XShagrath said:
You have to take into account where Pedro lives, and how often a band of that caliber will do a show there. Whenever an artist does a European tour, you can be pretty much guaranteed that there'll be a show a couple hours from where you're at. I'm in a similar situation, in that anyone doing a North American tour is more than likely doing Miami or Atlanta, which are about 5 and 8 hours drive, respectively (sadly Maiden is doing neither).
This will probably be the only time in an Ecuadorian's life that they'd be able to see Megadeth, as South American tours are not very frequent. A lot of them probably don't have the money to travel to the US to see them, even if they are a mega-fan.
You really understand the frustration my friend...add the fact that it is the fn Rust in Peace Tour...and that people already have tickets and lots of employees have already asked for a permission and reserved plane tickets (May 4th is tuesday)
The problem started when they thought we were idiots and announced via a "friend of a spokeperson" on Facebook that Megadeth was stuck in Europe and because of the volcano problem they could not make here...
People felt insulted because everybody knows that Megadeth is in Brazil now...the friend of the spokeperson closed his facebook account short after and then the organizators did not say anything.
After lots of rumors, the ads and everything magically dissapears and until this very day there is no explanation of that.
Then...another spokeperson says that presales were very low and the concert will be cancelled for that.....some people went to investigate to the ticket selling places and were told that the sell rate was going a bit faster than Korn (they sold out the colliseum)....so this was ANOTHER lie....
THEN we get noticed that tickets are ONLY being sold here in Quito and not in many major cities like it was done before and that the activity just started last week were it should have started 3 weeks ago.
Now it was published somewhere that people bringing Megadeth does not want them here because of bad organization...he even mentioned Lars Ulrich comments on January "Ecuador is not ready for this" (Metallica also cancelled their show here and went to Peru because of this idiots)...this infuriated people and midnight lots of fans went to destroy the building.
Now somebody is begging the people to calm down and wait for an announcement...that it may be postponed and not cancelled....
But there is still a countdown for the head of the administrators and information of his family is still circulating on the internet.
Of course Im taking no part of the violence or death threats...but I am very frustrated and sad. Even sadder after seeing videos of their concert in Mexico....it was fantastic...Hangar 18 was incredible with people chanting "MEEE GA DETH!!" in the long solo....
Im really really mad but obviously Im not doing any violence.