Touring has been a tough factor for a lot of artists, each established and underground, over the previous few years and it is solely getting tougher for a lot of. Longtime vocalist Tim “Ripper” Owens (KK’s Priest, ex-Judas Priest, ex-Iced Earth) shared a few of his ideas on the difficulties dealing with touring musicians when chatting with Sense Music Media (h/t Blabbermouth).
“I believe one cause is there’s lots of people touring. I imply, in America it is simply continuous. Our KK’s Priest excursions did fairly good in America, but it surely’s costly for large bands. We won’t come to Australia — KK’s Priest. We tried. We’re hopefully gonna do it. We tried to get there, however the ensures and bills, it wasn’t including up, so KK‘s not doing it. We’re not a brand new band that goes and loses or breaks even or no matter.
“Nevertheless it’s robust on the market. I imply, there’s bands who cancel quite a bit now due to low ticket gross sales. I’ve seen ’em cancel coming to Australia. I believe that Judas Priest ladies tribute band was coming there and needed to cancel. And it is due to the expense. I am lucky that my [solo] band’s there, so I am fortunate. And that is how I tour quite a bit. I tour all around the world solo and I’ve bands that I’ve in numerous components of the world so I can go tour. ‘Trigger I could not afford to tour alone with my band right here. Nevertheless it’s robust all around the world. It is fairly good in America proper now, I believe, however I believe it is simply the identical as in every single place. However there’s nonetheless a steel scene — it is nonetheless there — I believe it is simply saturated with quite a lot of stuff. I imply, once we toured with KK’S Priest this final time, Iron Maiden was touring on the West Coast once we had been touring, Judas Priest was touring, Megadeth was touring. Judas Priest, I believe they may have made their tour simply to play the subsequent metropolis once we had been there on function, as a result of we’d play Canada, in Toronto, after which the subsequent day they had been enjoying in Niagara Falls, which is true down the road. However that is how it’s. So I believe it is actually robust and it is costly. So what occurs is everyone spends their 300 {dollars} on an Iron Maiden ticket and 150 or no matter Judas Priest is in America — Maiden‘s most likely 100 and one thing and Priest might be 50 or one thing like that in America, I am guessing — 50 or 60. However that turns into some huge cash. So it turns into costly.”
He isn’t improper; concert events are costly as of late, as is the whole lot else, and quite a lot of concertgoers should make choices on what they’ll afford to see.
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