Re: 1977 Album Survivor Round 3 - results

SavoyBG wrote:
> 
> >From: "Mike G."
> 
> > >Who could sell more concert tickets *now*
> >>
> >> Thorogood for sure.
> >
> >Maybe in the farmland-type states.
> 
> So, why do you have a condescending opinion about what you term as
> "farmland-type states?"
> 
> >In upscale metropolitan areas, I
> >doubt it. Certainly not here in Los Angeles.
> 
> In the upscale metropolitan area that I live in, Northern NJ, Thorogod would
> attract 10 times as many people, easy, abnd he probably would in LA too.

Bruce, you're way off. Thorogood was touring all this year, and the only
place he played in this area was BB King's Blues Club in New York, which
holds less than 1000 people. Newman played both the McCarter Theater in
Princeton and Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, both of which are in the
same area capacity-wise. I don't have the attendance numbers, but
there's no way that Thorogood's show drew anything close to ten times
what Newman drew. 

In LA, Newman played the 1600-seat Cerritos Center For The Performing
Arts; Thorogood played the Hollywood House Of Blues which seats 1000. 

At best you can make the case that they're at about the same, although I
suspect most artists would choose to play at concert halls like Newman
over theme restaurants like Thorogood. 

Just because the Relic Records shoppers aren't into Newman doesn't mean
he doesn't have a following.