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Lance Sterling is an American businessman, who currently owns The Canyon Club in Agoura Hills and runs the Saban Theatre concert venue in Beverly Hills, California. Both venues are places where baby boomers can see their rock, country or comedy heroes and '80s one-hit wonders on retread tours, and young people might revel in the mosh pit at the occasional punk show. Lance Sterling is also involved in the Fox Sports Grill chain and had Canyon Club venues in both Scottsdale, Arizona and Las Vegas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Scottsdale sports bar changes its identity )〕 Some 2.5 million people have streamed through The Canyon's doors in the past decade to see B.B. King, Willie Nelson, Ray Davies, Etta James, Heart, Mary Chapin Carpenter, local boys Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Eddie Money and many, many others.〔 ==Early career== Sterling grew upstate New York, in Woodstock. He graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in civil engineering and worked as a structural engineer for a billboard company for a couple of years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Business Corner: The Canyon Club )〕 Sterling got his start in the music industry in the early 1990s, when he met Hard Rock Cafe co-founder Isaac Tigrett, who was starting the House of Blues. Sterling joined the company when he was in his late 20s. House of Blues went on to book artists such as Eric Clapton and Aerosmith and became one of the industry's best-known venue chains. In 1996, Tigrett sent Sterling to Atlanta to turn a Baptist tabernacle into a House of Blues location in time for the Summer Olympics. Sterling had his doubts and considered telling his boss he had missed his flight. He went anyway and built the venue in 60 days. After the games and the bombing of Centennial Olympic Park, the company abandoned plans to continue the location. Sterling decided to run it independently as the Tabernacle while still working for House of Blues. Week after week, he traveled back and forth between Atlanta and Los Angeles.〔 After three years, he sold the Tabernacle to SFX Entertainment Inc. for $6 million, even though House of Blues offered him $6 million in stock options for it. Sterling, who lives on an avocado farm in an unincorporated area of Ventura Country, opened the Canyon Club in Agoura Hills in 2001. The opening concert was Pat Benatar. Sterling targets the 40-and-over crowd with legacy acts such as Kenny Rogers and Blood, Sweat & Tears. His customers are loyal. He said the average patron attends nearly 12 shows a year.〔 In 2012, Sterling took over the 1,900-seat Saban Theatre, previously called the Wilshire Theatre, about seven months ago, complete with $5 million in renovations courtesy of billionaire Haim Saban. At the restored, 1,900-seat Art Deco venue, Sterling faces competition from music industry giants such as AEG and Live Nation Entertainment Inc., which are both based in the L.A. area and operate many of the region's most popular live entertainment destinations, including Nokia Theatre, Staples Center and House of Blues. Coming to Pasadena in December 2015, Sterling is opening another venue, called The Rose. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pasadena Weekly - Coming Attraction )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lance Sterling」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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