BenJAMin said:
Congrats on getting some good talent together Glenn. While I will not be attending this year I am glad that you have the ability to make all these people happy.
There was some speculation on the board that Accept might have been a band, were they ever seriously considered if given the opportunity would you accept (ha!) such a band on your festival line-up?
Congrats again.
Very cool post...nice words for the man!
I, too, was wondering is Accept was even considered or approached. I half-expected the BW&BK festival to bring them. I wonder if Glenn toyed with the idea.
In retrospect...his "mystery band" would have had to have been a bigger name, stature, marquee, special-event kinda thing than Strato...who the hell could that have been...who's bigger than Strato?
Originally, I could only think of Helloween or a USA Accept show. A lot of people think D&W...I don't think so.
Now that I put all the pieces together...I'm thinking it was a CG reunion, but they couldn't get Midnight confirmed with the other band members, and Glenn wasn't going to wait for them to shit-or-get-off-the-pot (personally, I think the man is taking a horrible chance with the ever-volatile Strato...haha!).
Anyway...the beauty is it will probably all work out for future PPUSAs...the future oppotunities for band like SA, D&W, Masterplan, Mercenary, etc.
Hell...maybe one day we'll pull Shadow Gallery out of their shell or the broomstick out of Jim Matheos' ass...haha!
Also...maybe one day Glenn will put out his book and we'll discover all these juicy tidbits once and for all...
Bottom line...it's gonna be a hell of a show...like always!
Rock on!