Mobile Bay fest 2012

What do you think the best possible scenario is for this lineup?

Its Mobile, Alabama, you can't blame them (well yeah you can) for their lack of taste. I almost lost it when one guy was legitimately serious about not going if Nickelback wasn't there.

I have never had high hopes for the Bayfest line up besides a laugh or two. I have seen a few good acts there though: Widespread Panic, Grand Funk Railroad, Stone Temple Pilots, Ludacris.

I've seen some cool acts there since '96. Usually in a shittty crowd but whatever I have a good time wherever I go.
-Pain, Alice In Chains. STP. Velvet Revolver, Audioslave, Blue Oyster Cult, Al Green, Dennis Fingeroll Nelson, Korn, Meat Puppets, Morris Day & The Time, P Funk, Rev. Horton Heat, Flogging Molly, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Steppenwolf etc

Checking the archive they have had some badass acts I didn't even know about at the time.

I think for good stuff this year we will get a bunch of NOLA acts; prob Anders, funky Meters, Galactic etc Prob get Gov't Mule. Who knows they could get Phil n Friends.

IMO, having Pretty Lights as the first big name tells me they got different people booking this shit and are trying to get a more diverse crowd than the usual rednecks and douchebags from Michigan that think Bayfest is the premier music event in the country.

bayfest.com/schedule_archive.php
(Leftover Salmon played??)

I'm thinkin' the same thing. Gotta be someone different in control of their booking or if it's not, they finally freed their mind a little.

You guys will appreciate this; during that Motley Crue show two years ago I was raging with this chick and these two kids in front of me kept staring. They finally started talking to me; they thought I was the drummer from some band, I think Shinedown. I have long hair a huge beard and lots of tattoos so I guess I look like I'm in a band. They were from Michigan and thought I "killed it" and didn't understand why I was in the crowd and not backstage w/ The Crue.
" I like to be with my people, brah!". They were all like "whoaaa!! no way!". The guy wanted a picture of me with his girlriend. So I obliged, I got a huge handfull of her ass and gave the metal horns with the other hand and told him to "tag me on facebook bro!"

They were seriously starstruck and the guy was equally excited that I had grabbed her ass as she was. They dipped off after that to another spot.
I was laughing about that shit all night........gotta love Bayfest

I have been to BayFest the last four years. It's actually alot of fun if you don't mind the act quality being down.

And there's a lot changing with this festival this year. Pepsi is gone, Coke is in, they book Pretty Lights.... they still have the same booking company as years' past so that can't be it. They did hire a new person to oversee festival operations last year. Maybe that's what's causing these changes. There's been a lot of complaints about them booking a lot of the same acts every other year (3 Doors Down. 2009 & 2011. That's enough to make anyone complain). I think it's cool BayFest is expanding its horizons a little bit.

For $45 dollars, you get what you get. Beer is cheap, food is reasonable. It's a great little festival.

If that is the truth, that would be a steal for $45...

200,000 or so

well goddamn. Willie and GP aren't my favorites but I am pretty darn proud of Bayfest. some quality bookings.

actually I've never seen GP live. I hear they are great, but I'm not crazy about the studio stuff I hear.

looking for bayfest to give me a good reason to stick around Saturday, otherwise I'll probably go to NOLA to see PL again.

Divided out over 3 days, right? So we're looking at crowds about the size of Roo?

Last year they capped the tickets at 50,000. With no day passes unfortunately. I did not see if they sold out or not.

Great example of just one the main reasons their live performance is much better than studio...

That cap thing was joke. They ended up selling more than that. They got rid of the cap, and limited single day passes.