Thursday
Jan222015
Rocklahoma 2015 Lineup
Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 12:01AM Tesla gets a huge headline spot this year. Good to see the Winery Dogs, Lynam and Queensryche too. Looks like a fun Memorial Day party. I'm not really into Linkin Park too much. What do you think?
Reader Comments (18)
I really like Tesla. MB don't hate 😃
Love Song transports me back to 1989 when it came on the radio/pa at Jc penneys & my boyfriend cuddled with me inside a rack of clothes and serenaded me softly.
I'd like to see this version of Slayer with Bostaph and Holt (both of whom are great musicians), especially if they play some of the new material they have been working on. "Implode" didn't do it for me. MB don't hate (though he will, he will).
After that, it gets pretty thin for me personally, certainly too thin for me to justify the trip as against other, closer, shows. I fear that Aftershock is tilting this way generally (packages of packaged tours that travel across the country and abroad, cobbled together and glued to this or that large entertainment corp.). At least it is closer. So I will wait and vote with my money . . . or not, this year.
I will say it again: I wish I went one of the first couple of years. Will be kicking myself over not going. Ah, retrospect (the mental imagery, not the stage).
It sent me down the rabbit-hole, reading the pros and cons of Sam and his operation on internet posts. I have no real opinion because it seems that each side had a point and I, ultimately, never got around to seeing it for myself. But you clued me into some bands to check out. So I will. And, again, thanks for doing that.
Glad that it is still there, doing the ground work while the rest of the festival seems to chug along on corp. auto-pilot.
I went to Rock N America in 10 because the lineup at ROK wasn't as strong IMO. RNA was a great show lineup, but a poor venue.
That being said, I posit that Rocklahoma, as a festival and VIP purchaser, is far superior than any other in the states- the prices are more than fair, the perks (free drinks including beer, free buffet food) are stellar and the entire atmosphere and extra things to do are among the things that make this festival head and shoulders above all others. I wish M3 would take note, which by the way, I "hear" they might be, by making Day 1 of the festival this year much longer with more bands to be added.
But C'mon M3, I luv y'all and such, but charging $850.00 for the "rock star experience" for a f*cking tee shirt, poster and one dinner along with some other measly perks is simply price gouging. side note: I could afford the "experience", but instead, I am taking my sons and a couple buddies who are on hard financial times right now who can't afford to go, because that is money much better spent. IMHO
- Allyson
The rest of it I'd just as soon skip as it's just as boring as TeslUGH!, save for where the action -- what little there is -- starts, finally, on line 7, with Red Dragon Cartel, who I saw twice on The Monsters of Rock Cruise.
The next one I would really want to see is Bai Bang. And I'm with ya on catching all the bands on the Retrospect stage. I saw Station at the M-Pre Party a few years back and they kicked a*s royale!
The venue was okay to me, aside from placing the food vendors (well, most of them) and cooling tent up the hill and out the main gates.
A shame too, I hoped they would bring it back. I thought it was a pretty solid lineup overall.
Good thing you're not a Tattoo artist.
UNROCKLACOMA!
The rest are meant for UNROCKLACOMA!
I'd like to see Bai Bang and Red Dragon but not much more. I still wonder if this is more profitable for them? The five years I went, there were plenty of people. It simply rocked.
This doesn't rock. Change the name for this festival and bring back ROCKlahoma. ROR at least has Priest and Manson. With Motley and AC DC out there and VH being idle, I question did you dig deep enough or simply let someone else 'plan' this. Too bad - M3 here we come for some down and dirty Rhino Bucket (Beat to Death Like a Dog / Been There Done That anyone?)