Note that the reserved section only has half the seats out. It was never fuller than this, not during Stryper, not during Twisted, not once.

PATHETIC!!! M3 puts this to shame and that was a one day festival put on very quickly. Of course ROK had this coming to them when the went cheap last year and this year was a disgrace!

You're making it up! You photoshopped it so that the main stage had the attendence of the side stage! Wait, was that Sam texting while playing metal keyboards?? See!See!

hahahahaha.

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Wow.... M3 put this to shame!

Rock gone wild will put M3 to shame.

^^^^^ Not so sure about that. I doubt RGW will have 10,000 people there each day.

And i want to add that RGW's lineup is the best out of the three though...just wonder about traveling to Algona IA.

I would say average daily numbers were give or take about 7500 people. The problem was that between the heat and marginal lineup that there was not ever a band that brought everyone into main stage area at once. 4 people from our group were a sleep in the camper during 2 of the headliners(tired and to hot, drunk,etc.) The deal is that there were some good bands there, but not alot of people saw them. Let's face it there are not a whole lot of people that are willing to give up a weeks worth of vacation and that are able to fork over the cash to come vip or plat to a rock festival. Your are probably pulling from about 10,000 people to do that for a fest like this. Imo, they got about 4500 of that group. That is not terrible, but you have to have headliners that are going to bring in people on certain days, if you don't then your stuck with about 4500 vip and 2500-3000 ga people. All in all it was a good time and I am glad I went, but you have to have some true headliners next year to bring the people back.

10,000 ? So you think no more than a third of the people who bought tickets, went in at any one time ? Even during the headliners ?

I was there and STRYPER and Jackyl filled almost every seat..At night that place was hoppin..I was sitting in VIP during these acts and had to sit towards the rear because it was to full.

RGW here we come!! Glad I didn't make the trip south after all!

Are you crazy? First the week before ROK started they had only sold just over 2,500 VIP and Reserved seating combined and by the looks of pictures there was not more than 2-3,000 general admission tickets sold (that is being generous), So at most there was 5,500 which is still high if you ask me and you damn well know a good portion of those were comp tickets or reduced.

Owen, you are a bald faced liar. I assume you work for CTF, I can't see why else you'd tell such a lie. We have photos from Jackyl and Stryper as well as the ones posted, and it was half full, same as the rest of the weekend. I know from being in the front to take photos that it seemed full, if you were at the front, but if you went back to look, it was NOT. The reserved seating was only half laid out, and it never filled either.

KixRules - how many does VIP hold ? That is, the front section ? It was NEVER more than half full. Reserved was only half laid out, 12 rows to be exact, and it also NEVER filled.

Chrstian, last year when all of the wooden benches and white chairs were VIP's there was just over 6,400 seats...I would estimate that the wooden benches hold around 4,000 people and the white chars around 2,400.

OK, so there were 2,000 tops in VIP, and less than a thousand in reserved. GA was really empty too, making our estimate of 3500 pretty close to spot on.

Its very hard to argue with photos. The attendance sucked, thats a sign to the promoters that they need to do something drastic. This is not the musicians fault (well maybe Stryper), but the blame rests on the promoters that made there legendary festival look foolish.

Christian, maybe you misunderstood me, or I wasn't very clear. I never said that there was 10,000 there, not even close. I meant that you are only pulling from about 10,000 people that could or would shell out $450 for a ticket plus travel costs to go to a fest like this.

Is it just me or is there a LOT of hostility on BOTH sides of this? The pics look legit (which I KNOW they are) so it looks like the other 5-10k of people were camera shy.

I think there should be NO more 80s festivals at all in America. Obviously people can't appreciate it and spend their time crying and bitching on forums like this instead of watching bands. So fuck it - let it die.