Jam bands at roo?

i hear ya... they will come. im thinking we might not have a "jam "headliner. well maybe pearl "jam". (could be worse. atleast theyre good. havent seen them but im sure they jam a bit.) and im not buying the dylan headliner. bob dylan hasnt changed since 04. he didnt headline then. i think the closest we will get to a jam headline is maybe dave and trey. i do still have hope for phil to be back. he made a date with all of us last year to be there this year. and if dylan can headline then certainly sci could headline on their last tour. nma has a show already roo weekend. dosent rule em out but makes it less likely. every year they get farther and farther away from the grassroots music, be it blues, bluegrass, jazz, hip hop or rock and roll and closer and closer to the mtvroots pop music. definitely not saying its become an mtv festival in any way. just that roos road is meandering off in that general direction a little bit more every year. but im sure we will get our jam fix. and if thats what it takes to keep it profitable so i can keep having a goodtime there then ill live. theres always other shows to see while mtv anthems like stacys mom are booming in other parts of centeroo. as long as they dont screw us with mtv headliners ill be allright. and i have no faith that the leak is accurate.

if sci plays a latenight then im fine with the jam lineup.

Yeah hopefully well see them there some form of the Dead Mule, Yonder Mountain, NMAS, Robert Randolph, hes been there every year.

Ha...here comes the MTV acts schtick again...Do you even watch MTV? When they sign up Beyonce, Brooke Hogan, Fall Out Boy or Good Charlotte then we can talk about an MTV takeover, until then let me re-iterate something many of us told you last year: Indie rock does not equal MTV.

i never said anything about an mtv takeover. in fact i specifically stated that i wasnt saying that. a band dosent have to be played on mtv every 5 minutes to be somewhere on the path between what roo started as and mtv land. fountains of wayne is in the first 3 bands confirmed i didnt just pull mtv out of the air. i dont see much difference between fountains of wayne and good charlotte. have you caught mtv lately? matisyahu and fountains of wayne are mtv poster childs. and there is more of that at roo now then in 02, 03, 04 sounds like "meandering off in that general direction" to me. oh well everyones got their own take. not gonna get all argumentative about it but i feel its a valid opinion to have in the thread talking about less jambands. and the mtv stuff made up very little of the post that you quoted. the point of the post was afterall that roo will be great and we will get our jam fix.

The mantra for Bonnaroo has strayed away from the idea that it is a jamband festival, and it now pretty much encompasses all GOOD music, whatever genre they may be. The first Bonnaroo was heavily jamband-laden, but the lineup branched out to encompass more than just jambands. The idea that music has to be improvised to be good is completely wrong. While improvisation is my favorite form of live music, bands like My Morning Jacket and Radiohead have shown that the best sets at Bonnaroo do not have to be heavily jam-laden.

Bonnaroo isn't going to draw 80,000 people to a jam fest anymore. The reason for this is that there are dozens of smaller festivals who are now copying their lineups. 10K, Langerado, Waka, All Good, etc etc, are all within shooting distance for the Roo target audience. Every year these festivals put out the same (pretty much) jamband-laden lineups.

Bonnaroo has realized in order to maintain it's relevance as the largest festival in the world, it has to include the best music of the entire world. They must stay fresh, and not just keep putting out lineups from the same narrow genre from which they garnered their initial fanbase.

In a sense the festival has matured musically as it has evolved. And don't get it wrong, they are still offering up jam music left and right (um>bisco late night, first GRAB show anyone?). They are still at the forefront of the jam genre, even if they are expanding the lineup so that they don't get tagged as a jamband-only fest.

*sigh* I'll say again, Phil Lesh didn't headline in '02, but he came back and headlined last year didn't he? So there is precedence of such a thing happening.

And I don't even know where to begin with your paranoias about MTV and non-jam music. Literally-- I want to write a rebuttal, but I don't know what I could say that would make a difference.

According to a recent edition of Rolling Stone, Bonnaroo has become the largest annual music festival in the world.

there is a big radio country music fest that draws over 150,000 in the us. i think its in tennessee.

Youre right but Fuji rock fest makes Bonnaroo look like some friends hanging out. Fuji is HUGE

When Lesh didn't headline in 02 he even had Bobby Weir on guitar with him and still had to play the earlier set, to add even more to the whole Bob Dylan could headline. I don't think he will, but there is precedence.

I wish the lineup would have more jambands on it because that is my favorite type of band to see live. However, bands like Radiohead, James Brown, Elvis Costello, Gomez, Cat Empire, Bright Eyes, Cypress Hill, De La Soul, Toots and the Maytals, and Rilo Kiley are all highlights of what I've seen at Roo in the past.

I agree. They did it the first 3 years, why did they ever have to stop?

we need some Galactic! late night!!

If they are there, I think they have to be latenight. I just couldn't get into them in the afternoon on a stage. And this is a band I really love to see.