In news:internal.ml.yahoo.arts.music.arkenstone, "Jim Perry"
<indianajim.podcast@...> posted on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:37:32 -0000:

> I've wanted to see David live at some point, and was wondering if
> anyone knew of a current concert schedule, or is he just laying low for
> a long time?

Maybe I'm wrong, but I've never really known of him to tour that much.
Touring is surely expensive, and I'd imagine that if he puts the same
thought and details into his performances as he puts into the music, it'd
be a bigger show than Kiss puts on, though surely not as rowdy. I can't
see David spitting blood and fire amidst a spewing hell of pyrotechnics.

I know that when I think of doing something, if I don't have the means to
complete a project according to what's burbling around in my imagination,
and have it come out the way I want it to, I'd rather not do it at all. So
if it would cost more to put on a show than would be collected in ticket
sales, in a capitalist economy, tours like that can't happen.

I'm reminded of Square when they did the state-of-the-art
computer-generated movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. That movie
cost $137 million to make, and lost $123 million, though I remember reading
that the expenses for that movie reached $265 million, though I can't find
a reference for that anymore. Not only was it the most spectacular
presentation of computer-generated realism in film history, it was also the
biggest box office bomb in film history. It was the first film that Square
Pictures, a division of the Square video game company, ever made, and the
last. While I didn't think the movie really reflected the culture of Final
Fantasy games, I did like it. I was just hoping for a movie with swords
and magic, not a futuristic, high-tech movie. They were supposed to have
worked on a movie version of Transformers, but it looks like someone else
picked up that project.

Anyway, back to concerts...I'd pay up to around $150 for a ticket, maybe as
much as $200. Heck, I paid $90 to see Yanni in Dallas at McFarlin
Auditorium on his _Dare to Dream_ tour. I think he filled it up three
times in one visit.

But I'm trying to give him some exposure around here. I'm delivering pizza
while I finish up graphic design school, so when I train new drivers, I
make sure I have some Arkensounds going in the CD player. Usually people
just ask who it is. One guy was listening to Prelude: Tallis the Messenger
and laughed hysterically and said he'd love to drop acid and listen to it
some more. Well, that's not my thing, but if it gets another CD sold, it
works for me.

Damaeus