Talk:Reunion Arena

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"The arena also hosted numerous concerts and other events. The first concert at Reunion was July 2, 1980 by The Who. The rock band Journey played three consecutive shows at the arena in April 1983 and in December 1986, Van Halen played three shows in June 1984 and Pink Floyd played three consecutive shows at Reunion in November, 1987. Pop songstress Whitney Houston played two sold-out concerts at Reunion in September, 1987. The video for the Scorpions' song "Still Loving You" was filmed there.

The arena featured 30,000 ft² (2,790 m²) of arena floor space and had great sightlines, making it ideal for a number of events and games, including many high school graduations. Country music superstar Garth Brooks filmed his first television special, This Is Garth Brooks, in the arena during two sold-out concerts in September 1991, and country music superstar Shania Twain once performed her Come on Over Tour in the arena on September 12, 1998 and was filmed in her first DVD released Shania Twain Live. U2 filmed them performing Bullet the Blue Sky for their Rattle and Hum movie in 1987. Dire Straits played there during their On Every Street world tour in 1991. Reunion was also a venue that was frequently used by World Class Championship Wrestling in the 1980s, in which the promotion held many, if not all of their bi-monthly Star Wars events."

If we are now to attempt to list every major label recording artist that ever performed at Reunion Arena (and there are quite a few missing from this article) let's be consistent about where we place the reference. The Dire Straits reference in the second paragraph (which has no historical value whatsoever except to mention that Dire Straits performed at Reunion Arena in 1991)should follow the Whitney Houston reference in the first paragraph. The first sentence of the second paragraph has nothing to do with the rest of the paragraph and should be a paragraph unto itself. The Scorpions reference in the first paragraph should mention the appx. date and be placed chronologically within the second paragraph. The last sentence of the second paragraph has nothing to do with the musical events of the rest of the paragraph and would be better suited joined with the first sentence of the first paragraph to create a new first paragraph.

PCB —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.171.162.198 (talk) 07:35, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

I question the veracity that Guns N' Roses played there in December 1987. I have a ticket stub of a concert I attended in which Guns N' Roses opened for Alice Cooper at the State Fair Coliseum (a much smaller venue than Reunion Arena) in Dallas, Texas dated December 4, 1987. This was before Guns N' Roses became huge with Sweet Child O' Mine, and in fact, most of the crowd booed them. So I think that they did not have the cache to play Reunion Arena at this early stage in their career. The wikipedia page for Appetite For Destruction Tour (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Appetite_for_Destruction_Tour&oldid=574135509) backs up my statement. Drmars (talk) 02:34, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Of course, there are those who will gladly tell you that another Wikipedia article does not constitute a reliable source. My pedantry meter doesn't peg that high, however. I see there is also a reference in the above text to World Class Championship Wrestling. I don't think the Star Wars events were on any set monthly (or thereabouts) schedule, like modern-era wrestling pay-per-view shows are. They typically occurred during major holidays (4th of July, Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc.), and also when their storylines increased fan interest in the product. Normally, a promotion who is planning a series of major events at a large venue will commit in advance to X number of dates per year (known as "block booking") in order to pay less rent per performance. This is how Mid-South Wrestling came to run several events every year at the Louisiana Superdome. As for whether all Star Wars event occurred at Reunion: I really don't have details, but I believe in Dallas, the promotion was content to run their regular shows at the Sportatorium, as they owned the building. In Fort Worth, they ran regularly at the North Side Coliseum or the Will Rogers Coliseum, with larger events at the Tarrant County Convention Center. I'm pretty sure there were events at the latter venue which were also billed as "Star Wars". The Fritz Von Erich "fake heart attack", which occurred at Reunion, pretty much killed their business to the point where running larger venues quickly became a non-issue. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 03:13, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Timeline

One of the most important events in the history of the Reunion Arena was the approval for construction of the American Airlines Center, which eventually instigated its demise. Even though this did not actually occur at Reunion, doesn't it at least deserve to be mentioned? As it stands now, there is nothing in the article to tell a reader unfamiliar with the circumstances why this venue fell into disuse and was eventually demoilishted. 166.152.32.247 (talk) 02:23, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

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I'm not entirely sure how to bring arena articles up to good-quality or featured-article status.. but I know this is no where near it. It has an infobox and some pictures and some list of tenants.. but it needs perhaps a better history, discussions on teams at the facility.. maybe pictures from its prime. drumguy8800 C T 09:57, 3 November 2006 (UTC) Now that this facility is demolished maybe its status can be lowered. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.76.80.75 (talk) 21:11, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

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Notable Acts/Performances lists

Perhaps these lists could be bulleted or some some other way as to appear more neat and less junked out and cluttered. Perhaps that could go on another page, though I really am not sure there's an actual need for a whole other page just for those lists. Any thoughts? Satanhhh (talk) 05:58, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Attendance record

I just came across a WWE-produced factoid claiming that the Thanksgiving 1983 Star Wars wrestling show set an attendance record with 19,675. It wasn't specific whether this was an attendance record for wrestling or for the arena as a whole. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 22:39, 9 February 2020 (UTC)