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Post by BRCHLD LFNT on Jan 19, 2012 13:30:52 GMT -5
Gettin born in the state of Mississippi, Papa was a copper and a mama was a hippy In Alabama she was swingin hammer, price you gotta pay when you break the panorama.
Post by BRCHLD LFNT on Jan 19, 2012 13:39:34 GMT -5
Except the case isn't closed. You're only hurting yourself if you get your hopes up saying Radiohead, case closed and then it's anyone else. When Insider says Radiohead, I'm 90% convinced. When it's on the line-up I'm 100%. I was here for the great Led Zeppelin hope crushing of 08. Never again.
Prior to insider, leaks in general were easy to come by.
If you go back a few years, Pollstar and Jambase would have tourdates before they were even announced by the artists, thus telling us whether they'd be at a festival or not.
Then there were the years that the festivals tried to embrace social media, but didn't realize that we could see them "friending" all of the bands that were on the lineup.
There were a few years where Bonnaroo updated old profile pages of returning artists and made them live right away, prior to the lineup.
Now that Bonnaroo has learned how to cover up their tracks, insider is the best we've got.
What we really need is for a big name Nashville journalist to take the role of leaking the lineup, like usually happens in Chicago with Lollapalooza.
Wasn't BD 07? I seem to remember it being released pretty much the old fashioned way in 08 other than knowing most of the headliners from DJJD. Also the full 09 lineup we got when TVOTR posted it on myspace too early
Post by itrainmonkeys on Jan 19, 2012 14:17:11 GMT -5
07 was the year The Roots leaked the lineup on their Myspace page or something. They posted the press release before it was supposed to come out.
BD did give us that lineup early but he didn't have inside info really. I'm pretty sure he just figured out how to get into a hidden page on Bonnaroo.com or something and he only leaked it a day early.
insider is the only one who seems to have consistent, real inside info.
I remember there were a couple bands that he was talking about but nothing that I would consider a partial lineup in 08, but I was just a lurker at that point so my memory is a little hazy
We got Metallica from the "Clouds Taste this way" clue
if i remember correctly, before the clue was announced, metallica had already been discussed/revealed/mentioned and people (including myself) were going crazy cause we didn't know how or why a band like metallica would ever play bonnaroo..