Nice line-up at the Wacken Open Air Heavy Metal festival in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany in the last four days.

Just search for "Wacken 2017" in Youtube for latest full concerts.

Mambo Kurt is my regular highlight every year



The local firefighters open the show:



Headliner Alice Cooper:


Megadeth playing Wacken for the second time:

In general, not my cup of tea. However, I will be seeing Alice Cooper in a few weeks and looking forward to it.

Looks like a good time. But I'm almost 50.

Same here. I still enjoy a live Rock performance (suppose I always will) but nothing close to being on this scale. I prefer small venues now, almost movie-priced tickets, no hassle with crowds and traffic and fantastic acoustics. This leaves me with seeing tribute/cover or mostly forgotten bands, but I can live with that. I'm actually enjoying Rock shows now more than ever, just in a cozy comfortable setting, sucking down just enough booze to feed the illusion that I'm standing front row center at a real concert.

Man, I can't wait for a long-haired kimono-wearing trio to come to town and cover early Rush albums!

I misread that as "Wiccan 2017 Metal Festival," which I think would be much more interesting to read about!

All praise the mighty bog iron!