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Originally Posted by stlbluespower
can't believe Alpine looks to be a go this year. Probably need to temper my enthusiasm till formally confirmed. Love that its probably the July 4th weekend.
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I'm not sure why everyone is so surprised that it's back. I remember last year wondering why everyone was so convinced that it was gone forever. To me, it was obvious that the reason they weren't playing Alpine was because they were headlining Summerfest, which is <40 miles away from Alpine and Summerfest almost certainly has a proximity clause that wouldn't allow them to play Alpine.
I know a lot of folks talked about them going back to Summerfest this year, but that didn't really make sense because they very rarely have repeat headliners from year to year.
And yes, attendance at Alpine was down in 2013 from what it was prior - but they still averaged 24,000 people per night for a two-night stand - not exactly small potatoes. Without doing any research I'd doubt that there were any other 2-nighters in 2013 that had that many people, were there?
2012 they had 58,000 over two nights, and 2010 was sold out. Alpine is MASSIVE. Very few bands are going to be able to legit sell it out. But that doesn't mean that they're not still making a shitload of money getting 20,000-30,000 people per night in there.