[atlantaprog] Re: YesFest

Summer outdoor touring festival, baby.  There are plenty of acts that
could collectively make a bill like that work; let's not forget how
successful this current Yes tour is/has been on its own.  

Tull would definitely add clout to the billing -- provided the extra
truck for Ian's ego didn't break the budget.  Har de har har... 

It would be smart to add a SGM and/or a Mars Volta to the bottom of the
bill, because then the kids and hipsters would have their interest
piqued.  

BUT -- Take care to insert some very solid 2nd-tier bands in the middle.
Including certain hardcore prog acts could be like carrying a cart of
plague victims with the tour. 



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From: Jeff Blanks [mailto:jblanks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 1:04 AM
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Allen Welty-Green wrote on the prospect of a travelling "ProgFest":

>I've often thought Yes should do something like that!

Yes is usually the band that comes up in such discussions.  They're 
aware of this, and apparently wouldn't be averse to it.  One old 
reliable headliner, one unexpectedly reunited band, a band or two 
with possible youth appeal, and a band or two with "traditional" 
appeal.  Say:

Yes
Nektar (who have, in fact, reunited and thus would be in shape)
The Flower Kings
Anekdoten
Porcupine Tree

Jethro Tull
Caravan (same as Nektar--or maybe ELP if Tull can't pull in Yes'
numbers)
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Spock's Beard
Thinking Plague

But what would be the best venue for such a thing?  Would you want 
such a thing in an indoor theater?  (Of course, NEARfest has no 
problems with this, but that's the hard core.)  Would enough people 
in the current Yes audience be willing to buy an all-day (5 hours of 
total playing time, with half an hour between sets, for a total of 
seven hours) ticket?

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