5 Van Hagar attendance figures

[Bob_R]

Just posted on amusementbusiness.com today.

1 sellout
The other 4 not even close.
Check out SLC

Artist/ Event Van Halen, Silvertide
Venue Air Canada Centre
City / State Toronto, Ont.
Date July 3, 2004
Gross Sales $1,199,040
Attendance 15,058
Capacity 15,058
Shows 1
Sell-Outs 1
Prices $86.88, $64.21
Promoter House of Blues Canada

Artist/ Event Van Halen, Shinedown
Venue America West Arena
City / State Phoenix, Ariz.
Date Aug. 5, 2004
Gross Sales $929,988
Attendance 12,327
Capacity 15,213
Shows 1
Sell-Outs 0
Prices $82.50, $32.50
Promoter Clear Channel Entertainment

Artist/ Event Van Halen, Shinedown
Venue Pepsi Center
City / State Denver, Colo.
Date Aug. 1, 2004
Gross Sales $858,335
Attendance 10,395
Capacity 17,796
Shows 1
Sell-Outs 0
Prices $95, $65
Promoter Clear Channel Entertainment/KSE

Artist/ Event Van Halen, Shinedown
Venue HP Pavilion
City / State San Jose, Calif.
Date Aug. 10, 2004
Gross Sales $753,340
Attendance 8,779
Capacity 12,500
Shows 1
Sell-Outs 0
Prices $95, $35
Promoter Another Planet Entertainment

Artist/ Event Van Halen, Shinedown
Venue Delta Center
City / State Salt Lake City, Utah
Date Aug. 3, 2004
Gross Sales $556,193
Attendance 8,990
Capacity 20,169
Shows 1
Sell-Outs 0
Prices $75, $57.50
Promoter Clear Channel Entertainment/KSE

[guwapo_rocker]

:D :D :D

Wow, some pretty empty venues in that list.

Thanks for the info.

[moose]

Fuck, figures TO sold out. Just remember that sheep from all over the country grazed there way here to see this show. I bet you if they were to have shows across Canada there would be no freakin way that the show in TO would've sold out.
How about #'s for Oakland?

[MAX]

I told you huys the night of the show when I called the Delta Center!!!! LMAO!!!! Right on the money!!! The woman told me less than 9,000 in a 20,000 seat venue!!!! Hahahahaha!!!!!

=It Ain't Van Halen Without=
DAVID LEE ROTH

[MAX]

Not to mention all of the lying fuckers at the links who said Denver was fucking sold out!!!! LMAO!!! Not even CLOSE!!!!

[Bob_R]

They happen to have the same thread (figures wise) over there.

They must see/intrepet the numbers differently??

jimmy responded to a post of mine in that thread and the way he responded proves he was here today. He's trying to start with me tonight and I've done nothing wrong. I'm not getting into it with him or anyone else over there tonight. I can't post the time of day lately and not get shit upon.

The Olympics are on and if I get lucky I can see women's volleyball. :D

[MAX]

Originally posted by EVH FANATIC
The Olympics are on and if I get lucky I can see women's volleyball.

I thought you said you didn't want to get into it with Jimmy the Sheep? I thought she was one of the team's captains? :p

[Figs]

women's volleyball, ohhhhhh

[Figs]

what a great "reunion" tour. it's about time?

[scottydabodi]

DAVE OR THE FUCKING GRAVE, MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8990 in a 21169-sized arena?!??!! Fuck those LYING TURDSLURPERS!!!! They deserve ALL the tour misfortune that they can get for ALL THE YEARS of Bullshit they've pushed on us!!! With the attendance so poor, how are they gonna afford Sam's food bills?

[dave_is_vh]

Imagine how bad those numbers would be if they weren't using false advertising (i.e. Dave songs) to promote it and trick the uninformed into coming.

[Matt White]

Artist/ Event Van Halen, Shinedown
Venue Delta Center
City / State Salt Lake City, Utah
Date Aug. 3, 2004
Gross Sales $556,193
Attendance 8,990
Capacity 20,169
Shows 1
Sell-Outs 0
Prices $75, $57.50
Promoter Clear Channel Entertainment/KSE


HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
In FUCKING UTAH!!! What the FUCK else is there to DO in Utah on a Tuesday night? FUCKING PATHETIC!!!!
It's gotten downright SHAMEFUL how bad this tour is doing, for a REUNION FUCKING tour no less!!!!
FUCK YOU Van Hagar!!!!

[Kristy]

Like I said, I was at the show in Denver and the best way to describe it was: sad. Some local hack "music journalist" in the morning rag tried to prop them up and yet he was writing like a used car salesman trying to push off a lemon of a band on you.

The whole night was an insult for a lot of reasons. First (and I know some of you hardcore fans won't agree with me here) was the price. Even though I didn't pay for it, $90 for a ticket to see a bunch of burned-out, bloated, alcoholic fuckwits just fucks me right off. I mean, it's like "we're Van Halen - you know the guys who brought you Jump and Dance the Night Away - if you want to see us play our stuff worth playing in the first place we're going to do it our loyal fans at gunpoint." Face it, okay? They don't play for their fans anymore - they play for rich fucks who can afford their arrogant ticket prices; we're talking people in suits, basically. And I know that's not entirely their fault as seeing they are being promoted by those evil greedy music-ruining douchebags at Clear-Channel


Second was the music - they rushed through the Roth tunes and seemed to take their time stroking the FAT boys ego with Right Now and that other shitty tune that was a "hit" for them that no one remembers or fucking cares about. When they played Jump it was a joke -Sammy can't in any fucking way possible pull off such a uplifting and positive song with the enthusiam Roth did. Roth gave that song it's punch and Sammy sings it like he's at his gay "Cabo-Cuntsnot" bar at fat secretary karaoke night. People were actually booing it! I'm not making it up! In between the few (and predictably selected) Roth tunes people were calling Sammy a "cunt" a "fucking sad excuse" and a "fucking poser" and told him to "get the fuck off the stage" which I all found to be highly amusing.

Lastly, and this really, REALLY fucked me off the most was the band's attitude toward their audience - people like you! And by that I mean the hardcore fans who grew up and followed Van Halen and supported them. They couldn't give a fuck. It was like at the end of the show they had their shit-eating grins that said, "oh yeah, we may suck but you paid $90 to watch us suck." Again, they rushed through the Roth-era songs, Sammy seemed to look so isolated out there and Eddie looked like he wanted to distance himself away from the rest of the band entirely.

In the end you get the sense that you've been had. That this is not a band per se but a Xerox copy of the former Van Halen. There was no enthusiam, no cohesion, no joy in the faces of the band as they played - nothing. Yeah, look for the VH-1 movie on them soon.


(for more info on how Clear Channel is fucking things up go here:


http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story?id=6432174&pageid=rs.NewsArchive&pageregion= mainRegion

sorry, I guess that link doesn't work - even though it's correct.

[distortion9]

LOOK AT ALL THE EMPTY SEATS HERE To-NIGHT!!!!!

LMFAO...fuck the fucking fuckers.

[chefcraig]

What is this? Celebrating bad attendance figures?

Affirmation? Yes.

Consolidation of well thought out opinions? Yes.

A reason to celebrate? No.

I find it sad, that such a thunderous trio, could have lost it so completley.

I see no victory in declining sales figures. I only see decline.


More is the pity.

...craig