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Been to Wacken some 10 years ago.
I think it was Immortal's comeback and they were headliner.
Sleeping in a tent, not sleeping all that much anyway, bad food, having constant noise and people around me, for three days straight... Once, but never again 
Friends sometimes ask me if I like to join them to Graspop or Lowlands, but no thanks I'm good 
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I've done a lot of festivals, but with cheap hotel rooms. This will be interesting
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If it is longer than a 2 hour concert, then I want nothing to do with it.
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Four days and more than 150 bands.
Not to many of them are any good even if you like the music style. (As it is for every music festival)
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Four days and more than 150 bands.
Not to many of them are any good even if you like the music style. (As it is for every music festival)
Having 150 bands of high quality would be a bit more expensive as it usually is
M.D.V. 
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There's enough good to keep you busy. Every festival has many stages, it would be insane if they all had large, expensive bands that everyone wants to see. And finding a new band is a joy of a festival
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There are ten that I'd love to see, but not enough to stand a festival. 
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I'm excited for more than 10. More like 20.
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I've realized something about multi-day music festivals... usually the only bands you're interested in play either last or second to last on any given day. The exception to this are good up and coming bands who get stuck playing right away in the morning. Leaving and returning later on is a headache when you realize that they are usually held an hour+ from anything else.
It's almost like they plan it that way so you have to spend extra money on their overpriced food and beverages.
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RJOberg wrote: It's almost like they plan it that way
Almost? 
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I'm trying to give them the benefit of the doubt that it is a combination of factors beyond their control. Things like available locations and not sufficiently taking their customer's needs into account as opposed to being an outright cash grab.
In case you were wondering... no, I couldn't type that with a straight face. 
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See, as a strong fan of metal, I love a lot of the more obscure bands they have during the day
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Don't get me wrong, I love obscure bands and ones who haven't broken through quite yet but I still want to make sure I'm not wasting my money and more importantly time.
Normal process is to check the lineup for bands I have never heard of, go research them see if they have any songs which I like and how their other live shows look. If their small venue shows are awesome but not larger ones, I aim to see them in a smaller venue. Let them be their best sort of thing. Plus for complete unknowns, small shows usually cost less, aren't a multiday affair, and so on.
The worst I've run into are bands whose songs I love but are as lively as a slime mold on stage! Sort of sucks the magic out of the entire thing. This isn't speaking to Wacken in specific, more of music festivals I've attended in general. Been burned too many times to leave it to chance.
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Yeah, I do the same. I am listening to new bands from a Wacken announce today. Found some good ones.
The other thing of course is that for me, from Australia, the obscure German bands are the bigger news b/c they will never tour here.
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That is true, I know whenever Avatar is here it is a big deal. Yeah they aren't German but still.
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Stoked for Avatar. I missed them at Rock on the Range because I booked a flight to the wrong city!!!
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You're in for a great time, seen them a couple times and they never fail to put on an awesome show.
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yeah, I was super stoked and I knew they do
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If it doesn't coincide with Oktoberfest, forget it!
(And it's just a hop, skip and a jump away from where I live -- but beer is far more important than noisy boys with electric noisemakers)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Are you coming to Holland?
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Sadly, no. My dad is going there this month, he's dutch. I'd love to come sometime. I'm doing Switzerland, Norway, Poland and Czech Republic
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That sounds a good mix. We've spent a lot of time in Switzerland and enjoyed it. It's school holidays at the moment and we're in Bavaria hiking. Same Alps but less crowded and much cheaper. There's a mountain here called Wank and I am yet to come up with a good answer to "daaaaad, why is it so funny?"
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LOL!!!!
It's based on festivals, Norway is Rammstein, Switzerland is Sabaton Open Air, Czech Republic is Brutal Assault and we'll cross the border to see Auschwitz
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We decided not to visit a concentration camp on this trip, not my idea of fun with young kids and a Jewish wife. We are living in Holland now and a quick bit of research found the names and addresses of the many people deported from our very street and I often ride my bicycle along the train line via which they were transported.
I've seen Rammstein play in Germany, the crowd is almost a better show than the band.
Sounds like an awesome trip. I have tickets to see Neil Young this summer which I'm really looking forward to.
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Yeah, it's going to be huge.
My grandad was in the SS and we have literal Nazis in the Senate. I want to remind myself where that stuff leads.
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