An Open Letter to Cornerstone (and a handful of former Solid State Bands)

Dear Cornerstone Festival,

It's been a while since we last saw each other. It's no fault of yours. You've had some great moments and I've wanted to come and take part in your experience. But it's expensive and if you haven't noticed the economy isn't being to kind to a lot of us right now, making it harder to come and partake in your musical good times.

But you can fix that this year.

I'm sure you've noticed that 2009 has been the year of the reunion. And this trend looks like it could carry into 2010 nicely and Cornerstone 2010 needs to take full advantage of this.

Focused and Unashamed have both reunited for shows this year. The Crucified played your fantastic festival this past year. Living Sacrifice has a new record coming out in January.

THERE NEEDS TO BE A CLASSIC SOLID STATE NIGHT AT CORNERSTONE 2010!!!

Seriously, if you haven't thought of this already, you need to have your brain examined. This is the perfect storm coming together to create the greatest musical night in the history of the world. There are a couple of minor details to hammer out.

Strongarm needs to reunite for this night. They played a show in 2000 at Furnace Festival and there's no reason why they can't come together and play at Cornerstone 2010. Overcome needs to be there too. It sounds like a lot of bands for one night but you can pull this off. Overcome was just as much a part of the early Solid State scene as Focused and Unashamed and it would be a crime not to include them.

So Strongarm and Overcome... what are you waiting for? Your peers are getting back together. So should you!

Cornerstone also needs to make right their mistake of the past couple of years. 2 years straight now you've not invited Zao to play. They've said they want to play.

LET ZAO PLAY!

It would be amazing if for this night Zao took the stage and played their classic "Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest" in it's entirety.

Think about it.

Classic Solid State Night @ Cornerstone 2010 featuring:
Focused
The Crucified
Unashamed
Strongarm
Overcome
Zao
and Living Sacrifice

There is no reason not to do this.

Bryan Patton