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New site? Maybe some day. Username: SPAM Filter: re-type this (values are 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E, or F) Message: UBB enabled. HTML disabled Spam Filtering enabledIcons: (click image to insert) Show All - pop Select Color orange orange-red crimson red firebrick dark red green limegreen teal silver sea-green deeppink tomato coral purple indigo burlywood sandy brown sienna chocolate FONTXXSmallXSmallSmallMediumLargeXLXXL :DG: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Char† ‡ ‰ ♠ ♣ ♥ ♦ ‾ ← ↑ → ↓ ™ – —   ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª « ¬ ­ ® ¯ ° ± ² ³ ´ µ ¶ · ¸ ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿ À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö × Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ÷ ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ b i u  add: url  image  video(?) : post by BestialOnslaught at 2004-11-18 17:45:44 JayTUS said: I think this pretty much goes without saying, but Massconcerts can't really afford to fly in a bunch of bands for one off shows because the capacity at the Palladium is only 2200, and at the end of the day, they don't do this fest to break even. That is why so many NE bands play and why tour packages always end up being a part of the lineup. It just makes sense. Maybe it makes financial sense, but like I said, it doesn't make for a good fest. Hell, it's not even a genuine festival, it's just 2 shows in a row with way too many local openers tacked on. It obviously CAN make financial sense if they did it in Milwaukee (I don't think the places they did those fests held much more than 2-3000 people), if a dozen fests in Europe do this yearly, etc. Hell, by simply refusing to book one tour of 3-4 Metal Blade/Century Media/Trustkill/Relapse/Roadrunner bands on the fest, they would free up money to fly in 2-3 bands for one-off performances. It's not exactly like it's cheap to book the Opeth/Dimmu/Gorguts package (I think that was one of the tour shows that made up the 1st night at the fest in 2001 or so) - That $3000 or so guarantee for that package could probably pay for flying in/rooming 2-3 domestic bands and one overseas band. They could also adopt pay-to-play, which, while it sucks, doesn't have to be as drastic as a Koshick fest. Even if they just had the bottom 10-15 bands on the bill pay $200 bucks/sell tickets, that could help pay for a few more one-off appearances.

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