Savatage reunion

It has just been announced that TSO and SAVATAGE are playing Wacken next year. So a Savatage reunion is finally a go after all these years. Not sure how much more will become of it though.

Do you have a link?

The official Savatage facebook page is where I read it. As well as Chris Caffery's page.

That would be great !

I just checked the Wacken site, too. Seems legit.

So...

I'm thinking of going.

The sound you hear is several hundred thousand prog/power metal nerds ejaculating simultaneously.

...myself included. Anyone got a mop?

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Nice. It would be cool if they would tour the US.

Witchfinder wrote:

Nice.  It would be cool if they would tour the US.

This. This this this. Hell, I'd fly to Vegas to see 'em.

Really cool. Savatage came to Brasil back in 1998 , I wasn´t lucky enough to see them tho ...

Very cool but I'm not totally on board unless they would tour the States.

This band is only cool here.

Hopefully this will lead to some U.S. shows.

I'd love to see this, but I'd imagine this will become a CD/DVD release, so I guess I'll be able to at some point.

Stinkin' Europeans! You guys get all the luck when it comes to metal.

Is Jon Oliva going to sing here? I saw him with his own band a couple of times during last 10 years and he performed several old Savatage tracks, but he's just not able to sing 'em any more.

it was about time.

hope they start working on some new material.

  

mc666 wrote:

This band is only cool here.

How is the lineup different than JOP?

Since TSO is aldo performing my guess is that the members who usually tour with them will be the Savatage line-up.

kmorg wrote:

Since TSO is aldo performing my guess is that the members who usually tour with them will be the Savatage line-up.

Who's in TSO these days? I think it's reasonable to assume that any Savatage reunion would include Oliva, Caffery and Middleton, so they'd have to pull in a drummer, another guitarist and possibly an additional vocalist.

I'm sure Jeff Plate will drum...he's been the TSO drummer every time I've seen them. I bet they do only Oliva era material and will have only Jon on vocals...hour long "hits" set, tops.

I know I could go look up some youtube videos, but for the sake of conversation how is Jon's voice these days?

mc666 wrote:

This band is only cool here.

Never understood the sonic boner they produce in folks either, but if it makes their fans happy and puts a few coins in their pocket, more power to 'em.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

mc666 wrote:

This band is only cool here.

Never understood the sonic boner they produce in folks either, but if it makes their fans happy and puts a few coins in their pocket, more power to 'em.

Don't get me wrong. I've always liked Savatage within varying degrees. They just seem to be so much greater here than anywhere else. They're not that awesome.