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08-21-2011, 03:25 PM
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So what do you guys think about the music festival scene now? If you ask me it's starting to suck. For example, bonnaroo has turned into mainstream MTV ********. It seems like it's just kids going to party and score sheets of acid. That not what it's about, I go for the music and my friends. People are starting fights and selling hard drugs like meth. That's why cops are starting to crack down On the scene. It's really sad in my opinion. I just hope summercamp doesn't turn out like bonnaroo. But it's kind of starting too...bummer!
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08-21-2011, 03:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | Lately, music festivals are sadly blowing down-hill.
I've been to quite a few festival events and it's a mixed bag, but unless you and your buddies start your own festival and keep it "real", these things cost a LOT of money to pull off. A lot of money comes from sponsors. you get a lot of sponsors you get a lot of money and corporations take notice and well, there you go. Then the douchebags invade the scene because "it's the place to be, maaaan", and it all goes to crap. It's not exclusive to music fests tho... This is all exclusive of the bands performing, tho in short time that will get dictated too. Soooooo....guess you're screwed. But kids scoring drugs at festies? not exactly a new phenom man. 
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08-21-2011, 03:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Zaragoza, Spain | | I went to High Voltage in London recently, and it was great IMO. Although there weren´t any token MTV fad-based acts on, so maybe that had something to do.
But the Dream Theater fans... argh... they seem to think that if they scream the title of their favourite song at the top of their lungs (and beside my ear), the band will stop playing and grant their wishes.  What was I talking about again?
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08-21-2011, 04:47 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana | | | Bonnaroo went down hill after the 2nd year. Summercamp has already gone the way of Bonnaroo. Electric Forrest was awesome though |
08-21-2011, 04:51 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Bristol | | | Only decent festival I've been to in the last few years is All Tomorrow's Parties, and even then it can depend wildly on who is curating. Belle and Sebastien? Bleargh! No thanks. Breeders? Count me in!
One particularly dire festival was Latitude. I know it's not supposed to be about the music so much, but the whole experience made me want to walk into the lake in the middle of the site. |
08-21-2011, 04:54 PM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | | Festivals have been going downhill for thirty years or more. Where would you rather be - Woodstock or V? They're just a joke nowadays, imo.
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08-21-2011, 05:27 PM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | The last music festival I went to was Lollapalooza in 1992. It was great, so things must have really changed in 20 years. Darn kids ruin everything.
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08-21-2011, 05:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: kansas city, mo | | | Music festivals aren't for music fans.. they're for fans of getting drunk and acting like idiots en masse
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08-21-2011, 05:42 PM
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Originally Posted by blendermassacre Music festivals aren't for music fans.. they're for fans of getting drunk and acting like idiots en masse | +1
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08-21-2011, 05:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Saint John, NB, Canada | | | As the old saying goes, "If you remember Woodstock.......you wern't there." I remember it, I wasn't there. Too young in 69.
Nothing new here kiddies, move along.
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08-21-2011, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by blendermassacre Music festivals aren't for music fans.. they're for fans of getting drunk and acting like idiots en masse | I agree with this too tbh, and a few of the bigger fests here have had a bit of a problem with organised criminal crews so is the word. A few thousand punters off their faces on whatever are obvious easy pickings, saying that it's been a few years for me so I don't know first hand.
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08-21-2011, 11:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Norway | | | All the festivals I go to have been getting better!
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08-21-2011, 11:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Zürich | | | Sonisphere is a great example of a proper festival. No hipsters, there because "it's cool", and the bands they get at various events are brilliant. I went to the Swiss one at the ebginning of summer and saw Buckcherry, Whitesnake, Priest, Limp Bizkit (don't judge me!), Mastodon and Maiden. If the times had worked out then I woulda seen Alice Cooper, Kreator and Gwar as well, but no biggie.
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08-21-2011, 11:45 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | I don't have the patience for these all day/multiple day festivals anymore. |
08-22-2011, 12:00 AM
|  | is, against all odds, still a scuba viking. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alta Loma, California | | | Mayhem was kinda fun the first year...
after that they stopped booking bands that I like.
Summer Slaughter is usually really good. I didn't go this time, as there were only 2 death metal bands playing. Kinda weird for a death metal fest.
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08-22-2011, 07:08 AM
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08-22-2011, 07:22 AM
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Originally Posted by PSPookie Music festivals aren't getting lamer; you're just getting old. | 
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08-22-2011, 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by PSPookie Music festivals aren't getting lamer; you're just getting old. | This |
08-22-2011, 09:03 AM
|  | Master of Reality | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | | Only went to one festival this summer but got to see Rage Against the Machine and Muse together in a single venue, which is asking a lot of any normal tour.
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08-22-2011, 09:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Sioux Falls, SD | | | The weather hasn't helped either... this year in particular. Way too many tragedies associated with that (Canada, Indiana, Belgium, etc.).
Heck the best outdoor multi-band bill I could have seen was right here in my hometown, last Saturday night, for $10. Better than Ezra, Cracker, Alien Ant Farm and Gear Daddies. Unfortunately I had a gig that night so I couldn't make it. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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