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6 minutes ago, Cheerios4u98 said:

Holy shit. I want to know the real reason blink dropped out. They clearly knew something was up.

Most bands dropped out, right?

I guess the conversations between the festival and the bands indicated that something is going wrong.  

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43 minutes ago, Cheerios4u98 said:

Holy shit. I want to know the real reason blink dropped out. They clearly knew something was up.

Well no shit they knew something was up, when you get word that all these people are showing up to an Island that resembles a 3rd world nation doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the entire thing is a no go.

 

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49 minutes ago, Cheerios4u98 said:

Holy shit. I want to know the real reason blink dropped out. They clearly knew something was up.

They hadn't been paid. Most of the bands hadn't been paid leading up to the festival as of like two weeks ago.

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17 minutes ago, vic vinegar said:

blink-182. Crappy punk rock since 1992. Milking the cash cow since 2009.

Blink has been milking the cash cow from day 1. Back then they didn't have the ability to make millions, but if they had, they would have done it, and so would most here. NOTHING has changed, pay me, and I'll show. It's a business.

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I think the only sin Blink has committed here is I feel they should have been more open with the nature of the situation. I know they didn't organize this, but by agreeing to appear they know their fans committed. So they owe it to those people to at least say "Sorry you got scammed".

Maybe they don't give a fuck, Travis goes to disney or whatever, is he really thinking "feel bad for my fans stuck out there who paid $12,000 for nothing" I doubt it. He don't give a flying fuck.

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2 minutes ago, Olidamus said:

Blink has been milking the cash cow from day 1. Back then they didn't have the ability to make millions, but if they had, they would have done it, and so would most here. NOTHING has changed, pay me, and I'll show. It's a business.

I'm gonna have to disagree here because they weren't playing these shitty festivals when Tom was in the band and now every other show is one of these festivals that doesn't fit the bands demographic at all.

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6 minutes ago, NotNow said:

I'm gonna have to disagree here because they weren't playing these shitty festivals when Tom was in the band and now every other show is one of these festivals that doesn't fit the bands demographic at all.

Well, I will agree that there has been a big spike in the festival shows they do. I also agree that they are shitty shows with a bunch of low energy only partial fans. I also agree this decision is $$$$$ motivated.

 

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I mean yeah but they played it off like one of them is sick or something, just lying to fans instead of flat-out saying "this festival is a pile of shit and we haven't been paid."

I guess the point is, why lie about it? They don't even have to give a reason for pulling out. Just say "Sorry, we will not be playing the festival." Not, "we don't feel like we'd be able to play to the best of our ability."

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Yeh, it was a mistake the way they handled it.

And I think the reason Blink plays these festival shows more is they can't hack it on a stadium tour alone. It use to be, or it usually is, when a headliner is playing, the majority of people are their for that band with a few scattered fans for the openers.

My last Blink show half the fucking people were their for the opener. Something is wrong with that picture and its that Blink can't draw a 18K stadium crowd anymore.

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Meh I've got no problem with them playing big festival shows, and I would for sure take a week vacation in the Bahamas and get paid big $ to play for some rich kids. I just feel bad for the Knoxville peeps whose show got cancelled because of this dumb festival which they ended up bailing on. 

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3 minutes ago, Cheerios4u98 said:

I mean yeah but they played it off like one of them is sick or something, just lying to fans instead of flat-out saying "this festival is a pile of shit and we haven't been paid."

I guess the point is, why lie about it? They don't even have to give a reason for pulling out. Just say "Sorry, we will not be playing the festival." Not, "we don't feel like we'd be able to play to the best of our ability."

I think they just meant the production wasn't the standard they needed to put on the show. Not that someone was sick or something. The stage was super small and barely had any speakers. Back when 21 pilots played at my school in 2013 for our radio station when they were blowing up, they were threatening not to play the show all day because we didn't have a proper PA system, so the director of the station had to find and rent a better PA system. When so much of the show revolves around the production, I think it becomes not feasible to play and they don't want to hurt their name playing in a shitty setting production wise.

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11 hours ago, ryan1125 said:

Meh I've got no problem with them playing big festival shows, and I would for sure take a week vacation in the Bahamas and get paid big $ to play for some rich kids. I just feel bad for the Knoxville peeps whose show got cancelled because of this dumb festival which they ended up bailing on. 

I just can't imagine $12K. Who is that stupid? Even if I was rich, no way.....  a Weezer cruise was only like $1000. I am not sure WTF you get for $12K. For that price it would need to come with a round the clock female escort, 3 personal assistants, a round the clock personal chef, room and board in a mansion, red carpet treatment to a from show including a stocked bar.

I guess these rich kids kind of got what they deserved. $12K for a vacation and a show?!! You fuckin kidding me?

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