Graduation Blocks My Attendance

My nephew's high school graduation occurs during the final day of this festival in May 2019. Otherwise, I'm pretty sure Alex would be wanting us to take a trip to Columbus, OH. Here's info about the festival: http://loudwire.com/sonic-temple-lineup-2019-announcement-bands/ and here's a preliminary list of the bands that are playing:

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1. Foo Fighters
2. System Of A Down
3. Disturbed
4. Bring Me the Horizon
5. The Prodigy
6. Ghost
7. Halestorm
8. Lamb of God
9. Chevelle
10. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
11. The Cult
12. In This Moment
13. The Hives
14. Gojira
15. The Distillers
16. Meshuggah
17. Action Bronson
18. The Struts
19. Refused
20. Killswitch Engage
21. Parkway Drive
22. Black Label Society
23. Beartooth
24. Scars On Broadway
25. Architects
26. Tom Morello
27. Avatar
28. Pussy Riot
29. Bad Wolves
30. Fever 333
31. Mark Lanegan Band
32. Badflower
33. The Glorious Sons
34. Issues
35. Yungblud
36. H09909
37. Black Pistol Fire
38. Scarlxrd
39. Zeal & Ardor
40. Basement
41. The Black Dahlia Murder
42. Don Broco
43. Wage War
44. Hands Like Houses
45. While She Sleeps
46. Palaye Royale
47. Movements
48. Amigo the Devil
49. The Plot In You
50. Boston Manor
51. COUNTERFEIT.
52. Demob Happy
53. Teenage Wrist
54. The Pretty Vicious
55. Black Coffee
56. Shvpes
57. Dirty Honey
58. No1Cares
59. The Jacks

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And in alphabetical order by band name:

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1. Action Bronson
2. Amigo the Devil
3. Architects
4. Avatar
5. Bad Wolves
6. Badflower
7. Basement
8. Beartooth
9. Black Coffee
10. Black Label Society
11. Black Pistol Fire
12. Boston Manor
13. Bring Me the Horizon
14. Chevelle
15. COUNTERFEIT.
16. Demob Happy
17. Dirty Honey
18. Disturbed
19. Don Broco
20. Fever 333
21. Foo Fighters
22. Ghost
23. Gojira
24. H09909
25. Halestorm
26. Hands Like Houses
27. In This Moment
28. Issues
29. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
30. Killswitch Engage
31. Lamb of God
32. Mark Lanegan Band
33. Meshuggah
34. Movements
35. No1Cares
36. Palaye Royale
37. Parkway Drive
38. Pussy Riot
39. Refused
40. Scarlxrd
41. Scars On Broadway
42. Shvpes
43. System Of A Down
44. Teenage Wrist
45. The Black Dahlia Murder
46. The Cult
47. The Distillers
48. The Glorious Sons
49. The Hives
50. The Jacks
51. The Pretty Vicious
52. The Prodigy
53. The Struts
54. The Plot In You
55. Tom Morello
56. Wage War
57. While She Sleeps
58. Yungblud
59. Zeal & Ardor

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Looks like a great festival...

Are You Going to This?!? Answer below

No.

Tool, Avenged Sevenfold + Alice in Chains to Headline 2018 Rock on the Range Chad Childers November 27, 2017

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1. Tool - HEADLINER
2. Avenged Sevenfold - HEADLINER
3. Alice in Chains - HEADLINER
   And the rest, in alphabetical order....
4. 10 Years
5. A Perfect Circle
6. Andrew WK
7. Anti-Flag
8. Asking Alexandria
9. Atreyu
10. Babymetal
11. Baroness
12. Black Foxxes
13. Black Sun Rising
14. Black Veil Brides
15. Body Count
16. Breaking Benjamin
17. Bullet for My Valentine
18. Cane Hill
19. Code Orange
20. Dance Gavin Dance
21. Emmure
22. From Ashes to New
23. Godsmack
24. Greta Van Fleet
25. Hawthorne Heights
26. I Prevail
27. I See Stars
28. Joyous Wolf
29. Like a Storm
30. Like Moths to Flames and Shim
31. Machine Gun Kelly
32. Miss May I
33. Mutoid Man
34. My Ticket Home
35. New Years Day
36. Power Trip
37. Quicksand
38. Senses Fail
39. Shaman's Harvest
40. Spirit Animal
41. Stick to Your Guns
42. Stitched Up Heart
43. Stone Sour
44. Stone Temple Pilots
45. Tech N9ne
46. The Bronx
47. The Fever 333
48. The Used
49. Them Evils
50. Three Days Grace
51. Trivium
52. Turnstile
53. Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown
54. Underoath
55. We Came as Romans
56. While She Sleeps
57. Wilson
58. Yelawolf

Awesome Lineup

If it were possible to make it to a festival in 2015, I think Northern Invasion would be in the running as my top pick. It's a one day show, it has some outstanding bands that I've never seen before, like Slipknot, Volbeat, Halestorm, The Pretty Reckless, Anthrax (the only band in the Big Four I've never seen live), and Young Guns.

That said, the 2015 edition of Rock on the Range, the 3 day concert on May 15, 16 & 17 at Columbus Crew Stadium in Ohio, has a pretty sweet lineup too. Once again, lots of bands I've never seen before. Of the first 7 bands listed, only Godsmack and Breaking Benjamin are bands I've seen before.
I'm flabbergasted and, of course, I have already found out it is a 9 hour drive from my house to Columbus, OH. Mark my words - someday, this will be a father / kids trip with Megan & Alex.

Act of God

The ROTR Line-Up for 2014 has been announced - I'm flabbergasted and, of course, I have already found out it is a 9 hour drive from my house to Columbus, OH, and, of course, I have already gone down the list of my friends that I think would want to go with me, and, of course, Alex is thinking he would want to go and, of course, I would love a father / son trip with him.

It is May 16th, 17th & 18th at Columbus Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.

	Band	What I think about them
1.	Adelitas Way	Awesome Band!
2.	Alter Bridge	Awesome Band!
3.	Avenged Sevenfold	Awesome Band!
4.	Black Label Society	Awesome Band!
5.	Black Stone Cherry	Awesome Band!
6.	Chevelle	Awesome Band!
7.	Down	Awesome Band!
8.	Exodus	Awesome Band!
9.	Five Finger Death Punch	Awesome Band!
10.	Fozzy	Awesome Band!
11.	Fuel	Awesome Band!
12.	Gojira	Awesome Band!
13.	Guns N Roses	Awesome Band!
14.	Kid Rock	Awesome Band!
15.	Killswitch Engage	Awesome Band!
16.	Mastodon	Awesome Band!
17.	Miss May I	Awesome Band!
18.	Motorhead	Awesome Band!
19.	Pop Evil	Awesome Band!
20.	Redlight King	Awesome Band!
21.	Rev Theory	Awesome Band!
22.	Seether	Awesome Band!
23.	Slayer	Awesome Band!
24.	Staind	Awesome Band!
25.	Suicidal Tendencies	Awesome Band!
26.	Texas Hippie Coalition	Awesome Band!
27.	Theory of a Deadman	Awesome Band!
28.	Trivium	Awesome Band!
29.	We As Human	Awesome Band!
30.	Bring Me The Horizon	Familiar - don’t have
31.	Devour the Day	Familiar - don’t have
32.	Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience	Familiar - don’t have
33.	Kyng	Familiar - don’t have
34.	Of Mice & Men	Familiar - don’t have
35.	Pretty Reckless	Familiar - don’t have
36.	Reignwolf	Familiar - don’t have
37.	Skindred	Familiar - don’t have
38.	Thousand Foot Krutch	Familiar - don’t have
39.	We Came as Romans	Familiar - don’t have
40.	Avatar	Unfamiliar
41.	Butcher Babies	Unfamiliar
42.	Harlot	Unfamiliar
43.	Jim Breuer Band	Unfamiliar
44.	King 810	Unfamiliar
45.	Kvelertak	Unfamiliar
46.	Monster Truck	Unfamiliar
47.	Nothing More	Unfamiliar
48.	One OK Rock	Unfamiliar
49.	Truckfighters	Unfamiliar
50.	Twelve Foot Ninja	Unfamiliar
51.	Werm	Unfamiliar
52.	Wilson	Unfamiliar

It's going to take an act of God, though, to get me to Columbus, OH, that weekend.