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Old 3rd April 2019, 03:12 AM
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Originally Posted by voltron View Post
^ Is her pride involved? Maybe. Would you expect Namie, or Koda Kumi, or anyone who has had huge success to suddenly do a small venue world tour? No. There are exceptions I'm sure, but for the most part artists of a certain stature will never do these things. For example, I would NEVER see any of them performing at a convention.
There have been some notable exceptions, but I agree that I don't see Ayumi doing it.

Largest exception that comes to mind for me was L'arc en Ciel playing an anime convention back in 2004. Hyde tours either solo or with Vamps pretty much every year in America in small venues even though he still sells out stadiums, domes etc., in Japan. But he is certainly an exception. I really don't think he makes much money from this either; I think he just likes doing it.

Now, honestly, unless Ayumi is willing to play clubs, that's all she's pretty much able to do outside of Asia. Pre-2010 would have been the time to make any kind of serious stab at playing outside of Asia.

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^I said in the sense she has some control over how to react if things go bad and she needs medical care, either for her hearing of problems originated from it like her lack of balance.
Much of her medical care regarding that has been done in Los Angeles as I understand it.

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