RE: Rock2WGTN
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:10 pm

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Yeah it was just like watching Live at Budokan all over again.

"Let me see you go fucking crazy"

"Louder, louder"

"I can't hear you"

All that jazz, but I never in my life thought I'd see Ozzy and Zak Wylde performing War Pigs live, that was fucking mean!

He played a good set.
God there were some muppets there though.

Hey does anyone know who that band was who played in the intervals that had the female opera singer?

RE: Rock2WGTN
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:02 pm

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war pigs was insane! best song of the set i recon.
i think that band ur after was symphony of screams but dnt quote me on that 1. i quite enjoyed the valves (never heard of them b4) thought they wer kinda shihadish
oh and i could stare at that dragon 4 hours

RE: Rock2WGTN
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:17 am

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AWESOME!!!!

RE: Rock2WGTN
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 10:19 am

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Did Whitesnake do any Coverdale-era Deep Purple?

Cuz I'd expect them to at least play BURN or STORMBRINGER.

Coverdale is a great vocalist.

RE: Rock2WGTN
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:51 pm

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Whitesnake played Burn-Stormbringer (medley type thing) in sound check and it was ABSOLOUTELY awesome! But due to time constraints they couldn't play it on the night (it was to be their encore). So that was annoying.
Did anyone catch my band Sonic Altar? Up on the left stage. Whatd you think?
Ozzy was incredible (especially if you watch any youtube videos from last year). I met him before he walked on stage and he was so happy and friendly. What a legend.

RE: Rock2WGTN
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:18 pm

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BIG SINGALONG!!!! lol that was a sik concert, best part tho wuld probably b wen the lordi bassist smakd his bass into that guys bak who jumpd on stage! lol hilarious, saw it rite up front too, where was everyone who went positiond? on both nites i was able to push my way into the frontish rite area of the diamond pit. whitesnake..... the deep purple dude just bullshitted his way thru really, all he did during the breaks was tryd to b the funny brit cunt! got annoying!!!

Lordi: sum guys hooked me up with sum green substances just b4 thm and therefore they were just amazing!

kiss:show offs...gay....only there for gene........sat in the stand!!!

poison: saw them up front and they kiked ARSE, fuk whitesnake going afterwards!!!

alice cooper: during schools out for summer the guitarist flikd his pick into my eye! almst cawt it too!!! and a fukn mate of mine got to get her pik wif him in town!!! luky bitch!!!



too many memories to name! hope everyone who went enjoyed it and duz anyone know if its happnin agen nxt year?

RE: Rock2WGTN
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:13 pm

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Probably too early to tell! There were rumours floating around just before Rock2Wgtn that it was a huge flop and that the promoter had made a huge loss on it. Not sure whether any of that is true or not.

What we can say, however, is that everyone that went thoroughly enjoyed themselves. None of that "worst ever" carry-on that was being thrown about after BDO this year.

I hope they do hold something like this in the future though, maybe not next year, but in two years time.

RE: Rock2WGTN
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:23 pm

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should make it one day, to save money. unless it made money. which i doubt.

RE: Rock2WGTN
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:52 am

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3/4 Million dollar loss according to the news.

RE: Rock2WGTN
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:16 am

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ah well, thats not that much, i thought it might be more.

RE: Rock2WGTN
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:27 am

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I guess the rumours were true after all...

Rock promoter blames Easter laws for loss

Hard-rocking promoter Phil Sprey is facing a potential $750,000 loss after a shortage of fans at his Wellinton metal festival, Rock2Wgtn.

Linky

RE: Rock2WGTN
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:07 am

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Blaming Easter

Uuum, the promotor chose Easter Weekend, knowing about Easter trading laws.

Wow, epic fail!

Add to that, you've got rising living and petrol costs, luxuries such as rock gigs are things not everybody can afford anymore... I missed out on Queens of the Stone Age in ChCh because I just couldn't justify $120 on one band, even if I really love them


It's not that the lineup was that bad, I just think some more relevant bands could have been chosen. Too much cheese. And I like cheese. But bands like Poison are beyond being cheesy-cool, just cheesy-tacky-and-sad. Same for Kiss... beyond the cool stage theatrics, let's face it, their songs are really quite terrible

Alice & Ozzy were really the only bands who hold that "legend" status that is truely deserved (in my humble opinion).

This message was edited by K.I.N.G on Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:14 am.

RE: Rock2WGTN
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:17 pm

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poison were wicked! id get down on my knees and weep if they hadnt played!

RE: Rock2WGTN
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:52 pm

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Ugh, that Rock of Love TV show takes anway any aspect of Poison I might have liked (which is one song, Unskinny Bop, which I liked when I was 11)

RE: Rock2WGTN
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:04 pm

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theres gonna be another ervent 2nd half of the year....

the rock2wgtn advertisments said, 'this biggest show for the 1st half of 08'

from what i know

RE: Rock2WGTN
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:42 pm

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Screw petrol and living costs and all that. Screw anything like that. It's all just excuses. Especially when a gathering of such names are in NZ on two nights. Something you'd have to pay mega bucks for to fly overseas to see.
That's what I didn't get.... $125 - $250 per night for tickets, then accomodation etc... That's still cheaper than flying to Europe or the US to see such a fest.
The simple sad fact is: New Zealand is full of lame hard up doll bludgers who'd rather watch a repeat episode of Seinfeld than attend the biggest rockfest to ever come to NZ. Or maybe there was a Deal or No Deal 3 hour special on that night or something. I commend Phil Sprey for what he did, it wasn't just a rock show... All the weta stuff and the extra mile taken to make it something special really changed the atmosphere and made it a whole different experience.
I find it sad that they were virtually giving tickets away and still not enough people came. What the heck!?
Now if Rap2Wgtn was put on... That'd be a different kettle of fish.
I'm tired of how things are looking here with music and support.
You see all this "BUY MADE IN NZ STUFF" and patriotic ads everywhere, yet at the NZ bands press conference the only 2 people there asking questions and taking notes were 2 foreign guys from independent magazines. And funnily enough their questions were something familiar of this "So why is it that the New Zealand media don't seem to give a flaming terd that you exist?" To which one can only reply, "Because theres a cat in a tree and thats apparently that makes better news".
Then on TV3, Farrier complained about the boring press conference... And that KISS didn't turn up. He also made a point of making us all look rather foolish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef3FhlE4yMM

The event was amazing. I of course liked some bands more than others but it was still cheap considering how long the memory will last.

Oh and I met Ozzy and Zakk so that made it way cooler.

RE: Rock2WGTN
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:17 pm

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Thank you very much, expert.

"Just excuces".... yeah, but they're GOOD excuces. I'm not forking out two weeks wages for some nostalgia bands whose CD's I don't (and never will) own... even Ozzy... (first four Sabbath albums are all I need).



Nope. Crap lineup = crap turnout.

I'd still rather fork out twice that much, travel overseas and see a truely awesome band than pay that amount for several bands who did some singles I remember from when I was a kid.

RE: Rock2WGTN
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 5:38 pm

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dude, bret michaels has always been a seedy old man. its part of what poison are all about.

altho i cant stand that programme either.

RE: Rock2WGTN
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 5:48 pm

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That TV show is just a means to generate interest in him again because Poison are (along with a lot of other bands) touring again... simply because the music itself just won't cut it.

Even back when I was into poser hair bands in the 80's (GNR, Def Leppard etc), Poison were looked down on as a girly plastic pop metal act... now THAT'S saying something.

I don't want to sound completely ungrateful, I'm glad somebody has the knowhow and gumption to take on something as huge as organising an event like this.

I just think it's a little out of touch with the "rock crowd" he was gunning for.

I'd be interested to see what may happen in the future. There'll be lessons learned this time around, as always is the case with festivals.

/end grumpy old rock fan rant

RE: Rock2WGTN
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:38 pm

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not a single person that i have spoken to that went to the gig didn't have the time of their lives, everyone loved it. myself especially! i thought that every band that played was fucking amazing in their own way (and i was'nt on anything). the reason the promoters lost money wasn't purly because of a shit turnout it was also because they put such a huge amount of effort into the show itself. i hope that they do have another similar event coz i would deffinatly fork out that much money again for a show like that (and im an exceptionally broke uni student)

oh and about this tv show sh!t lets not forget that it aint just poison thats doing it, ozzy, gene, even hulk hogan and snoop dogg ffs. i think that for the musicains its another way to gain a new fan base that they otherwise wouldn't be able to reach and yes its tacky but if the music is still there then there is nothing to complain about