Rocklahoma Bands Revealed

Eddie Trunk and a gaggle of Glam Metal stars just helped the Catch the Fever organizers announce this year's Rocklahoma line-up.

Here are your performers (so far):

Thursday:

LA Guns (Tracii's version)
Enuff Z' Nuff
Jetboy
VAIN
House of Lords
Sebastian Bach
Bret Michaels (headline)

Friday:

Triumph (headline)
Extreme
Night Ranger
Kingdom Come
Armored Saint
XYZ

Saturday:

Pretty Boy Floyd
Every Mother’s Nightmare
Tora Tora
Black N Blue
Trixter
Kix
Warrant (with Jani Lane)
Cinderella (headline)

Sunday:

Axe
Beautiful Creatures
Zebra
Lynch Mob
Living Colour

UFO
Tesla
Headline TBA

Side Stage 1:

Thursday: 

Jester
Harlow
Sidekicks
Frontrunner
Paradice
Tommy Had a Vision
Bobby Mesano from Stars

Friday: 

Gypsy Blue
White Fox
Heavens Edge
Blue Tiger
Wild August
Valin
Paul Shortino from Quiet Riot
Mariah

Saturday:

Warrior
Bad Candy
Loraine
Nasty Nasty
Compass
MASS
Viper
Roughcon

Sunday:

Oney
Strikeforce
Parazz
Reckless
Heartless
Ron Keel

Side Stage 2:

Deathriders
Dario
Jani Lane's Band
Odin
Order of nine
Jackyls
Krucible
Sacred Dawn
Mindfield
Lipstick Magazine
Seet F.A.
Pownd
Shadow Side
War machine
Dirty Penny (Saturday headline)
Gypsy Pistoleros (Friday headline)
Asphalt Valentine
Exit 27
Cockpit

 

Comments

[Xandra73]

I love the line-up, awesome bands! And I don't care at all what Rolling Stones does. If I want to see the mainstream bands their readers know, I can go to plenty of other festivals.

Krokus was supposed to play on Friday, but not as headliner. Just a couple of days ago they announced that they would take an 'artistic break' and canceled all their shows, not just Rocklahoma.

[KixRules]

While I am happy with a number of bands announced yesterday...Kix, Telsa, Cinderella, Warrant w/Jani, Extreme, Night Ranger, Lynch Mob, Triumph, Tora Tora and Trixter, the REALLY need to add two headliners and a couple more second tier bands to make this lineup as good as last year. I have faith that Motley will be one and hopefully someone like the Scorpions will be the other. I would also like to see Danger Danger and Tyketto added. If that happens this lineup is very good!

[fletch]

YAWN

[Chey]

Yeah i hope motley is there. that would be the best. although i wish it was the Phil Lewis LA Guns. not the tracii guns.

[Chey]

it would also be awsome if Vains of Jenna showed up

[Christian Graus]

I don't care about Rolling Stone either, that's not the point. The point is, last year they had a festival with mainstream appeal, this year they do not. And, they still need to sell 30,000 tickets.

[Makel]

Wow, Tesla?

That surprises me a bit.

[don]

christian, you were dead on and i am eating crow for defending the jackholes at rocklahoma. it could still be salvaged by some HUGE tba's but at this point i may not go.

by the way, for the other poster, krokus was never a headliner and indeed tehy have backed out.

[Christian Graus]

Yeah, Don, we'll see what happens. Like I said, the sign for me was always the way the date kept moving. It's clear now that they had nothing. The big fear is, the big bands are all booked elsewhere now, perhaps except Motley. But, even with a killer headliner, the mix is just a step down from last year. For me, I am stoked about Extreme and Kix. But, I worry with the mix so poor this year, if they will sell any more tickets, or if the people threatening to sell, will start flooding ebay. If they lose money, they could cancel the whole deal, or at least, they could decide not to do it again.

I always thought Rocklahoma had a limited lifespan. I always expected them to lose more people than they gain, each year, as some were happy to relive their youth the once, and only the hardcore fans would remain. I didn't expect them to screw it up themselves tho.

[carl]

That sounds like about 80 bands.I onder if thats the Heavens Edge band from the 80s?

[Ralph Matchfine]

I was hoping for Big Cock (did I just say that?).

[Heather]

Umm... anyone know someone who wants to buy a VIP Rocklahoma 2008 ticket?

[Retrospect Records]

Hi - there are some typos up there on the Retrospect stage - so here's the actual press release...

RETROSPECT RECORDS AT ROCKLAHOMA 2008
Dreams DO come true...
Ladies and Gentlemen , the largest 80s Hard Rock / Metal / AOR re-issue label in the world, Retrospect Records , and the largest Rock festival in America, Rocklahoma, have joined forces to bring you 4 days of pure 80s Hard Rock bliss! In addition to the main stage acts, Retrospect Records has its own stage and features 25+ bands that many thought would never re-unite again. July 10-13 in Pryor Oklahoma is the setting where over 100,000 metalheads will converge for the largest Rock festival on American soil. Here is the official line-up for the Retrospect stage...

Thursday July 10
1:45 - 2:30 Jester
3:15 - 4:00 Harlow
4:45 - 5:30 Sidekixx
6:30 - 7:15 Frontrunner
8:15 - 9:00 Pairadice
10:00 - 10:45 Tommy Had A Vision
12:30 - 2:00 Messano (Bobby Messano Of Starz)

Friday July 11
12:45 - 1:30 Jester
2:15 - 3:00 Gypsy Blue
3:45 - 4:30 Whitefoxx With Danny Danzi
5:30 - 6:15 Blue Tiger
7:15 - 8:00 Wild August
9:00 - 9:45 Valor
10:45 - 11:30 Paul Shortino (Of Rough Cutt / Quiet Riot)
12:30 - 2:00 Mariah

Saturday July 12
12:30 - 1:15 Warryor
2:00 - 2:45 Bad Candy
3:30 - 4:15 Lorraine
5:15 - 6:00 Nasty Nasty
7:00 - 7:45 Cuttlass
8:45 - 9:30 Mass
10:45 - 11:30 Vyper
1:00 - 2:00 Defcon

Sunday July 13
11:30 - 12:15 Bad Candy
1:00 - 1:45 Oney
2:30 - 3:15 Strikeforce
4:15 - 5:00 Herazz
6:00 - 6:45 Reckless
7:45 - 8:30 Heartless
9:30 - 10:15 Ron Keel
10:45 - 11:30 Warryor
11:45 - 12:30 Real Steel

You DO NOT want to miss out on this opportunity of a lifetime! Get your tickets and book your accommodations NOW. More info can be found at the Retrospect Records website. Many of you who have bought Retrospect releases have made dreams come true for so many of these artists. Now come see them LIVE - it may be the ONLY time you can. Hope to see you there.
Special offer - Book your room at the official Hotel sponsor for Retrospect - Howard Johnson's (E.41st Street in Tulsa) and receive a huge discount!! Contact Retrospect Records for details and special code.
Retrospect Records has released over 225 albums in just 2 and a half years - more than any other independent on the planet - our inclusion at Rocklahoma is a huge victory for Melodic Rock. We'd like to thank everyone who has supported our cause!
WebLink: www.retrospectrecords.com.


For the record , Paul Shortino was the singer for both Rough Cutt AND Quiet Riot.

[missmetal]

Can't wait to watch COCKPIT! Those girls rock!

[Christian Graus]

Paul Shortino sung on QR for one album that everyone hated. He was in Rough Cutt, and they were a great band. I'll be there to check him out, but I hope he doesn't do any QR, because no-one even knows the songs on the album he played and I don't want to hear him sing 'metal health'

[Allyson]

Typos? Not really considering most of the bands were not even included on the "official" press release. Check the Tulsa World for typos.

Just search "Rocklahoma" on their website.

-Allyson

[KixRules]

Those set tims cannot be right since KIX has posted on their myspace page they are going on at 7pm on Saturday. That would conflict with what the guy from retrospect records just posted,

[Metal Mark]

A friend of mine and I wrote a post evaluating the bands on the bill over at my site today.

http://metalmark.blogspot.com/2008/03/good-bad-and-our-big-mouths-rocklahoma.html

[KixRules]

Metal Mark - Your friends are douche bags who basically rag on every band in the lineup. OK i get it they don't like 80's rock...No need to post that crap on here! TAKE IT ELSEWHERE.

[KixRules]

Oh Metal Mike you were one of the people who worte this write up??? So I guess I called you a douche bag. Sorry about that but your review pissed me off and it's eveident you don't like glam/hard rock from the 80's so no need to post this here. This site is "Bring Back Glam". And it's not just your posts about how bad KIX is that pissed me off.