We were SO stoked about playing this show...here's what happened. This is from my myspace blog:
Ok, so our band has been talking to Will for almost 2 years about playing the Thunder of Gods Festival that was this last weekend in Dripping Springs, TX.
128 bands were booked, 3 days of music, 3 stages, camping, beer, and swimming. Sounds like a kick ass time, right? Guess again.
We arrived Friday night, and really everything seemed fine. Not a big crowd though. Didn't really worry about that because Saturday was the "main" day and we knew more bands and people would be showing up.
Friday night, we partied, met some killer people and had one hell of a time. We were due to play on Saturday @ 1:15 p.m. We got up around 9:30-ish on Saturday, kicked around trying to erase the cobwebs from the night before.
We were supposed to have our gear down at the stages by noon. We were like the 3rd or 4th band to play the 2nd stage, and by 11:00 we realize we don't hear any music. We were afraid the schedule changed, so me Bonez and Buddy run down to check the days lineup. Well, there wasn't one up. We go back up to our camping area and a a lady (one of the vendors) come up and tells us the festival is canceled.
What we were told was, the campground never got paid, the sound guys never got paid, and he just bailed. He sent a text message to someone saying it was cancelled.
To say we were pissed would be a HUGE understatement. It was bad for us, but it was worse for more than us. Shunned drove in from Ft.Wayne, IN, another band flew in from California expecting a back line and had nothing...several bands paid to have their merch put on the table...only to have it disappear. From what I hear, I think Shunned got theirs back and knows who has it and it working to help the other bands get it back.
So, there were about 5 bands there still, and we decide to play any fucking way. The lady that owned the park was SUPER COOL to us, and helped us get shit together and told us to stay and party! So we did!! We all got together to peice together a PA for the vocals and bands that didn't have gear used other folks'. We all jammed, the we spent the rest of the night partying. We had a blast.
So, fuck you Will Pruett!!
Here's some more info:
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/bla...sitemID=119842
Thunder (Blunder) of Gods Festival
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