You're probably right. Lifetime drew maybe 200 people here in Cleveland; Smoking Popes drew less the other week. I just think outside of the big three cities (L.A./Chicago/NYC) there's not enough rock critics and music industry people wanting to relive their teenage/twentysomething years at these shows, and that "regular" people have grown up and forgotten about the band and/or don't live on the internet to know about these things.

Plus, I think the whole reunion tour thing has just burned this scene out. On Braid's reunion tour in 2004, they sold out the Metro the first show they did, but the second show two months later was barely half full. I think people are willing to let reunited bands slide through a few nostalgia performances but then expect them to either put up or shut up (i.e. write new songs or go back to your 9-to-5 job).

The only bands I could see pulling off hugely successful reunion tours where every date's sold out across the board would be Jawbreaker, At The Drive-In and Refused.

-Scott