Sadly, I'll bet they have blacklisted the Pageant here in St. Louis, which is why they haven't been here since that show here in '04 where that idiot fell out of the balcony going for one of the drumsticks Portnoy tossed into the crowd. If so, that is completely unfair to blacklist an entire city basically because of one idiot, but there really is no other rational reason for them not having come here since (we went to their shows here in '94, '00 and '04, and all of them were packed to the max with energetic crowds)
Strange - didn't realize that they had been skipping over that city for so long. Honestly, I can't imagine that they'd blacklist that venue or even the city over what a fan did. But as Wasteland said, it could be that the venue could be the ones preventing them from playing there. Or it could be some sort of legal threat because of what happened. Hard to say. And they may feel that because St. Louis isn't that far away from Kansas City or Chicago, that you guys can travel there. Then again, it could be that they get better offers in KC so that they opt to play there for the region - I'm sure that's one of the reasons that they'll always do shows in Chicago.
It really would be interesting to know why some cities and regions (not just Texas, the south and Florida, but the northwest and even Indiana) get passed over on at least a semi-regular basis.
It would seem pretty strange that booking agencies wouldn't be familiar with the various options here.
Agreed, considering it's their job to be familiar with all the options, but who's to say they stay on top of this all the time, or maybe have assistants or employees who help book the shows that don't have that same knowledge. Without knowing all the ins and outs of booking concerts, all we can do is guess.
I know that Nextstage pretty much inherited the entire Bronco Bowl market by default when BB got bulldozed, which is how I suspect that DT wound up playing there. Most bands that played the Bronco Bowl now play out there, which is probably why Nextstage accommodates them with the half/quarter size configurations. Seems odd, though.
It may seem odd, but it must be cost effective, or else you wouldn't continue to see them doing it over and over.
Something that always puzzled me was why promoters would think that the sorts of bands that open for DT would actually boost attendance. Do they think that people who would normally blow off DT would drive all the way to Grand Prairie because Periphery is opening? Of course no sooner than I type that I remember that I drove to Austin largely because Crimson Projekt was opening.
LOL! It could be that this is just the rule of thumb that promoters always go by. After all, we can say that we are one of the most dedicated fanbases in the world, but I'd wager that the majority of hardcore fans of any band/artist would say the same thing about their respective fanbases. So my point is, while we see DT and it's fanbase as different, the promoters do not, and therefore assume that they'll always sell more tickets having more bands on the bill.
Maybe Mike Portnoy peed on The Alamo and no one told us.
He did, while he was drunk and wearing his wife's dress.