Rock n America Festival

[zinescene]

I just heard about this on House of Hair tonight. Festival in Oklahoma City featuring Scorpions, Ratt, Twisted Sister, Dokken, Cinderella, Warrant, Great White, Slaughter, Michael Schenker Group (w/ex Scorps drummer Herman Rarebell), Trixter, LA Guns, Firehouse, Steelheart, Bullet Boys, Lynch Mob, Pretty Boy Floyd, Lizzy Borden, Lita Ford, Enuff Znuff and many more bands.

Sounds like a kick ass festival. Just wish it was some place easier to access via airline.

http://www.rocknamerica.com/

 

[nomisofsiman]

Interesting. Not really my cup of tea but for anyone who likes those types of bands that seems like a dream bill. I do like Scorpions though. I thought I heard somewhere though that Twisted Sister wasn't going to tour anymore.

 

[Cheiron]

Sounds like the first Rocklahoma.

 

[Dolamite S. Biffle]

yeah and now Rocklahoma just fucking blows

 

[zinescene]

Read that a lot of people that worked for Rocklahoma jumped ship and are supporting this festival. I'll have to look for the link.

 

[SeaStorm]

I thought I heard somewhere though that Twisted Sister wasn't going to tour anymore.

I think you're referring to this:

TWISTED SISTER Will Never Tour Again:
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=139840

The key word being "tour" (aka go from city to city playing shows every night). Twisted Sister's business model is to play individual shows (fly-in, fly-out) and make a lot of money per show. As quoted in the article:

"I'll bet you I make more money playing 12 shows than most [other] bands make playing 50 shows."

Playing this festival fits right into that.