Motley Crue, Slipknot, Alice in Chains Rattle the Heartland at Rock on the Range5/18/09
Hard rock ruled the heartland this weekend as M?tley Cr?e, Slipknot and Alice in Chains headlined Rock on the Range. For its third year, the Columbus festival drew 38 bands and sold a two-day total of 56,000 tickets, according to L.A.-based promoter Del Williams. A mixed crowd ? college kids in baseball caps to bikers ? partied under dreary skies on Saturday, and were energized and ready to toss the devil horns on sunny Sunday.
On day one, before he joined Alice in Chains for a haunting rendition of ?Rooster,? Velvet Revolver?s Duff McKagan played a side stage, fronting his band Loaded. ?The thing about Rock on the Range, I didn?t understand it until Velvet Revolver played here a couple years ago,? explained Duff backstage between appearances. ?It?s in Columbus, a little college town ? how big a festival can you have here? But people come here from Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo, Cincinnati, Indiana, West Virginia, from Kentucky, Tennessee. They all converge, and this is the big thing of the summer.?
Rock on the Range 2009 - Alice in Chains: Rooster w/ Duff McKaganhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA8kXe_OYPAVideo interview here:
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=120307Photos:
http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/28284026/rock_on_the_range_motley_crue_sl/photo/4
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