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04 Jan 2011 10:35

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Music: The Dave Matthews Band basically prints its own money on tour

  • 11.2
    million     the number of tickets the Dave Matthews Band sold between 2000 and 2009 – more than any other band on the freaking planet
  • $500
    million     the total revenues that DMB grossed from touring alone during that period; we need to get in the crappy music business, apparently source
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03 May 2010 10:51

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Culture: How Conan O’Brien picked himself up from a crappy situation

  • beard “That was my small victory,
    you know. OK, so I lost ‘The
    Tonight Show,’ but I’ll show them – I’ll stop shaving.”
  • tour “When we started putting this tour together, I started to feel better almost immediately. There is almost no better antidote.” source
  • » But what about Jay Leno? The comic didn’t mince words in talking about his new adversary. “Jay’s got The Tonight Show. I have a beard and an inflatable bat. And I’m touring city to city. Who can say who won and who lost?”
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