Opening night in Ft. Lauderdale cancelled

[CelticGypsy]

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.

[michelej1]

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

Michele

[Tango]

Originally Posted by michelej1

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

Michele

so to speak

[DavidMn]

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.

[skuncles]

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!!!

[sywlindseyfan]

Originally Posted by skuncles

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?

[skuncles]

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.

[ChristyL17]

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. Glad to see that she is doing a summer tour though, didn't know that.

[Kooch68]

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,......

[APerfectLie]

Originally Posted by skuncles

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.

That would be awesome!

[WildHearted]

Originally Posted by APerfectLie

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.

[jannieC]

Originally Posted by RockAlot

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

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. Even after two weeks, I had to push myself to get going again. Awful.

[RockAlot]

Originally Posted by skuncles

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!!!

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.

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by ChristyL17

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. Glad to see that she is doing a summer tour though, didn't know that.

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.

[AliceLover]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

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.