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- From: Jeff Lester <lester@gandalf.etdesg.trw.com>
- Subject: Re: Yay! Dead not as popular?!?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.193626.15594@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
- Sender: mmdf@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Mail System)
- Reply-To: lester@gandalf.etdesg.trw.com
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:36:26 GMT
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- Jim McKay writes:
-
- |U2, $67.9 Million (M$); Metallica, M$40.4; Guns'n'Roses, M$37.2; GRATEFUL
- |DEAD, M$31.9; Bruce Springsteen, M$27.9; Neil Diamond M$25.8; Elton John,
- |M$23.2; Hammer, M$19.3; Lollapalooza, M$18.6; and Garth Brooks, M$18.4.
- |
- |(MY COMMENTS:)
- |Last year the Dead were first so naturally I'm elated that they appear to
- |becoming less popular. Maybe concerts will return, scene-wise, to pre-1987.
- |Well, it'll probably never be the same but closer would be nice.
-
- Appear is right.
-
- The Dead's $31.9 million is very close to last year's (which I believe was
- $33 or $34 miilion) and when you take into account that they played fewer
- shows this year (55 this year vs. 79 last year), for the shows they did play
- they actually made quite a bit more more money per show. The main reasons they
- aren't first is because U2 was *big* this year (didn't tour last year), and
- the Guns'n'Roses-Metallica tour was a lot bigger than G&R's solo tour last
- year. Unfortunately for the scene, the Dead are not getting any less popular.
-
- -Jeff Lester
-