Whats sad is that all those workers, drivers, stagehands, techs, and union workers have been jobless for a year now. So many jobs are created by the entertainment industry.
@@timeswehadwewonthaveagain6980 I am still wondering how Hollywood will look at the end. I have a feeling some of the music industry will look different in the end but really it will be Hollywood that will be different. Just listen to what David Spade said last year about Tom Hanks. I am taking that as some kind of indicator that something else has been going on in the background.
@@pugmalley i missed the david spade interview, i assume it was full of truth. There wont be too many low album sales bands doing world tours, i think the promoters will expect full houses and every ticket sold so a tour will be worth it.
@@crazycris29 first of all, maybe the largest i've ever worked is 1kcap, but i've been in 2.5kcap, that lighting rig isn't fitting. 2nd the payouts work themselves so everyone gets paid. doesn't matter if they only sell 1/4 the space. 3rd according to google Alamodome is 64kcap. even at 1/4 sold, that's 16k people. idk how it is in San Antonio, but in Boston, 1 chair equals 3 standing, so despite being a rock n roll act where people wanna get up and move and dance, this is also just on that cusp of boomer and genx where like 80% of the crowd got beer gut and flat ass and smokers lungs and lets be honest are white and middle class so they WANT to sit for 1hr min out of a 3hr show and will complain if they can't. don't matter to the venue, that privilege just goes back into the ticket price, and at least a 30% markup on merch. less than 10k people can show up, spend average of $30 parking, $80 tickets, $120 merch, $20 (per person) on alcohol and it's an arena, so $20 food, meanwhile a 2k-5k venue that doesn't have the space or the time needed to set up all that rental shit, $20 for parking, $40 tix, $70 merch, $20 (per person) booze, and maybe $15 per person at the mostly unoccupied cafe attached off to the side, oh, and no seating. the end of the day, playing a mostly empty arena is better business than a packed theater.
@@DeanWThomas i don't know if i would say it's that much. the alamodome capacity is about 70k max capacity. cutting that in half brings us to 35k max and then consider that all the upper levels are blocked off as well. probably closer to 12-15k. still a decent amount but not nearly what they could bring in back in their prime.
@@agentsmith413 - Funny... I didn't even realize that the top level was blocked off until I went back and watched. The attendance for this show was estimated at 9K. I looked it up.
depended on the act/venue. But MCs days are over in that size of venue. AC/DC or U2 that would be mid level venue and poss 2 x nights. Metallica it would be in the round and Sold Out!
@@markrushton1516 AC/DC and U2 are still doing stadium tours all over the world and if they do arenas it’s 4 nights at MSG type of thing. I know Motley Crue aren’t on that level but even this half arena is surprising!
@@gzz8551 Big place tho' apparently Features. The facility is a rectilinear 5-level stadium which can seat up to 64,000 spectators for a typical football game and is expandable to hold 72,000 spectators. I think someone needs a rethink about MCs popularity. I'd say they could probably pull 12000 on a good day. 70000 if they open for AC/DC (but 65000 might be in the bar)
tickets were $15-20 back then today you have to decide kids college fund or a Motley Crue. i seen them in 82' as a opening act the cost $20 from a scalper $5 more than face value.
Peacock The Music Man Really was a sad progression, his live performances. Like he just didn’t give a shit or was too lazy to finish complete sentences of songs. Oh well, it’s over now so no use bitchin’ about it but yeah..... sure got pathetic..... Ever TH-cam his acapella singing of the national anthem for the arena football team he owned?..... Eeeeeeesh!
The ol concert bowl set up..for bands who can't sell tickets but still rent a huge arena lol and they thought they were gonna do a stadium tour last year?!?! Lol I love it!
Such a waste too. They would have been better off doing a Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert, because those guys would have filled this place up! Woohoo!!
@@michaelshields7777 I'm wondering why MC was booked in this enormous dome when they had to curtain off about 60% of the venue. the promoter probably lost $$ on curtains alone, 😂
@@javtimestwo It's not uncommon. Especially if there's not another venue because it just doesn't exist, or if it's already spoken for that day. Like in a city near me they have a 2,000 person venue, and they have a 30,000 person venue, so to do a 10,000 person event the only option is to partition off the larger venue. Plus then if for some reason they underestimate how many people they could expand it to hold 15,000 instead of 10,000 pretty easily if they had enough lead time.
Worked at Sprint Center in KC during this tour. They came from Denver the night before. Their trucks got there about noon? Anyway, the show started late, but it was a great show.
Interesting to see this. Before The Rolling Stones 1969 tour of America, bands did not play sports arenas (The Beatles did play stadiums, but they were a major exception). Moreover NO band (not even the aforementioned) used their own sound & lights, until the Stones '69 tour. That tour changed live rock music forever!
When The Beatles played stadiums, they used their little stage amps and had that sound wired into the stadium PA systems. It must have sounded awful. Thankfully, no one could hear it.
@@brianholm1404 yep! At Shea Stadium, that’s what they did- everybody did the same- plugging into the stadium p.a. system! People who attended said it was like listening through a tin horn!
If you take a stadium pitch at 75m across, that is no more than 25m end to end. Also, take a look at the floor plan on google images, it’s certainly not “huge”, it’s actually smaller than their indoor arena stage set
At the five second point 0:05 we can see a man walking up the stairs. Assume the man has a five-foot arm length. You can then estimate that seven men could stand across the stage fingertip to fingertip, equally 35 feet from edge to edge. When Andrew Singh said in this thread that the pitch was 75 meters, he is off a bit. Am American football field is 50 meters (164 feet) from side to side. So, IF that stage is 1/3 the width of the field, that would be 16.666 meters or 54 feet. Bottom line, the stage is close to 40 or 50 feet side to side. Certainly not huge, unless compared to a local honky-tonk.
Don't know if the city still does it, San Antonio had a city ordinance to video record every concert for evidence just in case litigation was involved. Started after the Ozzy/Alamo incident. City gov must have a sweet collection if kept.
Amazing when you look at the financials for a tour like this. Some would look at the attendance for this show, which was supposedly only around 9K, which sounds like a bust when you consider they were selling out 70K seat arenas in their heyday. But when you take that against the average ticket price for this concert which was close $100 dollars then they still ended up grossing close to a million bucks for just this one night. Again, amazing
Not just one night (looks to be at least 2 full days if not 3 of setup and tear down) and the band doesn't make anywhere near what the ticket prices add to, that all goes to the venue/concert promoters/ticket procurement website/etc. The most recent data shows Motley Crue is regularly booked for less than 400k per show, minus all their own expenses for the purchase, transportation, and labor associated with setting up the equipment, marketing/advertising, accounting, catering for the whole crew, people responsible for lighting, sound, video, and the dozens of other positions it takes to run an entertainment business. Only after all that is the remaining profit split amongst the band members, managers, agents, producers, record company, etc. Vince Neil probably makes out with no more than 50k a show, the rest of the members likely half that each. I'm definitely not knocking only working 30 nights a year and making 1.5 million dollars (and then even less after taxes), but ultimately what the frontman of a band makes by the end is only a tiny fraction of how much the whole ordeal brings in overall.
This place at only 1/4 of its capacity is the about the same size as the o2 arena or Wembley arena in London. Let that sink in. This place is massssive. At first I was like "Why only half fun?" now i see why
Skip to 2:00 where interesting things start happening. From the start to 2 minute mark all they're doing is removing a couple 10 yard sections of turf, hanging the rigging chains for the stuff that will hang from the ceiling and hanging the curtain that will block off half the arena.
didn't have a good sense of scale at the start and I was confused as to why they used half the room. then the trucks turned up and holy shit, even half that venue is huge
Best thing there was the chavez whitacre fight! I saw like 50 fights in the stands, restrooms, snack bar , and parking lots! SAPD could not control anything that night. Now that was exciting!
@@KillerManzarek Hahahahaha what clip did you just watch. There wouldnt have been 10 thousand there. Last time they played in Sydney they couldnt sell the tickets so they were giving them away via radio stations. I rang Triple M & the question was Who is the lead singer ? I answered (sarcastically) Brian Johnson hahaha & they still gave me 6 tickets :)
Seating capacity 72,000. Was at this show on mezanine 20 yards from "Home Sweet Home" Snot Slingn' Drunk!! Great venue. Pink Floyd '94 Half stage. Shits ALWAYS bigger in TEXAS!!
Def Leppard could fill that arena on their own. Adding Poison and Joan Jett to the mix is how they’re playing stadiums! Also add in all the attention whore bullshit publicity hype from Sixx and Lee.
@@timeswehadwewonthaveagain6980 lmao what a dumbass comment. motley fucking hates each other. they only do it for the cash benefits. you have it backwards.
@@HBKshowstopper635 hey at least motley do it for the fans, when was the last band out putting on a show this large. Metallica are tradh, have been for well over 30 years. Metallica even used bob rock to get that motley sound
Why are they only using half of the stadium? It's not even close to full capacity in the space used. I don't think booking such a big space is cheap, so why not find a smaller one and fill it to the brim?
Bottom line... Look at how much, equipment, logistics and manpower is required to setup ONE concert. Absolutely none of this would be possible without fossil fuel.
I will never understand why concerts in the US have seating on the floor. That's where you wanna stand and rock out. Go to any rock concert in europe and there's not a chair in sight on the floor
Max capacity is 72,000 people, so over 10,000 people feels like nothing in there. You saw how big that floor is when they had 10+ 53ft Semi trucks parked in there.
@@timmyt.777 Well it's like I said to someone else, sometimes it's just all ya got. Like in a city near me they have a 2,000 person venue and a 30,000 person venue, so to do a 10,000 person show this is pretty much what you have to work with.
WAS 3 SHOWS....WAS THE SMALL ARENA TOUR....WAS BOOKED AT THIS HUGE ARENA TO FILL DATES FROM TOWN TO TOWN EVERY BAND ON TOUR PLAYS SMALL AND LARGE ARENAS AND STADIUMS DEPENDING ON THE SCHEDULE IN 1987 the CRUE PLAYED EVERY SIZE VENUE....YOU HAVE JUST FORGOTTEN
They came no where near to filling that place. Why not just do a weekend at a large theater? they would've save a shit ton of money cause you pay full rental whether you use the whole arena or not.
@@arvindkaraimangat4585 I don't know if they have been here before, but their next north American tour will have a stop at the Alamodome. We can seat up to 74,000.
@@Time-LapseVideos which is no longer happening this year cos Europe got cancelled and they need 5 BOEING 747 aircraft to Transport RAMMSTEIN's gear and the crew needed goes over the COVID limit
There were over 10,000 people at this show, it's not that nobody was there it's that the venue is ridiculously big. At full capacity this place holds 72,000 people. There's not a band alive that could fill that place in that size city...
WOW - tiny configuration for that building which I've been in a handful of times. PLUS the entire upper level was blocked out. Most arenas would be way more seats AND offer better views/sightlines. Horrible place to see the farewell tour.
They like it more because they can get so close to the crowd. And there are a lot more "on the rail" spots available, so more people can be right in front. There are tradeoffs though. Like I saw them in 2017 in the round and it sounded like shit. And Big Mick said in an interview before the tour he wasn't psyched on how little PA system they were going to be using because of how heavy their lighting rig was they had to go light on the sound rig, and you could definitely tell it..
Vince Neil only sang somewhat good for about ten years and adopted the mumble, sing it with me act. I know, I saw them on the SATD tour and others. The last time in '03 he sucked then. Mick and Tommy are still incredible musicians but Sixx is and always has been a showman and not a standout bass player. The Farewell Tour was the worst I've ever seen someone embarress themselves as Vince did. I would'nt go see them for free and a big production dose'nt hide a fat mumbling out of breath front man. 👎😩🎤
Whats sad is that all those workers, drivers, stagehands, techs, and union workers have been jobless for a year now. So many jobs are created by the entertainment industry.
And they will be for at least another 18 months
@@timeswehadwewonthaveagain6980 I am still wondering how Hollywood will look at the end. I have a feeling some of the music industry will look different in the end but really it will be Hollywood that will be different. Just listen to what David Spade said last year about Tom Hanks. I am taking that as some kind of indicator that something else has been going on in the background.
@@pugmalley i missed the david spade interview, i assume it was full of truth. There wont be too many low album sales bands doing world tours, i think the promoters will expect full houses and every ticket sold so a tour will be worth it.
@@timeswehadwewonthaveagain6980 Actually it might be darker for some. th-cam.com/video/8cHsHqbfqhI/w-d-xo.html
@@pugmalley thanks for the link, but its banned from viewing in my country 😮
That second you see all the lighters in the crowd you know they're doing "Home Sweet Home".
And then Vince ate everyone in the crowd. The end.
Whats sad is that the stadium wasn't full for all that work to be done.
I was thinking the same thing. I would think there would be a arena or theater with 2k - 5k capacity other than using the Alamadome?
@@crazycris29 first of all, maybe the largest i've ever worked is 1kcap, but i've been in 2.5kcap, that lighting rig isn't fitting. 2nd the payouts work themselves so everyone gets paid. doesn't matter if they only sell 1/4 the space.
3rd according to google Alamodome is 64kcap. even at 1/4 sold, that's 16k people. idk how it is in San Antonio, but in Boston, 1 chair equals 3 standing, so despite being a rock n roll act where people wanna get up and move and dance, this is also just on that cusp of boomer and genx where like 80% of the crowd got beer gut and flat ass and smokers lungs and lets be honest are white and middle class so they WANT to sit for 1hr min out of a 3hr show and will complain if they can't. don't matter to the venue, that privilege just goes back into the ticket price, and at least a 30% markup on merch.
less than 10k people can show up, spend average of $30 parking, $80 tickets, $120 merch, $20 (per person) on alcohol and it's an arena, so $20 food, meanwhile a 2k-5k venue that doesn't have the space or the time needed to set up all that rental shit, $20 for parking, $40 tix, $70 merch, $20 (per person) booze, and maybe $15 per person at the mostly unoccupied cafe attached off to the side, oh, and no seating. the end of the day, playing a mostly empty arena is better business than a packed theater.
Maybe cause the band sucks ass?
Thirty years prior they could’ve sold out the whole arena not just half.
They most likely had..
I think this is a stadium being sectioned off. They are probably still playing to 20K+ here.
@@DeanWThomas i don't know if i would say it's that much. the alamodome capacity is about 70k max capacity. cutting that in half brings us to 35k max and then consider that all the upper levels are blocked off as well. probably closer to 12-15k. still a decent amount but not nearly what they could bring in back in their prime.
@@agentsmith413 - Funny... I didn't even realize that the top level was blocked off until I went back and watched. The attendance for this show was estimated at 9K. I looked it up.
@@DeanWThomas according to a review of the show it was only 9k fans in attendance
All this, just to here "wooooow hey nanananan nee nee hah ah woooooooow kihh stahh my harrr"
I remember all the concerts I went to in the 80s . Never saw a half filled venue ever.
That crowd looked more like 25%
depended on the act/venue. But MCs days are over in that size of venue. AC/DC or U2 that would be mid level venue and poss 2 x nights. Metallica it would be in the round and Sold Out!
@@markrushton1516 AC/DC and U2 are still doing stadium tours all over the world and if they do arenas it’s 4 nights at MSG type of thing.
I know Motley Crue aren’t on that level but even this half arena is surprising!
@@gzz8551 Big place tho' apparently Features. The facility is a rectilinear 5-level stadium which can seat up to 64,000 spectators for a typical football game and is expandable to hold 72,000 spectators.
I think someone needs a rethink about MCs popularity. I'd say they could probably pull 12000 on a good day. 70000 if they open for AC/DC (but 65000 might be in the bar)
@@markrushton1516
The future is bleak for music at this type of level. Careers are almost a thing of the past.
Wheres the buffet table that Vince sleeps on?
Great video. I remember when The Crue would fill the whole stadium 3 nights in a row... times are changin'...
Dua lipa...
I think you mean arenas. Big difference. They were never a stadium band.
Changing? They changed 30 years ago...Motley Crue hasn't been relevant since the early-90s.
tickets were $15-20 back then today you have to decide kids college fund or a Motley Crue. i seen them in 82' as a opening act the cost $20 from a scalper $5 more than face value.
best ive ever heard Vince sound, and i loved Crue back in the day.
Peacock The Music Man
Really was a sad progression, his live performances. Like he just didn’t give a shit or was too lazy to finish complete sentences of songs. Oh well, it’s over now so no use bitchin’ about it but yeah..... sure got pathetic.....
Ever TH-cam his acapella singing of the national anthem for the arena football team he owned?..... Eeeeeeesh!
All that construction, so Vince Neil can come out, gasp for air, and screw up every single song.
All those empty seats say we sure ain't in 1987 no more.
That drum rollercoaster was a pain in the ass to set up actually the whole show was
ah yes - motley crue's audience who now need to sit through the entire gig ...
The ol concert bowl set up..for bands who can't sell tickets but still rent a huge arena lol and they thought they were gonna do a stadium tour last year?!?! Lol I love it!
Man that place is huge!
crazy the amount of man-power going into each show...
Such a waste too. They would have been better off doing a Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert, because those guys would have filled this place up! Woohoo!!
@@michaelshields7777 I'm wondering why MC was booked in this enormous dome when they had to curtain off about 60% of the venue. the promoter probably lost $$ on curtains alone, 😂
@@javtimestwo It's not uncommon. Especially if there's not another venue because it just doesn't exist, or if it's already spoken for that day. Like in a city near me they have a 2,000 person venue, and they have a 30,000 person venue, so to do a 10,000 person event the only option is to partition off the larger venue. Plus then if for some reason they underestimate how many people they could expand it to hold 15,000 instead of 10,000 pretty easily if they had enough lead time.
Why not just play at the Spurs arena if you can only fill up half the dome? Haha
Maybe the arena was being used for something else
@@joshreed6212 yes there was a basketball game right behind the curtains
@@mellow9042 That was a UTSA football game.
Live Nation likely has a contract on the building. All of Feld's (whom they sold to) entertainment runs through alamodome vs ATT Center.
Not even half.
crazy only half stadium used
Most likely due to that fat Vince Neil failing to actually sing anymore, hehehe!!!
Didn’t sell all the tickets....
Yeah, guess so much for the "last tour" contract. Didn't go as planned, just a rip off.
More like under half. Stage is totally set between 40 and 30 yard line
It's like watching ants find and descend on a dropped piece of cake.
Worked at Sprint Center in KC during this tour. They came from Denver the night before. Their trucks got there about noon? Anyway, the show started late, but it was a great show.
Interesting to see this. Before The Rolling Stones 1969 tour of America, bands did not play sports arenas (The Beatles did play stadiums, but they were a major exception). Moreover NO band (not even the aforementioned) used their own sound & lights, until the Stones '69 tour. That tour changed live rock music forever!
When The Beatles played stadiums, they used their little stage amps and had that sound wired into the stadium PA systems. It must have sounded awful. Thankfully, no one could hear it.
@@brianholm1404 yep! At Shea Stadium, that’s what they did- everybody did the same- plugging into the stadium p.a. system! People who attended said it was like listening through a tin horn!
Elvis was the first to use a flown PA system as opposed to speakers on either side of the stage. Not for audio clarity but to sell more tickets
Best part of video, not being able to hear Vince sing lol
Awesome to watch !
I know Vince struggles to run around and mime at the same time but that stage was tiny!
We saw him do the National Anthem at an arena football game a few years ago and it was a train wreck. I think it is on TH-cam somewhere.
That stage is huge. They’re on a football field, not a hockey/basketball arena
If you take a stadium pitch at 75m across, that is no more than 25m end to end. Also, take a look at the floor plan on google images, it’s certainly not “huge”, it’s actually smaller than their indoor arena stage set
At the five second point 0:05 we can see a man walking up the stairs. Assume the man has a five-foot arm length. You can then estimate that seven men could stand across the stage fingertip to fingertip, equally 35 feet from edge to edge.
When Andrew Singh said in this thread that the pitch was 75 meters, he is off a bit. Am American football field is 50 meters (164 feet) from side to side. So, IF that stage is 1/3 the width of the field, that would be 16.666 meters or 54 feet.
Bottom line, the stage is close to 40 or 50 feet side to side. Certainly not huge, unless compared to a local honky-tonk.
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The use only 1/3 of the arena... anything to keep Sixx ego alive!
Don't know if the city still does it, San Antonio had a city ordinance to video record every concert for evidence just in case litigation was involved. Started after the Ozzy/Alamo incident. City gov must have a sweet collection if kept.
Damn I remember when some arenas would only use half and never understood why but now I know.
That was so cool
Amazing when you look at the financials for a tour like this. Some would look at the attendance for this show, which was supposedly only around 9K, which sounds like a bust when you consider they were selling out 70K seat arenas in their heyday. But when you take that against the average ticket price for this concert which was close $100 dollars then they still ended up grossing close to a million bucks for just this one night. Again, amazing
Not just one night (looks to be at least 2 full days if not 3 of setup and tear down) and the band doesn't make anywhere near what the ticket prices add to, that all goes to the venue/concert promoters/ticket procurement website/etc. The most recent data shows Motley Crue is regularly booked for less than 400k per show, minus all their own expenses for the purchase, transportation, and labor associated with setting up the equipment, marketing/advertising, accounting, catering for the whole crew, people responsible for lighting, sound, video, and the dozens of other positions it takes to run an entertainment business. Only after all that is the remaining profit split amongst the band members, managers, agents, producers, record company, etc. Vince Neil probably makes out with no more than 50k a show, the rest of the members likely half that each. I'm definitely not knocking only working 30 nights a year and making 1.5 million dollars (and then even less after taxes), but ultimately what the frontman of a band makes by the end is only a tiny fraction of how much the whole ordeal brings in overall.
God bless the roadies
This place at only 1/4 of its capacity is the about the same size as the o2 arena or Wembley arena in London. Let that sink in. This place is massssive. At first I was like "Why only half fun?" now i see why
Быстренько посмотрел концерт Motley Crue, ничего не пропустил
Skip to 2:00 where interesting things start happening. From the start to 2 minute mark all they're doing is removing a couple 10 yard sections of turf, hanging the rigging chains for the stuff that will hang from the ceiling and hanging the curtain that will block off half the arena.
I love shit like this
Saw that very show!
Would probably make more sense if they just used a high school gym for a motley crue show
that is a stadium, not an arena. Motley was one of the best bands ever, not the pop music crap like U2. Motley Crue was real rock.
@@lorenzomattera6135 can't even fill up HALF an arena. Because they suck ....hated that group with a passion
They're doing homecoming dances these day!😆
Lorenzo Mattera U2 sells out stadiums
@@petesmalls2652 the only band I can think of who did a stadium show in the round too. Takes a lot of greatness to do that
didn't have a good sense of scale at the start and I was confused as to why they used half the room. then the trucks turned up and holy shit, even half that venue is huge
Is that the structure where the drummer got stuck upside down?
All that work for Vince to sing jibberish
Best thing there was the chavez whitacre fight! I saw like 50 fights in the stands, restrooms, snack bar , and parking lots! SAPD could not control anything that night. Now that was exciting!
Insane
I was at that show.
They need to go to way smaller venues if they can't even fill up half of that sports arena.
There is still around 25 000 people
@@KillerManzarek 9000 was the attendance
@@Joetrout You must be right! I just noticed that the sides and the upper levels are empty. This setup has a capacity around 30K.
@@KillerManzarek Hahahahaha what clip did you just watch. There wouldnt have been 10 thousand there. Last time they played in Sydney they couldnt sell the tickets so they were giving them away via radio stations. I rang Triple M & the question was Who is the lead singer ? I answered (sarcastically) Brian Johnson hahaha & they still gave me 6 tickets :)
I saw them with Alice Cooper opening.. After the show was over I thought it should of been the other way around..
"Don't forget your Motley Crue t-shirt...all proceeds get their lead singer out of jail!"
dead milkmen........classic
Surprised they didn't have the whole arena open for the show only half.
Just like Kiss in 1996. Half court with no stage extensions on either side.
Why did they only use half of the Alamo Dome? It's a small venue scheduled for demolition
Because Motley Crue is a has been and also because that fat Vince Neil can't sing anymore, hehe!!
How long did it take in real time ?
Seating capacity 72,000. Was at this show on mezanine 20 yards from "Home Sweet Home" Snot Slingn' Drunk!! Great venue. Pink Floyd '94 Half stage. Shits ALWAYS bigger in TEXAS!!
What camera was used for this?
+iPodBuff It is a go pro hero 4
so...only half the arena.?
Why only half arena?
How is Motley doing a Stadium Tour this Summer when they had a 1/2 filled 1/2 arena a few years ago?
Suppoort act probs or with guests with 2 other bands
@@arvindkaraimangat4585 Perhaps; but that crowd as 8K ish and a stadium is 60-70K. I don't think Def Lep, and Poison don't get you to that number.
@@dapdrums yes but this is 3 bands combined plus Def Leppard headline festivals like DOWNLOAD easily, so they'd have no trouble in a stadium
Def Leppard could fill that arena on their own. Adding Poison and Joan Jett to the mix is how they’re playing stadiums!
Also add in all the attention whore bullshit publicity hype from Sixx and Lee.
Sitting on a Rock-Concert?!
Wow only 1/2 filled
The Crue can only sell out a half a Stadium worth of tickets?
A quarter.
What's sad is so many people came to see a bunch of 50 year old clowns act like teenagers.
Maybe, but those 50 year old clowns employ a bunch of people so at least they are contributing to society. See the good...
Metallica played in 2017 here for 45,343 people. That is 3 times as much as motley crue lmao
Who???
Cares...
Because lars promotes the hell out of that name for cash benefits only..
Motley are for the fans...
And no one would come to your concert lol
@@timeswehadwewonthaveagain6980 lmao what a dumbass comment. motley fucking hates each other. they only do it for the cash benefits. you have it backwards.
@@HBKshowstopper635 hey at least motley do it for the fans, when was the last band out putting on a show this large. Metallica are tradh, have been for well over 30 years. Metallica even used bob rock to get that motley sound
30 years ago they would have sold out the entire venue how things have changed
Curtains of Shame.
Why are they only using half of the stadium? It's not even close to full capacity in the space used. I don't think booking such a big space is cheap, so why not find a smaller one and fill it to the brim?
Probably because a smaller venue couldn't facilitate all of their bells and whistles.
Does anybody noticed it looks like the top section was completely empty
It was closed off by curtains
How many days did this take?
It's all done in one day!
Half the arena have the popularity, the downward spiral has begun...
Bottom line...
Look at how much, equipment, logistics and manpower is required to setup ONE concert. Absolutely none of this would be possible without fossil fuel.
I would have used the whole arena
the place would have been 3/4 empty then
Half a stadium! LOL
Sucks that half the arena has to be blocked off..
I will never understand why concerts in the US have seating on the floor. That's where you wanna stand and rock out. Go to any rock concert in europe and there's not a chair in sight on the floor
The primary audience for this music is now middle-aged. Kids, by and large, aren't going to see Motley Crue.
More like one eighths capacity. I would have figured 1/4 or double what it was.
Max capacity is 72,000 people, so over 10,000 people feels like nothing in there. You saw how big that floor is when they had 10+ 53ft Semi trucks parked in there.
@@djjazzyjeff1232 bad market for them clearly.
@@timmyt.777 Well it's like I said to someone else, sometimes it's just all ya got. Like in a city near me they have a 2,000 person venue and a 30,000 person venue, so to do a 10,000 person show this is pretty much what you have to work with.
They only filled half that stadium
Couldn't sell out the hole indoor arena looks like.
Metallica would’ve filled that whole venue.
which they did
Lars can't play anymore...
@@joesmith7509 Vince performs worse than Lars Ulrich tho
Showed everything but the people demanding their money back. 🤔
WAS 3 SHOWS....WAS THE SMALL ARENA TOUR....WAS BOOKED AT THIS HUGE ARENA TO FILL DATES FROM TOWN TO TOWN
EVERY BAND ON TOUR PLAYS SMALL AND LARGE ARENAS AND STADIUMS DEPENDING ON THE SCHEDULE
IN 1987 the CRUE PLAYED EVERY SIZE VENUE....YOU HAVE JUST FORGOTTEN
They came no where near to filling that place. Why not just do a weekend at a large theater? they would've save a shit ton of money cause you pay full rental whether you use the whole arena or not.
half empty!!! hahahahahaha
I'd be kind and say 40% full.
Not to diss Motley Crue, but if that was AC/DC the Alamodome would've been packed to the rafters.
Why didn't they convert to a better band???
All that work for a lead singer that cannot sing live!
Rammstein would of had a stage 10 times the size and filled this whole place. Just sayin.
Rammstein will be at the dome in september
@@Time-LapseVideos Really? I though they played here for the LIFAD tour? And now playing somewhere bigger?
@@arvindkaraimangat4585 I don't know if they have been here before, but their next north American tour will have a stop at the Alamodome. We can seat up to 74,000.
@@Time-LapseVideos which is no longer happening this year cos Europe got cancelled and they need 5 BOEING 747 aircraft to Transport RAMMSTEIN's gear and the crew needed goes over the COVID limit
You could watch the concert in rapid fire speed here! Too bad you can’t see the band from this vantage point. They look like tiny ants here.
The empty seats were for their egos.....
They did a show for half a stadium? Damn, just how dull are they?
Lol
1-9-18
they were probably sponsored
AmericanPride1234 that’s what I said I hate small events this was probably private
They suck, that's why.
I sure as hell wouldn't waste my money on seeing these guys, especially since that Vince Neil can't sing anymore, hehehe!!
Taxpayer subsidized sports arena.
They cut the venue in half and even the upper deck seats are draped off, pathetic. I wonder if that tour made money.
Got paid in doughnuts
They can 't even full a full auditorium so they cut it in half. WEAK! Like Vince Neils voice.... when it works.
There were over 10,000 people at this show, it's not that nobody was there it's that the venue is ridiculously big. At full capacity this place holds 72,000 people. There's not a band alive that could fill that place in that size city...
WOW - tiny configuration for that building which I've been in a handful of times. PLUS the entire upper level was blocked out. Most arenas would be way more seats AND offer better views/sightlines. Horrible place to see the farewell tour.
AND WHY METALLICA DOES "IN THE ROUND" BECAUSE THEY SELL OUT EVERY SEAT IN THE VENUE
They like it more because they can get so close to the crowd. And there are a lot more "on the rail" spots available, so more people can be right in front. There are tradeoffs though. Like I saw them in 2017 in the round and it sounded like shit. And Big Mick said in an interview before the tour he wasn't psyched on how little PA system they were going to be using because of how heavy their lighting rig was they had to go light on the sound rig, and you could definitely tell it..
How to sell out half a venue🤣🤣
There's still over 10,000 people there, that's hardly "nobody."
@@djjazzyjeff1232 9000, which is UNDER 10,000 XD
The bands before them filled the whole damn thing. Rock is dead..
Sooooo. 1/4 of the place?....HAHA
1 out of 3 minutes and still nothing? lame. I'm moving on with my life, lol.
LAME!!!!
Vince Neil only sang somewhat good for about ten years and adopted the mumble, sing it with me act. I know, I saw them on the SATD tour and others. The last time in '03 he sucked then. Mick and Tommy are still incredible musicians but Sixx is and always has been a showman and not a standout bass player. The Farewell Tour was the worst I've ever seen someone embarress themselves as Vince did. I would'nt go see them for free and a big production dose'nt hide a fat mumbling out of breath front man. 👎😩🎤
Covid crushed live music buisness