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The boxes haven't always fit the name

 

interesting. I hadn’t noticed that but I’ll definitely pay closer attention since the spacing between the bands seems to be the same but I suppose they could just redo the spacing between bands when one is announced.

 

Spray Allen playing DC

 

I should note… Spray Allen features Eric Wilson from Sublime. So if Jakob will be there too, Sublime could be in play.

But… I also don’t think Eric plays with them all the time either. I saw them open for Violent Femmes a couple years back and despite the promoters labeling the band as “featuring Eric Wilson from Sublime,” he was nowhere to be found

 

I’m a Warped apologist but I have to say, even I am getting a bit worried with these announcements.

 

I would be pretty unhappy so far if I were going to this

 

im still not totally unhappy. It’s $75/day to watch bands play for 10 hours, I can’t complain for price to value ratio.

 

For some people. For me it was 110 a day. Still not terrible. But the price is different for everyone

 

Travel is the major cost for most. I’m making an Orlando vacation out of it so I’m looking forward to it regardless but next year I might not be so quick to buy tickets unless it’s closer to me.

 

Yeah, my biggest issue is that I need to get a hotel near Long Beach, which is looking pretty costly

 

Gotta recruit people into his weird cult somehow.

 

Arrows In Action playing Orlando

 

Solid band. Wish they were on LB too

 

I’ve been meaning to check them out I guess this gives me a reason to do so

 

I dislike 30stm (outside those early albums) but at this point an established name like theirs is much needed for this lineup.

Strange how they announced 311 on day three and then haven't had anyone close to their popularity since.

 

I think the first few days of announcements, they intentionally put in some of the “big” or old school names (311, Bowling For Soup, Pennywise, Simple Plan, etc.) as a way to lure people in and get them hyped up. I know those announcements were headlines on a couple websites I follow.

But seemingly, that hype has significantly died down. I think they would’ve been better off dropping at least one or two “big” names a week to maintain hype and interest as opposed to saving them all for last (assuming that there’s more bands of that realm that will be announced…). Almost every post I see, most of the comments are people just complaining about the lineup

 

At this point i'm more excited about some of the newer bands than a lot of the older ones they chose, even though it is suppose to be half and half it has been lackluster especially it being a 30th year anniversary

 

Carpool playing DC

 

This is the part that makes me wonder just how many “big” names they got cause the online backlash is real at this point, so you figure they would release a name or two to bring people back in.

 

I get the feeling that a lot of people on this forum will have a positive reaction upon listening to Carpool

 

I'm gonna give it at least another week of announcements before I'll start to "worry". We're not even halfway through the lineups yet.

 

There will be big bands, but the rollout has been insanely bad so far. At the very least, they're leaving this thing on autopilot and not adjusting when the audience has very publicly tired of them announcing nobodies for dozens of acts in a row.

 

I still like the general idea of this approach. But at a certain point it definitely starts to feel like it has the opposite effect... I think doing this over a 30 day span was maybe a bad idea and it all could have been condensed into clusters 2-3 times per week.

What could have been a nice way to make sure that smaller artists have a way to shine is that, when those artists get announced? You share a "RIYL" and a "fun fact" about them. Give people a reason to check them out. That would do them more service than what is currently happening, I think.

 

You have to mix well-known artists in there, not just endless strings of bands called Anaconda Hot Dog, whatchamacallitz, 5ever, louise and the TIGER, and GubbleButt.

In theory, every day should have a headline/large artist and then a handful of smaller ones.

 

Don't you dare slander GubbleButt.