Picture all the money that I've gotten off tours. Now picture me plotting for more.
When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.
On my tour, either they're coming to see me, or they're not.
People will download the music for free and they'll pay for it if they want to give you a compliment. They don't have to pay for it. And the only way the artist can make money was by touring 'cause the record label didn't take that money. Unfortunately now, cause the record company's not making money from the downloads, now they want to take money away from everything.
You open up a lot of tours making nothing just for the fact that you need to start somewhere and get some exposure. When you start to headline your tours, all the money is in headlining, but there's no money in headlining small rooms.
We've always prided ourselves on putting together a great live show. That's something that means a lot to us because our bread and butter is the live tour.
We had so many friends who did the band thing, and one of their first moves was to go on tour, and they'd just blow all their money.
We had gone out on the road in 94 and 95 for a three month American tour, and we realised, as did our manager and booking agent at the time, that we have really exhausted it, and we can't make money at this anymore.
Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour.
How it works: it's like I have a tour, so there's, you know, some income from that. We have merchandise. There's income from that. Then on YouTube, there's ad revenue... so, you know, YouTube puts ads on the videos, and we need a little bit of that.
Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
There's really no money per se to be made on records. We used to make a lot of money on records. Now, all of our money is made on touring.
