SxSW 2013

At one point, I like that the guy got a bad outcome for being a d-bag. At another, the people who mobbed him with cell phones while he is unconscious on the ground are terrible too.

BTW, fuzzy, did you copy my sig haha

Not to get maudlin but yea we have some horrendous natural disaster and everyone comes together, the sun comes out and we think: Well just maybe. Then you see bs like this. A bunch of people can't go out and party, nothing wrong at all with that, but act like asxxxxxxx .... grrrrrr .... I'm not crazy about cells anyway. Dumped mine a year ago or so and its just meh, neither really hear or there. Ramble sorry There are a lot of webcasts it looks like tomorrow so guess I'll veg out and watch sxsw.....

I only saw Jim James today. And I'm back in San Antonio. I didn't bother going to any showcases tonight.


I'm glad I went to Austin just to see the atmosphere, but I really don't give a shiz about the festival and how it operates. It's like the common fan gets pissed on in favor of industry hotshots and corporate whores. You would never see anything from AC or the people behind Coachella or Newport Folk this unfriendly to the average fan.

Ya I don't regret not going. I wish I hadn't missed Heartbreaker Banquet though. Jim tweeted like it was special.

Out of curiosity LD, what exactly where you expecting?

I wasn't really sure what I was coming into, tbh. This was all a learning experience.


Much how I figured out Bonnaroo was mostly a camping festival in 2010... looking on Inforoo right before leaving for TN.

Fader is broadcasting now .... 438 mnt ... cr****

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That sucks their new show is blah. The main reason I think people hated on the old show is that it started as surprising and grew to be choreographed after they did it for years on end. When people saw them multiple times with the same show, they just got bored especially when they used to be more on innovation and having a varied experience.

Yeah I figured it had to with that. I guess what was most disappointing is that I took someone and it was her first time seeing them. So I was all excited for her to experience the same old, F'lips hoopla and instead we got something VERY different. At least Wayne could have incorporated some of the old stuff in with the new. I mean the new stage was actually kind of cool and the graphics were definitely bad ass. At a certain point though I was like, "put that creepy quacking baby down and shoot some confetti on us already".

Finally got some video up (you can see what I'm talking about around the 4:30-6 mark).

My favorite part of that video is the guy screaming over and over (before Wayne Coyne pulls off the mask to unveil who the special guest is) "IT'S JIM JAMES! IT'S JIM JAMES! IT'S JIM JAMES!"

That had to be baconus66

Not being mean on a Sunday... I guess we can't be everywhere...
Prince gave fair warning last night somewhere between his second and third encores. "Don't make me hurt you – you know how many hits I have?" he asked the crowd packed into La Zona Rosa in Austin as SXSW drew to a close.

Enough that he didn't get to them all. Not even close, in fact, though he performed for two hours and 40 minutes, returning to the stage time and again for six or seven encores in all. At a festival where special guests and counterintuitive collaborations are the currency of much-coveted buzz, Prince relied on himself – and on a band that was tighter than a Marine Corps top sheet.

Dave Grohl's SXSW Keynote Speech: 'The Musician Comes First'

As much jam session for the NPG as it was a concert, Prince sang, danced, played a little piano and was generous in spotlighting his backing musicians, who included 11 horn players, two guitarists, a bass player, a drummer, a percussionist and a host of vocalists. The only thing Prince didn't do was play guitar, but then "Purple Rain" didn't include the outro guitar solo, either.

He was probably just too busy directing the show, as if sampling and savoring each ingredient and adjusting to taste. The songs rarely seemed to start or stop, only to shift and flow in new directions as "Shhh" became "Musicology," which transformed into "Extra Lovable," with a bursts of brass tumbling over Prince's vocals. The band did the same thing without him during instrumental sections, sliding from tight, funky soul laced with horns into an impressionistic jazz-tinted section that featured a horn solo, followed by a ripping guitar break.

They stretched out on "Purple Rain," and Prince urged the crowd to sing wordless vocals in place of the guitar solo, and reflected on his career choice. "I love being a musician," he said. "It feels like a servant. A servant for you."

That song ended a 50-minute main set that began with the horn players taking the stage by parading through the crowd like a New Orleans second line, and also included a ringing burst of synths and horns on "1999." For the string of encores, Prince pulled out covers of songs by Curtis Mayfield, Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson, and soul and funk workouts "like we do in Minneapolis." He dipped into Morris Day and the Time's catalog with "Jungle Love," played Sheila E.'s hit "The Glamorous Life" (which Prince wrote) and unearthed his own rarity, "Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)," singing anguished lyrics accompanied by piano on a darkened stage.

Finally, as the clock ticked toward 3 a.m., Prince wrapped up, even as diehards called for one more song.

A Tribe Called Quest opened the show with a set of songs that included "Can I Kick It," "Bonita Applebum" and "Award Tour." The show, dubbed "The Next Big Thing," was presented by Samsung, which gave away 200 tickets to people who used the company's tablet-like Galaxy cell phone.