Wall of Mouths

I think a festival tour of the USA would be a great way for the band to gain some exposure over there. I honestly don’t know why they don’t :(

Title: festival would be decent

they’ve played ozzfest gigs over seas,
so no reason they can’t do it in the
states.

i’ve been hoping they’d come to tampa
bay because my brother has a few
connections that he says he’ll pull to
get ‘em into th elocal radio station
on the morning show.. which is syndicated
and beamed to like 7 places across the
country via satellite.. love to do that..

things they could use
1> festival tour would definately help
2> low end band-in-van club tour to
get their name out..
3> videos suitable for the american
market.. i question alot of theirs..
4> the single being appropriately pushed
to the right venues. seems the labels
aim for limp-bizkit stations or
college kiddie stations only.
5> pushing into stores like best buy
with a low cost on the record as
is common w/ first week releases.
this is typically for driving up
“week of release sales”, but would
make it an easier “impulse buy” for
some folks who’ve just liked the
single they’ve hears from ‘em.
6> a tad more touring
7> living in the states to play at my
wedding whenever i find a suitable
female who’s not bonkers.

Title: Therapy in the States

Man, I’d kill to have Therapy? show up for Summerfest here in the Milwaukee area. They certainly don’t get enough exposure here in the States.

I do think the problem here is most of the people here who don’t know them are content to continue being spoon fed the crap on the radio.

Ah well, my own personal rant.

Title: Re: Therapy? in the USA your thoughts..

todd wrote:

Lollapaloosa, Ozzfest (second stage for both) or even the Metallica Summer Sanitarium Tour. Linkin Park, Deftones and limpbizket..T? would smoke em all.

Therapy? played the Ozzfest in the USA in 1996. About 12 dates, I think Andy said.

He also said they got a very good reception even though most people didn’t know who they were. That makes me wonder why they haven’t appeared on the US Ozzfest since.

Andy: “Although not so great that we thought we’d become Aerosmith or something…” :)

Andy’s funny :)

Title: Errrrr…

believer wrote:

The Americans are not into the kind of music T? makes.

Well, some of us are. I admit most of the people here are mentally deficient. Best I can do is smack my friends around and keep playing them till they come around and start listening to good music.

Oh, and rap sucks. I know, not a good arguement, but it’s a little after 5 in the morning here and I havn’t slept yet.

in order for t? to play summer festivals in NA, they have to not play summer festivals in europe, and we all know how they love their european festivals… as much as i agree that media/record label/fans need to promote t? over here, t? need to promote themselves over here as well… 12 shows in the northeastern states inbetween albums is not the right time or place to do a tour… let’s face it, t? are waiting for their popularity to grow in NA before they act, instead of acting and watching their popularity grow…

Title: festival..

honestly… i don’t think ozzfest would
be a good idea, thinking about it.

i say they play the radio-festival circuit.

fyi for overseas folks, I know there are
some big ones, but not often.. here in
the states even medium to small markets
will sometimes have a station put on a
radio festival. they’ll be all over the
country, be named different things, but
often will have a few of the same bands.

this also would allow them to pick up some
smaller club dates in between.

another beauty of this is, often radio
festivals are cheaper than “ozzfest” style
festivals.

Title: Re: Well..

todd wrote:

The summer touring session in NEw England is from May to Septemeber. That is plenty of time. As the previous post noted a radio station one is a good idea..its just the stations need to add the band to the playlist (a good thing).

Well, if they could get on these festivals
somehow, the stations typically *do* add
a spin or two of each band.. even if it’s
just a week or two before the festival,
then drop the song.. very common, but even
a spin a day for a week or two would be
way more than T? gets, so anything’d be
nice…

joo speaketh the truth, my NA-T? brutha.

actually, here in the states, Therapy? is regarded as something of a one-hit wonder. i remember “screamager” getting a bit of airplay, and, well, that’s the song that drew me in (at the age of 13!).
by the time troublegum came out, america’s short attention span had turned toward something else entirely. a&m destroyed whatever momentum the band had built up by delaying infernal love for a ridiculous amount of time and failing to even release semi-detached.
personally, i think all t? need is a good promotional push to get at least a sizable cult following over here.

Title: therapy in us? (merged)

anyone know if therapy is coming to the new york area anytime soon?

The one time that I knew about T? playing in my neck of the woods (Washington State) was when they were recording “Shameless” in Seattle (heh). They were going to put on a gig in a local club and my friend and I had our tickets and walked up to the door…Cancelled because their drummer broke his arm. I almost cried, then got drunk and headbanged.

The one time I heard T? on the radio was when I was in college and the station played “Nowhere”. I jumped up and down and acted the fool.

On another topic, anyone know why the discography doesn’t include stuff like the Black Sabbath Tribute album or the “Judgement Night” soundtrack (which is how I was introduced to T?)?

Title: Re: Nope..

todd wrote:

unless the record “does something” here don’t expect to see them.

This is funny because the sole purpose of a band touring is to promote their album. T? Needs to hit hard with a big US tour to boost sales in the US.

Title: Re: Re: Re: Nope..

davefromoverthere wrote:

the album is a promotional tool it
seems… to promote the tour… sell the
album cheap, new music is just an excuse
to tour.

i thought that tours were there to promote the album, not the other way around??!!

and if the albums are being sold cheap isn’t that a good thing? lord knows are being ripped off enough in ireland!

Title: Re: Re: Re: Re: Nope..

mooneycult wrote:

and if the albums are being sold cheap isn’t that a good thing? lord knows are being ripped off enough in ireland!

again, can’t comment for ireland. i’m
mostly entertained by the current building
trend in the states of first week runs
of albums, especially by big acts, being
insanely cheap. cds that’ll normally
run 11.99-15.99$ (USD), will sometimes
be as cheap as 5.99 for the first week.
For example, “The Vines” (yeah tease me
if ya like, it’s a decent disc).. it’s
usually $12-$15 these days, got it first
week because I noticed it was $5.99.
Manson’s new album is floating around in
the 10.99-15.99 range, got it firs tweek
for 8.99.

Likely the main reasoning behind this
is to just get some money in, but also
boost the “DEBUT WEEK SALES” numbers of
these various albums. Alot more folks
will buy a cd at $8.99 than $14.99.

I live in Omaha, nebraska which is right in the middle of the US, and even I know T? fucking owns.

I don’t think there is another band I get more excited about releasing new albums then T?

I just wish the rest of the country would wake up and realize that we don’t need the white stripes to save rock, T? has been keeping it alive the whole time.