This country is too trendy to get a festival similar to Wacken or Bang Your Head with real Hard Rock and Metal. We get Ozzfest and Sounds of the Undeground, as far as big commercial ones, and more than half of those bands just yell and scream and couldn't play a guitar lead to save their lives.
Thats what we have to unfortunately deal with. Small festivals like ProgPower I wish could get to that type of level while keeping with the real talented bands. But like I said, commercially the radio and promoters choose not to recognize its importance. We are out numbered by the sheepeople.
So at this rate, when the European countries get all the true Metal festivals where the fans clearly come out in droves to see, why would bands come to the States over the summer when their bread n butter is elsewhere?
Maybe it would be feesible if several States had a festival, or there was two or three roaming tours that could hit several spots along the country.
like when they did the Monsters of Rock, in 88 I think?? or Clash of the Titans. Then it could be successful.
i really think there are enough traditional Heavy Metal fans in this country to pull off a successful festival. Problem is the majority need convincing, its the sheepeople syndrom. Thats why we had to deal with crap like Nirvana in the 90's and more imposters like Limp Dick, Korn and now System of a Down, or Linkin Log and noisey metalcore like As I Lay Dying, Black Dahlia Murder, etc.
Thats what the public was told is the new face of rock and not bands like Strato, Gamma Ray, Pagans Mind, Edguy, Brainstrom, Evergrey, Bodom, you know the drill.
Im sure if any of us on this forum had the money we would host a festival where you could see on the same stage from Maiden and Dio to Overkill and Destruction, to King Diamond and Witchery, Strato to Brainstorm, to Motley Crue Y&T and Whitesnake to Pagans Mind and Evergrey and everyone in between.