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Topic: No comments on Garth Brooks in Nashville? |
Bruce Meyer
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Thompson's Station, TN
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Posted 6 Nov 2010 10:06 pm |
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| You mean there are no comments on Garth Brooks selling out 9 13,000 seat shows in Nashville in less than 3 hours? We all must be slipping. |
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Ben Elder
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La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 6 Nov 2010 10:15 pm
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If you hadn't mentioned it, I might never have noticed.
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 7 Nov 2010 6:54 am
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Bruce, you had to bring it up. No doubt Brooks is popular, but his fan base isn't comprised of those who visit here. Until now, I had hoped he was all but forgotten on the Forum.  |
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Theresa Galbraith
From:
Goodlettsville,Tn. USA
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Posted 8 Nov 2010 4:14 am
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Way to go, Garth!  |
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Steve Alonzo Walker
From:
Spartanburg,S.C. USA (deceased)
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Posted 8 Nov 2010 1:39 pm
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| I just hope the money will go to the people who was effected by the flood! |
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Bob Vantine
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Freeville, New York, USA
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Posted 8 Nov 2010 9:56 pm
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still think it'd be more interesting to see Trisha ! 
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Dave Grothusen
From:
Scott City, Ks
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Posted 9 Nov 2010 4:39 am
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| I was told that the show he does in Vegas is a one man show. No musicians. Would'nt that be a deal? |
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Ben Lawson
From:
Brooksville Florida
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Posted 9 Nov 2010 6:25 am
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I liked what Garth did early in his career but I didn't care for most of the later stuff. I did like his MTV solo show. Just him and his guitar.
We went to see Trisha last summer and she is great. She never mentioned his name, just referred to her husband occasionally. She sang great and was very funny. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 9 Nov 2010 6:42 am
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| I was told that the show he does in Vegas is a one man show. No musicians. Would'nt that be a deal? |
High-priced Karaoke. I guess he doesn't want to share the money. |
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Alvin Blaine
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Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Posted 9 Nov 2010 9:00 am
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| Barry Blackwood wrote: |
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| I was told that the show he does in Vegas is a one man show. No musicians. Would'nt that be a deal? |
High-priced Karaoke. I guess he doesn't want to share the money. |
It was more of a high-priced singer-songwriter show. He would sit on a stool, play guitar & sing, and talk about how & why he wrote or recorded the song and what it meant to him.
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 9 Nov 2010 9:05 am
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| Semantics, Alvin. You say toe-may-toe, I say toe-mah-toe, etc ….. |
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Alvin Blaine
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Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Posted 9 Nov 2010 11:22 am
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| Semantics, Alvin. You say toe-may-toe, I say toe-mah-toe, etc ….. |
True, but compared to all the other shows on the Vegas strip, that use tracks and canned music, Garth's was possibly the furthest from karaoke.
A friend of mine was Garth's "Tech" for the show, for a while, until Wynn laid off a couple of hundred employees including my friend. He said Garth mostly just walked around talking, then every now and then would sing a song. Said that he wanted to do it with a band, but since Garth was just flying in every weekend, to just do 4 shows, it was going to cost way to much to fly in his band every weekend.
The latest news is that Shania Twain is about to sign a deal to start doing shows at Caesars Palace.
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 9 Nov 2010 12:14 pm
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| A friend of mine was Garth's "Tech" for the show, for a while, until Wynn laid off a couple of hundred employees including my friend. He said Garth mostly just walked around talking, then every now and then would sing a song. Said that he wanted to do it with a band, but since Garth was just flying in every weekend, to just do 4 shows, it was going to cost way to much to fly in his band every weekend. |
Maybe Garth should hire on at Caesar's. (Wait 'till they get the tab for Shania!!)  |
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Doug Earnest
From:
Branson, MO USA
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Posted 10 Nov 2010 6:01 am
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| He did these shows to raise funds for the Nashville Flood Relief, right? He always did seem like a nice fella. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 10 Nov 2010 7:48 am
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| He did a series of concerts in Nashville for Flood Relief, I don't know about Vegas, maybe Alvin does. |
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Alvin Blaine
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Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Posted 10 Nov 2010 9:11 am
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The nine shows that he is doing in December at the Bridgestone Arena, in Nashville, are for the "Community Foundation Tennessee Flood Relief". They sold out 140,000 tickets at $25 a piece, and all of the proceeds($3.5 ML) are going to the relief fund.
The weekly "solo shows", that Garth does in Vegas, are part of a five year contract he has with the Wynn Casino, that includes a $15 million Private Jet to fly him out here every weekend.
The ticket prices on those shows just went up from, the original Garth set price of $143 a show, to $253 a show.
Is Garth worth $250 a show story.
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Theresa Galbraith
From:
Goodlettsville,Tn. USA
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Posted 10 Nov 2010 11:34 am
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| You're darned if you do or you don't....... |
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Janice Brooks
From:
Pleasant Gap Pa
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Posted 10 Nov 2010 12:02 pm
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| $253 no thanks |
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Darrell Criswell
From:
Maryland, USA
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Posted 19 Dec 2010 6:24 pm Brooks nashville concert sold out?
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| Just in Nashville this weekend, Well all the tickets might have sold, but the scalpers were all over the place literally trying to give away tickets, I asked one how much, at first he said $25, then asked how much do you want to pay? |
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Brett Day
From:
Pickens, SC
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Posted 19 Dec 2010 8:02 pm
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| Steve Alonzo Walker wrote: |
| I just hope the money will go to the people who was effected by the flood! |
Steve, I watched an interview with Garth today on CMT Insider and he said This money doesn't go into Garth Brooks' pocket, it goes to flood relief.
Brett |
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Kevin Hatton
From:
Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 20 Dec 2010 1:54 pm
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| Does that include a lap dance and a drink? |
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 31 Dec 2010 10:01 am
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I'll have to say that the person(s) who had the brilliant idea to put the venue in downtown Nashville were out of their minds. I was in town on the 20th to see the Timejumpers. Had some time to kill so the wife and I went down to lower Broadway as I wanted to go into Gruhn's Guitar shop.
It was impossible to find a place to park as the streets were full, the sidewalks and everything on account of Garth's concert(s). My wife suggested that she drive around the block a couple of times while I went inside and that's what we did.......
Later on that night at the Station Inn we sat with a couple that were in an earlier concert and said that the people trying to get into the second show were having trouble because the people in the first show were trying to get out. The city had some streets blocked off here and there and it was just a big mess.
You'd think that if Nashville had wanted an arena they'd have taken a piece of property farther out of town with interstate access and lots of parking, but no, they decided to put the d@mn thing right downtown. Makes a lot of sense, eh?.....JH in VA.
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Bo Borland
From:
South Jersey -
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Posted 31 Dec 2010 11:25 am
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I heard that the Garth concerts raised $10,000,000 for the Nashville Flood Relief.. That is some serious bread!! Way to go Garth..
and being as smart as he is, I'm guessing there are people he trusts watching where it all goes.. |
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Larry Miller
From:
Dothan AL,USA
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Posted 31 Dec 2010 12:23 pm
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Jerry Hayes wrote
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| You'd think that if Nashville had wanted an arena they'd have taken a piece of property farther out of town with interstate access and lots of parking, but no, they decided to put the d@mn thing right downtown. Makes a lot of sense, eh?.....JH in VA |
...then downtown Nashville would die. When there is an event at the arena, be it music, or the Preds, many of the downtown businesses benefit. |
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Franklin
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Posted 1 Jan 2011 6:15 am
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Jerry,
I feel your pain......Before the stadium and the arena that whole lower Broadway area was pretty much peep shows and knife bars.......It wasn't safe to go to ET's record shop anymore.......Now with all its high volume its our Time Square....Its a pain to get in and out of but considering where that area was headed, IMO, it was a pretty smart effort to revive downtown.........Paul |
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