Reasons why PP7 isn't sold out yet?

[scooterSST]

What I love the most is that there are only a handful of tickets left and I'm still deemed a failure this year. Any other festival here would kill to have this type of failure.

Oh well...

Well I can tell ya that I'm not gonna be the one with a beer in one hand and counting heads with the other (some of us still have the drunkfest attitude from the Powermad days )

Glenn, thank you for having the intestinal fortitude to continue this fest every year. A handfull of tickets doth not a failure make. it just leaves enough room to carry two beers instead of one. (or bottles of snapple that keep getting clearer and clear as the night progresses)

 

[General Zod]

I think we need to keep in mind that the current lineup is Plan B. The top band dropped out and forced Glenn to scramble. As has been pointed out, ad nauseam, had Nevermore headlined this festival, as Glenn intended, this festival would have sold out long ago. And had Glenn been able to get Nevermore to commit to a "Dreaming Neon Black" special performance, it probably would have sold out in record time. While Nevermore clearly isn't the most popular band scheduled to play this festival, their fans are rabid and would have travelled for such a performance.

Zod

 

[7thSaviour]

Well I can tell ya that I'm not gonna be the one with a beer in one hand and counting heads with the other (some of us still have the drunkfest attitude from the Powermad days )

Glenn, thank you for having the intestinal fortitude to continue this fest every year. A handfull of tickets doth not a failure make. it just leaves enough room to carry two beers instead of one. (or bottles of snapple that keep getting clearer and clear as the night progresses)

Scooter, if I see a guy carrying a beer and counting heads simultaneously, I know it'll be either you or Glenn.

 

[TBJ]

Having said all that, this is still the best freaking festival in all of the Americas and I am thankful to Glen for putting it on regadless of what fools like me think.

Wrong, Rock in Rio is the best festival out of all the Americas hehe

 

[Thorn23TX]

I have a guaranteed way for the show to sell out:

All Glenn has to do is simply type the words "SOLD OUT" on the main page. This will bring out hundreds of cockroaches who immediately cry foul because they didn't get a chance to buy a ticket. There will be the requisite few days of whining and complaining about how they couldn't buy a ticket because they needed the money to pay for their grandmother's hip replacement or somesuch. After a week or so of bitching about how unfair Glenn is on the forum, he will "surprise" everyone with the announcement that there are 30 tickets that have just been made available and that this will be your LAST CHANCE to get them when they go on sale the next week. PPVII will then sell out in .000023 seconds.

"Problem" solved.

 

[Torn2Shreds]

What I love the most is that there are only a handful of tickets left and I'm still deemed a failure this year. Any other festival here would kill to have this type of failure.

Oh well...

Ah, by the time the doors open on September 15th, this show will INDEED be sold out. I know this isn't going to be a problem...

 

[FatesFan]

Wrong, Rock in Rio is the best festival out of all the Americas hehe

Strong Argument.

 

[Sumeet]

I have a guaranteed way for the show to sell out:

All Glenn has to do is simply type the words "SOLD OUT" on the main page. This will bring out hundreds of cockroaches who immediately cry foul because they didn't get a chance to buy a ticket. There will be the requisite few days of whining and complaining about how they couldn't buy a ticket because they needed the money to pay for their grandmother's hip replacement or somesuch. After a week or so of bitching about how unfair Glenn is on the forum, he will "surprise" everyone with the announcement that there are 30 tickets that have just been made available and that this will be your LAST CHANCE to get them when they go on sale the next week. PPVII will then sell out in .000023 seconds.

"Problem" solved.

You know... in all seriousness, with only 30 tickets left, that probably would work...

 

[adaher]

Glenn, I don't think anyone's saying this year is a failure. People are just speculating as to why this year has seen less demand than the last few years.

In my opinion, it's your avatar. You did much better with the cowbell avatar. All these constant avatar changes are damaging your business. People think you are unstable. Bring back the cowbell!

 

[Dark One]

My issue is with the dumb ass shmucks of this country that are willing to lap that shit up like a lost puppy to a fresh dish of milk.

H'oh boy...... after reading your diatribe I take it back - you're not a troll, just an elitist snob.

 

[Dark One]

I think we need to keep in mind that the current lineup is Plan B. The top band dropped out and forced Glenn to scramble. As has been pointed out, ad nauseam, had Nevermore headlined this festival, as Glenn intended, this festival would have sold out long ago. And had Glenn been able to get Nevermore to commit to a "Dreaming Neon Black" special performance, it probably would have sold out in record time. While Nevermore clearly isn't the most popular band scheduled to play this festival, their fans are rabid and would have travelled for such a performance.

Absolutely - their poplularity coupled with such an exclusive once in a lifetime performance would've been a huge draw. While I understand their business decison, count me among those severely disappointed by it.

 

[Sumeet]

H'oh boy...... after reading your diatribe I take it back - you're not a troll, just an elitist snob.

I have no idea whether he's an elitist snob or not, but you have to admit that the majority of casual pop-music fans out there pretty much just listen to what the media hypes. They don't dig deeper to find stuff they really like that's not getting big publicity.

I'm not necessarily saying that's the most horrible thing ever... I mean, music just isn't that important to a lot of people, and listening to "whatever is on" is good enough. I personally might spend the time and effort to dig deeper when it comes to music, but that means I can't spend that time digging into other things. For example, I'm sure there are die-hard independent movie fans out there who would think I'm a slobbering idiot because I basically just watch the big Hollywood movies that are in wide release in theaters, I don't go digging for truly deep, artistic, low-budget movies being made by some independent filmmaker.

 

[General Zod]

I mean, music just isn't that important to a lot of people, and listening to "whatever is on" is good enough.

Well said. Most people hear music, they don't listen to it. It's a shame, as I believe music is by far the most powerful art form and the appreciation of it can truly be an enriching experience.

Zod

 

[edgeofthorns]

H'oh boy...... after reading your diatribe I take it back - you're not a troll, just an elitist snob.

Dark One, I believe you're reading too much into Fates' post. I take it that he's implying that most people listen to whatever's spoon fed to them by pop culture. Actually 99.9% of the people out there are like that. I'm married to one of them!

 

[edgeofthorns]

Well said. Most people hear music, they don't listen to it. It's a shame, as I believe music is by far the most powerful art form and the appreciation of it can truly be an enriching experience.

Zod

I totally agree! You can stick me on a desert island, just don't take away my music!

 

[Dark One]

Actually 99.9% of the people out there are like that. I'm married to one of them!

Precisely - that's why I took offense at the broad generalization made about people from the U.S.

 

[Dark One]

I have no idea whether he's an elitist snob or not, but you have to admit that the majority of casual pop-music fans out there pretty much just listen to what the media hypes. They don't dig deeper to find stuff they really like that's not getting big publicity.

I'm not necessarily saying that's the most horrible thing ever... I mean, music just isn't that important to a lot of people, and listening to "whatever is on" is good enough. I personally might spend the time and effort to dig deeper when it comes to music, but that means I can't spend that time digging into other things. For example, I'm sure there are die-hard independent movie fans out there who would think I'm a slobbering idiot because I basically just watch the big Hollywood movies that are in wide release in theaters, I don't go digging for truly deep, artistic, low-budget movies being made by some independent filmmaker.

Good points. When you explain it like that it lessens the impact of a one sentence statement that proclaims "Because the US sucks when it comes to understanding good music".

 

[Dark One]

Well said. Most people hear music, they don't listen to it. It's a shame, as I believe music is by far the most powerful art form and the appreciation of it can truly be an enriching experience.

Well, you and I are in complete agreement, and guess what? We're from the U.S.

 

[SavaNanny]

DUH! It should be obvious...All the little nerds that snuck their friends in last year with their ONE badge are coming back this year. Who needs tickets when you can get in for free!

Oh, and this Momma/Grandma has bought a ticket to every Progpower. And I will contine to do so for as long as I can afford to do so- guess that makes me a Fan Nanny!
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Ma

 

[FatesFan]

H'oh boy...... after reading your diatribe I take it back - you're not a troll, just an elitist snob.

Maybe I am an elitist snob. If I am then so be it. If you don't believe that the US as a whole has an problem when it comes to recognizing good music then you are living in a different US than I am.

Take PPUSA for instance. Here you have arguably 10 good band that offer something to almost any metal fan around. Yet the festival is struggling to sell 900 tickets? There is something wrong here. The problem is not with the festival. It isn't the festival that sucks, it's peoples inabiblity to turn away from the radio and mtv. They have the mentality of, if its on the radio or on the billboard top 40 then its bound to be good. Well I am sorry, most of the crap on the billbord top 400 is crap. This festival should not be pulling in 900 people. It should be pulling 9000 + people. There is no reason for this other that all these followers out there that will do and listen to whatever the media says is cool or in. For a while it was swing music and then it was blue grass when O brother came out.

I myself have been guilty of being close minded when it comes to some of the music that some of you all listen to and have been wonderfully suprised at times when I decide to take the plung and listen. That is all I wish people would do.

It just kills me when bands like Edguy and Hammerfall and Blind Gaudian and Within Temptation release albums and they enter the Billboard charts in the top 40 in Europe and the surrounding areas. Why not here. There is something bad wrong. I can't be the only one that sees this can I?

There was one dude that got it and said I hit the nail on the head. That Milton dude said that understanding music wasn't the only thing the US sucked at and you didn't get all bent with him. I may be a snob, I just wished that the type of music that Glen showcases at his Festival would garnish more attention and props than what it gets. If that makes me a snob a troll or a dick so be it.