I would dread the day an acid jazz act would do a stadium tour, but the
more popular ones deserve larger venues than just small clubs, especially
if they're playing one-night engagements. As I understand, whnever BNH,
Jamiroquai or Incognito play here in my town, it's always sold out, and the
venue is again either the House of Blues, or an only slightly larger (less
than 1,000) locale. Major labels: How do you expect your AJ artists to grow
in popularity and reap $$ for you when you limit them to small venues?
The purpose of tours is to sell albums. How can you expect them to do that
when not very many people have the opportunity to see the shows?
I hope Sony is only "testing the waters" to see what US reaction to
Jamiroquai is like (hence the rather limited 7-city tour) so that an even
bigger tour is in the works later this year. But then I could be wrong.
Elson
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Elson Trinidad
Los Angeles, CA, USA
elson@westworld.com * http://www.westworld.com/~elson
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