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Title: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: FELINEGUITARS on July 05, 2008, 08:27:17 PM
http://www.rockthebayou.com/lineup.html

Check out this lineup!

Forget Download, Reading, Glastonbury and even Sweden Rock

This is the stuff we need!
Title: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: Philly Q on July 05, 2008, 08:55:09 PM
Yeeeeessss, there are some of my favourite bands on there! :D

But....

.... about half of the lineup (naming no names) would make me vomit and/or cringe with embarrassment.  :oops:

And there are quite a few I'd love to have seen 15-20 years ago but I suspect would fall into the latter category now. :(
Title: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: dave_mc on July 05, 2008, 09:11:33 PM
oh man... excellent!  :twisted:
Title: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: FELINEGUITARS on July 05, 2008, 09:37:41 PM
I wouldn't be so fussed about Monday's lineup, but Friday and Saturday are pretty damn good.
Title: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: Philly Q on July 05, 2008, 09:50:44 PM
Yeah, I could live without the Monday.  And the Sunday, apart from Black 'N Blue and maybe Yngwie.

It's all a bit incestuous, with Jaime St James having been in Black 'N Blue and Warrant, George Lynch in Dokken and Lynch Mob, Barry Sparks in Dokken and Yngwie's band, Keri Kelli in... half the bands on the bill!
Title: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: SG Thrasher on July 05, 2008, 10:08:47 PM
I'd love to see Y&T.

Oh god Pretty Boy Floyd are there.
Title: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: sgmypod on July 05, 2008, 10:59:03 PM
Ratt, enuff znuff, alice cooper classic
Title: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: FELINEGUITARS on July 05, 2008, 11:43:32 PM
Quote from: SG Thrasher
I'd love to see Y&T.

Oh god Pretty Boy Floyd are there.


Y&T are playing UK in September
http://www.meniketti.com/tourdates.htm
Title: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: SG Thrasher on July 05, 2008, 11:54:20 PM
Quote from: FELINEGUITARS
Quote from: SG Thrasher
I'd love to see Y&T.

Oh god Pretty Boy Floyd are there.


Y&T are playing UK in September
http://www.meniketti.com/tourdates.htm


YES! Cheers, I'm definitely going the Liverpool one, even if the venue is awful.

I just left Dave Meni' a comment on his youtube, might recommend him some BKP's :P
Title: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: FELINEGUITARS on July 06, 2008, 12:35:14 AM
Quote from: SG Thrasher
Quote from: FELINEGUITARS
Quote from: SG Thrasher
I'd love to see Y&T.

Oh god Pretty Boy Floyd are there.


Y&T are playing UK in September
http://www.meniketti.com/tourdates.htm


YES! Cheers, I'm definitely going the Liverpool one, even if the venue is awful.

I just left Dave Meni' a comment on his youtube, might recommend him some BKP's :P


Yeah - Riff Raffs may be the closest to what he had on his old 70s LP.
I would suggest a mule in the bridge and a riff raff in the neck.
Tried an LP recently with a pair of Riff raffs and it sounded perfect for stuff like "forever" or "from the moon"
Title: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: Philly Q on July 06, 2008, 08:37:31 AM
Quote from: FELINEGUITARS
Yeah - Riff Raffs may be the closest to what he had on his old 70s LP.
I would suggest a mule in the bridge and a riff raff in the neck.
Tried an LP recently with a pair of Riff raffs and it sounded perfect for stuff like "forever" or "from the moon"

That's interesting - I've only had the Riff Raff bridge in an SG, never tried the neck model or heard them in an LP.  I thought they might be too bright.

Meniketti's solos on the Black Tiger and Mean Streak albums have some of my favourite guitar tones ever.
Title: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: Nadz1lla on July 06, 2008, 11:15:15 AM
Mehffles...'tis in Texas. I ain't gettin' on no plane, foo'.   :cry:

Ah well, one day England will get a good line-up somewhere....hopefully.

The last festival I even bothered with was Ozzfest '98 in Milton Keynes. Now THAT was a line-up, heh.  :D
Title: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: Will on July 06, 2008, 01:06:39 PM
Quote from: Nadz1lla
Mehffles...'tis in Texas. I ain't gettin' on no plane, foo'.   :cry:

Ah well, one day England will get a good line-up somewhere....hopefully.

The last festival I even bothered with was Ozzfest '98 in Milton Keynes. Now THAT was a line-up, heh.  :D


What was the MK line up then?
Are you near there yourself?
Title: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: FELINEGUITARS on July 06, 2008, 01:43:44 PM
Quote from: Philly Q
Quote from: FELINEGUITARS
Yeah - Riff Raffs may be the closest to what he had on his old 70s LP.
I would suggest a mule in the bridge and a riff raff in the neck.
Tried an LP recently with a pair of Riff raffs and it sounded perfect for stuff like "forever" or "from the moon"

That's interesting - I've only had the Riff Raff bridge in an SG, never tried the neck model or heard them in an LP.  I thought they might be too bright.

Meniketti's solos on the Black Tiger and Mean Streak albums have some of my favourite guitar tones ever.


Meneketti plays a LOT with both pickups on
With the Riff Raffs you can do that and sound really good
I found that I did want a bit more midrange personally on the bridge pickup alone

With the Riff Raff in the neck you do lose just a bit of that Gary Moore fullness but you can play chords on the neck without it sounding too wooly with distortion on
Title: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: dave_mc on July 06, 2008, 01:44:48 PM
Quote from: Philly Q
Yeah, I could live without the Monday.  And the Sunday, apart from Black 'N Blue and maybe Yngwie.


ah, come on, warrant are great!  :lol:

the biggest problem is, if i were in the area of course, that there's a couple of excellent bands on each day, coupled with some others that you wouldn't mind seeing if you were there. I guess that's the plan though, to make you pay for every day...
Title: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: Philly Q on July 06, 2008, 02:54:55 PM
Quote from: dave_mc
ah, come on, warrant are great!  :lol:

I actually, hand on heart and not a word of a joke, think "Cherry Pie" is one of the finest pop-metal songs ever written. It's brilliant.  :oops:  :lol:

But most of their stuff is awful.  

And I'm not sure what state Jani is in (this week), but I suspect they're not the greatest live spectacle nowadays.

Quote from: FELINEGUITARS
Meneketti plays a LOT with both pickups on
With the Riff Raffs you can do that and sound really good
I found that I did want a bit more midrange personally on the bridge pickup alone

With the Riff Raff in the neck you do lose just a bit of that Gary Moore fullness but you can play chords on the neck without it sounding too wooly with distortion on

Interesting!  Although I do actually like a woolly neck pickup, and I agree that the RR bridge could sometimes do with a bit more mids (although I like it very much in my SG).  So maybe no RR set for me.
Title: Re: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: FELINEGUITARS on July 06, 2008, 11:53:34 PM
There are only 5 bands there that I haven't seen - mainly because they haven't ever been to the UK

But there are so many of my fave bands playing over a weekend that I wish I could go
Title: Re: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: il˙ti on July 07, 2008, 04:37:03 PM
Damn that's quite a line-up. Personally I care the least for Saturday. Great White and Brittny Fox would be cool, otherwise meh. Sunday is definitely the bomb. Alice, Yngwie, Warrant and Slaughter in one day... that just sounds too good to be true.
Title: Re: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: dave_mc on July 07, 2008, 04:40:49 PM
Quote from: dave_mc
ah, come on, warrant are great!  :lol:
I actually, hand on heart and not a word of a joke, think "Cherry Pie" is one of the finest pop-metal songs ever written. It's brilliant.  :oops:  :lol:

But most of their stuff is awful. 

And I'm not sure what state Jani is in (this week), but I suspect they're not the greatest live spectacle nowadays.


:D

uncle tom's cabin and mr rainmaker are their best songs, in my opinion. :twisted:
Title: Re: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: il˙ti on July 07, 2008, 04:42:24 PM
^ Agreed. Cherry Pie is a crazy good album
Title: Re: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: dave_mc on July 07, 2008, 09:16:06 PM
:D
Title: Re: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: Nadz1lla on July 08, 2008, 11:16:46 PM
Quote from: Nadz1lla
Mehffles...'tis in Texas. I ain't gettin' on no plane, foo'.   :cry:

Ah well, one day England will get a good line-up somewhere....hopefully.

The last festival I even bothered with was Ozzfest '98 in Milton Keynes. Now THAT was a line-up, heh.  :D

What was the MK line up then?
Are you near there yourself?

Nah I'm in the west, had to travel up in my mate's very sketchy vintage ford Escort. Just glad I made it there, lol! The lineup was awesome, I saw all my fave bands bar one in the same day:

Fear Factory, Slayer, Pantera, Coal Chamber, Pitchshifter, Hed(PE), Human Waste Project (whatever happened to them, they were ace!), Soulfly (who got all the other band's drummers and other muso's out on stage to do en-mass percussion for Rattamahatta!), Ozzy Osbourne AND Black Sabbath (Ozzy must have been fookin' knackered, he played a full set with Ozzy Osbourne, rested for a bit and then closed with Sabbath for another full set! Bill Ward couldn't drum cos he'd literally just recovered from a heart attack so Puffy filled in)), Foo Fighters (who played a much heavier set than usual) and Therapy (who replaced Korn at the last minute cos one of Korn's wives went into labour at the last minute).

I forget who else was there but it was the most amazing day of my life and I still can't think of anything that tops it even 10 years later. Apart from the day my (now) fiancee said Yes but that's a different thing really, hehe. :lol:
Title: Re: OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!
Post by: Davey on July 10, 2008, 10:05:06 AM
that's a pretty sweet lineup. you guys should've seen this years metal camp :D