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And wow, you're like a walking, talking infomercial to turn people away from Pearl Jam and Ohio State, aren't you? Before you started posting here I quite liked Pearl Jam and was indifferent towards OSU, now I find myself wishing that Eddie Vedder falls down a mine shaft or that Columbus is infested with locusts
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Post by NotMitchelBade on Jan 20, 2012 14:22:10 GMT -5
I think that while Coachella and Bonnaroo are clearly competitors (I know a lot of people who can only do 1 festival a year or summer), the biggest competitors for Bonnaroo are closer summer festivals like Lolla, Electric Forest, Wakarusa, and Hangout.
(I originally tried to post this at like 12:45. I hit post and walked away, and apparently it didn't go through.)
Why can't RHCP be the Friday night headliner? Because they don't play three nights in a row on the tour? That's some terrible logic. They got nothing booked for Friday night. I'm still holding out for someone bigger and more worthy for Saturday night, like Paul McCartney or Radiohead.
Maybe the R insider hinted at is refering to Radiohead and not RHCP and instead its Radiohead-Madonna-Phish. I would take Madonna any day over RHCP
I get that a lot of this board is not too thrilled with the idea of RHCP, but I would really hope that most of y'all would realize that RHCP is a far, far, far better choice than Madonna. I mean seriously dude, Madonna?
This is the first message board I've ever been on, the only reason I joined is because I love Bonnaroo and wanted to read and talk about it all year long.
Maybe I just cant except the fact that RHCP can be classified as veterans.
That's exactly it.
Tom Petty and The Police both started releasing albums a short time (few years) before RHCP did and they are just as much "veterans" as Metallica and Pearl Jam were.
They've been doing this close to 30 years. Not really a current act.
Radiohead has been doing it for over 20 years and have been popular for almost that long. While I would agree that they are "current," they could be veterans too. And I do agree with what some people are saying that it seems like there is a lack of a more current/more popular/more cross over artist in the top 5-6. I'm not saying there has to be one just because there has been in past years. But I feel like Roo (and festivals in general) has gotten "bigger" over the past 2, maybe 3, years. More casual music fans know what Roo, Cocahella, etc are. So I think they will want to keep that interest up, if possible, with a more current and popular artist at the top. Thats all.
So I think they will want to keep that interest up, if possible, with a more current and popular artist at the top. Thats all.
Who would you classify as more current and popular than Radiohead? Just wondering who you'd put in their place.
Something along the lines of Black Keys (For the general population). I just asked my brother who Radiohead was and he asked me if they were the guys who sang creep, however, he has the latest black keys album. I know a lot of people like this. Very sad
I gotta gree with Little Red Ghost. My coworkers who are in their late 30s to 40s all like Radiohead; but they consider them a band from when they were younger. Whereas they all like Black Keys but they obviously can't stake a claim to them being of their generation. So I would say Black Keys are just as popular as Radiohead right now and are definitely more of a "current" act.
Post by LittleRedGhost on Jan 20, 2012 15:16:01 GMT -5
I dont consider myself a fan of the black keys and I am a pretty huge fan of Radiohead but even I will admit The Black Keys are really huge right now. I mean, they are headlining their own night at Coachella.