Filling Arenas?
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Topic: Filling Arenas?
Posted By: Gedhead
Subject: Filling Arenas?
Date Posted: September 24 2005 at 19:40
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Which progressive rock act can still put the most people in arenas? |
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Posted By: con safo
Date Posted: September 24 2005 at 19:45
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Probably any of the larger groups (ELP, Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis) if
they were to do a reunion tour.. i dont really know of any newer prog
bands that could fill an arena. TMV could probably draw a pretty large
crowd tho. ------------- 
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Posted By: horza
Date Posted: September 24 2005 at 19:45
Pink Floyd......NOOOO doubt !!!!  ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: September 24 2005 at 19:48
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Dream theater. Thats what they did at Budokan And of course, classic prog bands if they did a reunion tour. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Progger
Date Posted: September 24 2005 at 20:50
| YES'S last tour was in arena's. Saw them at Manchester MEN and it was sold out! Obviously Pink Floyd could even sell out football stadiums. After those two I think any other band would struggle!!! |
Posted By: con safo
Date Posted: September 24 2005 at 20:54
Mariah Carey?
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Posted By: Single Coil
Date Posted: September 24 2005 at 21:05
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RUSH had 40,000 for the Rush in Rio concert, didn't they? ..or was it 60,000? ------------- If it's worth playing, it's worth playing loud! |
Posted By: Progger
Date Posted: September 24 2005 at 21:15
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I believe that was a festival though! Many other bands on beside's Rush? But yes, Rush have just done a sold out world tour of arena's! |
Single Coil wrote:Posted By: robertplantowns
Date Posted: September 24 2005 at 22:15
Yes they sure can, I'm seeing them at the Oakland Arena in October. They're probably only able to play in such a large venue because they're performing with System of a Down, but to me it's a Mars Volta show with System of a Down bringing the audience back to reality after a mindblowing show by the Volta.  |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: September 24 2005 at 22:59
| RUSH |
Posted By: akiko
Date Posted: September 25 2005 at 00:16
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According to the 2nd disk of the Rush in Rio DVD, they sold 60K in Sao Paolo and 40K in Rio. They also did a show in Porto Alegre, I think, that sold around 40K too. All of these shows were "An evening with..." types. None of them were festivals though. Was anyone in the Archives at any of those shows? Unfortunately, Mariah Carey can probably sell arenas too. What is wrong with people?!?! |
Posted By: Olympus
Date Posted: December 08 2005 at 04:35
Queen, Yes, Genesis, ELP, Rush, Pink Floyd and mabye King Crimson for older bands might fill an arena, DT and Opeth could probably while Marillon and Tool might fill an arean half up. ------------- "Let's get the hell away from this Eerie-ass piece of work so we can get on with the rest of our eerie-ass day" |
Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: December 08 2005 at 05:34
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Yes may fill an arena in Manchester, but not in Budapest It was not an accident, that Rush played in Prague and not in Budapest... Dream Theater fills a venue of 5-6000(I saw them 3 times). |
.Posted By: Gedhead
Date Posted: December 08 2005 at 06:30
No, these shows were definitely not part of festivals. Solo Rush all the way. |
Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: December 08 2005 at 06:40
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Pink Floyd for sure. They are the one "prog" band I can think of that
would fill a large stadium, alongside the likes of U2 or maybe Bon Jovi. To be honest, don't know enough about Rush's current following to say about them. I did see Yes last year at Wembley and it wasn't completely filled (curtains cut off the last few rows at the back of the hall). I don't think a reformed ELP would do especially well. Genesis? Maybe... Of the newer bands I get the impression TMV and Tool would do pretty well. I believe King Crimson (or Fripp) supported Tool on a tour? I've never thought of King Crimson themselves as being a band that filled large stadia (when I saw them it was at the Marquee, a smaller venue). There are certain acts that work in a big stadium (I've seen Led Zep, U2, Eagles all outdoors) while others are better in more "intimate" surroundings. |
Posted By: Froth
Date Posted: December 09 2005 at 08:16
| Hey... Gryphon's guest book suggests they have 50,000 fans at present.... they could fill up Wembly! |
Posted By: Ekzodo
Date Posted: December 09 2005 at 08:26
Genesis for sure, they fill Wembley with the chessy INVISIBLE TOUCH TOUR, so they can do it with any new crap they released, with or without Collins or Gabriel ------------- THERE`S TO MUCH MUSIC AND SO LITTLE TIME TO LISTEN TO IT VIVA LA ARGENTINA PROGRESIVA!!!!! |