(05-23-2019, 10:46 AM)rmd1064 Wrote: (selling out big arenas…smiles)
Personally, I've never been a 'big arena' kind of fan....echoes, impersonal, you end up looking at one of several large HD monitor.....It was re-enforced to me how much I hated the experience when I saw PMJ at the Microsoft Theater....possibly the worst show experience I'd been to since I started following Haley.
Outdoor shows/festivals, fine, at least the music usually sounds great.
It's my opinion that Haley much prefers more intimate settings. For those who weren't at the LFS Chicago show, the set up was near the front. They had 6-10 sets of tables and chairs, lined up almost perpendicular to the stage, about 15ft-20ft away, then chairs, cocktail tables and booths behind those as the floor inclined up the further you were from the stage for good perspective of the stage.
The VIP guests took the tables and chairs at the front. Haley performed the first two songs, then said something like, I don't want to be saying this all show, but you should come up to the stage, and waved for us to come up to the edge of the stage.
Haley likes to be able to connect w/ her audience, something taught to her by her parents, she's said that since Idol when she said she had to adjust to performing to the camera instead of to the audience where she likes to make a connection.
It's my opinion Haley prefers to play to smaller, mid-sized venues, maybe something w/ historical significance, for someone who appreciates music history and artists who went before her.
Setting herself with so many revenue streams, unlike other acts, she does not, will not, have to rely on touring all year to make the income she wants. That's the beauty of the income base she's set up for herself, Ole being a major part of that, collecting her royalties and revenue. If FiFF continues with more seasons, another revenue stream and on and on. She does not have to play big arenas, fuel an entire industry, to consider herself a 'success'.
The Microsoft Theater was only worth it because I bought the VIP and was able to talk to Haley and the PMJ performers. I would've considered it a waste of money to have made the trip to see Haley on a Big Screen Monitor, her voice echoing, and that was it? No Thanks
I have said, and will continue to say, I don't know that Haley wants GaGa/Katy Perry type of career, I think she would consider herself a success if she had the career Norah Jones, Amy Winehouse, Joss Stone has. She would consider herself a success if she can make a comfortable living with the ability to tackle anything her talent leads her to, taking care of her family, as well as performing where and when she wants to. I think accruing as much knowledge and experience as she can about the music business as she can would also be a mark of success in her mind. I think a level of privacy is very important to her, the ability to still be able to walk around with friends, maybe encounter some fans...but not get mobbed and require security everywhere she goes.
She's a Beatles history expert, she must know one of the major reasons the Beatles stopped performing live (something Haley loves) is not only were they unable to hear each other at shows because of how loud things were, but touring for them was going from hotel room to car to plane to car to hotel room. In every city. Rinse and Repeat. ABBA encountered the same thing and eventually stopped touring to only make studio albums, as the Beatles did.
I think Haley would hate being caged like that...that's not a career, that's not living, that's being paid to live in hotel rooms and not go outside :/
