Neil Diamond to play the BOK Center

[blindnil]

Tulsa World

http://www.tulsaworld.com/entertainment/spot/article.aspx?articleID=20080416_243_D3_span26771

[cannon_fodder]

A fluff piece so it wouldn't remain on the internet and not in the news paper:

http://www.tulsanow.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9526&whichpage=4

TulsaNow readers were down with this news by the close of business yesterday. The events planners must have really screwed up to let the tour date be posted before an announcement was made.

[guido911]

quote:Originally posted by blindnil

Tulsa World

http://www.tulsaworld.com/entertainment/spot/article.aspx?articleID=20080416_243_D3_span26771

I get my news only from yournews.com

[rwarn17588]

<cf wrote:

TulsaNow readers were down with this news by the close of business yesterday. The events planners must have really screwed up to let the tour date be posted before an announcement was made.

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Actually, this sort of stuff happens not infrequently. If there's only a tentative or handshake deal before contracts are signed, the music artist's publicist still is under pressure to announce all the dates on a nationwide tour, like Diamond's, so that people can get excited about the upcoming album, start planning for their concert date, etc. But it puts the music venues that are still sorting things out in a bind.

I remember seeing a just-announced Loretta Lynn show at Cain's Ballroom on the Pollstar site a couple of years ago. I called Cain's, and they hemmed and hawed about it. I mentioned, "Hey, it's on Pollstar's site. Are you telling me it's wrong?" The ticket manager said: "Yeah, it's going to happen, but we don't have all the contracts signed yet, and we don't know what ticket prices will be."

Similar things happened with a few shows in St. Louis and Chicago that I wanted to see some years ago. It makes me wonder whether the artist announcing the concert dates so quick is a way of leveraging against the hesitating venues so there are more favorable terms on the contract.

That's why music fans tend to surf Pollstar a lot. It tends to get concert dates before just about anybody.

[Wilbur]

Glad all these acts they're getting in are current artists.  Yawn!

[hoodlum]

of everyone listed so far i most excited by Neil Diamond, I am there.

[jne]

quote:Originally posted by rwarn17588

<cf wrote:

TulsaNow readers were down with this news by the close of business yesterday. The events planners must have really screwed up to let the tour date be posted before an announcement was made.

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Actually, this sort of stuff happens not infrequently. If there's only a tentative or handshake deal before contracts are signed, the music artist's publicist still is under pressure to announce all the dates on a nationwide tour, like Diamond's, so that people can get excited about the upcoming album, start planning for their concert date, etc. But it puts the music venues that are still sorting things out in a bind.

I remember seeing a just-announced Loretta Lynn show at Cain's Ballroom on the Pollstar site a couple of years ago. I called Cain's, and they hemmed and hawed about it. I mentioned, "Hey, it's on Pollstar's site. Are you telling me it's wrong?" The ticket manager said: "Yeah, it's going to happen, but we don't have all the contracts signed yet, and we don't know what ticket prices will be."

Similar things happened with a few shows in St. Louis and Chicago that I wanted to see some years ago. It makes me wonder whether the artist announcing the concert dates so quick is a way of leveraging against the hesitating venues so there are more favorable terms on the contract.

That's why music fans tend to surf Pollstar a lot. It tends to get concert dates before just about anybody.

Yeah, its actually very common

[Johnboy976]

Neil Diamond= Yay?

[inteller]

nice to see that Krazy Kathy is getting all of her favorite artists from her childhood.  But what about the rest of us?

[JoeMommaBlake]

To quote the great Neal Diamond,

quote:
Song sung blue
Everybody knows one
Song sung blue
Every garden grows one

Me and you are subject to the blues now and then
But when you take the blues and make a song
You sing them out again
Sing them out again

Neal says everybody knows a song sung blue. Clearly he's been to Tulsa.

We get a big act with appeal to people with money and inevitably some start singing the blues and blaming Kathy Taylor.

You don't have to go if you don't like Neal, I'm sure the New Kids on the Block Reunion Tour will be in Tulsa at some point.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20174022,00.html

I'm not going to the Neal Diamond concert, but it's foolish to think that every act will appeal to every person. I, for one, am going to trust that those booking the talent are qualified to do so (which means it's not Kathy Taylor doing the booking) and that by the time the full year is done, we will have seen a nice representation of several music genres.

[bigdtottown]

Hot August Night is one of the all time great live albums...still I'd prefer Guns n Roses.

[sgrizzle]

quote:Originally posted by bigdtottown

Hot August Night is one of the all time great live albums...still I'd prefer Guns n Roses.

You mean Axel Rose.. the band. If you want to see the talented parts of Guns-N-Roses, see Velvet Revolver... Well.. you should've seen Velvet Revolver. They don't have much luck with lead singers...