Stevie Santa Barbara Bowl

[Nikolaj]

You sure do enjoy posting stuff like this dont you Luke. >>>someone wrote.

Um. Not nice to be not nice to Luke, he also will often 'stick up' for Nicks, and his insight into the concert industry has made for some of my favorite reading on The Ledge.
Not that Luke needs anyone to defend him, but I don't think he takes any joy in reporting less than stellar numbers (he also reports the well-attended shows). But when someone writes 'she always sells out Jones Beach' when it's untrue, personally, I think it makes more sense to snipe at the person with the misinformation, than to say Luke "enjoys" telling what the actual truth was. I was at the Jones Beach flood show, either in '07 or '08. I think it was 2007. The videos from the show look gorgeous on youtube, but that was about the most miserable concert experience I've had, wringing out socks, sitting on top of the chair, a good, very pricey pair of shoes ruined, and she sang all of twelve songs in total, that night. And yes, it was about half empty, or half full. Some 7,000+ plus people turning out to hear Nicks do 12 songs is still a lot of people! I think the sizes of audience she draws is quite respectable, in some ways, amazing. It's just that often the venues chosen were just too large. I think we will be seeing less mistakes of that kind now, and having the actual, real numbers only help in booking her at the appropriate-sized venues.
Chris Isaak opened and walked through the floods.
Though, at the time, I was really unhappy, I still had some fun. I know I wouldn't have the 2 extra shirts and 2 hoodies, I went though a lot of $$$ at the swag stands trying to stay warm that night! What I really needed were some Stevie Nicks socks and I probably wouldn't have been so cranky!
*EDIT PS- I just re-read Ragsrocalot's original post, and Ragsroc, I'm sorry- - I've liked seeing her at that venue, also. Great atmosphere, just had the one above time (out of several) where the atmosphere was a little too much! Didn't mean to be unkind, it was more to the person who had responded, who maybe didn't even mean the comment to Luke in the 'shoot the messenger' way I took it, because good points were brought up by that author.
Sorry to all, and to all, a good night...