Originally posted by Ricku2:[..]
yeah, you can focus on the empty seats... but still there were a lot of people there.
Originally posted by Ricku2:[..]
yeah, you can focus on the empty seats... but still there were a lot of people there.
Originally posted by cesar_garza01:[..]
I'm sure that's what U2 management thought. That's why Pop is so overplayed these days.
Originally posted by podiumboy:[..]
If they would've done a Stadium/Arena hybrid tour, empty seats and poor sales wouldn't have even been part of the Popmart conversation. 18,000 people in Tampa fills an arena. Same with poor performing cities like Kansas City, San Antonio, New Orleans, Memphis, Jacksonville, etc.
Originally posted by Ricku2:[..]
yeah, NLOTH tour was record breaking, but I think only Magnificent got a replay once. Let's stop drawing weird conclusions. Also let's stop bringing up Tampa and Jacksonville again and again.
Originally posted by superchuk5:[..]
Speaking of NLOTH, it's stunning how the album just totally vanished from live performances right when 360 ended. As maligned as it is, Pop fared MUCH better on subsequent tours (see: the 100+ Pop song performances on Elevation and Staring at the Sun on e+I in America). Pop would even come out better if we only compared the one performance of Magnificent on i+e with the two performances of Discotheque on Vertigo.
I don't want to take us off topic, but it's worth thinking about why Pop survived in some form while NLOTH (the album, not the tour) might as well have never happened. My best guess is the album did not produce memorable live performances and thus got overshadowed by the tour, while Pop the album and PopMart the tour are inextricably linked in defining that era thats such a huge part of the band's narrative.
Originally posted by Welsh_Edge:Those who attended PopMart shows, what did you think of the screen at first, were you blown away or was it just meh?
Originally posted by Welsh_Edge:Those who attended PopMart shows, what did you think of the screen at first, were you blown away or was it just meh?