Thursday, July 14
5:00 – Slaughter
7:00 – Cinderella
9:00 – Three Days Grace
11:00 – Rob Zombie

Friday, July 15
3:00 – Rock Sugar
5:00 – Saliva
7:00 – Skillet
9:00 – Hinder
11:00 – Kid Rock

Saturday, July 16
1:45 – TBA
3:00 – My Darkest Days
5:00 – Sick Puppies
7:00 – Chevelle
9:00 – Seether
11:00 – Avenged Sevenfold

Sunday, July 17
1:45 – TBA
4:30 – Jackyl
6:00 – Tesla
8:30 – Heart
10:30 – Def Leppard

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Remember a couple of years back when everyone hated, supposedly, Fred Durst and everyone thought Limp Bizkit was finished.  Think again!  Limp Bizkit’s 8:15 show at Cadott, WI had to be one of the best I can remember!

Talk about really bringing it to your audience.  That’s what Bizkit did, in fact, Fred brought most of the show out in the audience.  He was all over the crowd in the VIP section, up on the  lawn and on the light tower.  By the looks on everyone’s faces, I don’t think Fred is hated anymore.  I was extremely happy since he was jumping over the bleachers between my wife and I and we got to high five him. 

The band had a good mixture of songs, here was the setlist:

Willy Wonka Intro
Hot Dog
Livin It Up
My Generation
Eat You Alive
Break Stuff
Nookie
Behind Blue Eyes
Take a Look Around
My Way
Rollin
Faith

On the last song “Faith”, Fred invited all the ladies in the audience to come up on stage.  There must have been 100 girls up there and gold confetti was being shot into the crowd; freakin amazing!

Wes Borland didn’t disappoint with one of his crazy outfits.  He had pitch black hair with half of his upper torso silver and half black, sporting some big muscular gorilla looking leggings.  DJ Lethal is one showman.  When you think of a DJ you don’t think of someone whipping the crowd into a frenzy every chance he gets, do you?  The crowd really came alive.  Speaking of the crowd to me it was mind boggling the number of 16 – 20 year olds in the grass.  This band was a little before their time but you couldn’t guess that by their reactions!

I recommend this show to everyone except little kids.  Fred dropped more “F” bombs than the movie Scarface, but hey it was awesome!  Keep these shows “Rollin, Rollin, Rollin”.  We would definitely rock out with Limp Bizkit again.

Skillet was the sleeper breakout performer for the 2010 Cadott Rockfest.  As a fill in at the last minute for Gavin Rossdale, I have to admit I was worried.  Being a huge Bush fan I was very stoked to see Gavin and very disappointed when he cancelled.  Not knowing the band Skillet at all and bringing a Christian band to the fest, I was equally worried.

When Skillet took the stage and ripped into their new hit single “Hero” my worries left in a hurry.  This band put on a stage show that made the other bands pale in comparison at this Rockfest.  Lead vocalist and bass player, John Cooper, with wife Karey Cooper, guitarist, made quite a pair with their intense stage presence and extreme rock show.

Ben Kasica, on guitar and UK import drummer and vocalist Jen Ledger, round out this awesome quartet which kept the crowd on its feet.  This show was filled with plenty of lights, smoke and action.  Guitarists, celloists and violinists took turns on platforms that rose on both sides of the stage making for some great effects.  This show had lots and lots of energy like a rock show should.  I highly recommend this band to any rock fan not to mention they have a great Christ centered message, beneficial to all.

We’ll definitely be attending another Skillet show very soon!

On Friday July 16, 2010, Default played the 2:45 PM slot.  I hope this was just a scheduling conflict because this band in my opinion should have played much later in the evening.

My wife and I, having seen this band before remembered how good of a show they put on a few years back opening for Nickelback and knew they wouldn’t disappoint. We were right, they didn’t.

With a new album out “Comes and Goes” the boys from Canada rocked Cadott with some new tunes and some old favorites.  A couple of new songs which have made the charts in Canada were played such as “All Over Me” and “Turn It On” which had favorable crowd response and then their two biggest hits were played “Deny” and “Wasting My Time” towards the end of the set. 

Not only is this an all around solid group of musicians, originally discovered by Chad Kroeger of Nickelback, but Dallas Smith, lead vocalist, has got to have one of the best voices in rock.  He sounded perfect on this afternoon.

I thought the show was great for a band playing an early timeslot.  As I stated the last song was “Wasting My Time” and I’m sure many will agree our time wasn’t wasted watching Default!

Theory of a Deadman played the 8:30 PM slot on Thursday night.  The trio from Delta, British Columbia was a highly anticipated act this year since they had to cancel last year right before the fest.

I have heard several good and bad remarks concerning TOAD in concert.  Many younger concert goers have told me they were great to see live but some of my older (more experienced) concert goers say they were quite boring to watch.  I had never seen them so I was excited!

About an hour into the show, I made my decision.  I have to agree with my older fellow rockers.  I was bored!  Not much crowd interaction, no movement, just stood there and played.  If you are looking for a good mixture of old and new songs like “Not Meant To Be“, “No Surprise“, “By The Way“, “Hate My Life” and “Bad Girlfriend” then you will enjoy this aspect of the show.  If you think the lead singer, Tyler Connolly, is cute then you will enjoy the show.  He stands center stage and the cameras are on him most of the time.  Even the people way in the back got a good look at him due to he was the only thing on the big screens most of the time.

The sound was good but if you are looking for a reach out and grab you rock show, you won’t find it here.  If I had the chance to go see them again as a headliner, I would probably not.  When I go to a rock show, I want to ROCK!