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I was just wondering if what the little kids are saying is true about Fall Fest..
RUMOR has it that you guys stormed off stage because of "technical difficulties" and instead of trying to fix it you guys just left?? It has also been said that someone threw a guitar at the wall...


Now I myself believe that this was blown way out of proportion..
but rather then keep reading the RUMORS...
I thought I would go straight to the source...and get it from who would know best..yall got it right fo sho....TOO MUCH GARBAGE!!!!!

thanks, yo
<3 Manda


I will try and attempt to explain what happened at FallFest, even though a lot of these kids that know it all have jumped to their own conclusions. (If your not in a band that has played a radio festival before you probably have zero credibility to be talking like you know what happened or how we should have acted)
There are two sets of crews for radio shows. The local crew that sets up the stage, patches mic cables, brings in the P.A. and makes sure the show runs smoothly, and our crew which is our sound guy, guitar techs, drum tech and others. Basically, we were playing early in the day for some reason unknown to me after two bands that had probably 1/10th the gear and equipment Avenged Sevenfold has to put on a show.
The local crew couldn't get anything right. Everything was patched wrong so if you turned up Zackys guitar, my mic would feed back. If Syn wanted his mic up, The Revs kick drum would go up in every ones in-ears. This went on for 45 min (we were 15 min. late to hit the stage) as they tried to fix the problem with our crew trying to help them the whole time. Since it's a radio show they told us we had to go on stage. So we went out only to find that not only were the in-ears mis patched but the whole front of house was as well. How can you take 32 tracks and mix them when you have no clue what track is what? You can't. I was furious about the fact that we couldn't hear a Goddamn thing in the in-ears, but when I took them out, I heard that front of house was even worse off then us. We played for about 45 seconds through nothing but feedback and no tonality whatsoever. It was embarrassing, and it was embarrassing for Avenged fans having to hear that shit. So I flipped out and was not going to stand there through that for 40 min. There was no fixing the problem unless everything was re patched, which is about a 35 min job.
Again, its a radio show, they would not let us re patch for 35 min. and then start again. So we left. The reason that all the other bands sounded fine was because after we played they obviously had to go fix the problem. Even though Stone Sour and Breaking Benjamin still had patching problems, it wasn't every channel.
And to the kids that keep saying we are trying to be like GnR... get over yourselves, quit trying to take a band that influences us and comparing everything we do with them. If we told you the Sex Pistols were an influences half of you would say Johnny Christ is trying to be like Sid vicious and we stormed off stage because we want to have and attitude like Johnny Rotten. Try not to be a guinea pig and think for yourself. The fact of the matter is everyone has bad days, and this was a bad day for Avenged Sevenfold. We are sorry to the kids that didn't get to see us play, but I don't regret our actions. I was not going to put us, or our fans through 40 min. of the worst Avenged show in the history of shows. We did not go out and explain ourselves or apologize that day because the venue wanted us escorted off the property right after the show. So that's basically what happened in a nutshell, and as I'm writing this I'm still upset about Saturday. But whatever, time to write a new record and put this behind us.

P.S. To people talking about sound problems on Ozzfest. I think we found a solution. I always knew it sounded great if you listened from the sound board. Ted is an amazing sound guy and has been the subject of some of the biggest mixing magazines. That and we also have him tape every show on video from his position and it sounds great. One night he was mixing The Confession for me and I was listening from and angle. Not straight on but to the left a little and all I could hear was drums and bass, kinda like some of the complaints we've gotten. So I talked to him about it yesterday and I found out he's been mixing in Stereo. Which means Zackys guitar is in one speaker on his side of the stage and Syns is in the other. It's basically how the CD is mixed and it sounds great if you are standing in the middle of the arena. But if you are on the side, you are getting full power from all the other instruments, but only 1 guitar, which means the guitar is getting buried. So from now on I asked him to mix the bigger venues in MONO so that people off to the side get both guitars and not one or the other. Should fix the problem.


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