Many thanks to the few forum regulars who could make it out last night. The bands truly appreciated the support, as did I. All I can say to everyone else is - if you weren't in the hospital or in jail and yet you missed it... you fuckin missed it!
All four of the touring bands put on a hell of a show. Kudos to each of them for being tight on stage and being true professionals to work with. I'd work with either Artizan or Creation's End again any day. And Widow & Seven Kingdoms - well, you're family now so I'm stuck working with you.
hah hah. Love you guys (and gal!).
kudos also to Milton/AngraRules for setting up this short-run tour. It's pretty sad that these four high caliber prog/power metal acts had to endure playing to as few as 30-40 people in some places. Sure, there were week night performances. I have to work on weekdays myself. But for $10-$15 I think I could manage to show up at a venue and see at least 2-3 of the bands before crawling off into bed.
It takes support from the fans for these bands to travel up and down the road. I see so many people posting - and not just on this forum - about how there's never any good metal shows coming through town. Yet here we (the local fan/promoters) are beating down your door with a QUALITY list of bands and you still sit at home on the couch flipping channels complaining there's
nothing to do tonight.
Sorry if I'm turning this into a bit of a rant. But dammit, I've been doing this for five years now and people wonder why the next Pathfinder MetalFest has the subtitle 'the Final Chapter'. Seriously, do you
really have to wonder?
This work is a labor of love for people like Milton, Patrick (nailz), Camden, and myself. None of are getting rich off this work. Never planned to. We do it because we want to help the bands get in front of as many fans as possible. But when the fans become ho-hum about it, so do we. And it's not like we're asking you to come out every night of the week. I do these 'bigger' shows about once every three months. And I do local shows monthly. I don't spam the hell out of people to come out to the Local shows. But the bigger shows are kind of a big deal to [us].
I hope the Florida shows tonight and tomorrow have at least TWICE the attendance (about 75 paying people) we did last night. Because that's what I expected from the Atlanta metal community - the HOME OF FUCKING PROGPOWER USA! But I was let down -
again.
I'll see you all in a few short weeks.
