Gunbot wrote:I will be curious to see how they handle more dates. Do they stretch the tour another month more or do they sneak back to doing a few three in a row shows, here and there?
I bet the shorter the tour, Time-wise, the happier Arnel would be. Just because he can bring his wife with him doesn't mean he's fine with touring for six months, does it?
Ideally, I would think they would want to just start the tour earlier or end it later and keep the same show scheduling strategy. I think the benefits of spreading the shows out and not doing nine or 10 shows every two weeks are very, very apparent. But then again, doing that would mean they have to pay the crew for a longer time frame, rent the equipment for longer, gas the buses more, etc.
AC/DC's Black Ice Tour spans a long time on the calendar, but in actuality they haven't done that many
shows, relatively speaking for the amount of calendar time this tour has been going on, since they NEVER do back-to-back shows. It's all a trade off. Do you do a 50-show album tour in three months, or do you do it in three and a half or four months...