How is the North American tour selling

[RichardNixon]

Any word on how well tickets are selling?

[Top-Hatted One]

they were the #1 tour on VH1 for one week but then slipped to #2 cos of Green Day

[Dave_Rose]

Still all in good

[starchild_666]

this is going to be a club tour or something bigger?

[tomass74]

Well, the show in New Hampshire is 10,000 and teh one in Mass is 15,000.

[Music For Life]

the one here in chicago(allstate arena) is about 18,000   i hope they sell it out.  tix havent even went on sale yet and the show is in about a month

[Top-Hatted One]

this is an arena tour baby!

which hopefully leads to new songs being played!

[Music For Life]

i can only hope that they can at least fill the arenas.  not sure if i see them selling out every one like they sold out every club?  who knows though, if they promote the shit out of it i could see it happening.  i have yet to hear anything about it on the radio  

[GNFNRS]

I don't know if this actually a typical arena tour.  I know the show in Toronto is only for about half of the Air Canada Centre.  Anyone know if this is the case for all of the larger venues?

[Top-Hatted One]

they should be able to get 9-10,000 people a night. I don't expect them to sell out 16,000 seat arenas right away. Maybe towards the end of this Contraband run and after they release the next record.

[tomass74]

I don't see them selling out every show.. I do think they will be good crowds though. They are palying alot of shows close to eachother too.

[mikegiuliana]

Why aren't they out plugging away for these bigger shows? They've been very quiet as far a PR goes since they went to europe..

If I didn't belong to vr/gnr sites I wouldn't know about these shows..

[Ignatius]

Why aren't they out plugging away for these bigger shows? They've been very quiet as far a PR goes since they went to europe..

If I didn't belong to vr/gnr sites I wouldn't know about these shows..

...And some people still believe VR's management is doing a great job 

[noonespecial]

There's still tixs available for the 11\10 show at the Wachovia Spectrum (Philly)...they went on sale this past Saturday, I don't know how much that place holds, but  it looks like only the "long distance" seats are available...

[Falcon]

Why aren't they out plugging away for these bigger shows? They've been very quiet as far a PR goes since they went to europe..

If I didn't belong to vr/gnr sites I wouldn't know about these shows..

...And some people still believe VR's management is doing a great job?

Advertising for shows is mostly left up to local promotors and radio stations sponsoring the gigs, not management.

I'm seeing VR in Tulsa the 19th and Oklahoma City the 20th, both shows have been advertised heavily on both radio and TV in both cities.? Slash is scheduled to be interviewed on Tulsa's Z104.5 the morning of the 19th, good promotion on all accounts I'd say.

[mikegiuliana]

Why aren't they out plugging away for these bigger shows? They've been very quiet as far a PR goes since they went to europe..

If I didn't belong to vr/gnr sites I wouldn't know about these shows..

...And some people still believe VR's management is doing a great job?

Advertising for shows is mostly left up to local promotors and radio stations sponsoring the gigs, not management.

I'm seeing VR in Tulsa the 19th and Oklahoma City the 20th, both shows have been advertised heavily on both radio and TV in both cities.? Slash is scheduled to be interviewed on Tulsa's Z104.5 the morning of the 19th, good promotion on all accounts I'd say.

Either way I just wish they would do a rock show or headbanger's ball or something just to keep it fresh..

[Ignatius]

Why aren't they out plugging away for these bigger shows? They've been very quiet as far a PR goes since they went to europe..

If I didn't belong to vr/gnr sites I wouldn't know about these shows..

...And some people still believe VR's management is doing a great job?

Advertising for shows is mostly left up to local promotors and radio stations sponsoring the gigs, not management.

I'm seeing VR in Tulsa the 19th and Oklahoma City the 20th, both shows have been advertised heavily on both radio and TV in both cities.? Slash is scheduled to be interviewed on Tulsa's Z104.5 the morning of the 19th, good promotion on all accounts I'd say.

It's all related. Promtors contact management and viceversa. Management schedules the band members to be interviewed on radio stations, tv or any media.

The reason I refuted your argument was because something in the past month nothing hasn't gone as planned in the VR camp. It all began a month ago when VR fired their management team and Slash decided he wanted to be represented by a management team other than the rest of the band ( that's weird), then a few gigs get cancelled ( we are not talking about one or two here) and now the lack of promotion this second leg.

To me this second leg of the tour has not echoed as much as the first one. As Mike pointed out, I wouldn't have heard of this second leg hadn't had been for this site. In your favor though, since I don't live in the States I really don't know how the tour is been promoted locally, but it? does really surprise me people in your country wouldn't have known about this tour if this site didn't exist.