I don't actually know obviously, but if I had to guess, in the specific case of TOTD, it's because they felt uncertain about how much interest there would be. I'm sure most of us think it's nuts to think that these shows would be anything other than an immediate sellout, but I bet it feels different when you're in the industry and actually counting on tours to earn a living. I'm sure there is always a pretty strong sense of "oh my god, is anyone going to come to the show??" If it's not that, then who the fuck knows.
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At this point they know there's a big demand. So why not give the fanclubs another shot?
They don't necessarily know that. Maybe, but not necessarily. Artists misjudge demand one way or another all the time. I feel like they wouldn't have held back the second shows if they were 100% confident about demand. Another sign that they weren't was the week-long pre-sale. That long a pre-sale without a lottery for Chris Cornell/Soundgarden suggests to me that they weren't confident about it. Or at least I hope not, because otherwise, as you suggest, they made a very conscious decision to keep fanclub members from getting first dibs at as many seats as possible. I just don't see them doing that for no reason.
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To be fair CC/SG doesn't have a fan club. They have an e-mail list and are in no situation to run a lottery. It's like being signed up for local radio stations mailing list. You get the odd password when they go on tour, but because they don't run a membership paid fan club, you're not going to get much beyond that. I wouldn't expect CC/SG to do a lottery. They aren't setup for it.
I do agree that they might of misjudge demand. The venue sizes were all over the place, and they didn't preannounce the 2nd shows...
Maybe we'll get lucky and 10c got to hold back some tickets for the 2nd nights and can sell 'em later. I doubt it, but we could get lucky.
It's also possible the band only want to do a handful of dates, so it was never in the cards for anything too big either.
perhaps they were able to negotiate for double the allotment of fanclub/presale seats for the original shows sold if they played 2 shows and allowed a full regular sale?
I assumed they would be adding multiple shows, the schedule made it a little obvious...
To be fair CC/SG doesn't have a fan club. They have an e-mail list and are in no situation to run a lottery. It's like being signed up for local radio stations mailing list. You get the odd password when they go on tour, but because they don't run a membership paid fan club, you're not going to get much beyond that. I wouldn't expect CC/SG to do a lottery. They aren't setup for it.
I do agree that they might of misjudge demand. The venue sizes were all over the place, and they didn't preannounce the 2nd shows...
Maybe we'll get lucky and 10c got to hold back some tickets for the 2nd nights and can sell 'em later. I doubt it, but we could get lucky.
It's also possible the band only want to do a handful of dates, so it was never in the cards for anything too big either.
No, CC/SG have never done a lottery. I just meant that the fact that they made the pre-sale a week long meant something to me since pre-sales are usually only 24 hours long (as opposed to 10C lotteries, which are also a week long, but for a good reason). The second I saw that I guessed that they had underestimated sales and even said on the boards that 2nd shows might be announced once they saw how fast the tix sold on that week-long pre-sale (I could be wrong of course... it's just my best guess given the signs).
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If it's not that, then who the fuck knows.
I do agree that they might of misjudge demand. The venue sizes were all over the place, and they didn't preannounce the 2nd shows...
Maybe we'll get lucky and 10c got to hold back some tickets for the 2nd nights and can sell 'em later. I doubt it, but we could get lucky.
It's also possible the band only want to do a handful of dates, so it was never in the cards for anything too big either.
I assumed they would be adding multiple shows, the schedule made it a little obvious...
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