America’s premiere rock festival, Rock on the Range, is back for its second year after a hugely successful inaugural sold out show in 2007, and it’s bigger than ever.
Presented by Right Arm Entertainment, AEG LIVE and the Columbus Crew Stadium, the multi-stage music and lifestyle event has expanded to two days in order to meet the tremendous demand for tickets and will take place on Saturday, May 17 and Sunday, May 18 at Columbus Crew Stadium in Columbus, OH. The lineup for this nationally renowned festival centrally located in the heart of the country includes the debut of the newly reunited Stone Temple Pilots, marking the group’s first performance together in over seven years.
“The time that we’re about to spend together is a true celebration,” says Stone Temple Pilots guitarist Dean DeLeo about the band’s upcoming performance.
In addition, Rock on the Range 2008 will feature some of the biggest names in rock, including: Kid Rock, 3 Doors Down, Disturbed, Staind, Papa Roach, Seether, Serj Tankian, Flyleaf, Shinedown, Killswitch Engage, Finger Eleven, Alter Bridge, Filter, Theory of a Dead Man, Sevendust, Default, 10 Years, Bobaflex, Red, Airbourne, Black Tide, Revelation Theory, Ashes Divide, Drive A and more.
This year’s two-day event will feature 28 bands on two stages, an expanded festival village, state of the art main stage LED screens, enhanced main stage and second stage sound and light systems, dynamic new merchandise (T-shirts, hats, hoodies) and an expanded main stage field area for fans who purchase Field General Admission Tickets.
The Rock on the Range general on-sale begins Saturday, February 23, at 10am (ET). Tickets will be available at rockontherange.com, ticketmaster.com, all local Ticketmaster outlets and at the Columbus Crew Stadium box office.
Special two-day tickets will be available for as low as $99.50, and a limited number of single day tickets will also be available for as low as $54.50. VIP Hotel packages that include hotel accommodations, event tickets, and event merchandise, plus a VIP Vehicle Camp package that includes camp parking, event tickets, and event merchandise will all be available exclusively at www.rockontherange.com.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Rock on the Range 2008 Lineup Announced
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Schecter Guitar Research, or commonly known as just Schecter, is an American guitar manufacturer. The company was founded in 1976 by David Schecter and originally only produced replacement parts for existing guitars from manufacturers such as Fender and Gibson. Today, the company mass-produces its own line of electric guitars, bass guitars, and steel-string acoustic guitars.Custom shop days, 1976 – 1983
In 1976, David Schecter opened Schecter Guitar Research, a repair shop in Van Nuys, California. The modest repair shop manufactured replacement guitar necks and bodies, complete pickup assemblies, bridges, pickguards, tuners, knobs, potentiometers, and other miscellaneous guitar parts. Eventually, Schecter Guitar Research offered every part needed to build a complete guitar. It supplied parts to big guitar manufacturers such as Fender and Gibson and to custom repair shops which were building complete guitars out of Schecter parts. By the late 1970s, Schecter offered more than 400 guitar parts, but did not offer any finished instruments.
In 1979, Schecter offered for the first time its own fully-assembled electric guitars. These guitars were custom shop models based on Fender designs. They were of very high quality, very expensive, and were sold only by twenty retailers across the United States.
In September of 1979, Alan Rogan, the guitar tech at the time, for Pete Townshend of The Who, picked up a custom shop Schecter guitar. It was a Fender Telecaster-style guitar with two humbucking pickups and a Gibson Les Paul-style pickup selector. Pete Townshend immediately fell in love with it, and it became his main stage guitar. He later had several similar instruments built from Schecter parts and assembled by Schecter and U.K. based guitar maker Roger Giffin. Pete Townshend continued to use those Schecter guitars until just after The Who's 1985 appearance at Live Aid.
In 1980, Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits used Schecter Stratocaster-style guitars to record the band's third album, Making Movies. Mark Knopfler owned many Schecter guitars. In 2004 one of his Schecters, Stratocaster-style guitar with a tobacco sunburst finish, was sold at an auction for over $50,000, the highest amount ever paid for a Schecter guitar.
