Sartoria said:

Clear channel is NOT doing this show. AEG is

alandail said:

In most markets, yes. It depends on the particular market and if the right size venue is right for the staging of the tour, etc. But with Reno, it's a unique case because Prince has never played there before. So IMO this show will have a better chance at being full compared to most markets he always plays. But let's forget Reno for a second and take a look at the shows that are already on sale: Bossier City, Oklahoma City, Jacksonville, Columbia & State College. They all aren't selling shit and only the floor seats are sold out.

alandail said:

It's not, as long as he closes of the balcony in most of the venues, it'll look more full.

alandail said:

It's hard to figure because like I said, you think fans that are buying two tickets automatically makes it concrete that there'll be more seats filled than compared to fans who are buying single tickets to the show. How do you know that most who attend aren't alone? I'm sure a lot will be and a lot won't be. But to try and figure that correctly would be next to impossible.
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Just wanted to tell ya first off I Think it will be Great. Prince has Alot of fans. Second I went to a Kid Rock concert and it was halfway empty but he rocked so why should he or anyone care?

Zelaira said:

i suppose its cos this is princes big comeback (or his first since 99) and obviously he is doing much bigger arenas than ONA, so the media know this, and when it only sells half of the possible seats for instance, the media can report as such, oh noones interested etc. and once that line of thought enters peoples head its easy for the public to think oh well not worth it and not bother. theres always that desperation about saying "still plenty of tickets left for tonights show" sort of thing!!

i think, as someone has said, promotion for the tour wont start properly until tommorow anyway. plus no more dates have been announced yet, are all these dates early on in the tour, or are they testers?

plus, prince isnt stupid, he wouldnt bother doing a 20k arena in an area he has overplayed and has no chance of selling. we'll find out tonight i guess! god i hope there is a quality opening act!

TheGoldExperience said:

If they were selling mostly single seats, there wouldn't be any single seat gaps left. Your logic makes no sense. If the vast majority of the seats to row 36 in the upper section weren't sold, there would be pairs of seats available closer. What do you think is happening - people are just asking for 1 ticket and they're assigning them every other seat?

You say reno is an exception - in jacksonvile, the floor is gone and the closest you can get 2 seats is row V (i.e. row 22). Promotion for the tour, for the album, for the single, etc., doesn't start until today. The tour doesn't start for a month. How about seeing what the promotion is, who's behind it, and giving a couple of weeks to see what kind of airplay Prince gets before saying he's not going to sell tickets.

EvilWhiteMale said:

I hate to say it, but those shows (and that show in particular) was a FIASCO for Prince and truly damaged his remaining fan-base in MPLS. The first nite (which was sold-out) had a lot of promise. But, thanks to a delayed sound-check, the general public wasn't allowed in untill (if I remember right) almost 2 hours after the time on the ticket. The show itself didn't start until 11 or so.

Now for me and my crew, this was no problem as we'd spent the week sitting around waiting for Prince to do something. We expected it. But to do this to the general community was ridculous. I heard NOTHING but negative things about this show from those who went who weren't Prince-nuts. I was bombarded with "I will NEVER spend money to see P EVER again."

In retrospect, this fiasco probably had a lot of impact on the complete disinterest in the Orpheum shows 2 years ago. I think there were a lot of other factors, but when you piss off 10,000 fans and receive nothing but bad publicity from your home-town press, people aren't gonna want to shell-out $100 to see you.

With all that said, I'm hoping enough time has passed and the ticket prices will be reasonable enough to fill a big venue here in MPLS. However, he may not even play here, so who knows.

Actually,it's a good thing that the shows won't sellout.This means that we won't have any problems getting tickets.I remember back in 1984-85,when everybody in the world wanted to see Prince,and it was really really hard to get tickets.I don't wanna go back to those days.

endorphin74 said:

I remember walking by Avery Fisher Hall here in NYC on the day of his ONA show. As soon as I saw "Larry Graham" written on the side of a road case, I said "fuck that." But out of curiosity, I went to find out how much the tickets went for. Motherfuckers wanted about $130 for a ticket! It wasn't even a huge venue. Needless to say, tickets didn't sell out. I paid $140 for Woodstock '99 (3 days of music). There's no way in hell I'm spending that kind of cash, just to be disappointed at the end of the show. His tickets aren't worth more than $45 at this point. Greedy fuck!

Insanecabbage said:

I find your use of the English language really disturbing.

alandail said:

Look, I'm not necessarily saying that there are going to be more single tickets sold than multiple tickets. What I'm saying is that how do you know either way what's outselling the other - single or mulitple tickets? And I don't know what you're talking about but with every single show that's currently on sale, I've brought up best available and there have been very good seats left. In Jacksonville, for example, I found two tickets in Section 106 in the plaza - not too far from the stage. Also, when buying tickets, fans ask for either particular seats or best available, ticketmaster obviously do not assign them as it's the fans who ask for and then buy the tickets. The promotion's apparently already in full swing btw...

EvilWhiteMale said:

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You know eveybody has a bad night sometimes. I have gone to seven concerts and they were the best concerts I have every been to. I would not pay $100.00 to see anyone else.
I not really sure you can be pleased or satisfied so it might be best if you jumped off the Prince train.

Plenty of people have responded to your non-stop bitch fest and don't agree with you.
You think Prince is so over then please stop posting to a fan site for an artist that bores you to tears.

laurarichardson said:

Or how bout you just stop responding to my posts? Are you capable of ignoring me, or am I so irresistable that you always have something to write?

laurarichardson said:

[snippage--Dansa]