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More details emerge for Korn's Family Values tour

Family Values Tour organizers have tapped hard-rock acts 10 Years , Bury Your Dead and Bullets & Octane to head up the tour's second stage, and have unveiled some of the attractions that will be a part of the traveling rock festival.

Among the extracurricular activities planned for each stop on the tour--which kicks off July 27--is a 3-on-3 paintball competition for fans, as well as batting cages, pitching cages and more, according to a press release. Each individual market also will include unique attractions.

"In Denver, we will have stripper poles set up in the lawn," Jonathan Davis, frontman for main-stage headliners Korn , said in a statement. "In other markets, we have people setting up wading pools. We are really going to make sure this tour can be as much fun as possible. Fans should e-mail their ideas to me at jd@familyvalueslive.com, We want everyone to get involved."

As previously reported, the tour's main-stage lineup also features Deftones, Stone Sour, Flyleaf and Dir en Grey. More acts will be added to the second-stage roster, according to organizers.

In related news, Davis is at home recuperating from a health scare that last week forced Korn to pull the plug on an in-progress European trek. The singer, who had been feeling weak and was noticing odd bruises appearing on his body, was hospitalized June 9 in London and diagnosed with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura.

"It's too hard to spell, but basically it's a blood infection where because of an allergic reaction, my blood platelets--the stuff my bone marrow produces to help my blood clot--were really low," Davis said in a June 12 statement. "I mean, way low. Most humans have between 140 and 400 in their cells. I had 5 ... no joke ... FIVE. If I continued to headbang on stage I could have had a brain hemorrhage and dropped dead on the spot."

Davis was discharged on June 13, and returned to his home in California.

"The doctors have determined that this was an isolated incident and that after a few weeks my recovery will be complete," Davis said in a statement. "I will be ready to rock on the Family Values Tour this summer. See you all then."