By Alfred Branch, Jr.
Aerosmith is being sued by some disgruntled fans who are angered that the aging hard rockers cancelled a September concert in Maui.
The band had switched the dates for a planned concert in Chicago from Sept. 10 to Sept. 24, which left them unable to fly their equipment to Hawaii for the scheduled Sept. 26 show in Maui, according to published reports. However, the band played a private show Honolulu a few days later for Toyota and several thousand car dealers and executives, for which the band allegedly received $1 million.
Several fans with tickets to the Maui show were reportedly angered because they had booked trips and hotel rooms for the show. The dozen unnamed fans involved in the lawsuit are seeking damages of about $3 million, according to published reports.
Neither the band’s agent, listed as Dan Weiner of Paradigm Talent & Literary Agency, nor the lawsuit’s attorney, Brandee Faria of the Hawaii law firm Perkin & Faria, returned messages seeking comment. Aerosmith apologized to fans through a press release.
Fan anger over concert problems has been a hot issue as of late, primarily due to the unrelated Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus ticketing situation.
Last Updated on December 22, 2008 by Alfred Branch Jr.
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Aerosmith notoriously cancels shows that do not sell well. If they do not get a guaranteed price, and ticket sales are weak, they cancel. Happens all the time. This is also why they only play the absolute top major markets. It is not worth it for them to play secondary markets where they make half.
Is this what we’ve become? What kind of society allows lawsuits for cancelled events, or tickets costing too much? Seems like whenever someone doesn’t get exactly what they want, their feeling of entitlement takes over and they sue. Aerosmith show got cancelled and it wasn’t fair. What a bunch of crybabys.
Next time the grocery store is out of the exact type of bread I want, I’m suing. And if the clothing store is out of my size, I’m suing them, too. Oh – and I’m not suing for the actual value of the bread or clothing — I’m suing for 10 times that amount. Pain and suffering, you know.
This event was very close to a sell out, the house only had about 5% of General Admission Tickets available (yest this is an accurate stat). So that would not be a valid reason. I feel bad for these folks, they are in a place that rarely see’s great shows and when they had an opportunity, the band decided not to fullfill a contract they had signed.
Aerosmith are a bunch of greed hounds. $1 million fee for one night for a private show. And they have the audacity to state that they backed out of their overpriced Maui show due to the inability to fly their equipment to Hawaii? It was greed, plain and simple. GREED: 1, LOYALTY TO FANS: 0
Not cool Aerosmith, not cool at all…I just read this on Globalgrind.com and wanted to follow up afterwards to see what their damn good reason was for canceling their show! They should DEF reschedule and compensate their fans. Don’t make these book shows in these awesome venues and locations if you can’t commit to it! If they rescheduled their other show properly, they wouldn’t have this problem. Their management needs to get their shiz togetherrrrrr..
Yea I bought all the stuff . The membership the t-shirts a hat , even a blues harp . took my vacation time for this booked a nice condo in Wailea Maui ,had it all planned .Got the Ultra sweet spot tickets . Look I still had a great time don’t cry for me , but it was a crime to not give us all the $ back for the tickets . They kept the service fees the patch pin bandana and tour t-shirt $ . Service fees for ten thousand tickets???? figure it out . To the person who said we are cry babies should put the shoe on the other foot. Try planning your vacation all around seeing Aerosmith spending thousands of your hard earned dollars only to say we aren’t worth it.I have a friend who works for the stage co. that was setting this up and they actually didn’t need their stage, that and all the lighting were already in place and they UPS’d the props and had them there no problem for the gig for Toyota.HAWAII IS THE 50TH IN THE USA-RED BLOODED AMERICANS PAL. I’m not on the list but I would say I hope they get every penny.By the way the fan club is run by some marketing firm there is no real fan club .All they care about is the bottom line$$$$$$$$$$$$$
“All they care about is the bottom line$$$$$$$$$$$$$”
Just curious……who exactly is “they”?
Rock & roll is all about money. Aerosmith has milked there hits forever. Anything new
coming out might have been written 25yrs ago. We went and saw them at the honda center
and they kicked butt. But watching old geezers play 1970’s music is boring.
People paying over a 60 bucks a ticket are fools the show is not that good.