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Blues Traveler Says Goodbye to H.O.R.D.E.
"Blues Traveler is not going to play on the tour next year and will have a diminished role [organizing the concert series] provided we find the right partners," Frey added. "We're looking for the tour to take the next logical step."
While the details are still being worked out, one thing is certain: Come next summer, the band will try to conquer Europe. Blues Traveler has rarely traveled overseas, and the band will play both individual venues and the festival circuit. Fans stateside can catch the band during its U.S. tour in the spring--and expect to hear new material, since Blues Traveler will soon be heading into the studio to record.
The band founded H.O.R.D.E.(an acronym for Horizons of Rock Developing Everywhere) in 1992 as an alternative to Lollapalooza. "You go to Lollapalooza expecting something you've seen before," Traveler's harp-wailing frontman, John Popper, told Rolling Stone earlier this summer. "With us, you're going to see something that's inherent to you, music for your soul...Music to get drunk and scam on the opposite sex with."
And Blues Traveler is going with a bang. This year's incarnation has been its most successful, according to concert tracker Pollstar. It sold more than 17,000 tickets and grossed in excess of $500,000 per show, placing among the top five moneymakers of the summer. This summer easily topped last year's previous best, when H.O.R.D.E. averaged $356,000 in 23 cities, finishing 33rd among the top 50 concert acts of the season.
Neil Young, Natalie Merchant, Rickie Lee Jones, 311 and the Spin Doctors were among those who joined H.O.R.D.E. mainstays Blues Traveler, Lenny Kravitz, Rusted Root and Sun Volt this summer, playing to sold-out crowds across the country.
"Now the band wants to ride off in the sunset," Frey said.
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