"World tour"
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Topic: "World tour"
Posted By: Jon89
Subject: "World tour"
Date Posted: March 12 2007 at 22:44
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I am getting sick and tired of prog bands and prog solo artists when they have put out a new album out and announcing on their website or whatever that we are going on a
World Tour. They lie by saying it's a World Tour when in actual fact they go to Europe and America only and miss places like Australia,Japan,China, New Zealand, South America and so many other places. If I was to put an prog album out I would do a full and propper World Tour and not just go to America and Europe. I'd love to read your thoughts on this  ------------- jon 89 |
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: March 12 2007 at 23:03
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Probably some of us will never be pleased with concerts and tours because so many of the bands we love hardly ever visit our countries, Mexico has received so many great concerts by important artists or bands, but i`d kill to see so many bands that perform usually in Europe and the USA, i know how you feel, sometimes i feel the same when i read that some bands are on tour but i am not able to see them... anyway, they are human beings, they cannot make a "World Tour" literally... ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: March 12 2007 at 23:07
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We're not exactly rich with prog concerts where I live. We essentially get Rush, and every once in a while we get Dream Theater. Kansas and Proto-Kaw play here because the midwest is their bread and butter, and they got their start here. Kerry Livgren lives about and hour and a half away from me.
Other than that, my town is a prog wasteland. My favorite band Marillion isn't even doing an American tour this year. E ------------- 
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: March 12 2007 at 23:10
Which saddens me greatly since they did tour the states for Marbles...  ------------- 
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E-Dub wrote:Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: March 12 2007 at 23:14
Cyg, I even started a separate savings account last year to fund any traveling that I needed to do to see them. I had plans to go meet up with a buddy in Philly and we were going to go see them. The fact that the US isn't even a blip on their radar saddens me. I know they'd come here if it was possible, but I hear that they barely made money when they toured the US in support of Marbles. E -------------
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: March 12 2007 at 23:17
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Bands have problems with finance, visas, etc.... they're humans too and you have to understand that if a show just isn't marketable in your area, they won't come.
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: March 12 2007 at 23:19
Well come their next album I plan on going to Europe to see them, I must see them live once before they give up all together. -------------
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: March 12 2007 at 23:21
Oh, I understand that part perfectly. It doesn't lessen the hurt, though. E -------------
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: March 12 2007 at 23:24
both are right, actually...  ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: March 12 2007 at 23:26
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<<Well come their next album I plan on going to Europe to see them, I must see them live once before they give up all together.>>
I'll probably have to accept the fact that I'll never get to see them. Hard to do with my current situation. Wife isn't a huge fan and the costs would be too great for us. I'd miss my daughter too much. We spent 5 days in Monterey, California a couple of years ago and couldn't wait to get back home to our little girl. She's changed my whole perspective. We are actually thinking of relocating up to Wisconsin, and I know Milwaukee lures some prog acts. Also, we'd be close to Chicago. E -------------
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: March 12 2007 at 23:30
Lucky for me then that I'm just on the verge of total freedom (college is just months away now) and so maybe then it'll give me the chance to do such a thing. I actually would love to go to Europe this summer, see Marillion and go to the festival in Germany that has Pendragon, Fish, and Jethro Tull, but doesn't look that like that'll happen. Then again, I do have a lot of concerts to go to this summer (The Police, Rush, Dream Theater, maybe Roger Waters, PT, etc)...  -------------
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Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: March 12 2007 at 23:35
That's why I am so glad I got to see them in Grand Rapids in '85. ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: March 12 2007 at 23:35
Which is why you're a lucky b*****d...  -------------
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Posted By: Soul Dreamer
Date Posted: March 12 2007 at 23:36
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I really feel for you guys (&girls?) over the big pond...
I could not help myself but got a big grin on my face....
- 17 February I saw PRR and Blackfield in Helmond, NL (200 km)
- 2 March I saw Pain of Salvation and The Aurora Project in Amsterdam (150 km)
- 30 March I'm going to see Riverside and Knight Area in Ittervoorde, NL, about 200 km
- 2 May => Marillion (in Hardenberg, NL, about 75 km)
- 31 May => Arena (in Essen, Germany, about 100 km)
I know I'm in a good place.... ------------- To be the one who seeks so I may find .. (Metallica) |
Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: March 12 2007 at 23:47
I'm wanting to see the H man, however!!! Arm and arm (in a completely heterosexual fashion, of course) with my buddy Bhikkhu!!! I want to see you holding up a lighter during "Easter"! 
Still buds despite your recent review of Afraid Of Sunlight. 
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: March 12 2007 at 23:53
Man, I REALLY like that new Blackfield CD!!!! Far and away better than the first one. I like PoS, but not sure if I'd like to see a concert of theirs. Riverside has been my biggest surprise! I love that band, and I'm also getting into Knight Area. When does that new album come out? Marillion just friggin' rules! 'Nuff said. Regarding Arena, I know watching a DVD could never be the same as seeing them in person, but as much as I enjoy their music, they just don't do anything for me on stage. Sowden looks like he's completely out of sorts up there, and Ian Salmon is like a smirking statue. Love the music, but I always say they're better heard than seen. Despite the lack of prog here, I wouldn't trade the region where I live for anything. Great weather, good schools, property value that is so affordable, and a great place to raise a family. I never want to leave the midwestern US. E -------------
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Posted By: mrgd
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 00:41
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TO; Jon89
Maaaaaaaaate. How the bloody hell are ya? I hope it makes you feel a little better but I have to travel 1500kms. to reach Brisbane which may or may not be a city on world tour itineraries of bands which deign to come to our neck of the woods. [For those who are not up in Australian geography, I come from a city of about 150,000 only in tropical North Queensland . Sydney, for example , is well over 2,000 kms. away. Our European PA mates don't know how lucky they are. I'm sure some of our South American friends have similar problems. What is this ? Some kind of southern hemisphere discrimination. AT least Roger came and I just happened to be in Sydney at the time.[And how great was it]!! Otherwise it would have been the long trek south to Brissy. SOUL DREAMER, you make me weep...... yes you do. ------------- Looking still the same after all these years... mrgd |
Posted By: Cheesecakemouse
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 02:58
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If we're lucky we get just an Auckland concert and thats at the other end of the country! so yeah things are pretty bland in the concert circuit in NZ progwise especially if you live in the south Island. NZ's more of a stop off than a destination. ------------- |
Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 12:37
That was just my first of the H albums. I haven't done "Brave" and "Marbles" yet. I don't know about "Easter," but I would definitely hold up my lighter for "Cannibal Surf Babe."
------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: Soul Dreamer
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 21:39
Offtopic:
The new album of Knight Area is "Under a New Sign" and it's going to be released the 3rd of April this year. You can listen to a track of that album on http://www.knightarea.com/Home.htm - http://www.knightarea.com/Home.htm
------------- To be the one who seeks so I may find .. (Metallica) |