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Post by Blacksmile on Oct 31, 2012 19:03:17 GMT -8
Since leaving on hiatus, the only bands I've seen were Refused and Thee Oh Sees. Refused were pretty good, but didn't really do it for me.
Thee Oh Sees on the other hand, WERE FUCKING AMAZING! I had never seen them before, and I enjoyed the shit out of their show. They have such a great vibe about them, played professionally, and their sound was superior. The crowd was bonkers as well. I? haven't seen a crowd lose their collective shit and cause such a ruckus since I last saw the Monotonix. People were dancing, jumping around and moshing like it was Slayer on stage. It was just nuts and I can't wait to see them again.
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Post by kymess_jr on Oct 31, 2012 19:11:44 GMT -8
Matt and Kim. Those two could seriously start a business where people just pay them to attend events and their amazingly contagious good mood would rub off on everyone in the crowd. Either that or those confetti cannons were filled with MDMA. So much fucking fun. Even better than their Sasquatch set, which I thought was amazing. They were so much fun!!! So much fun in fact, I gave myself whiplash from all my crazy dancing.... That was a fun one to explain to the chiropractor.
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Post by Dr. Crane on Oct 31, 2012 21:53:22 GMT -8
Thee Oh Sees on the other hand, WERE FUCKING AMAZING! I had never seen them before, and I enjoyed the shit out of their show. They have such a great vibe about them, played professionally, and their sound was superior. The crowd was bonkers as well. I? haven't seen a crowd lose their collective shit and cause such a ruckus since I last saw the Monotonix. People were dancing, jumping around and moshing like it was Slayer on stage. It was just nuts and I can't wait to see them again. Sasquatch needs Thee Oh Sees so motherfucking badly.
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Post by Lump on Nov 1, 2012 14:59:10 GMT -8
Thee Oh Sees on the other hand, WERE FUCKING AMAZING! I had never seen them before, and I enjoyed the shit out of their show. They have such a great vibe about them, played professionally, and their sound was superior. The crowd was bonkers as well. I? haven't seen a crowd lose their collective shit and cause such a ruckus since I last saw the Monotonix. People were dancing, jumping around and moshing like it was Slayer on stage. It was just nuts and I can't wait to see them again. Sasquatch needs Thee Oh Sees so motherfucking badly. This makes me happy you got to experience this, blacksmile, and Thee Oh Sees is my prediction for Sasquatch '13, a lot because I just want them to be there. I couldn't definitely see Ty Segall being there too.
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Post by Dr. Crane on Nov 1, 2012 15:54:01 GMT -8
Lumpy couldn't definitely be playing mind games with us.
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Post by wonk on Nov 7, 2012 21:14:27 GMT -8
FUN FUN FUN FEST:
First, Fun Fun Fun Fest was in downtown Austin. There is a lot to do there. I was on vacation. I also had many many friends in the area, so I wasn't at the festival as much as I planned.
I got to hang out with Switch and his hot wife for about three hours after the Saturday shows ended. We hung out mostly on sixth street, which is a mad house on party nights. They close the street down in the early evening so it's a giant sidewalk, and each block has about six bars and multiple food joints. It wasn't nearly as crowded as Halloween night, which was a fucking riot. I've never seen that many people in costumes walking down the middle of the street. I got stopped by people asking for pictures over ten times (my costume was rad). The last time I visited Austin, I spent a lot of time away from the downtown area, and I thought the city pretty much sucked. My opinion has changed drastically. Portland has nothing on downtown Austin, but I still think the outskirts of Austin suck bad.
As for the festival, my PIP (VIP) pass awarded me a 50 minute wait to get into the venue, while the regular entrance had no line. I couldn't skip the PIP line because then I get no free beer. PIP; if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. What a disaster that was Friday. I didn't even want to go back to the festival. The two free meals weren't even vouchers for real food, it was garbage passed out in the PIP area, and there were time limits (1230 to 230 for meal one, 530 to 730 for meal two). Needless to say I had already eaten real vacation food upon arriving, so meal one was wasted. The lines for beer, food, and bathrooms were much longer in the PIP areas (Friday at least). I did get a pretty fucking cool fanny pack I'll never wear, and a really nice water bottle. I had to pay $15 for a locker to stash these, because I didn't want to carry them around all day. The free beer was ten per day, so I didn't have a chance to reach my 16 per day quota.
People blew up about how much of a rip off PIP was after Friday (on social media from what I've heard). They gave away free water the rest of the weekend, and had canned beers instead of the half filled 12 ounce cups they were spilling as they handed them to you. The beer lines were much shorter, but nothing changed with the bathroom and food situation. It was nice to get a free bite to eat twice, but I used the regular bathrooms exclusively Saturday/Sunday, and drooled at every edible food stand I walked past.
One thing I hated about the festival, no monitors. As a tall guy, I prefer hanging near the back of the crowd if I arrive late rather than pushing my way up and blocking people's view. On the flip side, each stage had two stages side by side, so the next band was setting up while the band next door was playing (Warped style). Therefore, there was only five minutes in between sets, which was really cool. Music was playing almost non-stop. The Orange stage (main stage) was really easy to get up close to, because of the tiered lawns, so I shouldn't complain. The blue and black stages weren't easy to get close to, but weren't as crowded on average.
I'll get to the band reviews another night. I missed a lot I would have liked to see because I wasn't there, or because I was watching other crap.
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Post by wonk on Nov 15, 2012 22:52:35 GMT -8
Apparently I'm terrible at chores like writing reviews. Badchoices, I'm letting you down.
So here's a mini review of Omar:
I was extremely disappointed when he didn't show Friday. I'm a Mars Volta fan. I was basically stalling my crew near the orange stage because Omar was supposed to be there, and he was ten minutes late. I had to know what the shit was going on. I finally heard a staff member make the announcement, "his bus broke down, we really hope we can fit him in later this weekend. He's sorry." That wasn't word for word, but it was very sincere for both Omar and the festival organizers.
"Fuck" I thought. He'll never get "fit in" later this weekend. Turns out some rapper who canceled the festival last year did so again this year, and Omar was back on. I only figured this out because the festival updated their website with Omar playing in said rapper's place. The first thing I did every morning was to check that days lineup on my phone, just so I knew how much time I had to kill in Austin before I had to arrive. I mentioned above, I didn't even want to go back to that festival after day one.
I did check in on the board that weekend, and ya'll stated what I already knew, so thanks for that. Had I not randomly discovered this information, ya'll were on point.
I got to see Omar from a far. I caught more than half of his set, and it was fantastic. Like I mentioned above, there were no monitors there, and I was near the back, so I didn't get a great view, but kick fucking ass. The last time I saw Omar (at Coachella 2011), he had a high school yelper kid fronting his band, and it was so fucking annoying. The chick fronting his band this time around was powerful, like YYY and Flo tha Machine powerful. I love her. I love her. I love her.
The end.
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Post by Shaxspear III Esq. on Nov 16, 2012 0:10:53 GMT -8
I'm covered in blood and demon jizz. Gwar was awesome.
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Post by badchoices on Nov 16, 2012 6:53:21 GMT -8
Wonk: I am so glad you got a chance to see that set. It sounded like quite a cluster fuck for them to get there. What rapper canceled two years in a row?
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Post by wonk on Nov 16, 2012 8:55:27 GMT -8
Rakim.
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Post by Cbats on Nov 16, 2012 9:32:22 GMT -8
Did you end up catching Danny Brown?
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Post by StormyPinkness on Nov 16, 2012 9:53:57 GMT -8
The chick fronting his band this time around was powerful, like YYY and Flo tha Machine powerful. I love her. I love her. I love her. Did she make eye contact?
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Post by wonk on Nov 16, 2012 16:28:37 GMT -8
Did you end up catching Danny Brown? I caught the first half of Danny Brown. He was fairly legible, and I like his voice and flow, but I never enjoy the "hype man" style of hip-hop live, where you have a bunch of people running around stage yelling a bunch of different things. It was only Danny Brown and one hype guy, but that hype guy had enough annoyance to make it seem like there were more of him. My Danny Brown experience ended when the hype man yelled out something along the lines of, "Bitches ain't nuthin but a bunch of dumb ass hos." Since I had bitches in my crew, it was time to leave. There was a pretty funny moment when Danny Brown finished one of his verses with, "I'm the black Brad Pitt, I'm the Black Brad Pitt, suck my dick." Then he kept repeating the phrase like it was the chorus of the song (maybe it is?). For some reason, this comment became my battle cry for the rest of the weekend. I must have called myself the black Brad Pitt while mimicking Danny's voice fifty times (suck my dick). The chick fronting his band this time around was powerful, like YYY and Flo tha Machine powerful. I love her. I love her. I love her. Did she make eye contact? That type of connection is once in a lifetime. I pur.posely don't make eye contact with female vocalists anymore.
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Post by Cbats on Nov 16, 2012 16:57:50 GMT -8
That's too bad that Danny Brown has a hype man behind him now, the two times I've seen him he just had a very very white DJ who mouthed the words behind him. But uh, yeah, if your group was easily offended then you definitely couldn't stay, he's not exactly PC...
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Post by wonk on Nov 16, 2012 18:40:47 GMT -8
That's too bad that Danny Brown has a hype man behind him now, the two times I've seen him he just had a very very white DJ who mouthed the words behind him. But uh, yeah, if your group was easily offended then you definitely couldn't stay, he's not exactly PC... I wouldn't say they are that easily offended, it wasn't your typical "fuck a bitch fuck a ho" type comment. It came off more like, "all women are fucking dumb." And yes, his very white DJ was also there. Danny Brown (and Schoolboy Q) performed with A$AP Rocky and his crew of fuckheads later that night while I was flying solo. It was such a train wreck that I couldn't look away. I ended up watching it for 20 minutes. I'll never understand how filling the stage with a bunch of people screaming different catch phrases while you rap is a good idea. It's like if I was going to read poetry, and gave extra microphones to Gilbert Godfrey, Roseanne Barr, Ray Lewis, Sam Kinnison, and the lead singer of Napalm Death, and said, "you know what, just do your thing while I'm out there." And you know those guys think they're killing it every night. "Yo dawg, remember when all six of us were singing different songs at the same time? Man, the crowd was eating that shit up yo."
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Post by Nadine Hurley on Nov 16, 2012 18:42:23 GMT -8
Wonk! What did you dress up as for Halloween!?
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Post by wonk on Nov 16, 2012 19:02:34 GMT -8
Wonk! What did you dress up as for Halloween!? It's a secret. I'll PM you.
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Post by Pea on Nov 16, 2012 19:12:36 GMT -8
Dude...not cool.
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Post by Dr. Crane on Nov 16, 2012 19:21:45 GMT -8
Wonk was an extremely erect penis for Halloween.
Also, Terri Gender Bender's (the vocalist you recently fell in love with) stage presence is unbelievable. I'm not sure if you are aware, but she fronts the band Le Butcherettes, who also rock hard tasty abs.
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Post by Pea on Nov 16, 2012 19:34:07 GMT -8
TERRI FUCKING GENDER BENDER.
Wonk, did you not see Le Butcherettes at Coachella? I could have sworn we watched them together. I knew Omar was playing bass for them, but I didn't know she was singing for his sets as well. She's by far the most badass chick in music right now. Love love love her.
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