Opening night in Ft. Lauderdale cancelled
 

Rod has the flu :( I'm beyond bummed. I was so excited for this show.

Oh man that sucks!

For some reason - This announcement was a shock! The opening night cancelled:shocked: Hope this is not an omen for the H & S tour:confused:

Rod must have been feeling real BAd... or perhaps his insistence & stubborn stance to NOT rehearse caught up with him :cool:

This crossed my mind, too. :p

BUMMER! I'm glad it was Wad instead of Stevie though.

Hard to believe they canceled this show due to a simple flu?

I was wondering the same thing. Can't help but be nervous...
Do we know how sales have been?


And very sorry to Kayli and all of the other fans who were planning to attend that show.

The flu can really keep ya down :/ I know there's the 'show must go on' mentality, but when I had the flu I was stuck in bed for a week.. Rod's nearly fifty years my senior, so I don't doubt that itcould be bad enough to cancel.

In October 1987, Stevie performed pretty wonderfully at the Houston Tango concert. The next morning, the Austin concert was canceled, "due to Ms. Nicks' bronchitis" and that she felt it had hindered her Houston performance. ??? I thought she was marvelous in Houston! So, I guess bronchitis and the flu can wipe you out.

Luckily, the Austin concert was rescheduled for December 1987, and it was a blast, too!

I am so sorry to read this. Sorry to ALL you guys that made the effort and spent all the money to be there.

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Hopefully this thing won't spread through the whole band. :sorry:

I hope Stevie got a flu shot!

Thanks Mezzo :wavey: On the positive side, at least anybody that won't see Stevie on this tour can look forward to the In Your Dreams tour this summer :) A real bummer for Rod fans, though.

He must be pretty sick for them to cancel an entire show. Bleh.

I'm suprised they didn't just let Stevie perform.

There are people that paid just to see Rod. Or BOTH. It sucks. Refunds coming. Maybe they can reschedule it. But it's really bad to bow out of opening night, especially for those that are coming a distance.

I just called my friend, Sherrie, who is driving (sorry, WAS driving) down to Florida from Indiana today. She was just outside of Atlanta when I called to inform her of the bad news. She is SOOOOOOOO mad right now. :confused:

I feel for the fans of both Stevie's and Rod's. Hope that Stevie wasn't near Rod. I don't want her to get sick with the flu. Hopefully, they'll make it up to the fans at a later date.

Not to be callous, but at least the cancellation is at Rod's feet, not Stevie's.

Michele

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While I feel bad for the fans that were planning on going, there could be a silver lining in all of this. At least there havent already been shows played. Maybe Rod's been ill for awhile and hes now just getting over it.

What's funny is in that BBC radio show I posted for sale a couple weeks ago, Stevie talks about canceling shows because of not feeling well. This was 1981 but she said that she's "about 15 years older than most of the people at the concerts and I'm tired and there are nights when I just don't feel like going out there, or I'm too sick to get out there. But I know that I have to do it and be great because these people have spent $12 to see me and my band and if I'm not great they won't come back."
Stevie has performed when she should have cancelled or at least postponed (the Santa Barbara show on the TISL tour!). I don't know what Rod's track record is. I just hope everything is back to normal by next Sunday when I go see them!!!

What happened at the Santa Barbara show during the TISL tour?

During the TISL tour (it may have been the night before, but I'm pretty sure it was Santa Barbara) Stevie was extremely hoarse. She barely made it thru "Dreams" she apologized and said that she was going backstage for a minute and if she can't get her voice back that would just sit and talk with everyone. She left the stage and when came a few minutes later she went on with the show. It wasn't a great show but she got thru it. But before she left the stage its painful to listen to.

I live in South Florida and went to a Florida Panthers hockey game on Thursday night- they play at the same place Stevie and Rod were going to perform at. They were talking up a storm trying to promote the concert- they were even selling the tickets that were regularly $58 or something around there for $35 up to a hour after the game was over if you wanted to stop by the box office to buy them. They were also doing contests and giving away free seats to it as well. I wonder if they didn't sell enough and used the flu reason as an excuse. I hope not- I had tickets to this as well, very bummed, I have never seen Stevie solo. I wish they would just let Stevie go on and let people choose whether they want a refund or not, oh well. :mad: Glad to see that she is doing a summer tour though, didn't know that.

Makes me wonder about the Tampa show....
 

This whole cancellation thing has me a bit worried about the Tampa show on Wednesday. I understand people get sick, but really? opening night? My condolences to those who had tickets for the show.....does not bode well for the rest of the tour,......

That would be awesome!

My thoughts exactly!

If I had been at that show, I would not have been upset at all if that had ended up happening.

Have you ever had the flu? I had influenza once, about 7 years ago, and didn't get out of bed for 2 weeks. Actually, I did get up to go to the doctor- went with my coat on over my pajamas. :o Even after two weeks, I had to push myself to get going again. Awful. :distress:

I'm pretty sure it was the Mt. View show that got canceled, found out when we got to the venue it was canc.
Also went to the SB show, her voice was def. strained.
I thought she did pretty good when she came back, considering her situation.

That's kind of my theory- that the show didn't sell. I don't want to sound judgmental, but FTL doesn't seem like a particularly, um... wealthy area. Perhaps they were banking on all the money coming up from Miami, but with gas around $4/gallon... maybe not.

FL is a HUGE market for concerts. Especially the area they were playing. Stevie always hits that area solo and FM always plays there for multiple days. Sorry, but there's no way this was cancelled due to ticket sales. No way in hell, actually. FL is one of the last places I could ever see canceling due to ticket sales.

It could absolutely be the show didn't sell well and they're using the flu as a crutch. However, Ft. Lauderdale is only 25 miles from Miami, and both areas are one of the biggest music draws in the US as far as concerts go. Ft. Lauderdale is a very, very wealthy city (minus some areas, of course.)

And I was pumped to hear "Secret Love" played live for the first time! And my hopes to hear Stevie and Rod duet on "Young Turks" and "Leather and Lace" have been kicked in the gut :p

Exactly. We get every big act, and with over 15 venues in the Ft. Laud/Miami/Palm Beach area, there is room for everybody. (Not that I see anybody spectacular very often, but still ;))

some people are saying that he cancelled because of poor ticket sales, is that true? is this tour a bust?

I don't think he cancelled due to ticket sales, but I think sales must not have been that good for them to flat out cancel the show all together instead of rescheduling it. If tickets had sold amazingly well, they would definitely not forgo all that money. Not that people don't want to see the acts, but those prices in this economy? The music business needs to get a grip on reality.

The flu simply landed me in the hospital for 3 nights. I get my flu shot every year now.

>Sigh< I've been to three Stevie/Fleetwood Mac concerts that have been CANCELED and then RESCHEDULED much later. But the original date was CANCELED, no makeup date offered. The Austin 1987 cancellation allowed you to trade your tickets for Tina Turner tickets, or get a refund. Luckily, Stevie came back later in each instance, and new tickets were sold.

Stevie's timeline is very tight. I'm sure she wants to make up this show, but they ALL have schedules to keep.

But let's just keep up the "The tour's a flop! Ticket sales were nil!" positiveness that is such a unique hallmark. :rolleyes:

are they going to reschedule?

Definetly the show was not cancelled due to poor ticket sales they would have cancelled the show weeks ago cause they are already in florida if they cancelled the night before the show so its probably true about rod being sick with the flu. I would say its a timed tour like she did with Don Henley and its a Rod Show not a Stevie Show so it would have been cool to have Stevie just play the whole show but alot of Rod fans would be mad to I would be if it were the other way around. So Rescheduled would have said postponed instead of cancelled so it would not be rescheduled. That sucks for the fans on both sides of Stevie and Rod to have a show you looking forward to go to get cancelled the night before. I hope they do get a rescheduled show but It doesn't look like that would happen.

I think it's a logistical/financial reason for the outright cancellation... I mean the tour ends on the west coast and to haul all your stuff back to the east for one night probably didn't make sense financially. I think if there were a window of opportunity to reschedule within the time frame that they were in the east they likely would have rescheduled.

that makes sense too if the show was well sold they probably would have rescheduled since alot of the shows are on the east coast which would make sense. Economy is still bad and to put it out alot of money on concert ticket is crazy at this time. I am surprised that they didn't cancell before probably might see more dates cancelled if that is the case hope not but it would not surprise me either.