I'm surprised that the San Francisco Outside Lands Fest had a much better lineup than ACL considering this was the first one ever. It seems like the ACL organizers are de-emphasizing the headliners, and instead focusing on lesser known acts. Outside Lands had the following bands: Beck Radiohead Lupe Fiasco Manu Chau Steve Winwood Cake Tom Petty Jack Johnson Wilco Widespread Panic
Just got back. Manu Chao was the best act for me. Worth the price of the wristband. Followed by: MGMT Beck Jose Gonzalez The Black Keys Hot Chip CSS Rancounters
Just waking up. Thank G-d I took today off to recover. No way I could work today. My favorites were... Vampire Weekend Dan Dyer What Made Milwaukee Famous Delta Spirit Nakia & His Southern Cousins The Raconteurs Robert Plant & Allison Krause Say what you want about the Foo Fighters and if they belong in this type of festival...They f***ing rock.
that sounds pretty solid, but i like my galactic WITHOUT vocals. just give me some striaght up new school new orleans funk and drop the hip-hop.
Agreed 100%. The set they played here a few years ago was what made me a fan. I'm not crazy about the latest stuff. Get back to what you do best...funk out.
Yeah, I hear ya. After first hearing them with the Houseman back in 2001, then at ACL 2 years ago I too tend to prefer them sans vocals as well (at least until last night). Fortunately they did their own thing at the start of their show and a spot or two in the last 20 minutes. Still, last night's show was amazing. They had the perfect mix of doing their own thing as they did at the start of the show and then bringing on Chali 2na for several songs. His style meshed completely with their funk. It's rare to get the kind of buzz that was coming from the crowd during their set.
It was nice. Not hot as hell like past years, but it was a little dusty. Still not as bad as the dustbowl of 2005.
That's good that the weather wasn't uncomfortably hot. I bet you were still beat down after 3 days there though. : ) Anytime you have that many walking in an open field you're going to kick up some dust. I was there in '05 and it was absolutely brutal before, during, and after the Coldplay show.
they didn't appear to have watered down the fields each night like they did in 05. it would have been nice. rumor has it that acl '09 will be in mid-october, making for perfect festival weather. my favorite shows: 1) foo 2) sharon jones and the dap-kings 3) gogol bordello
I've heard that it has to be in September to avoid conflicting with band tour schedules that start in the Fall. And it has to be on an away/open UT football weekend to avoid traffic disasters. So they pick whatever weekend UT is away in September.
