Paola17 Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 I'm probably going to refund my Pittsburgh tickets since the date now falls on a weekday as opposed to the weekend, which was a big factor in me going as my friend would have been off for a couple of days. I'll have to double check with him though. I guess I'll purchase a ticket for Philly in the near future, and then look at attending either Toronto or Chicago. Maybe NY. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertrose Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 Got a refund on my tickets, now just hoping maybe sometime next year before they go out on tour we can get some shows here in the Bay Area, if the virus lets us! If not, then will wait for a concert again with just Green Day. Fingers crossed they will tour again sometime in 2022 by themselves 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacejunkie punk Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 2 hours ago, Paola17 said: I'm probably going to refund my Pittsburgh tickets since the date now falls on a weekday as opposed to the weekend, which was a big factor in me going as my friend would have been off for a couple of days. I'll have to double check with him though. I guess I'll purchase a ticket for Philly in the near future, and then look at attending either Toronto or Chicago. Maybe NY. If you want a pit ticket for Philly at some point let me know. No rush. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paola17 Posted July 3, 2020 Share Posted July 3, 2020 16 hours ago, pacejunkie punk said: If you want a pit ticket for Philly at some point let me know. No rush. Thanks for the offer! I’m probably going for seats though. My roommates have expressed interest in going, and there are some single ticket $60 seats in the lower levels that are close enough to each other (works out if I end up going alone too). It would also help me fund my second show 😅 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertrose Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 Glad I got a refund for the July show next year in San Francisco. Just read the here in California we will not be moving into or phase 4 til probably after vaccine in about 12-14 months. That means no concerts, festivals they said. "In fact, all that's left to reopen are the businesses in Phase 4: concerts, festivals, conventions and sports with a live audience. What needs to happen before California moves into the next stage of reopening?" "All three medical experts we asked put it plain and simple: You shouldn't expect to attend a concert or a big festival until we have a coronavirus vaccine." 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DookieLukie Posted July 7, 2020 Share Posted July 7, 2020 Even a vaccine might not be enough. This may turn into a yearly thing like influenza, with new strains every year. Hopefully a vaccine will help reduce the death rate but this could dramatically change our lifestyles given how much worse than the flu this is. Thanks China. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cunt Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Fuck the government 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacejunkie punk Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 http://abcnewsradioonline.com/music-news/2020/7/7/green-day-pearl-jam-weezer-touring-companies-received-ppp-lo.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Boy Named Booze Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 9 hours ago, pacejunkie punk said: http://abcnewsradioonline.com/music-news/2020/7/7/green-day-pearl-jam-weezer-touring-companies-received-ppp-lo.html That's weird. They really need that money? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squashie Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 27 minutes ago, Little Boy Named Booze said: That's weird. They really need that money? 🤷♀️ Pro sports teams got PPP money as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN Posted July 8, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 8, 2020 30 minutes ago, Little Boy Named Booze said: That's weird. They really need that money? I imagine that they are taking about money that goes to the touring/management companies, not the artists, among other things to pay for salaries of hundreds of people. So yeah, I guess they need that, and every country in the world is setting up similar funds. From what I am reading, the problem in the US is that while big and relatively big companies have easy access to these funds, medium and small size business have limited to no rights, not to talk about self employed workers. Which is typical of that country and sucks. That doesn’t mean that the solution is putting the entire music industry into bankruptcy/having it to rely on the “charity” of artists. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Boy Named Booze Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Poor them. I would love to have rich problems too. I can understand Nickelback to have the PPP. But GD and Guns? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerjeezus Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Honestly it’s not that shocking that a relatively big company like GD’s management (or whatever is the legal entity responsible for the tour) is elegible for PPP. It’s small businesses that fall short of the requirements, both in the US and here. I wonder if it has anything to do with both countries having a corrupt businessman leading the government. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squashie Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 When they rely on touring dollars to pay their staff, I'm not surprised they got it. They will have to pay it back eventually. Even that lovely little "stimulus check" that a large portion of the US got will be paying that back, whether it's on our 2021 taxes or later. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HAPPY ZOMBIE UNICORN Posted July 8, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 8, 2020 6 hours ago, Little Boy Named Booze said: Poor them. I would love to have rich problems too. I can understand Nickelback to have the PPP. But GD and Guns? I think you have to put things in the right perspective and find the right enemies here. I am not sure if we are allowed to discuss this (if not mods please cancel/edit this post), but since it's publicly available information: Billie Joe is estimated to be worth $55 million. Let's say that the three of them together have $150 million, which I think it's actually way more than reality. This includes properties and whatsoever, it's not their liquidity, which will be way less than this. A world stadium tour like the one we are talking about can end up costing up to $59M a month (https://www.royaltyexchange.com/blog/costs-of-touring#sthash.3lxCqNEt.dpbs). Let's even say that we are on the medium-lower range here, $25M a month (even tho I think this is not really the case since we are talking about 3 huge bands + supporting acts touring only stadiums, worldwide). Make your calculations considering how long this tour was supposed to be, and even if you consider all the artists, from all of the three bands, contributing to cover the costs, you can easily realise that this is not something that can be expected from them. It's not about greediness or rich problems, we don't even know if and how much they actually contributed to cover the losses that this tour is clearly making in the current situation. It's just about economy, it's about the music industry that, as any other industry, in this situation need a state intervention to survive and be on its legs when things will be (hopefully) be able to be back to a new normality. And it's about the workers of the music industry getting paid their salary (a big cut of that monthly touring cost). It's a totally different topic of discussion when we talk about huge corporations, having hundreds of millions if not billions in liquidity, CEOs worth billions, maybe also paying starvation wages and evading taxes in some financial paradise, that somehow manage to get access to public money, while workers get fired and small businesses have to shut down. That is the problem, that sucks. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerjeezus Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 I guess I’m the OG GDC commie here and I have to agree. Green Day personally may be rich, but they’re just well-paid employees of Warner, it’s not like they run a sweatshop. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Montclare Posted July 8, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 8, 2020 8 minutes ago, Beerjeezus said: it’s not like they run a sweatshop. I can see Metalhead Zone's clickbait headline now... 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerjeezus Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 4 minutes ago, Montclare said: I can see Metalhead Zone's clickbait headline now... Noooo 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlissaGoesRAWR Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Twenty One Pilots also got one. I was going through the Small Business Administration data and cracked up when I saw "Twenty One Pilots LLC" on the list. (They're from Ohio.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertrose Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Just received my refund back on my card! Now to see if this tour happens, but I am waiting for a solo Green Day concert, fingers crossed they just do one of their own in 2022 or maybe if California does allow large concerts by next summer, the tickets will be cheap and I might think about going, but getting better seats. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hey Oh Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 27 minutes ago, GreenDayItaly said: I just saw this on instagram, knew it was probably inevitable like Thanos but still 😭😭😭 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacejunkie punk Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 I wonder why they were able to reschedule the rest of the tour to 2021 but not these dates? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simoro1 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 13 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said: I wonder why they were able to reschedule the rest of the tour to 2021 but not these dates? Probably didn’t sell enough tickets to begin with. Makes sense given the pandemic was really starting to take off when the Aus and NZ dates went on sale. Hopefully GD will do a solo tour here instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacejunkie punk Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 18 minutes ago, simoro1 said: Probably didn’t sell enough tickets to begin with. Makes sense given the pandemic was really starting to take off when the Aus and NZ dates went on sale. Hopefully GD will do a solo tour here instead. That and the cost of bringing the tour there may have been prohibitive because the tour’s potential profits now have to have been affected by all this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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