OMG - now that is what I call a festival!!!!

[Philly Q]

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.

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.

[FELINEGUITARS]

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

[il˙ti]

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.

[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:

[il˙ti]

^ Agreed. Cherry Pie is a crazy good album

[dave_mc]

:D

[Nadz1lla]

Mehffles...'tis in Texas. I ain't gettin' on no plane, foo'.   

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:

[Davey]

that's a pretty sweet lineup. you guys should've seen this years metal camp :D