Super-sized Music Festivals
Music festivals are a great experience. The atmosphere is awesome, the vibes are great and the people are unique and generally awesome. The only down side is that with the festivals as they are today, the sheer size of them can be overwhelming. There’s so much to do and so many artists and while its definitely possible that you could party with intense amounts of people (maybe even some bands) and get some potentially amazing artist collaborations, the unfortunately more likely possibility is that you’re going to leave disappointed having missed a set you wanted to see due to a schedule conflict. There’s just so many artists on the line-ups of festivals like Bonnaroo, Hangout, Wakarusa and others that the schedule conflict is bound to catch-up with you eventually.
However, that shouldn’t, by any means, discourage festival going all together and the big fests are definitely good for bringing in a grouping of artists that wouldn’t ordinarily be together and give you the chance to see them all at once but pick your schedules carefully.
The festival season is upon us with Hangout in Alabama and Summer Camp in Illinois coming up next. Get out there… see that music… enjoy the vibes and get that schedule right!
This is one of the best covers of all time from one of the best guitarists of all time at what was one of the greatest festivals of all time…The Moterey Pop Festival.
Jimi Hendrix-Like A Rolling Stone
(via theshowoflife)
Source: retro2go
Phish Breading, by Anthony L. of Ant Pharms Phish Pins. Thanks anthony!
I Dont Even.
Source: tweezburger
Wanee 2012
Well, the Wanee Festival was this past weekend in Live Oak, Florida and it gave more reason for celebration than just the holiday.
The lineup was nothing short of stellar with the Allman Brothers Band, Furthur, Gov’t Mule and the Tedeschi Trucks Band taking the top spots. Several of the bands payed tribute to the late, great Levon Helms and it made for some memorable performances including Bob Wier and Susan Tedeschi joining the Allman Brothers for “The Weight”.
Get a full recap of the festival from Headstash and keep a lookout on nugs.net for the sets from the weekend, they’ll be a must have for the collection.
Great T.V.
There’s so little great T.V. anymore; even though everyone has the shows they love and they’ll always use them in an argument to the contrary. However, it’s generally either some show on HBO or Showtime (which lots of people don’t get) or on at some inconvenient time for whoever is being told what to watch or any of hundreds of other reasons one might come up with. The truth is that, while a show might be good, proportionate to all the crap on T.V., the great shows really are few and far between.
However, thanks to Netflix and a host of other online resources, many of the shows that are at inconvenient times on inconvenient channels, people can seek out and pass by all the nonsense. Such as…
Here’s one of the latest favorites around here… a great show, still running and on Netflix if you need to do some catching up.
My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
Putting the integrity of the music above all else.