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:	post by Josh_Martin at 2004-11-19 10:12:53

JayTUS said:

Everyone that is complaining about the tours, maybe they shouldn't book the King Diamond tour? Maybe they shouldn't book the Cryptopsy tour?

Right. King Diamond should be its own show.

JayTUS said:

Again, this goes without saying, they do it because it is convienent and it makes sense. It's easier to route a tour around a fest then it is to fly bands over and pay for all that crap. A lot of fests do it, even the European ones.

Right, that's why I said it seems really half-assed. Do it the easy way and its not as good. I don't know which Europe fests your talking about but I know lots of bands from the US who get flown over there just to play a festival or two.

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But let's face it, let's pretend they were flying everyone over for Carcass reunion or an At The Gates renion and then flew in one or two other bands, but it meant charging an extra 20 bucks for a 3 days pass, you'd be bitching that it was too much money to see only a couple bands, so it's a lose-lose situation. There's never going to be a "metal AND hardcore festival" where every single band on the bill is loved by all, so you just have to take the good with the bad and get over it...

Not necessarily. Like Alex said, the money it costs to bring in a big package tour could pay for 3 or 4 bands to fly in. But no one at Massconcerts has a clue about underground metal unless its spoonfed to them by booking agencies and labels.
The reality is, big fests in the US are done for the money. There are plenty of kids who like gay metalcore bands to keep Massconcerts doing this for years. Metalcore is becoming the hairmetal of the 00's. Just like nu-metal/rap-metal in the 90's. Its what poseurs listen to, and there are always going to be a fuckload of poseurs with money to burn.
I'm just saying that, having been to metal festivals that were really killer, where the promoters first priority was music, not money (and no, I'm not talking about Koshick) its a bummer that the one that is held where I live has to suck so bad. All it does is turn a regular show into an overpriced annoyingfest.

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