I believe that is what I read when the tour was announced. I'm sort of assuming their set will be brief. Assuming it goes off, it will be an interesting evening.Originally Posted by JJ88
I believe that is what I read when the tour was announced. I'm sort of assuming their set will be brief. Assuming it goes off, it will be an interesting evening.
Yes, it's just an acoustic lineup.
The ticket sales at the Arcada in IL (Chicago area) are dismal still. Really not good. The band are pushing all these videos on FB to drum up sales, with Geoff, and even Lisa Wetton giving her approval of the lineup.
I think Asia is a rare case where the members in the band outweigh the music of the band. You know we fans are not getting any younger, and the pile of ticket stubs we have is pretty tall. I was planning to go to see Focus & Curved Air (two stubs I don't have), but due to limited breaks this summer, I instead ended up planning a summer vacation that week. I have to simply shrug that I will miss Focus & CA.
Maybe the other bands should be doing more promo too?
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AFAIK, Palmer's 'Return Of ELP' tour- with two video screens- has done better than this.
I actually wonder if this particular tour would have performed better in the UK.
Yeah I just looked and they are pushing it hard ('you can be a part of it!').
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I've seen some posts from Focus about it. But, I will say that the promotion overall (from the name of the tour to how it shows up in venue calendars, etc) seems to be very Asia-centric, so I imagine the bulk of the sales were thought to be coming from them with the others adding to that.
I don't have a sense of how long each act is playing. With 4 acts, you'd sort of think it would be about the same each, but, as you say, promo makes this look like an Asia tour with support... but then why have 3 support bands, who'll get to play what... a couple of songs each?
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The Florida Pompano Beach show was cancelled and moved to a different venue, an indoor venue. But all sold tickets for Pompano are now invalid.
Kind of sad to hear that - those bands deserve better.
Fair question, IMO. I've seen ads/posts with some version of "Asia, Focus and more" but haven't seen any emphasis on the other two.
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