No really... I don't!
CALM DOWN, calm down.
I don't want them playing Prog Power this year, simply because I've got some really really high hopes for their next release and the success and praise they got from their Gigantour performance. I know that PP4 was such a wickedawesome show. It was so cool to get a long, personal, perfected setlist and to see them with an audience that was 100% dying to see them. But I'm really hoping that instead of one American performance for a dedicated crowd, that they can get a great push and join a couple other really good bands for a whole tour, and KICK THIS COUNTRY'S ASS. Like seeing them tour with Angra or Kamelot or even Opeth or Evergrey. Let the last slot bring another band that everyone is dying to see, and let SymX take their new album across America.
Don't get me wrong. If they played this year, I'd be geeked as all get out to see them on the best stage in America again! They're long overdue to make a return to Atlanta. I'd most certainly be on the rail, dead center, and Swordlord and I would have the time of our lives. (props to my Vision Divine mindblowing freakout partner!) But it'd be so much more impressive to hear that they get a full-blown tour this spring/summer, and get to show the whole nation what they're aboot. Gawd knows they deserve it.
Who knows? Perhaps they could use the festival to launch a tour like Epica did before jumping on the road with Kamelot. We all know how BADASS that was!
Am I wrong to think this? Is it wrong to pass up a 2-hour, intimate, perfect show with a perfect crowd, to give a band a chance to play dozens of 45-minute shows across the country?
CALM DOWN, calm down.
I don't want them playing Prog Power this year, simply because I've got some really really high hopes for their next release and the success and praise they got from their Gigantour performance. I know that PP4 was such a wickedawesome show. It was so cool to get a long, personal, perfected setlist and to see them with an audience that was 100% dying to see them. But I'm really hoping that instead of one American performance for a dedicated crowd, that they can get a great push and join a couple other really good bands for a whole tour, and KICK THIS COUNTRY'S ASS. Like seeing them tour with Angra or Kamelot or even Opeth or Evergrey. Let the last slot bring another band that everyone is dying to see, and let SymX take their new album across America.
Don't get me wrong. If they played this year, I'd be geeked as all get out to see them on the best stage in America again! They're long overdue to make a return to Atlanta. I'd most certainly be on the rail, dead center, and Swordlord and I would have the time of our lives. (props to my Vision Divine mindblowing freakout partner!) But it'd be so much more impressive to hear that they get a full-blown tour this spring/summer, and get to show the whole nation what they're aboot. Gawd knows they deserve it.
Who knows? Perhaps they could use the festival to launch a tour like Epica did before jumping on the road with Kamelot. We all know how BADASS that was!
Am I wrong to think this? Is it wrong to pass up a 2-hour, intimate, perfect show with a perfect crowd, to give a band a chance to play dozens of 45-minute shows across the country?
