General "Not In This Lifetime... Tour" thread *1st POST UPDATE NOV 30*

[tim_m]

Anyone else thinking it might be getting a bit late for the Dallas show on the listed date to be announced? In comparison the shows in Vegas were announced nearly 3 months in advance in a much smaller venue then AT&T stadium. If it isn't announced this week it'll be no more then 2 months and a week in advance. That's a short amount of time to sell out a stadium that holds over 100,000 people.

[D-GenerationX]

Anyone else thinking it might be getting a bit late for the Dallas show on the listed date to be announced? In comparison the shows in Vegas were announced nearly 3 months in advance in a much smaller venue then AT&T stadium. If it isn't announced this week it'll be no more then 2 months and a week in advance. That's a short amount of time to sell out a stadium that holds over 100,000 people.

How many would it hold once configured for a stage?  Do you happen to know?

Who has played there?  Some country act, no doubt.

[tim_m]

Anyone else thinking it might be getting a bit late for the Dallas show on the listed date to be announced? In comparison the shows in Vegas were announced nearly 3 months in advance in a much smaller venue then AT&T stadium. If it isn't announced this week it'll be no more then 2 months and a week in advance. That's a short amount of time to sell out a stadium that holds over 100,000 people.

How many would it hold once configured for a stage?  Do you happen to know?

Who has played there?  Some country act, no doubt.

It can hold upwards of 104,000. George Strait has the record for 104,793. Beyonce is going to be playing there soon. So that could get broken. The stadium is huge! The NBA all-star game had 108,713. Obviously it depends on the stage configuration but anywhere to 104,000-108,000 isn't unlikely.

[GypsySoul]

Anyone else thinking it might be getting a bit late for the Dallas show on the listed date to be announced?

None of the USA stadiums have been announced yet, right? 
Maybe it's just that Dallas isn't a venue on the front end of the tour.

[tim_m]

Anyone else thinking it might be getting a bit late for the Dallas show on the listed date to be announced?

None of the USA stadiums have been announced yet, right? 
Maybe it's just that Dallas isn't a venue on the front end of the tour.

Could be but then i'd say April 30th won't be the date. I can't see them starting much sooner then that. Next week is the last full week of February already. I'm thinking May or June.

[Spirit]

Anyone else thinking it might be getting a bit late for the Dallas show on the listed date to be announced? In comparison the shows in Vegas were announced nearly 3 months in advance in a much smaller venue then AT&T stadium. If it isn't announced this week it'll be no more then 2 months and a week in advance. That's a short amount of time to sell out a stadium that holds over 100,000 people.

How many would it hold once configured for a stage?  Do you happen to know?

Who has played there?  Some country act, no doubt.

It can hold upwards of 104,000. George Strait has the record for 104,793. Beyonce is going to be playing there soon. So that could get broken. The stadium is huge! The NBA all-star game had 108,713. Obviously it depends on the stage configuration but anywhere to 104,000-108,000 isn't unlikely.

Many artists use a center-stage or an end-stage with the sections behind the stage open. This way you can fill all the venue seats plus the pitch.

GN'R has an end-stage setup with the sections behind closed off. In a stadium this huge, the amount of seats not used far outweighs the amount of people on the pitch.

If the seating capacity is 100,000, I can imagine a GN'R setup could hold 75-85,000 maybe.

[GypsySoul]

Could be but then i'd say April 30th won't be the date. I can't see them starting much sooner then that. Next week is the last full week of February already. I'm thinking May or June.

I meant that it seems that, besides warm up shows, the USA/NA shows tend to be more towards the end of the tours.

[tim_m]

Anyone else thinking it might be getting a bit late for the Dallas show on the listed date to be announced? In comparison the shows in Vegas were announced nearly 3 months in advance in a much smaller venue then AT&T stadium. If it isn't announced this week it'll be no more then 2 months and a week in advance. That's a short amount of time to sell out a stadium that holds over 100,000 people.

How many would it hold once configured for a stage?  Do you happen to know?

Who has played there?  Some country act, no doubt.

It can hold upwards of 104,000. George Strait has the record for 104,793. Beyonce is going to be playing there soon. So that could get broken. The stadium is huge! The NBA all-star game had 108,713. Obviously it depends on the stage configuration but anywhere to 104,000-108,000 isn't unlikely.

Many artists use a center-stage or an end-stage with the sections behind the stage open. This way you can fill all the venue seats plus the pitch.

GN'R has an end-stage setup with the sections behind closed off. In a stadium this huge, the amount of seats not used far outweighs the amount of people on the pitch.

If the seating capacity is 100,000, I can imagine a GN'R setup could hold 75-85,000 maybe.

Its 80,000 for football but obviously that goes up with the field in use. If they have none behind the stage you'd probably make up what you lost on the field. So it would definitely be 80,000+ or so.

[tim_m]

Could be but then i'd say April 30th won't be the date. I can't see them starting much sooner then that. Next week is the last full week of February already. I'm thinking May or June.

I meant that it seems that, besides warm up shows, the USA/NA shows tend to be more towards the end of the tours.

Yeah, i really think it'll end up being summer before we get the stadium tour here.

[Spirit]

Its 80,000 for football but obviously that goes up with the field in use. If they have none behind the stage you'd probably make up what you lost on the field. So it would definitely be 80,000+ or so.

It obviously depends on the size of the venue, but I think the people on the field wouldn't quite make up for the closed off sections.

If you count the whole u-bend at the one end of the stadium as 1/4 of the total seats, that's 20,000 people.

[Spirit]

Where does the rumor of a May 29 show in Lisbon come from?

last i heard mygnr forums...

Yeah, but the rumor was for RIR Lisbon, all headliners have been announced as far as I can see.

One thing that might suggest GN'R being in the area at the time is the fact that Duff will play RIR with Hollywood Vampires on the 27th.

[sofine11]

So...it looks like we will be getting the summer NA dates all together, for the most part.  I wonder when we can expect the tour announcement.  Think they'd wait until after Vegas, or is that cutting it too close?

[Spirit]

So...it looks like we will be getting the summer NA dates all together, for the most part.  I wonder when we can expect the tour announcement.  Think they'd wait until after Vegas, or is that cutting it too close?

Depends...

Will the stadium tour start in April or maybe later, like June or July?

[JAEBALL]

So...it looks like we will be getting the summer NA dates all together, for the most part.  I wonder when we can expect the tour announcement.  Think they'd wait until after Vegas, or is that cutting it too close?

I think we are all getting antsy...

I'm trying to plan my summer extracurricular activities... but I'm holding out because I need to be around for whenever they are in my hood.

[sofine11]

So...it looks like we will be getting the summer NA dates all together, for the most part.  I wonder when we can expect the tour announcement.  Think they'd wait until after Vegas, or is that cutting it too close?

I think we are all getting antsy...

I'm trying to plan my summer extracurricular activities... but I'm holding out because I need to be around for whenever they are in my hood.

A lot of big name summer tours went on sale in the past couple of weeks for similar stadium venues.  I would imagine that they would want to announce this sooner than later.  But as always, who really knows?

[tim_m]

So...it looks like we will be getting the summer NA dates all together, for the most part.  I wonder when we can expect the tour announcement.  Think they'd wait until after Vegas, or is that cutting it too close?

If April 30th weekend in Dallas is legit that's cutting it way too close to start in April/May.

[Spirit]

So...it looks like we will be getting the summer NA dates all together, for the most part.  I wonder when we can expect the tour announcement.  Think they'd wait until after Vegas, or is that cutting it too close?

If April 30th weekend in Dallas is legit that's cutting it way too close to start in April/May.

Not sure, the April 20 Foro Sol date went on sale yesterday.

[tim_m]

So...it looks like we will be getting the summer NA dates all together, for the most part.  I wonder when we can expect the tour announcement.  Think they'd wait until after Vegas, or is that cutting it too close?

I think we are all getting antsy...

I'm trying to plan my summer extracurricular activities... but I'm holding out because I need to be around for whenever they are in my hood.

A lot of big name summer tours went on sale in the past couple of weeks for similar stadium venues.  I would imagine that they would want to announce this sooner than later.  But as always, who really knows?

Which makes me think we're probably looking at June and later. We're almost at the point where it is cutting it too close for such large venues.

[tim_m]

So...it looks like we will be getting the summer NA dates all together, for the most part.  I wonder when we can expect the tour announcement.  Think they'd wait until after Vegas, or is that cutting it too close?

If April 30th weekend in Dallas is legit that's cutting it way too close to start in April/May.

Not sure, the April 20 Foro Sol date went on sale yesterday.

That's still over 2 months away. I'm just saying we are getting dangerously close to the rumored Dallas date to announce it and put tickets on sale. If the date turns out to be true it has to be announced next week and put on sale that weekend. If we get into March and still no announcement that rumored date won't happen imo. It will be a later date. For shows at such big venues i think you need to announce them and sell the tickets at least 2 months prior.

[Spirit]

So...it looks like we will be getting the summer NA dates all together, for the most part.  I wonder when we can expect the tour announcement.  Think they'd wait until after Vegas, or is that cutting it too close?

If April 30th weekend in Dallas is legit that's cutting it way too close to start in April/May.

Not sure, the April 20 Foro Sol date went on sale yesterday.

That's still over 2 months away. I'm just saying we are getting dangerously close to the rumored Dallas date to announce it and put tickets on sale. If the date turns out to be true it has to be announced next week and put on sale that weekend. If we get into March and still no announcement that rumored date won't happen imo. It will be a later date. For shows at such big venues i think you need to announce them and sell the tickets at least 2 months prior.

Ok, I thought you meant we were already too close for an April 30 date to be announced.


If the US shows sells as well as the Mexico dates, they won't need it to be 2 months on the market. But going by normal practices, I also assume an announcement very soon if they are to add more dates in April.

Las Vegas sold about 35-40,000 tickets in a heartbeat, so that looks good for the US.