arieleleven wrote:heartofdavid wrote:I didn't realize there was a problem with the 1988 tour, I thought Virgin was fully behind David's first solo tour (he had a long way to go with his contract back then) - the only cancelled dates from that (I thought) were when David became ill (somewhere in Italy?) and when Steve cut his hand. I thought the '88 tour was well advertised here in the States.
A spring tour in 2008 that hit a few places here would be nice.
I didn't know that re: the Shamans tour either till Chris' post last night here in which he said that entire tour lost money.
Jim was supposed to see David in Ann Arbor that tour (I would have been there too but I had already moved by then) but the advertising was terrible and not enough tickets were sold and it was canceled. As it had been scheduled for his birthday and he had a front row seat, my friend was understandably very upset and disappointed. (I think this is partly what inspired him to go into concert booking and promoting himself, actually.)
Indeed, now don't quote me on this, but I think about thirty grand came out of Dave's own pocket on the Shamans tour.
I was also going to be at the Ann Arbor show in 2002, I was in fact scheduled to photograph David there until it was canceled and ended up shooting in Chicago instead.
I can't compalin too much though as I also got to see the show in NYC (a really fab show! You can hear me on the bootleg if you have it, I managed to make Dave laugh on stage!).
The trouble I have now is trying to get a bloody frequent flier reward to Italy...The bloody airline only has seats flying into Rome which is a bit of a haul to the Veneto region.
Anyhoo...I haven't had any replies as of yet to my new enquiries...
