Two new dates (in the U.S.) were added at the start of this reunion tour; April 10th at the Hard Rock Live Universal Orlando and April 13th at the Hard Rock Live Seminole (both in Florida). Ticket sales for this reunion tour has been going well with over 100,000 tickets sold for all of the shows.
The initial dates were set based on uncertainty of how well demand would be. The June break was set as both a breather and to evaluate how everything was going (where they would decide on whether or not to expand the tour; which seems likely to head out to the west coast in a later leg).
Their appearance at the US Festival in 1983 (this music event was organized by Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak) continues being one of their most seminal moments.
The following is a 2001 Much More Music documentary entitled “The Story of Triumph” which really puts into perspective how their split in 1988 (where in the following years, the acrimony of Emmett trying to extract himself from the business partnership along with the lawsuit that he filed and then lost), made it seem highly unlikely that they would ever get back together again (let alone, Emmett ever speaking to his two former business partners and band mates).
The ending part of this documentary (and each of their words spoken including Emmett saying “never say never“) is most poignant given this 50th Anniversary Reloaded tour.
Their induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2008 led to contact prior to that where the three were able to talk again and to resolve those past differences; they appeared together again (for the first time since 1988) at the induction ceremony and then performed together for the first since their short 1988 tour, at the Sweden Rock Festival and Rocklahoma.
I’m looking forward to them extending to this to some west coast shows (so that I can attend at least one of those).
