Eagles Mentions in the Press (2006 - 2017)

[sodascouts]

Excellent idea, PM! We've got a whole thread to play around in:

https://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/...ead.php?t=2483

[Koala]

Today I found this short article in the German press, that has really surprised me! I would have not thought that Tim's illness is perceived here!

Eagles Resume Tour

Today [May 20] the Eagles will start their tour again, after canceling a few shows so that Timothy B. Schmidt could recover from an unexpected surgery.The band canceled a handful of concerts when bassist Schmidt fell ill. Last Friday [May 14], he underwent an operation. Details about his illness are not known, but he will be healthy enough to resume the Eagles tour today in Denver, Colorado.

[Prettymaid]

It seem All Things Timothy are perceived much more positively over there than in the states.

[luvthelighthouse]

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf...-shows_1143488

Pic of Glenn and Cindy included w/ a tidbit about cancelled shows.

[Koala]

U2 and Christina Aguilera Cancel Concert Tours, Opening the Door for the Eagles

Here is an excerpt:

Even the Eagles, arguably the biggest overall concert draw over the past fifteen years, have had to cancel concerts this year as their fan base ages. Recent announcements on the cancellation of Eagles shows, in which they were supposed to appear with the Dixie Chicks and Keith Urban in both Philadelphia and Hershey, Pennsylvania have come with no explanation. Weak ticket sales are the only really plausible explanation, it would seem.

[Freypower]

I would have thought U2 and the Eagles had fundamentally different audiences.

I know one thing. If they had not decided to do this what now appears badly thought out stadium tour, they would have seen that they were running out of time to get the Asian/Australian leg underway. It now seems very unlikely that they will get here at all this year now, because the window of available dates is closing fast (as well as Metallica, Leonard Cohen has announced a November tour). December is all that is left and although I saw them in that month both in 1995 and 2004 (due to heavy demand for a final Sydney show) I can't see it happening now.

[Prettymaid]

Maybe some good will come of the "weak ticket sales" press and prices will come down.

[TimothyBFan]

Maybe some good will come of the "weak ticket sales" press and prices will come down.

We can only hope!

[tbsfan]

I would have thought U2 and the Eagles had fundamentally different audiences.

Not necessarily. They're my two favorite bands. But then, maybe I'm atypical because other acts one would expect the typical Eagles fan to like I'm not necessarily a fan of and the same can be said of my U2 fandom.

I'd been staying away from the U2 tour this time because I don't do stadium shows. Same goes for the Eagles/Dixie Chicks/Keith Urban triple bill. (I do like the Dixie Chicks & Urban.) Well, that and the higher price I'd be paying for a truncated Eagles set so I probably wouldn't have been going even if they were doing arena shows together.

Maybe some good will come of the "weak ticket sales" press and prices will come down.

I wouldn't hold my breath on that one. It seems like the weak sales are for the stadium dates with other acts and not for the regular Eagles arena shows.

[Ive always been a dreamer]

Yeah - I actually wouldn't think the demographics of Eagles fans would be vastly different from U2 fans. I can definitely see the potential for some crossover. Okay, maybe the average Eagles fan is about ten years older.

And as far as ticket sales, unfortunately, I'm with tbsfan here. I guess if the economy here doesn't begin turning around in the near future, we may see a slight decrease in the prices, but probably nothing significant. I going to speculate that the shows with Keith and the Chicks didn't sell well because of ticket prices. But I'd bet it was more their fans rather than Eagles fans who were unwilling to pay that kind of money to see their favorites perform as an opening act for an hour at most. Keith and Chicks fans aren't use to paying the high ticket prices that Eagles fans are, so it was probably more of a shock to them. In retrospect, as FP said, this whole thing was ill conceived. The only way the Eagles can probably tour successfully with another act is by doing what they originally had up their sleeves - they need another megaact such as Fleetwood Mac whose fans are used to paying high prices, and would perceive paying $250 to see their favorite act share equal billing and time with the Eagles as a bargain.