Rock Gone Wild was to be a four-day rock festival, focusing on hard rock, heavy metal and glam rock from four different decades. The inaugural event was scheduled to take place August 20–23, 2009, in Algona, Iowa. The festival was originally slated to take place at the Freedom Park festival ground, and was moved to the Diamond Jo Casino festival grounds before it was eventually cancelled altogether.
Many of the fans who prepurchased tickets lost their money, and some say that the entire event was a fake from the very beginning.
The bill, was to have featured more than 50 bands over four days on two stages, as listed below.
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