![]() People just don’t enjoy themselves as much as they do at arenas or amphitheaters.īut country crowds are a different breed, which makes it all the more stupefying that it has taken so long for a package tour like Chesney & McGraw to become a booking slam-dunk here. There’s a reason so few tours bother with stadiums anymore, and it has nothing to do with the market value of the artist. Traffic snarls, thick parking congestion, endless and poorly controlled lines for the bathrooms (and beer), clueless ushers and guards ill-prepared for widely (and often wildly) drunken concert crowds – that’s enough to deter even ardent fans, never mind how rotten and uncontrollably reverberating the sound can get in such an enormous space. Granted, stadium events come with more disadvantages than perks. This show was symbolic: Never again let it be said that what works in the Heartland won’t always cut it on the West Coast. But the six-hour sprawl, which kicked off in late afternoon with sharp but short sets from Jake Owen and Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, succeeded more than just at the box office. ![]() That increasingly popular event clearly paved the way for something as monumental as an Anaheim stop on the Brothers of the Sun Tour, a massive-scale endeavor reteaming old friends Chesney and McGraw. ![]() Truly enormous throngs of 50,000-plus people are drawn to Stagecoach, the Indio festival that five years after launching is among the biggest such attractions nationwide, further removing the myth that Cali folks just aren’t country. Not so in California, where superstars like Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw, two of Nashville’s most bankable names, have only been able to reach arena level on their own in the past decade. Most everywhere else in America – the cradle of the South, the Midwest plains, deep in the heart of Texas – country shows like the one that took over the Big A on Saturday routinely sell out stadiums on the strength of a single headliner, plus a strong supporting act or two.
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