem to try and earn their livings playing a small amount of shows to as many fans as possible. They sell lot of tickets, tour for a month.. maybe if they're energetic they do a 2nd leg for another month. Then they don't do much for 10 months... I guess my point is the guys need to eat and if they're going to go on a tour, they're the kind of guys that want to earn enough money that they can take a bunch of months off...
Fan Dissapointment. In many places you can't get tickets to a PJ show if there's multiple arena nights. Small venues will probably leave a large number of fans without tickets. I'm guessing there would be more dissapointed fans that fans with tickets in hand.
Conclusion. They're too big to do a tour of small venues (ie too many fans), and they don't like touring enough to do a string of shows that have way less take home pay.
I'm in
I've said & posted something very similar to this before. Except I think I suggested 4-5 shows per city. Lol
Definitely have to add Detroit to the list. A week of shows at The Fox Theater would be phenomenal!!!
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10/12/13 Buffalo, NY
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10/17/14 Moline, IL
8/20/16 Chicago, IL Wrigley Field
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They gotta find a place where 10club can access 100% of the tickets to the event.
But if they do this, a 10club only tour, pease have the ability to offer one 10club ticket per 10club member too. Not just two 10club tickets per one 10club member. Give's paying 10club members a better chance to attend these 10club only shows.
I can't really see them doing this.... but they should . Everyone would have to agree up front not to complain if they get shut out for tickets.
~not a dude~
2010: MSGx2
2012: Made In America
2013: Pittsburgh, Brooklynx2, Hartford, Baltimore
2014: Leeds, Milton Keynes, Detroit
2015: Global Citizen Festival
2016: Phillyx2, MSGx2, Fenwayx2
2018: Barcelona, Wrigleyx2
When I'm at a show, sometimes I like the thought that in the crowd, there are many people seeing the band for the first time and are getting blown off their feet.
But I dont understand how 'fan club only' = better than.
Other than maybe a smaller venue?
~not a dude~
2010: MSGx2
2012: Made In America
2013: Pittsburgh, Brooklynx2, Hartford, Baltimore
2014: Leeds, Milton Keynes, Detroit
2015: Global Citizen Festival
2016: Phillyx2, MSGx2, Fenwayx2
2018: Barcelona, Wrigleyx2
For example, two or three dates in each city, one regular arena night, one small club 10c only night. And in the cities where they almost always play back to back nights in arenas I'd say do that and then do the small show a couple days later.
I don't like the idea of a whole tour that non-10c members cannot access at all. I think 10c member only shows in conjunction with a regular tour would be sweeeeeet.
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2010: MSGx2
2012: Made In America
2013: Pittsburgh, Brooklynx2, Hartford, Baltimore
2014: Leeds, Milton Keynes, Detroit
2015: Global Citizen Festival
2016: Phillyx2, MSGx2, Fenwayx2
2018: Barcelona, Wrigleyx2
$25 tickets
$25 posters and t's
25 songs (before encores)
2,500 max venues
25 min wma drum solo/jam...haha. Anyone else???
I'm a die hard PJ fan but it's pretty easy to tell the guys aren't super big on touring. They do small spurts, play places almost guaranteed to sell out, and make their cash fairly quick.
We all want to see our favorite bands play smaller venues, but the way PJ does it's thing, it seems like a far fetched dream for them to do a series of small gigs. On their best years they maybe do a month long leg here and there? I can't see them taking pay cuts from playing fewer cities by adding in club/theatre shows into the schedule.
The other thing, is how many of the best Theatre's/Club's now have exclusive ticketing contracts with Ticketmaster (or whatever the local version of TM is). TM restricts fan club ticket quantities. Could/Would the band be willing to organize their own tour (like the '95 tour). Are there enough decent non TM venues left? Hasn't the band hit that point where they get paid, and let the promoter do all the work? The vitalogy tour was a tough one.
There's no way I wouldn't complain if I didn't get ticket