On B.M. website -- "Tour Will Land in U.S."

Even if they came to the US, I probably wont get to see them anyway. Nobody really comes to Alltell Pavillion in North Carolina so ill give up on it.

mrjordy wrote:

I am going to at least 3 US dates and will purchase tickets whenever they become available, once the tour schedule is announced. I am looking for people who are seriously interested in attending one or more dates. As Jackie and the Queen fan club will have almost no hand in setting up hotels/meals/etc. for fan club members, it will pretty much be up to us US fans to come up with iteneraries on our own. I'm more than capable of paying for the trip and its expenses on my own, but I figure it'll be much more cost-effective and fun to split costs with someone else. We could split the hotel cost, cab rides, whatever comes up. I think it'd be a lot of damn fun to attend the concert with someone who will equally appreciate it. Otherwise, I'd take my best friend (who, slowly but surely, may be getting excited about the tour). So, anyone with a serious interest, please email me. My email address is at the bottom of this post.

Yeah..Jordon, it would be a good idea to team up and help each other out. I know that Pieter and I will most definitely want to go to as many shows as possible. We'll have to come up with a network of fans/Queenzoners..;-)

So we need to bring our own tents, is what we're saying here... ;^)

I want them to come to Columbia, Maryland's Merriweather Post Pavilion. Great lovely outdoor amphitheater with marvelous acoustics, and I've seen all my favorite artists there.

Arlene,

Incredible you should say that...I graduated from Centennial High School in 1996, and walked across the stage at Merriweather Post for my graduation ceremony! I lived in Columbia for ten years, and must've seen at least a dozen concerts there. That would be a great location.

Greg

Price of this tour is irrelevant to me. I was never able to see Freddie or John (born in 1978), but I'll be damned if I am going to miss Brian and Roger.

No, its not the real "Queen", but its the best I will get...and its 50% Queen I guess.

If I can get in the first 10 rows.... whatever... if its $1000.00, $2000.00 .... it makes no difference.

I'm taking my wife and parents... and our daughter then, Makenna Taylor May, will have to stay with my in-laws for the evening.

I have been real pissy about this, but my dad was like...c'mon Scott, you love Roger & Bri... go to see them if nothing else.

I am in Ohio, anything within 300 miles of me, and I am there... maybe some of you will be too??

GregM wrote:

Arlene,

Incredible you should say that...I graduated from Centennial High School in 1996, and walked across the stage at Merriweather Post for my graduation ceremony! I lived in Columbia for ten years, and must've seen at least a dozen concerts there. That would be a great location.

Greg

Gee I hope they come to Merriweather. You guys know I'm a journalist. I've covered Merriweather for both Baltimore Magazine and The Business Monthly (a Columbia Publication). The General Manager Jean Parker is so nice that she has let me go there many times over the years, early in the day, before the gates open...and she lets me take personal photos of the footbridge over the pond with lilly pads and lotus blossoms. And of the entire amphitheater. I once got to go on the stage about 7:00 AM!!!!in the morning for Lynyrd Skynyrd's soundcheck when the bus got there, and I stood on the stage with the roadies looking out at the empty theater.

I have been backstage ALOT...about 4 times with The Allman Brothers Band, and The Steve Miller Band who were touring with....The Paul Rodgers Band...I didn't meet Paul..but I met and got the autograph of his guitarist at the time...Neal Schon!!!! and had dinner backstage!!!!

We just have one little thorn in me seeing Queen+Paul Rodgers when and if they come here...you know us music journalists, musicians...well alot of us have day jobs...I just got downsized from my day job.....whoops! So my unemployment kicks in this week. That ought to buy me the loaf of bread I've always dreamed of! (sarcasm)

I'm in Northern California. Sacramento to be exact.

Hopefully they will play San Francisco or Oakland and not just L.A.

The tour coming to america? YAY!!!!

:D

I live 10 min south of Cincinnati so I'll be at any concert near there and I plan to travel to some other locations as well. I'll also be sleeping in Erin's shed if they come near her place!

If they play in Cincinnati, I have room for some other fans!!!

See you all there!!!!

I'll be at any concert in/near the Chicago area and surrounding larger cities like St. Louis, Indy, any main city in Ohio (I'll come hang with you Lisser!)

Sounds good to me!!! I can't wait!

I will be anywhere close to Cincinnati......

I'd pay around $200 for a Queen ticket -- got relatives from St Louis to Connecticut to crash on a couch, and Queen friends in between.

Anyway, last September I road-tripped to see my other muscial love, Devo, at a 1000+ capacity show at the Riveria Theater in Chicago. Tickets started at 38.50, got mine for $88 on E-bay auction three weeks before the gig 9/24 (it was sold out as of 8/12/04!) and people on the street were willingly paying $300 to scalpers. It's true!

So be prepared for almost anything and I hope to see yas at Breakthru, hopefully we'll have some dates to plan around...

Read this at alt.music.queen today:

"Anyway, I've got a cousin who is working in Vegas at the Paris hotel
and has worked a little with the We Will Rock You play staff. He told
me that word there is that Paul Rodgers and Queen are thinking about
not doing the US as a tour now. He's heard that they're looking at
doing a gig or two in Vegas in conjunction with the play one of the
last two weekends in August -- Either Aug 20th or 26th, and will decide
from there whether they're going to tour a little later or not. I
heard that one of the Queen guys is getting reluctant to be on tour
that long for one thing."