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After Mumford & Sons announced on Thursday afternoon that they would be canceling their Bonnaroo appearance, a big hole opened up in the festival's Saturday night headlining slot. Simultaneous requests were quickly made to Jack Johnson and Darius Rucker, Billboard has learned. Johnson was already on the grounds for surprise press appearances in support of his upcoming album "From Here To Now To You," while Rucker has a previously announced concert in Balitmore on Saturday night that would need to be re-scheduled. Festival founders Superfly and PR firm Big Hassle were expected to make the final announcement by early afternoon on Friday.
I am beyond disappointed that they went with Jack Johnson. Booking Hootie would have just been absolutely hilarious, and a concession by Bonnaroo like "f*ck it, it's really late, so let's just get ridiculous." Pretty much everyone would have taken it as a joke, and I bet it would have been funny as hell. But Jack Johnson...that's just sad.
Hootie would have been the equivalent of one of those Uwe Boll movies where it's just so over the top and on-purpose awful that you watch it and laugh and laugh, and you don't get mad that it sucks because you fully expected it to suck in hilarious ways. Jack Johnson is like some overwrought Zack Snyder flick, where you can tell that dude is trying REALLY HARD to make it work and some people will be like "ZOMG 300 is teh best move ever!!!1" but many people will be like "oh God, this is actually really just awful."
I'm sure Darius Rucker would have enjoyed being a joke to you and others. I'm a fan of all different types of music and though most here don't listen to country, Rucker has had great success and has a loyal following in that genre. Open your mind, stop being an azzhat about music/artists that you don't like and go with the flow. BONNAROOOOOO!
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I'm sure Darius Rucker would have enjoyed being a joke to you and others. I'm a fan of all different types of music and though most here don't listen to country, Rucker has had great success and has a loyal following in that genre. Open your mind, stop being an azzhat about music/artists that you don't like and go with the flow. BONNAROOOOOO!
Why does it seem like the default response to someone saying that something is awful is "open your mind?"
My mind is open. There is plenty of country music that I enjoy. That doesn't change the fact that Darius Rucker is godawful and would be the single funniest booking Bonnaroo ever made.
To each his own. I hope you are enjoying Bonnaroo as much as I am, but your negative snide posts (not only this thread) make me wonder....
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Why does it seem like the default response to someone saying that something is awful is "open your mind?"
My mind is open. There is plenty of country music that I enjoy. That doesn't change the fact that Darius Rucker is godawful and would be the single funniest booking Bonnaroo ever made.
To each his own. I hope you are enjoying Bonnaroo as much as I am, but your negative snide posts (not only this thread) make me wonder....
You realize this is just as mean and negative as whatever you think Juggs is doing correct?
One time freshman year of college I went & smoked with this guy & got to the point where I couldn't move. He then preceded to play Hootie's greatest hits while simultaneously putting on every single one of those terrible ginger kid's youtube videos. It was one of the worst nights of my life.
Post by gryphonkin on Jun 17, 2013 12:40:03 GMT -5
I'm not a fan of either band, but I'm glad they went with JJ. After seeing his press conference (the first by a headliner since I've been covering), it's really hard for me to dislike his music because he comes off as this really nice, down to earth guy who is totally into the Bonnaroo vibe... I like to see nice guys succeed. That said, I still skipped his show for Pres. Hall because he reminds me of Jimmy Buffett on valium.
I'm not a fan of either band, but I'm glad they went with JJ. After seeing his press conference (the first by a headliner since I've been covering), it's really hard for me to dislike his music because he comes off as this really nice, down to earth guy who is totally into the Bonnaroo vibe... I like to see nice guys succeed. That said, I still skipped his show for Pres. Hall because he reminds me of Jimmy Buffett on valium.
ROSEMONT, IL—Confusion and awkwardness resulted Monday when the P-Funk Mothership, outer-space chariot of Dr. Funkenstein and the Star Child, accidentally descended upon a sold-out Hootie and the Blowfish concert at the Rosemont Horizon arena in suburban Chicago.
The P-Funk Mothership lands behind Hootie and the Blowfish singer Darius Rucker at Chicago's Rosemont Horizon, an event he says threatened to "tear the roof off the structure."
"Thumpasaurus Peoples! You have summoned us through the Groove, and we have returned to refunkatize the planet!" said Dr. Funkenstein, the fur-bedecked, disco-booted Mothership Supreme Commander, moments before the popular South Carolina-based band was about to launch into the song "I Only Wanna Be With You."
Members of Hootie and the Blowfish, whose 1995 release Cracked Rear View sold over 14 million copies, were caught off guard by the arrival of the Mothership.
"The man who came out of the spaceship attempted to shoot me with something he called a 'Bop Gun,'" lead singer Darius Rucker told reporters. "Somehow I sensed it would be detrimental to my career as a singer."
Added a visibly distressed Rucker: "He also seemed to imply that if I let my mind go free, something would happen to my bottom."
Bandmate Dean Felber was equally disturbed by the appearance of the cosmic visitors. "Their mode of dress was, frankly, garish," Felber told reporters, "not at all like the muted, earth-tone flannels and oversized cable-knit sweaters appropriate for concert wear."
Sources speculate that an inadvertent hip shake by Rucker, who briefly lost his balance stumbling over a stray mandolin, may have accidentally summoned the Mothership.
It is also speculated that Rucker's powerful baritone voice may have exceeded Hootie and the Blowfish's normal safety standards for "bass," inadvertently summoning the intergalactic funk saucer.
Said band member Mark Bryan,"We had just finished a really super rendition of 'Let Her Cry' that sounded exactly like on the CD, when out of nowhere these strange men came down shouting about getting up and doing the backstroke, or something."
According to police, no serious damage was caused by the incident, but it did result in a 45-minute concert delay, causing many in attendance to go to bed later than they had wanted to.
"I had a 9 a.m. meeting the next day with a very important client," said concertgoer/stockbroker James Norridge, 42, who did not go to sleep until well after midnight. "I really needed to be at the top of my game."
Norridge's disappointment was typical of the 17,456 whites in attendance.
"I did not wish to get 'funked up,'" said Roger Kleist, 33. "If I did, I would have attended a Dave Matthews Band concert."
"I had a 9 a.m. meeting the next day with a very important client," said concertgoer/stockbroker James Norridge, 42, who did not go to sleep until well after midnight. "I really needed to be at the top of my game."
Norridge's disappointment was typical of the 17,456 whites in attendance.
"I did not wish to get 'funked up,'" said Roger Kleist, 33. "If I did, I would have attended a Dave Matthews Band concert."
Sounds about right.
Also, this thread needs to be brough back for one reason - the folks at Superfly obviously thought that Darius Rucker was a suitable headliner for Bonnaroo. If things had been sliiiiiiightly different (Jack Johnson wrapping his album at Third Man early and heading home, Rucker not having a concert in Baltimore that night, etc.), he would have played.
So now that it's been established that Darius Rucker was/is headliner material...shouldn't he be on a shortlist for this year's potential headlining acts?
can you imagine how the public would react to that
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Post by Roo'adelphia on Oct 3, 2013 12:01:07 GMT -5
10. The two biggest stages of Bonnaroo, the What Stage and the Which Stage, are never open on Thursday at the festival, but at 1:30 AM, the Which Stage crew was busy testing out the light show in anticipation for the next three days' worth of performance. Although there was no music playing during the lighting test, a group of two dozen (potentially drug-addled) festival goers was standing next to the stage, gazing at the wordless technicolor blasts as most music fans turned in for the evening. Perhaps they were just confused and thought they were watching Pretty Lights?
"I had a 9 a.m. meeting the next day with a very important client," said concertgoer/stockbroker James Norridge, 42, who did not go to sleep until well after midnight. "I really needed to be at the top of my game."
Norridge's disappointment was typical of the 17,456 whites in attendance.
"I did not wish to get 'funked up,'" said Roger Kleist, 33. "If I did, I would have attended a Dave Matthews Band concert."
Sounds about right.
Also, this thread needs to be brough back for one reason - the folks at Superfly obviously thought that Darius Rucker was a suitable headliner for Bonnaroo. If things had been sliiiiiiightly different (Jack Johnson wrapping his album at Third Man early and heading home, Rucker not having a concert in Baltimore that night, etc.), he would have played.
So now that it's been established that Darius Rucker was/is headliner material...shouldn't he be on a shortlist for this year's potential headlining acts?
I don't think he was working on a new album, just recording a live one/putting on a show at the venue like TMR does a lot, but I could be wrong. Either way, though, you are totally right and it easily could have been Rucker. While I don't want to see it happen he's definitely got to be a contender for a headliner (or at the very least top 6 of the lineup).
If it happens....I hope it's the same night as a late night superjam or something. Would be really easy to skip that one.
