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Van Halen to play Tokyo Dome June 21

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Van Halen to play Tokyo Dome June 21

PostPosted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 9:02 am
by Don
Really surprised with this announcement. The place seats 55,000 people. If VH cancels this date for some bullshit reason, they should be blacklisted from touring forever.

Re: Van Halen to play Tokyo Dome June 21

PostPosted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 9:32 am
by portland
Don wrote:Really surprised with this announcement. The place seats 55,000 people. If VH cancels this date for some bullshit reason, they should be blacklisted from touring forever.


I thought you came down here to get away from the peace and love in the Journey forum :wink: :lol:

Re: Van Halen to play Tokyo Dome June 21

PostPosted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 10:03 am
by Don
portland wrote:
Don wrote:Really surprised with this announcement. The place seats 55,000 people. If VH cancels this date for some bullshit reason, they should be blacklisted from touring forever.


I thought you came down here to get away from the peace and love in the Journey forum :wink: :lol:


Looking at Journey now, they are pretty much on autopilot. Play songs from 1978 to1983, rinse, repeat. It's at the point where I can leave the forum, come back three months from now and nothing will have changed (except Pineda's voice it seems).

I just was amazed that Van Halen is playing such a big venue. Granted, they did play Budokan three nights in a row back in 1998 but I wasn't sure if they still had that big a following these days.

They have played the Tokyo Dome before but that was back with Sammy in 1989.

PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 5:01 am
by WalrusOct9
It'd be Van Halen's first shows with DLR since the early 80's. They'd fill it.

Hell, Axl & the 5 guys who aren't Slash played the Tokyo Dome a couple years ago. Mick Jagger played it on his 1988 solo tour. I don't know if it's just because Japan likes music more than we do, or if it's just a bigger deal when tours actually go there, but you can sell a LOT of tickets in Japan that you couldn't sell elsewhere.