First of all, I heard WWFM used on CNN's Morning Express with Robin Meade this morning, as a lead in to one of their segments, around quarter to 8 am.
Yeah! Adam going mainstream. Me likey.
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Otherwise, flowers already said a lot, I was thinking, but here is my guesses for a Queen + AL tour:
It will start in late July/early August, because, if it were in June, they would have to be announcing by now.
My guess is 12 US + 3 Canada.
Canada is easy:
Toronto,
Montreal and
Vancouver,
for all the reasons mentioned.
Queen had pretty bad results in Seattle and Portland last time, so I think, they are going to do skip those, and those folks will have to either fly to Canada or south to SF.
I do think, they will do SF and LA (or Anaheim), so I doubt San Diego will get lucky, especially if Las Vegas gets a show, and that is much more likely.
Last time they toured, I think they did too many stops in the northern mid-west (Cleveland, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Duluth and then Toronto) and so most of them did not sell out. On the other hand they neither did the mountain states (Denver or Salt Lake City) nor did they do anything in Texas, nor did they do Tennessee (Nashville or Memphis for music reasons are probably best choices). I realize that the US population has shifted south since then, but that was even then, a lot of area to not cover.
With Adam in tow, who always did fine in idol homeland south and midwest, I think they will do that differently. No need to stay away from those areas. The last Queen tour looks to me very much like the promoters tried to put a blue states only tour together, thinking that Queen will not do well in red states. Interesting to see that 2005 a promoter was still thinking that way. And interesting to see, that now they don't have to think this way, partially because of Adam, but also because the States have become more purple all over the country.
So, that said, we now have for US:
SF,
LA,
LasV,
Denver/SLC
Nashville/Memphis,
Chicago,
Houston/Austin/Dallas
...so that makes 7 before even getting to the East Coast.
Certain ones on the East Coast are for me NY, PHL and Washington. Those markets are too big to not cover them, and they were good ones for Queen in the past. Leaves the question which of the following choices are the final two?
Boston, Atlanta, Miami/Orlando?
In principle, I think they all three deserve to be covered, but I don't think this will happen. So I think, they are going to put the NY show into the northern NY area, almost towards Hartford, with the hope that this covers MA,CT, and northern NY, then they'll have a PHL/NJ/East/South NY kind of show, and then Washington/Baltimore. That means Boston gets skipped and Bostonians have to either go to Canada or south to NY and with that Atlanta and Miami get their shows.
So, my East Coast guess is:
NY
PHL
Wash
ATL
Miami
That is a total of 15 shows and about 1 month in the calendar, which I think is the time commitment that each of the guys made. Plus whatever prep they are going to do together.
It's going to be a real tour, and my prediction is that it will sell out 100 %. There will be no 70 % shows on this one. They will advertise on idol, they will advertise via rock radio stations, via iheart radio station, via AC radio stations, and it will rock in every sense of the word. And I hope, they choose arenas that are big enough for the demand and that we fans get pre-sale tickets, because it will be hard to get those tickets otherwise.
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