Welcome to summer. Time of sweltering heat; banner rainstorms that last less than 20 mins and love-bugs that will take the paint off your car quicker than it took for your x to find their next conquest. Don't forget it's also time for the non stop barrage of music festivals. Ahh the music festival. Was Woodstock the first? No it was not; that was a rhetorical question. However, I do believe that little festival sparked something that we be able to recapture; hence maybe not the first; but definitely set the standard.
Days of killer music in a seemingly surreal serene environment. Right? Let's be honest none of us were there so we are going off what we have read, were told, or have seen in pictures. What if it was not really all that peaceful? Possibly not even as much fun as we are lead to believe. Maybe people who were there thought it sucked!
I hate festivals yet at the same time I love them. I'm impartial and passionate all rolled into one when I think about them. See a bunch of bands that I like all in one shot? SURE! Hear only 30 min sets of bands that I might LOVE? NO! See a new band that I might be on the verge of liking and seeing that they kill it on stage? SURE! Hearing a band that I have followed for years not go into their deeper cuts to appease the masses? NO! I can go on like this all night folks; but I won't. Perhaps a list would be more suitable : too bad I am not in a list kind of mood.
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| 98 Rockfest... Miss Lizzy Hale |
When I was younger I loved going to Lollapalooza with friends and just tearing it up for an all day event. I was fortunate enough to see some really killer acts back when that festival still had some salt to it. As years wore on I found the acts that were being booked to be flat out horrid! OzzFest stepped it up and I went to that for a few years, but then saw that the same acts were being booked over and over. CrueFest; the first time around was so freaking amazing that I got blacked out drunk the first time I went to go see it; forcing me to go again sober (which was not a cheap ticket), but even after a second go around CrueFest has ceased to exist. Then there are a slew of festivals after that. Don't get me wrong not all bad, but most of them are pretty much the same.
A festival in a nutshell:
- Too many people
- Too short of set-lists
- Large venue
- Shitty acoustics
- Too many people
- Did I mention too many people?
Bottom line if asked again if I would go to another festival I would say yes; well wait who is playing? Is it outside? And numerous other questions before giving a non definite answer. I have said nothing in this post.. hence the rant...like I said it is a love / hate thing.
