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Music Thread: Bonnaroooooooo
Algrun
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Something special is going to happen in Manchester, TN from Jun 14-17 this year: Bonnaroo. This enormous music festival has been happening every summer since 2002, I believe, and the list of artists playing this year is nothing short of staggering, especially if you read pitchfork sometimes when no one is looking. I went last year and had a blast, and this year's lineup is even more exciting:
The Police • Tool • Widespread Panic • The White Stripes • Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals • Wilco • The Flaming Lips • MANU CHAO Radio Bemba Sound System • The String Cheese Incident • Franz Ferdinand • Bob Weir & Ratdog • Damien Rice • Ween • Gov't Mule • Ziggy Marley • The Decemberists • The Roots • Kings of Leon • Michael Franti and Spearhead • Wolfmother • Regina Spektor • The Black Keys • Galactic • DJ Shadow • Gillian Welch • Spoon • Keller Williams (WMD'S) • Sasha & John Digweed • STS9 • Old Crow Medicine Show • The Hold Steady • Lily Allen • North Mississippi Allstars • Fountains Of Wayne • Hot Tuna • Feist • Hot Chip • John Butler Trio • Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys • Aesop Rock • The Richard Thompson Band • Dierks Bentley • James Blood Ulmer • Xavier Rudd • Gogol Bordello • Junior Brown • Tortoise • T-Bone Burnett • Mavis Staples • Clutch • Cold War Kids • Dr. Dog • Paolo Nutini • Brazilian Girls • RX Bandits • The Nightwatchman • The Slip • Girl Talk • Railroad Earth • Martha Wainwright • Rodrigo y Gabriela • Annuals • Tea Leaf Green • Sam Roberts Band • Elvis Perkins in Dearland • Charlie Louvin • Sonya Kitchell • The Wild Magnolia Mardi Gras Indians • Mute Math • Apollo Sunshine • Uncle Earl • The National • The Little Ones • Black Angels • Ryan Shaw
Looks like The Police, Tool, and Widespread Panic are going to be the three headliners. CRAZY! Bonnaroo has gone from a hippie festival to a hippie/indie/I don't even know festival.
Who's going? Who's been? Who's excited to see what?
http://www.bonnaroo.com/bonnaroo-2007
The Police • Tool • Widespread Panic • The White Stripes • Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals • Wilco • The Flaming Lips • MANU CHAO Radio Bemba Sound System • The String Cheese Incident • Franz Ferdinand • Bob Weir & Ratdog • Damien Rice • Ween • Gov't Mule • Ziggy Marley • The Decemberists • The Roots • Kings of Leon • Michael Franti and Spearhead • Wolfmother • Regina Spektor • The Black Keys • Galactic • DJ Shadow • Gillian Welch • Spoon • Keller Williams (WMD'S) • Sasha & John Digweed • STS9 • Old Crow Medicine Show • The Hold Steady • Lily Allen • North Mississippi Allstars • Fountains Of Wayne • Hot Tuna • Feist • Hot Chip • John Butler Trio • Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys • Aesop Rock • The Richard Thompson Band • Dierks Bentley • James Blood Ulmer • Xavier Rudd • Gogol Bordello • Junior Brown • Tortoise • T-Bone Burnett • Mavis Staples • Clutch • Cold War Kids • Dr. Dog • Paolo Nutini • Brazilian Girls • RX Bandits • The Nightwatchman • The Slip • Girl Talk • Railroad Earth • Martha Wainwright • Rodrigo y Gabriela • Annuals • Tea Leaf Green • Sam Roberts Band • Elvis Perkins in Dearland • Charlie Louvin • Sonya Kitchell • The Wild Magnolia Mardi Gras Indians • Mute Math • Apollo Sunshine • Uncle Earl • The National • The Little Ones • Black Angels • Ryan Shaw
Looks like The Police, Tool, and Widespread Panic are going to be the three headliners. CRAZY! Bonnaroo has gone from a hippie festival to a hippie/indie/I don't even know festival.
Who's going? Who's been? Who's excited to see what?
http://www.bonnaroo.com/bonnaroo-2007
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Agreed. Last year's lineup? Absolute madness.
I'd love to go to see The Decemberists, Tool, Ween, Kings of Leon, Wolfmother, DJ Shadow, The Roots, and Damien Rice. Too bad I'm all the way up north. =\
I enjoyed last year's quite a bit, but I am super excited about Wilco, Spoon, The Flaming Lips, Ween, DJ Shadow, Widespread Panic, and many others.
Last years was good, but I'd seen a lot of those bands before, so maybe it wasn't a personal choice lineup.
I think Tool will be fun because 95% of that crowd is going to hate them. Widespread Panic is the one big famous jam band that I haven't ever seen live.
I didn't know they had a comedy tent. That's awesome.
That said, Tool will probably rock the fuck out of the place, and many hippies/indie kids will have melted faces.
Sure as hell isn't stopping me.
Anyone else taking a road trip south?
the important thing is that tool will melt faces.
Yeah, I guess Tool is the only band tuning down to drop-d and bringing some real metal grooves. Although, for a metalish/prog/whatever you want band, Tool does have a trippy feel to them sometimes, which might work perfectly at Bonnaroo. Oh man, I am excited.
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Yeah, if I go to either it will definitely be Pitchfork.
Edit: Girltalk will be at both though, so no biggy
You lucky bastard >_<
Also, Clutch brings as much, if not more, metal than Tool. Both have kind of calmed over the years. I don't listen to as much Tool as I used to, and would have kind of prefered A Perfect Circle, but my inner 12 year-old is pumped.
Can't wait to see Wilco again and I really think a lot of people will be surprised by The Police. Solo Sting may blow, but The Police are arguably one of the 10 or 20 best rock bands ever, and I've heard that back in the day, their live shows were balls out.
I'm going it alone this year, which kind of sucks, but it'll definately be an experience.
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eh. i guess i can see rx bandits and gov't mule. even so, tool seems out of place, trippy as they can be.
also, i would call tool progessive metal, no slashes or anything.
http://www.jambase.com/festivals/bonnaroo/
Some interesting stuff. Awesome that Flaming Lips is a late night show. Sucks that Wilco and Decemberists overlap.
My gf went to Bonnaroo the year before last but I'm not a huge fan of the giant festivals so I didn't go (last one I went to was IT).
I got there late Thursday, but unfortunately missed most of Friday waiting for the stupid locksmith to get my keys out of my car after I locked them in like a dumbass.
Here's a quick rundown of the shows I caught.
The National - Caught the first 20 minutes after they started late. What I saw was really tight and good though. I'll be keeping an eye out for them if they swing through Cincinnati soon.
Clutch - I saw these guys in 98-99 or so, and wow have they changed. They're still a blast live and blew doors down, but they've definitely shifted from Texas blueshouse tinged Sabbath to Sabbath tinged Texas Blueshouse. They only played one song from the albums I own (Clutch and Elephant Riders), but an awesome show and got me really pumped for the rest of the weekend.
David Cross - Very funny set, highlighted by a great parody of that awful country song "God Bless the USA".
Tool - Fun show, but way too loud. Probably the loudest show I've ever seen. Maynard was antagonistic towards the crowd throughout the whole set, opening with "I smell petouli" and bragging that he had just taken a shower in his air conditioned trailer. The highlight was easily Tom Morello guesting for a song and laying down some blistering fret work.
The Slip - A great loose show, but I liked their follow up on the smaller Sonic Stage the next day a bit better. Got to meet the band and let them know that "Even Rats" pretty much taught me how to play Guitar Hero.
Hold Steady - Probably the rowdiest band I saw there. The band had smiles on their faces and moved around the whole time. Craig played around with the lyrics a ton. I don't remember who else was playing at the time, but the crowd here was a bit smaller than I expected, but really made up for it with enthusiasm.
Regina Spektor - Awesome show that I unfortanately had to leave twice because of the intensity of the heat and dust. I can't decide whose voice was more amazing live, hers or Feist's. Very charming and sweet stage dialogue and she really comes across as about one of the most awesome people you could meet.
Pete Yorn / Spoon / Wolfmother / White Stripes - All shows I had to leave due to the heat/dust. Good from what I heard, but other than White Stripes, these weren't the bands I was looking MOST forward too so I didn't get too torn up about it.
The Decemberists - Really good, with way more of a fun act than their albums led me to suspect. They acted out "Mariner's Revenge" encouraging the audience to shriek and moan as if being eaten by a whale. Mavis Staples joinging them for "Take a Load Off" (don't remember if thats the "actual" name of the song or not) was awesome. Again here, the heat and dust were ridiculous.
Feist - Awesome, awesome, awesome show. Her voice is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. Great interactive show that at one point involved her getting to crowd to sing 3 different notes and then harmonizing perfectly with us. Definitely will try to catch her whenever she comes through.
The Police - Not bad, but not nearly as good as I had hoped for. If Tool was the loudest show I've ever been too, then this was the quietest. I was able to hold conversations with the people around me in a very reasonable speaking voice. They pretty stuck to a "Greatest Hits" set list. Some interesting variations, but also some really uninspired ones, including an awful version of "Roxanne". They also cut their set 50 minutes shorter than advertised.
The Flaming Lips - Best live show I've ever seen. Their stage show is truly inspired involving a giant UFO, Wayne getting passed around the audience in a giant plastic bubble, and the Lips just being their awesome, eccentric selves. The show started an hour after The Police ended, but they came on stage an hour early and blasted through "War Pigs" as a sound test (which was odd, because I had been singing that song to myself about 10 minutes earlier).
Awesome experience, even going alone, and I will definitely go next year if the quality of the acts is this high.
So, anyone else want to share their thoughts? I'm really interested in knowing how Wilco, Cold War Kids, and Kings of Leon were.
Unfortunately, they played at the same time as Flaming Lips. I saw a bit of the SuperJam though, where John Paul Jones, ?uestlove, and Ben Harper riffed on the "Dazed and Confused" bassline.
None of the articles I've read made it sound too serious. I hope they aren't just underplaying it because they don't have details though.
It looks like someone died there again this year and police are trying to determine if it was heat or drugs or a combination of both. I overheard a scared girl asking security for an ambulance during Regina Spektor, and I'm wondering if that was when it happened, as the girl was nearly in tears.
hilarious.
What a dick. Who would do something like that? "Hi everybody, thanks for coming to our show. Now I'm going to harass all of you."
that sounds about right to me. it wasn't exactly tool's show, though. i'd go out on a limb and guess that few if any people came to see tool play.