Your First Time Fantasy Line-Up

[PatrickHoyt]

It could be because its 1:30 in the morning and I think of the wierdest most insignificant junk, or it could be because Im really curious to see what the response is on this subject.

Here are the rules:

Build your personal ProgPower Showcase show out of any 4 bands you want whether they've been at PPUSA or not.

But here's the catch:

Build the next two nights of the main two night festival out of bands that have never before been at PPUSA.

Im gonna have to go think about this one myself but I figured I'd present the idea and let you all have at it.

 

[Braxil]

Showcase:
Conception
Orphaned Land
Pyramaze
Eternity X

Friday:
Andre Matos
Riverside
Andromeda
Mechanical Poet
Glory Opera

Saturday:
Rhapsody of Fire
Tarot
Disillusion
Spheric Universe Experience
Ride the Sky

 

[zedowns]

Showcase:
Pain of Salvation (Headliner)
Zero Hour
Thought Chamber
Symetrica

Friday:
Fates Warning
Labyrinth
Riverside
Eternity X
Venturia

Saturday:
Helloween (Kiske reunion! )
Crimson Glory (Midnight reunion! )
3
Poverty's No Crime
Thessera

What a killer show that would be...

 

[RiffDaemon]

Showcase:
Stratovarius
Edguy
Gamma Ray
Blind Guardian (Kai Hansen on Valhalla, Hall of the King, Lost in the Twilight Hall, and Quest for Tanelorn!!!) <Headline>

Friday:
Dreamtheater (getting the prog requirement out of the way...)
Nocturnal Rites (Anders on the old stuff )
Iron Savior
Rhapsody
Iced Earth (w/ Barlow on Barlow-era songs!) <Headline>

Saturday:
Sonata Arctica*
Demons and Wizards
Avantasia
Iron Maiden
Helloween (Andi's sick .. Kai is in ) <Headline>


* they haven't been to PPUSA "yet"

 

[sh0kr0k]

Showcase:
Orphaned Land
Prymary
Wuthering Heights
Pain of Salvation

Friday:
Miles Beyond
Hubi Meisel
Spheric Universe Experience
Morgana Lefay
Helloween

Saturday:
Meyvn
Outworld (does playing at the Preparty count them out for this game?)
MindFlow
Transatlantic
Iron Savior

 

[J-Man]

Showcase:

Nightwish
Circus Maximus
Outworld
Scale the Summit

Friday

Serenity
DGM
Machine Men
Tarot
Ayreon

Sat

Mevyn
Mechanical Poet
MINDFLOW (hint, Hint)
Dark Moor
Avantasia

 

[woosta]

Showcase:

Axel Rudi Pell
Fate
Bonfire
Darken (A friend's band out of Germany)

Friday from opener to headliner:

Private Line (Fin)
Deathstars
Tiamat
Morgana Lefay
Helloween

Saturday:
Charon
Poisonblack
Crematory
Pretty Maids
Running Wild

Furthermore, I'd like to give myself an honorable mention that I listed exactly ZERO bands that have played here at PP before.

 

[Stingray11214]

Showcase:

Nightwish
Sonata Arctica
Kamelot
Therion

Friday:
5. Tarot
4. Riverside
3. Dark Moor
2. Beto Vasquez Infinity
1. Mastermind (Japan)

Saturday:
5. Axel Rudi Pell
4. Dream Evil
3. Seraphim
2. The Legion of Hetheria (MEX)
1. Suspyre

 

[PatrickHoyt]

alright I finally got my list together

Headliners listed first and so on.

Thurs. Showcase:

Therion
Mindflow
Apocalyptica
Halcyon Way



Friday:

Tarot
Nocturnal Rites
Machine Men
Meyvn
Heimdall


Saturday:

Rhapsody of Fire
Dream Evil
Spheric Universe Experience
Xandria
Magistral


or an alternate plan for either Friday or Saturday

Iced Earth
Morgana Lefay
Eidolon
Lanfear
Dark Moor

or

Helloween
Fates Warning
Beyond Twilight
Krucible
Pownd

 

[Ascension]

Ladies & Gentlemen...l give you...Progpower Infinty...

Showcase

Eyefear
Tears of Anger
Meshuggah
Jorn

Friday

Tarot
Beyond Twilight (w/Jorn providing some of the vocals)
Andromeda
Iced Earth (performing The Glorious Burden and Framing Armegeddon & maybe an encore or 2...hence there will only need to be 4 bands)

Saturday

Spheric Universe Experience
Astral Doors
Labyrinth
Dream Theater (performing Images & Words and Systematic Chaos & maybe an encore or 2...hence there will only be 4 bands)

This will be touted as the hugest event in power/prog metal history. It will be discussed for centuries to come. College courses will be developed so that future generations will have the opportunity to grasp the complete relevance this event had upon civilization. Mothers & fathers will name their children after these bands...some already have...S.U.E. & Jorn for instance.

You did say fantasy right?

 

[Creeps]

Showcase
Steve Grimmett Band w/ Grim Reaper set
Solitude Aeturnus
Spheric Universe Experiment
Mystic Prophecy

Friday
Nevermore (I try)
House of Lords
At Vance
Astral Doors
Oratory

Saturday
Iced Earth (current lineup)
Warlock
the complete Jeff Scott Soto experience
DGM
Divinefire




I went for all 1st comers. Some old school, 1 reunion and something special (JSS). Oddball could be Solitude Aeturnus if you're looking for one.

 

[eppst1]

Let's give this a shot:

Showcase:
Forbidden
Powermad
Sacred Reich
Korpiklanni

Friday:
Vintersorg
Battlelore
Elvenking
Amorphis
Rush

Saturday
Olympos Mons
Domine
Ensiferum
Dio
Ayreon

 

[eppst1]

Steve Grimmett Band w/ Grim Reaper set

Me likey!

 

[sh0kr0k]

Patrick Is one hell of a guy, and one I can say I call Brother.

QFT! +1

His dad ain't bad either!



Some wild card suggestions to toss into the hat:

Radakka reunion
Saviour Machine
Shining Star
Behold.. the arctopus!
Andromeda
Ozric Tentacles

 

[woosta]

Yes, good point. To/Die/For would be a nice addition to a fantasy ProgPower! I'd also throw in a Sinner or a Sonic Syndicate too! Personally, I would Looooooove to see a more "hard rock" band either at the showcase or the show proper. Someone like Wig Wam would burn the house down even though they don't fit into "Prog" or "power" in the genre sense.

There. ARe we back on topic now?

 

[J-Man]

Okay i would like to change my fantasy line-up a little.

Showcase:

Nightwish
Circus Maximus
Outworld
Pathosray

Friday

Serenity
Spheric Universe Experience
Volbeat
Tarot
Ayreon

Sat

Mevyn
Anubis Gate
MINDFLOW (hint, Hint)
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Jon Olivia's Pain(with a 45 minute Savatage medley)

 

[PatrickHoyt]

Okay i would like to change my fantasy line-up a little.



Sat

Mevyn
Anubis Gate
MINDFLOW (hint, Hint)
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Jon Olivia's Pain(with a 45 minute Savatage medley)

Man I wasn't even thinking about DSO when I was making my lineup. They're awesome. Oh and didn't Jon Oliva's Pain already play ProgPower with a WoMD set at the end? I gotta go listen to Anubis Gate some more too, it didn't catch me on the first sample.

 

[Harvester]

Enough.

If I read any other negative post from anyone that is not constructive, you are gone.

John..your initial post was below your usual standards. Remember that in the future.

Ascension will be dealt with.

 

[J-Man]

Sorry Glenn, it won't happen again. I apologize to everyone on here for going below the standards set here, It won't happen again.

 

[Cheiron]

Well if its fantasy it doesn't matter order to me... and if unlimited money...

Ayreon
Haggard
Rhapsody of Fire
Mike Keneally (doing all his heavier stuff)
Bumblefoot

Iced Earth
Hollenthon
Ron Jarzombek (doing a mix of Watchtower, Spastic Ink, Blotted Science, solo material and whatever else he wanted)
Cruachan
UneXpect


showcase:

Therion
Nightingale
Division
Odin's Court


John - have you heard more than that one Pathosray song? And if so, what were your thoughts?