sh0kr0k
Active Member
Didn't know about 1 and found out about 2 only a few weeks prior to it. As a broke and busy music major in college, traveling across the country by myself for a multi-day metal festival in a (then) unfamiliar city was completely and utterly out of the question. I spent those few weeks dreaming and lamenting about being there. I must have opened my mouth to the right person because I discovered some of my friends also liked prog and power metal. Over the course of the next year, the 3 of us (Erik Langerak, Of The Borg, and myself) managed to make the trip.
We drove there and back, they stayed in the Days Inn (iirc) and I stayed with a friend. Months before, I met a person online (I forget where/what site) who lived in Woodstock, GA. We chatted about music and I told him that I was going to this festival in Atlanta. He said, "No way, really? I already have tickets - I'm going too!" I stayed at his place in Woodstock for III and IV instead of at the hotels.
I've attended every year since III, sometimes by the hair of my chin, and sometimes with the help of generous friends and/or family. I'm thankful that I've been able to make it since ProgPower has been instrumental in bringing my husband and I together
PPUSA X was absolutely fabulous, but nothing beats the raw excitement of those early years when PP was a new, and sometimes difficult to make it to, experience. I really had to work for it, and I had so many friends who didn't know about it that I could bring along. Things are different now, but I love ProgPower more than ever! Unless something unfortunate happens, I'll never miss another!
Oh yeah - I can't remember how I found out about PP! I know it was online, that much is certain, but I don't know what led me to the website. Maybe a banner ad somewhere? Maybe a search for a band? I really wish I could remember, but so much has happened between now and then. I can't believe it's been almost a decade now!
We drove there and back, they stayed in the Days Inn (iirc) and I stayed with a friend. Months before, I met a person online (I forget where/what site) who lived in Woodstock, GA. We chatted about music and I told him that I was going to this festival in Atlanta. He said, "No way, really? I already have tickets - I'm going too!" I stayed at his place in Woodstock for III and IV instead of at the hotels.
I've attended every year since III, sometimes by the hair of my chin, and sometimes with the help of generous friends and/or family. I'm thankful that I've been able to make it since ProgPower has been instrumental in bringing my husband and I together
PPUSA X was absolutely fabulous, but nothing beats the raw excitement of those early years when PP was a new, and sometimes difficult to make it to, experience. I really had to work for it, and I had so many friends who didn't know about it that I could bring along. Things are different now, but I love ProgPower more than ever! Unless something unfortunate happens, I'll never miss another!
Oh yeah - I can't remember how I found out about PP! I know it was online, that much is certain, but I don't know what led me to the website. Maybe a banner ad somewhere? Maybe a search for a band? I really wish I could remember, but so much has happened between now and then. I can't believe it's been almost a decade now!
