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Should have never left mmj with thirty minutes left for primus. Mmj was the best show this year and primus disappointed
Also the sound at BS was bad, but I think the lighting may have gotten to the speaker. It sounded better at camp, then when I was 100 yards away from Neil.
I have to echo the people saying Eminem. I'm sure it didn't help that I was more towards the back where the sound absolutely sucked (a couple times we had chants going of "Turn it up!" not that it helped). But regardless of the sound, he just didn't have great energy, the visuals were basically non-existent, and as someone said he was basically just standing up there letting tracks play and jumping in for a couple of words. That's considered a concert?
Post by Daniel My Brother on Jun 20, 2011 1:35:43 GMT -5
Eminem & Lil Wayne were somewhat disappointing. I just expect artists to deliver a little more than usual, especially live, and as stated previously on this thread, both use heavy back tracks and rap over it. There are times you can distinguish between the two but those are few and far between.
Robert Plant. I like his new music, but I thought his set lacked some energy. Maybe Americana and festivals just aren't high enough energy for me
Omar Souleyman probably had the least amount of stage presence and energy of any concert i've seen and was not a good segue into Gogol Bordello. Most of the crowd from where I was standing seemed to be thinking the same thing.
The only thing wrong with the Gogol set was the 30+ min delay and then ending at 4:15 effectively playing a 1hour and 45min set in a scheduled spot that was changed last minute to seemingly incorporate more time for their show. That being said, probably my 2nd favorite set of the weekend begind MMJ
I've been wanting to see the Strokes for years and I liked what I heard. But I also would have liked the extra 15-20 minutes I was expecting when they quit early.
Also, their attitude really turned me off. I know that being too hipster cool to care is part of their schtick but give me a freaking break. It's Bonnaroo. Put in a little fucking effort and try to please your audience for once, dickwads.
Loretta Lynn. She played the same song twice and at least 3 songs were played without her. Also the tease of Jack White messed with my emotions.
I thought Loretta Lynn was amazing and I loved her set.
The disappointment to me is Jack White. Her show was great without him. But the impression I got is that she was practically begging him to come play with her and he refused. If a legend like Loretta Lynn asks you to play with her then you get over your prima donna BS and play with her. He came out looking like a real a-hole on that one.
Also, their attitude really turned me off. I know that being too hipster cool to care is part of their schtick but give me a freaking break. It's Bonnaroo. Put in a little quacking effort and try to please your audience for once, dickwads.
So basically, while you know they've had the same "schtick" the last 10+ years, including appearances at Lolla/Coachella within the last 10 months, you want them to change it for a festival that you're attending?
Also, their attitude really turned me off. I know that being too hipster cool to care is part of their schtick but give me a freaking break. It's Bonnaroo. Put in a little quacking effort and try to please your audience for once, dickwads.
So basically, while you know they've had the same "schtick" the last 10+ years, including appearances at Lolla/Coachella within the last 10 months, you want them to change it for a festival that you're attending?
This was my first time seeing them. Do they play like they didn't give a shit at all their shows? No, I don't think I'm expecting too much.
1) Primus. i thought the setlist was kinda random. didn't want to hear the new stuff. sounded too much like Les solo (which is fine) but not wat i wanted at a festival primus set. les seemed really bored too. 2) Dr. John and The Meters - seemed phoned in. Both Dr. John and The Meters seemed bored and uninterested in playing the material. 3) Eminem - cheesy as quack 4) Bootsy Collins - this was a great show BUT very peeved i had to miss the black keys to wait through the hour long sound check. also wish there was just more bootsy. he left the stage so many times and let the band do most of the show.
also - the crowd in general. i echo the thoughts that the crowd seemed a lot more interested in no no word and less interested in music at least from my interactions. which is funny because the party favors were pretty hard to find this year. since i've been hiking for 10 weeks i looked like a dirty fuzzy wook and everyone came to my campsite asking where they could find Leno. even the volunteers doing the patdowns were asking me for weed. sorry guys this is new roo -bring your own Leno.
Post by headiesmaster on Jun 21, 2011 0:11:49 GMT -5
It's funny to see how people's opinions can vary so much. I thought Primus killed it, but then again my expectations weren't nearly as high as they should have been.
I can't really say I was too disappointed at Roo because nothing was going to kill my vibe, man, but I was a little bummed that The Strokes set was short and my expectations were a little high (they tore it upppp at Music Midtown some years back...). Regardless, I had a great time, sang every word, crowd surfed, I was that guy. Oh and I walked out on Dam Funk because of his gradual transformation from singing like Michael Jackson to channeling Kid Rock. Every now and then I'd catch some incredible synth lines and stop myself from leaving, but yeah the Kid Rock thing was a little too heavy.
Loretta Lynn. She played the same song twice and at least 3 songs were played without her. Also the tease of Jack White messed with my emotions.
Yes she did, I thought maybe she was having a seniors moment Also I REALLY thought Jack White was going to show up, then she brings his name up and goes "is that Jack" or something to that effect but nope. She said he left her high and dry, I couldn't tell if she was joking or not...either way though I loved her show, it was awesome seeing her.
My only real disappointment was...Ray Lamontagne, maybe it was because I felt sick and the Which stage sound was absolute crap this year, I also could not see him cause he was off on the sidelines towards the back but I was disappointed. This was the show aside from MMJ I was most looking forward too. I don't think it was his performance but maybe wrong venue or something? I would rather a more intimate setting for him..both ways LOL
and Eminem, well I checked out his set briefly after Springfield. I, like so many of you, like some old stuff but the vibe was alll wrong IMO for Bonnaroo." F your mom" and that song with the gun and killing, whatever was birdbrained. We had some southern boys behind us laughing at at the "F your mom" bit. Said "we're in the south, we love our momma's here, my momma makes me cornbread and biscuits" funniest leno I have ever heard and that was the BEST part about the Em set.
MMJ was magical, amazing, but I was soo sad they didn't play Dondante and only the end of Run Thru :S
I actually liked the vibe at Roo this year and enjoyed my neighbors much more too I've only been twice but this was by far my favorite time.
My only real disappointment was...Ray Lamontagne, maybe it was because I felt sick and the Which stage sound was absolute crap this year, I also could not see him cause he was off on the sidelines towards the back but I was disappointed. This was the show aside from MMJ I was most looking forward too. I don't think it was his performance but maybe wrong venue or something? I would rather a more intimate setting for him..both ways LOL
Ray was one of my favorite sets of the weekend. But he was hard to hear after Florence + the Machine started so there were definitely sound issues.
Post by harry61991 on Jun 23, 2011 13:29:17 GMT -5
i was disappointed by the lack of encores this year. last year i saw a bunch of bands encore. this year i saw two acts encore. even the band that closed the festival didnt encore. whats up with that?
Post by barthvader on Jun 23, 2011 15:55:09 GMT -5
I'm sorry, but I thought Eminem really sucked. I think Britney Spears probably has more live vocals in his show than he did. Granted, I didn't stay for the whole thing (I was in an altered state of mind and the violent opening with the cheesy machine gun graphics and gunshots wasn't the vibe I was looking for) but it seemed like he said a few words here and there and it was mostly a track.
It's sad to hear so many disappointing reports of Primus. I was in the pit with the right frame of mind, and it stole the weekend for me. I've seen MMJ twice before so I knew where I'd be. But I loved that show. American Life, Groundhog's Day, Harold of the Rocks. Tommy the Cat were all killer.
The new stuff I liked about half of, but it's an old band's new stuff. How often do you even like half of it? Great show. Considering I was 15 the last time they played Bonnaroo, I'm perfectly content with their show.
P.S. Yes, Eminem really sucked. I actually laughed at that phony machine gun shooting at the crowd with the CGI skulls floating around it. So cheesy.
The deal with Buffalo Springfield was the computers than ran sound were trying to crash. One of my roo mates was hired ($200 cash and he scored the actual paper the set list was on) to monitor the computers and fix a crash if it happened. I know it was too late in the game to either repair or replace the system so the sound suffered quite a bit. When the show first started, we were all joking about what a terrible job Jason was doing, and we met up with him afterwards and he explained the problem. I'm not enough of a computer person (does this button turn this thing on? lol) to understand exactly what the deal was, but it was that kind of problem.
oof sounds from a distance like the combination of multiple channels, heat, running all day, RAM (even if it is TB's of RAM, by day 2 you have a ish-load of tmp files floating in the system). sounds like a nightmare - but they gotta figure it out for the future.. they've never really gotten it right
Post by pondo ROCKS on Jul 1, 2011 18:47:52 GMT -5
I still find it hard to enjoy a 90 minute or less headliner. If you cannot play more than 90 minutes, maybe headlining a major festival is not the way to go.
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I still find it hard to enjoy a 90 minute or less headliner. If you cannot play more than 90 minutes, maybe headlining a major festival is not the way to go.
Eh. By all accounts, Arcade Fire did just fine with a cool 90 minutes.
I'm honestly surprised to see The Strokes show up so often in this thread. I thought they sounded fantastic and the crowd actually seemed really into it from where NoD and I were standing. That was one of my top 10 shows of the weekend, if not top 5.
I still find it hard to enjoy a 90 minute or less headliner. If you cannot play more than 90 minutes, maybe headlining a major festival is not the way to go.
Eh. By all accounts, Arcade Fire did just fine with a cool 90 minutes.
I'm honestly surprised to see The Strokes show up so often in this thread. I thought they sounded fantastic and the crowd actually seemed really into it from where NoD and I were standing. That was one of my top 10 shows of the weekend, if not top 5.
I understand the sentiment that headliners should play longer, and I kind of agree, but Arcade Fire definitely killed it in their 90 minute set. That was nothing short of incredible, regardless of the length.
Mitchel, it seems like the majority of the people who saw their set felt that way. I've talked to a lot of people both during the festival and afterwards that were sold on Arcade Fire based on that performance.
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
Loretta Lynn. She played the same song twice and at least 3 songs were played without her. Also the tease of Jack White messed with my emotions.
I thought Loretta Lynn was amazing and I loved her set.
The disappointment to me is Jack White. Her show was great without him. But the impression I got is that she was practically begging him to come play with her and he refused. If a legend like Loretta Lynn asks you to play with her then you get over your prima donna BS and play with her. He came out looking like a real a-hole on that one.
I had that same thought. She even mentioned it during the set that she had asked him. I equated it being stood up for prom.
Granted, he did have a divorce party to attend that night in Nashville. But I was still disappointed in him. I was however impressed with Loretta. I think most of her set was requests.
On a side note, I was pretty disappointed with the Decemberists. I'm a huge fan but it felt like the energy was gone and the crowd wasn't feeling it. They quit 15 minutes early. Part of this is, I feel, because Jenny Conlee wasn't there. It seemed liked they were on a stage a little too big for them as well.
Eh. By all accounts, Arcade Fire did just fine with a cool 90 minutes.
I'm honestly surprised to see The Strokes show up so often in this thread. I thought they sounded fantastic and the crowd actually seemed really into it from where NoD and I were standing. That was one of my top 10 shows of the weekend, if not top 5.
I understand the sentiment that headliners should play longer, and I kind of agree, but Arcade Fire definitely killed it in their 90 minute set. That was nothing short of incredible, regardless of the length.
Yes but now you have opened the flood gates for 90 minute headliners. Two of the three played 90 min or less and the other one is the throw in band they always book. I seriously hope this was a one time deal.
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only thing I was legit bummed about was Alberta Cross, after hearing how awesome they were in 2009. performance was ok, but their music just isn't very good.
The great thing about a festival is that if you're not feeling something you can wander away to something else so a disappointing set tends to fade away for me.
That said, Sleigh Bells disappointed me. I did stay for the whole set because my girlfriend and I were both really looking forward to them. The crowd was way to big for The Other Tent and their performance, frankly, was lacking. Wanting to see somebody very badly only to find that you can't see them and that they don't sound very good is a brutal combination.
The size of the crowd vs. the sound and the sightlines lead to Mumford and Sons being a bit disappointing for me. I stuck it out and enjoyed myself but they were my girlfriend's number one artist and she went an hour or two early and still ended up unable to see or hear and left for a good spot for Black Keys. It kinda broke her heart a little bit.
Had a great spot in the pit with two people really excited to see them so my Black Keys experience was better than a lot of other Infoorooers. Same for Iron and Wine.
Overall, the shorter sets were a general overall disappointment.
Post by abrakapokus on Jul 3, 2011 13:21:08 GMT -5
I really didn't enjoy the superjam. The instruments weren't mic ed properly they started way late and to be quite honest I'm not a huge fan of that kind of music. We backed out of the tent just because we were tired but the people who were around us were super cool and I got to watch a hula girl outside of the tent which added to the experience.