Blue Ridge Rock Fest - EXPOSED!!
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Dude, your videos are so underrated in the music world and the level of research you do on this stuff is awesome. Kudos for another great video!
I appreciate that man thank you! Just hope it makes more people aware of Slye Guy
You don’t need everybody to pay attention just the right ones
Couldn't agree more! Also this promoter seems like a giant slimeball!
Totally agree
@tankthetech just wanna say from the moment you broke this story on your channel as someone in the UK that's worked the festival scene this has all come across as someone who is looking to blame anyone but himself so he can keep the money and run and it's people like him that In my opinion ruin the industry for the people like yourself that always try to do right for the bands and the fans much love from the uk
You've heard of Sly and the Family Stone, but now we have Sly and the Family Scam
The orcs took over blue ridge rock festival. It wasn’t the weather. The orcs made Jon so scared that he decided to go silent. The money was stolen by the orcs. When Jonny was asked about this he makes up real (to him) story’s to make himself feel worth something and make himself look like the hero who defeated all of the orcs. In reality he is hiding from them and his team of weak security guards were fighting them while he was writing this. Now he’s gone silent again because his team of weaklings got defeated by Saruman’s army of orcs. This story is more realistic than Sly’s lies. Hey that rhymes.
If this scam somehow takes place again this year, and people buy tickets, they've got no one but THEMSELVES to blame! Seems like most folks shoulda known better long ago.
Fool Me Once, Shame on You; Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me...
I've went three years in a row and had a blast all three years 180 for a 5 day festival you get what you pay for bad ass lineup in a backyard party where everything goes. Pay double the price for DWP festivals and you'll have a festival in more controlled environment
I'm from Virginia and it's just sad to me that our local festival is such a joke.
It doesnt represent where you're from, just reflects onto that knobhead jon
Don't feel bad, I'm from Cleveland...home of the "Rock and Roll Hall of Shame."
If that helps😆
BRRF23 was my first festival ever. It was fun, but GYAT damn was it the hottest of messes. Literally and metaphorically.😂😂
@@LTSauce_Boss21 was basically 23 but actually getting to see the acts and way cheaper beer lol
Dude, thanks to you and Tank The Tech's videos I was able to get my money back from my credit card. You were among my top sited sources. Thank You!!!
Really?? That's crazy to hear!
"We FINALLY got permission to tell you that we can't tell you anything yet."
21:04
Being a Christian and a metalhead I can say I have never seen a church have options for crypto and stock. I have been to Baptist churches, I’ve been to Methodist churches, I’ve been non-denominational churches, I’ve been to a few other flavors of Christian churches all across the United States. That’s not normal and honestly a really big red flag.
Your homeboy Jesus doesn't care how you give your tithe as long as he gets it. You don't want to fry for all eternity do you? 😇
When you said that Slye Guy is from a church family, it suddenly made a whole lot of sense, because in that interview he is completely dead behind the eyes
He looks like a Church mouse infected a larger rodent
It's also in the name "Slye" as in "sly as a fox". Which is an insult to the verminous canine species that needs to drink more antifreeze.
Yeah it all made sense
Man, this completely reignited my feelings of how pissed off I was day 1 at 2023 BRRF. I told my wife we wouldn’t go to day 2 to see if the festival would get its shit together…it didn’t. But to see the social media posts by BRRF would make you think that it was the best festival to ever take place. I could go on and on with how disappointed, upset, and taken advantage of I felt. I can guarantee though, I will get my money back! F these guys.
Beyond the partial day refund, I was not taken to my camping spot by security and was left to find my own spot literally on the side of the road to camp (we had VIP camping passes) and i also had a pass to park one of our 2 vehicles at overflow, which we could not use because other people just desperately trying to find camping space after being abandoned blocked us in. I have multiple services i purchased that were never rendered to me. That is the money I want back, partial main ticket or not.
The show was falling apart wednesday before we even arrived. It was doomed from the word go, anyone who tries to spin the problems as exclusively resulting from anything that happened over the course of the festival is straight up lying.
While at LouderThanLife, we met some dudes from Germany that traveled to go to BlueRock and LTL, we were complementing their bluerock lineup shirt when they told us what happened…what a fucking bummer…Im glad they got to enjoy their time at LTL but i feel so bad for anyone that traveled for that fest.
I spent thousands on this. Rented an RV for a week. Bought new canopies and a lot of other camping gear. We had friends fly in from Netherlands to join us. We drove from NY. Disappointment doesn't begin to describe what that was.
whats ironic is he looks almost identical to pickles’ brother seth from metalocalypse who acts…exactly the same.
Thank you savior of metal. Ive been windmilling your videos to all my friends
Thank you Savior of Metal!
Don't care about metal, just watch because of your charming voice / personality.
For more of his charming voice, check out his band Dark Insanity
I LOVE you for this comment@@Mr.Manta5988
Dude, you are my spirit animal. You research like I do and you love it!!!!
Godzilla will not get past the border like every second band trying to get over the border to play gigs lol
"Sly & the family Scams!"
Lmao, love it! Great investigative work👍
WE ALL NEED TO CHIP IN AND GET WYATT A GODZILLA, SO IT CAN GO AFTER BLUE RIDGE!!
Your content is awesome, dude. And your humor is SICKENING. Love your channel and I hope your band takes off! You're a real one. Thanks for these excellent videos!
I’m not sure if you know but there were thousands and thousands of people who did not get let into the festival Friday because of “storms” while campers and a few others got bussed in and got to enjoy the festival.
Your shit is too legit. Glad I found you before you blow up.
You're amazing bro
I appreciate that man!
Went from 2018-2021. '22 and '23 lineups had my favorite bands of all time. Still didn't go back after '21 because of the disorganization and lack of care to the fans that made it happen every year.
If you're doing a large domestic (United States) festival, go with a Danny Wimmer Presents event. You'll pay more but it's a much more reliable service. You always get what you pay for. If the deal seems too good to be true, it probably is.
I was employed in 21 and 22. I watched from the sidelines this year and was shocked on how it turned out.
Why is it that a super chill YT host can do more research than a local news channel? Why can't the people interviewing this Slye liar do the same research and hold him accountable? First time seeing a vid of yours and very much enjoy your presentation. I will probably do a binge watch of more. Also, Lyin' Slyes is good name for a band - "dibs".
I went in 2021 with my mom (She had just retired as a teacher and she's a big time metal head) 2021 was a blunder as well but nowhere near as bad as this! 2021 had a ton of issues including trash piling up, no security, no bag checks, long lines for food, showers running out of water, ADA services not available, shuttles not running, no one checking parking validations and camping being oversold. It was a hike just getting to the festival grounds and lines so far back you don't even know where it goes to! It got worse in 2022 and this past year. Glad I didn't go and I won't ever go again unless DWP takes it over. The bands were great but you also couldn't get cellphone reception.
Uh lol 21 was actually worse, they just patched it up and didn't have the weather to compete with lol...we didn't even have real security or more than 4 buses that year until the weekend😂
22 was fine aside from shuttles being a suck tbh
I’ve play so many shows for Slye over the years and ohh jeeeezzzz do I have stories.
Oh I am all ears lol
A1 info bro. I went to blue ridge 21 and 22. I had the time of my damn life. Wait times were definitely ass overall, but I didn’t go through a lot of the shit. I didn’t camp which definitely helped. I haven’t been to any other festivals either, so nothing to compare to. It definitely seemed a bit janky, but the lineups were so good that it made up for it. I went to 23 as well, and camped for the first time, which obviously was ass. Friday was fun tho. I had no idea what was going on behind the scenes. Drink lines were short and the porta johns I used in the fest were clean. I got lucky. But yeah. No internet so I had no idea was what going on. Saturday started with rain and then cleared up. Luckily I got out of there before they cancelled the rest of it. But yeah this whole situation kills me. I didn’t know about the bullshit. Despite the terrible management, I had so much fun in 21 and 22 that this fest still has a place in my heart. Call it Stockholm syndrome maybe lol but it was really fun for me. Obviously no defense for 23. I hope someone buys it. Not many options on the east coast US other than Rockville, as far as I know
Two thousand twenty twenty two.... you kinda hurt my brain with that one lol
Thanks for creating such great video and keeping us aware! Hoping more people see this video.
Cheers🤘
Thanks for talking about this! Blue Ridge Rock Festivals is a scam!
They are calling banks to dispute the dispute now as of yesterday
I genuinely don't understand how Sly is still allowed to work in this field. This is every bit as bad as Fyre
Very good point!! To me Fyre was still worse, at least the band played at blue ridge
@@MeshuggahFan-iy6tb I am mostly just talking about Sly's horrendous mismanagement. The attendee experience, at least for some, was definitely not as bad as Fyre
That 5 page apology essay feels like a total joke. As if it's a parody of a corporate apology letter just to disguise the fact that they just don't want to give out refunds. Even so much as refraining from using the word. 😆😆😆
What we need is something like Trustpilot for festivals.
". . . until the claim is settled. . . did you know stress from sweat is smellier than normal sweat. . . I don't believe you. . ." These ads crack me up sometimes.
Should do a video on the pull the plug patch fiasco that happened this past year between the smear campaign to the American distributor losing thousands of dollars worth of their patches because of one neglectful staff member
Also to clarify I’m on ptpp’s side because most the claims against them were exaggerated or misinformed. But unbiased breakdown of everything in video form would be nice
The only music festival I go to is 70K. Every stage but 1 has seating and air conditioning, the one that doesn't, has a pool. Great video as always.
lol @3:39 a little Cartman and authori-tigh
I couldn't resist haha
Great continued coverage over this mess
This was quite eye-opening for me. Thanks for the information.
Wyatt is the pen name I use for karaoke at the gay bar every Thursday. Loving the analysis & drama.
John V. Sly sounds like the name of a Burn Notice Villain.
How is this dude not being investigated for multiple financial crimes? He is clearly stealing from these festivals.
Because lawyers
Dang... The segment about his family reminded me of Genesis - Jesus he knows me...
The statement from the Festival should be signed "Lords of Foggy Nothingness"
I was here dude. Worst concert/festival experience of my life. It felt like I was living in an Eric Andre sketch or something
From reading their statement, it sounds to me like they're trying to convince their insurance carrier that the weather was the actual legitimate reason to cancel the show.
Thus, abling them to collect on the "interruption and abandonment" policy.
Even though the actual reason the festival was cancelled was because most of the staff left in digust over the abhorrent conditions they were forced to work under.
Of which there is plenty of proof available.
Good luck with that, BRRF.
Can you prove Big Foot DIDN'T steal all the stage hands food? No?
My brother and his gf went to that, along with a lot of my friends, and they said it was terrible.
Great video but why did you say two thousand twenty twenty three
Idk man sometimes my brain is dumb
@@wyattsmetal real
The sorry felt like the southpark skit with bd "I'm sorry..." you all know what I mean...^^
Now the blue ridge rock festival has been cancelled. They made the statement on their instagram.
Sly hasn’t been pained the last few months for not being able to speak about BRRF. He’s been working for DWP getting bands for Rockville, Sonic and others. smh
When I was there at brrf 2022 he went to camps and asked about things that could be fixed, this year even during the fest he was pretty silent for it...imo, good idea on paper and have been for a couple years, needs to be addressed and changed...been stunned as was refunded from the country fest bs...leadership and safety issues needs to be changed heavily...blue ridge was a rocking badass time for a bit and was first rock fest I attended. hate to see the stuff that has happened and would love to see future festivals
Great video I really enjoyed it
You’re a wicked cool dude I’m a recent subscriber but I’ll keep watching and clicking like and all that junk
Nice work.
His name even sounds sketch... Sly. 😂
You can't make that up. Right up there with Bernie Made-off 😂
Doing the Lord's work you are my son 🙏
Was there, I’ve known all of this but managed to bully them into giving me free vip tickets so I made the 8 hour drive to the show I paid for camping. I have been a longtime naysayer but when I was there I understood why so many defended going back it was nice to see so many heavy bands having huge crowds and everyone was having a great time. It wasn’t like when you go to another major festival with mainly radio acts on it where a side stage gets almost half full no didn’t matter if it was beginning of day with angelmaker or end of night with Lorna shore (on at the same time as Danzig) the area was packed out and everyone knew what to expect so you didn’t have the growing pains of the radio rock crowd that doesn’t know any better. The side by side main stages and that hill they are on were also perfect you could see and hear great from a long way off. Every single other thing about the way this festival was sucked though. I have so many thoughts and this is too long already so I’ll end here but I am glad I saw it for myself
Sounds like you had a great time and I'm sure thousands of others did too. And its those great memories that keep people attending year after year, despite all the bullshit, long lines and negative press.
I think I can see where the name to the video game character Sly came from XD
sly cooper has nothing to do with this turd nugget sly cooper has morals
There's more!?!?
If this has been a problem with every single Blue Ridge fest this guy has put on, then for fuck’s sake STOP GIVING HIM FESTIVAL PERMITS GOD DAMN IT!
Brooo... The phytagoras 💀! dude... The.. the.. KINKSHAMER 💀, good god. I hope they're ballers, the names are goof ah hell
This sounds like a metal version of the fyre festival. Nearly the same thing happened there.
Cant belive that guys name is Slye
I wanna see the line up for his first festival if homie can pull the bands for Blue Ridge and that was like peck MySpace Christian music so the lineup was probably sick, I've been looking and at this time the only other band I saw that played was Emery
Love Wyatt
Not surprised
I was there the day before, dropping off supplies for a friend’s business who was a sponsor, and it was a shit show then. Glad I had to leave on tour and couldn’t stick around for the craziness. 2021 was enough for me.
Love this guy
That first statement should have started with how to get refunds but the fact that they still can’t say that after the third is utterly fucking pathetic.
I think this festival was beneficial for the attendees. It showed that everyone can survive a sh1t show and they are not important. And everyone who grew up thinking they were special wanting to speak to the managers who attended Blue Ridge, I believe, have a new, fresh outlook on life, that they are just a number in the machine and not important to the wealthy overlords of society.
And now the act you all waited for "Sly And The Family Fraud".
I just realised who wyatt looks like.....Ryan kinel from the RK outpost channel!! Is that your long lost twin brother?!!
I've gotten this many times before actually lol
Someone needs to put this guy in jail, holy shit 😢
Muddy Roots is still the best music festival.
Why are so many Charlie Browns buying Lucy's football kicking tickets every year? Bands and audience. Once is understandable, but this is chronic and glaring.
Heard Blue Ridge Rock Festival was as shitty as Woodstock 99 😢.
I was at both. The conditions at Woodstock were definitely way worse, but at least we got to see the bands.
Share! Share! Share! We gotta get Coffeezilla on this too lol
Another awesome video ❤❤
I hope this avalanche of information causes BRRF2k24 tanks and this cycle of nonsense finally ends
They keep posting statuses saying they’re coming up with “resolutions” and every one is saying ok how about refunds? That’s seems to be when they’re silent on the issue. Johnathan sly is a con artist as far as I’m concerned.
Is aftershock legit? 😂
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A generational family of con artists. Wow.
Authorit-ah 😂😂😂❤
did josh learn from billy? this is a carbon copy of fyre
It’s been happening for as long as I can remember with him…Someone plz look up driven fest 😂😂😂😂
Task failed successfully?
Slye needs some jail time to reflect on his actions, I think.
Wow
The question I'm asking is "each year the same problem happens, why is Blue Ridge Rock Festival allowed to happen?" Sounds like John sly (can't spell his surname) should be in prison (bang to rights).
Tell me that sweet teeth Wyat.
Why do people continue to pay big bucks to go to shows put on by the same lying guy, year after year which never work out? Learn your lesson and stop listening to him.
Anyone else find it hilarious the dude’s name is sly? It’s like reality has its funny little way of warning us. 😂😂😂
Dudes “apology” to the camera was fake AF and frankly creepy as hell. What a douche.
2022 was a complete disaster. I hate to say it, but I don't feel too bad for the people who went in 2023. Definitely should have known better.
But at least you had 4 days of bands in 2022. This was my first one in 2023 and I went to make up for missing 2022. Shit show or not, I regret not going to 2022.
Dude, do something about your microphone. It's way too quiet and I have to put my volume on full blast to be able to hear you. I've noticed this in all your videos so it's an audio engineering issue
Tbh I don't know what the hell the problem is. I've gotten new equipment and make a point to increase the volume before uploading it. It's not intentional and I'm trying to figure it out
@@wyattsmetal thanks for the reply, yeah I find voice audio to be quite difficult. I have noticed you have improved your setup and it definitely sounds better than some of your older videos. In still a great video and I hope that dickhead sly gets a class action lawsuit against him. That church stuff is insane as well, you can tell his entire family are con artists and should be in jail
@@wyattsmetalYou're using a Shure SM7B which is a notoriously gain-hungry microphone, and not all audio interfaces have enough gain to get it up to a proper recording level. If your new equipment includes a different audio interface than what you had before, it could very well be that you need a Cloudlifter or a FetHead to boost the SM7B's level going into the audio interface.