kevinbower1959 Posted May 13, 2012 Posted May 13, 2012 Taken at shows in Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. There are hundreds more, but I'm sure you get the picture....... Best wishes
BTMN Posted May 13, 2012 Posted May 13, 2012 Nice!! Come down Florida way and I would love to take a camera to your band.
zorrow Posted May 14, 2012 Posted May 14, 2012 Great pics! BTW, just realized Accept is coming to Montreal and there's no Hell.
kevinbower1959 Posted May 14, 2012 Author Posted May 14, 2012 Great pics! BTW, just realized Accept is coming to Montreal and there's no Hell. Despite a lot of talking, the stark reality was that we just couldn't make it work financially. A ballpark calculation (even using a bare-bones setup) showed a $20k loss for this leg of the tour, and the promoter just wasn't willing to bend at all. Accept will be therefore be touring with Kreator on this leg. Never mind, our time will come......
Steve Haynie Posted May 14, 2012 Posted May 14, 2012 But you guys could come over and play at a loss for the exposure.
a.bandini Posted May 14, 2012 Posted May 14, 2012 Lose a little on every transaction, but make up for it in volume!
BlueRedWhite Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Awesome pics Kevin, badass actuallyi hope to see you in Canada in the near future, we're mostly a metal bunch around here ( That' s why Metallica comes so often)
belgian Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 It seems it is getting very difficult for non - US musicians to play in the VS and Canada nowadays. The working visa are expensive and hard to get. Great pics! BTW, just realized Accept is coming to Montreal and there's no Hell. Despite a lot of talking, the stark reality was that we just couldn't make it work financially. A ballpark calculation (even using a bare-bones setup) showed a $20k loss for this leg of the tour, and the promoter just wasn't willing to bend at all. Accept will be therefore be touring with Kreator on this leg. Never mind, our time will come......
BlueRedWhite Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 It seems it is getting very difficult for non - US musicians to play in the VS and Canada nowadays. The working visa are expensive and hard to get. That's lame actually I'm running for Prime Minister next year, that should fix it!
zenmindbeginner Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Fantastic pics Kevin, you guys have an awesome look that is certainly very very metal.The photographer takes awesome stage shots... how he got the shutter speed that fast in the low light is really impressive.I would most rather you guys toured with a current metal band... HELL is running with the young bands, not the former 80's icons.I personally think that it would have been a disservice to your good name.Europe is where it's at, North America is broke and in a cultural landslide... the bottom fell out from under the crowd support for regional acts here in the states, I assume Canada is going through a similar phenomenon.The local acts have all by and large, been playing for next to free or even having to pay to play at the club level here. Most middle class people can't afford to go out to clubs like they did in the 90's anymore.9/11 was the death blow to a dying economy here in the states and we probably won't ever get it back.Plus... what do US residents know about metal anymore? Metal has always come from Europe and the UK. The most succesfull US metal bands were just rehashed versions of their counterparts across the Atlantic.The only metal the US was good at was hair metal... and that was a passing fad at best.Anyways... HELL rules!
diablo175 Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 So fucking cool. You're living my dream, you lucky bastard! The images are so evocative and apropos. The mood is eerie and perfect for your music. Best of luck, Kev. I'll see you when you hit the States. Give me a heads up when you do start that leg of your tour.
Steve Haynie Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Look on the bright side of this. Now you and your bandmates will not have to endure travelling throught a country where no one can properly pronounce a consonant R.
sledhead44 Posted May 16, 2012 Posted May 16, 2012 Awesome pics Kev! You are living my dream too! Let us know if there is anything we can do to help get you over to the US.
zorrow Posted May 16, 2012 Posted May 16, 2012 It seems it is getting very difficult for non - US musicians to play in the VS and Canada nowadays. The working visa are expensive and hard to get.Is that the reason Hell is not coming over here? Kreator and Accept aren't from the US either! -though they are certainly more popular than Hell.
Armitage Posted May 16, 2012 Posted May 16, 2012 Despite a lot of talking, the stark reality was that we just couldn't make it work financially. A ballpark calculation (even using a bare-bones setup) showed a $20k loss for this leg of the tour, and the promoter just wasn't willing to bend at all. Accept will be therefore be touring with Kreator on this leg.Never mind, our time will come......Great pix! I just wonder how anybody makes any money anymore. Only the big guys can charge ridiculous $$$ for a concert, and yet I wonder how any young ones can take a date to a concert.
kevinbower1959 Posted May 16, 2012 Author Posted May 16, 2012 You guys are always so supportive and it's genuinely appreciated. This has nothing to do with visas or anything remotely similar - it has to do with illegal downloading and file-sharing - and this little isolated incident relating to this tour is a microcosm of exactly how this is totally f**king up the industry.We met with Nuclear Blast whilst we were touring in Europe, to discuss sales figures, merch, the next album, all the usual stuff. They estimate that there are now 500,000 copies of 'Human Remains' in circulation - but less than 40,000 exist as actual physical copies. At least 400,000 units have been illegally downloaded. They pointed to just one site which has so far clocked up 47,000 free downloads of the album - and as you'll be aware, there are literally hundreds of these sites. So if you take a ballpark royalty payout of a buck a copy - that's $400,000 which we'll never see. The fact that we have shifted 40,000 real units is little short of miraculous, and paints a very telling picture of just how small the numbers of albums get sold by some pretty well-known bands. Although $40k sounds like a nice sum to arrive in the band's account, by the time you deduct flights for 8 people (we travel with 3 crew) to five or six countries, crew wages, hotels, fuel and all the other stuff, there isn't a great deal left to play with.Moving on - when a new or relatively unknown band tours with a major or established name, it provides invaluable exposure for them to grow their fanbase. But the fees earned from these shows are small because the new or unknown band don't significantly contribute to the audience numbers and therefore the revenue earned by the show promoter. We did the calculations and although we could afford to have done this part of the tour, we elected instead to focus our financial resources on continuing to build in Europe - and most importantly - to ensure that we produce a killer 2nd album.But as I said - our time will come. Best wishes to all
mathman Posted May 16, 2012 Posted May 16, 2012 Hell, we just want to see you guys. Hopefully it will work out and you can make it across the pond. I don't see many concerts anymore, but I'll make it to Hell!
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