lessthanjoseph

brazillian girls were awsome...

and yes...it was one of the better shows of the weekend..along side De La SOul, Modest Mouse, Dave Matthews, Secret Machines and Dj Krush.

i'm sorry dude...i know these aren't jambands and its hard for you to understand why they are good...but its okay..continue going to bonnaroo for this so called pompous "musianship" you speak of in my other thread.

Your taste in music is nauseating.

DJ Krush was ok.

But only because I was rolling my balls off.

Im sure if I tried to listen to it now my ears would bleed.

The rest of it was dog shit.

And dont patronize me man. Thats the lowest form of debate.

I can comprehend just about anything.

I can grasp why atoms splitting results in massive energy release.

I can understand why some people get off by shitting on each other. etc etc etc

So its not much of an intellectual stretch for me to understand why you like those bands.

But by trying to make it appear that I'm too stupid to understand your broken english, you digress from the real question here. The issue is not "Should people like only a certain genre of music?" The issue at hand is "Do mediocre pop bands bands with mediocre talent belong at bonnaroo?" and the answer is no. They do not.

So yes. I'm going to keep going to bonnaroo until it turns into lollapalooza or warped tour, which seems to be what you want. But you know what? I doubt that will ever happen.

If bonnaroo turns into a pop festival they'll lose a solid 90% of their fans. And with those fans goes the soul of the festival. No more grilled cheese tents, no more hemp, no more glass, no more wierd and amazing people. Sounds like a drag to me man.

But hey, who cares. If they end up listening to shitheads like you I'll just go to Wakarusa instead.

-joseph

p.s. Honestly though, modest mouse? They were playing at the same time as The Word. Fucking medeski, randolph, north miss? Are you kidding. You actually went to bonnaroo all the way from canada and skipped that ensemble? Thats depressing man...

Thanks for the backup

Honestly though I cut Joss some slack.

Shes young.

Give her some time I say.

Not many people can change the world in their teens.

-joseph

I mean Im not out to be a dick.

but honestly.

Its rediculous to go to bonnaroo and tell me that brazillian girls, who played run of the mill dance tunes for what and hour a half? were somehow the best show out there.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Some are just wrong.

Bonnaroo is about musicianship. If a band cant meet that one requirement they dont need to come. Period.

-joseph

I totally forgot about Joss Stone.

First of all shes like 18.

Second of all shes a diminutive white girl.

And she can belt it like Aretha.

Its trippy as hell.

Im a fan.

-joseph

I thought they were mediocre at bonnaroo.

I mean. Their music isnt anything special and their lyrics are inane "Pussy Pussy Pussy Marijuana"? What the fuck is that?

Yeah you can chill and dance to it. But in my opinion its just another bullshit sweater-vest hipster band.

-joseph

edit : "The show of the weekend at bonnaroo." ?!?!??!?! Dude. Surely you must be joking....

Jambands are not boring... at all. If they bore you I hear warped tour is coming back around

As for my take on the festival..

STS9 - These crazy fools started playing at midnight and didnt stop until 5:45am. We all watched the sunrise while dancing like the world would end the next day. The first half of the show was so-so but the second half was absolutely rippin. More than likely they were so impressed with it that the kept playing for almost 2 more hours after the show was schedualed to end.

Allman Brothers - The show was wild. They followed a pretty loose pattern of 1 newer song followed by 1-2 classic tunes. They also covered Franklins Tower which brought down the house.

The Word - Un-fucking-beleiveable. It may very well have been the best thing I heard all weekend. Randolph has that amazing ability to alternate from frenzied fast paced jams to mellow solos that could easily sing you to sleep. His music entered my body and exposed me to a full spectrum of emotions (and colors for that matter ). They also brought out Herbie Handcock to play a few tunes. Think about that for a second, herbie, randolph, medeski, north Miss? Thats an all star lineup, no pun intended.

Bobby Weir and Ratdog - Not much you can say about ratdog. They played some amazing dead covers including a scathing playin in the band, cassidy, bird song, sugar magnolia, and Im sure a few others Im blanking on.

Xavier Rudd - this dude is mindboggling. He plays drums, guitar/dulsimer, and sings/didgeridoo/or harmonica. And he jams his ass off on whatever three instruments he happens to be playing.

Panic - They played two shows. They were both pretty ok. The saturday show was much better than sunday, despite the sunday show's guest preformers. On sunday they had Robert Randolph on stage, Herbie, Bobby Weir (he played and sang wang dang doodle), and Colonel Bruce. Aside from the guests the show was lackluster, no encore or anything. It was like "BAM BONNAROO IS OVER! GO THE FUCK HOME!" Ill agree with Dim on this. I was a little down on panic on sunday.

I suppose I listed a few of my personal highlights so I might as well list the complete and utter dissappointments.

Dave - ha, he sucked. go figure.

Robert Randolph couldnt even pull his mediocre show out of the toilet. And yet again he drew either the first or second largest crowd. Bonnaroo sets it up that way though, they didnt have any other music playing besides dave. Forget him man. I wish he would hang up his hat and just go away.

Modest Mouse - I needed to fill up on water so I left the word for a few minutes to grab some. I walked right past modest mouse on the way. I guess I was a little dumbfounded. I had been seeing incredible musicianship all weekend and this band plays nothing but muddy craptastic chords. They sounded awful. It really put a damper on my trip. I think what I might do is try and catch them on their own tour. So I wont be expecting something they cant deliver. Im not sure if that makes a whole lot of sense or not. I just felt they were out of place.

Thats about it. Of the bands I saw those two were the only ones I couldnt stand. I left dave quite early to limber up and stockup for STS9 and like I said I quickly returned back to The Word from my brief encounter with Modest Mouse. Im sure OAR sucked, but Ive come to expect that from them so I didnt bother even looking.

Im still somewhat burned out from the 4 day extravaganza which ought to account for my apparent lack of writing skills and my obvious short term memory loss as far as playlists went.

Take it easy fellas,

-joseph