George and I were talking today, and realized that it's time for a summer festival tour like the days of old.
Five bands, we figured.... the two headliners (alternating on some sort of schedule of their choosing who goes on last): Iron Maiden and Judas Priest ... both of whom have summer-tour availability at the moment.
Now, the "first two" bands on any festival tour like this are local to regional up-n-comers, so we didn't really try to figure out who they should be, because it's going to widely vary. So who sits in the middle, taking the "We're known, but we're not quite headlining festivals level yet" spot? Well, given that both the headliners were European acts, we figured it'd be another Euro group. George suggested Scorpions, but I vetoed them on the "what the fuck have they done lately?" logic and, besides, you want a middle-act that's different enough to bring in a different group of people, but similar enough not to get boo'ed off the stage.
Then he saw exactly where I was going... Rammstein ... angry German metal would fit perfectly into that middle slot.
I wonder if there's any tour promoters reading this. I'd seriously pay good coin for this lineup, man. Someone make it happen.
