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It’s chill - lots of different teams, with priority usually given to previous volunteers. When I’ve done it, there have been 3 shifts each day, and you’re usually on a different shift each day. So, for example, I worked evening to close on Friday one year, Gates to midaday Saturday, and then the mid-day to early evening shift Sunday. IIRC, though, it was limited to greater Austin residents. Haven’t volunteered for a couple years though, so not sure if it’s still the case.
Yup it's still the same. Very easy chill "work". Once your shift is over, youre free to roam the fest. Likewise for before your shift. I think the shifts were 10-2:30, 2-6:30, 6-10:30, all 4.5 hours. Depending on the shift, maybe you'll get cut 30 min early when your doppelganger shows up.
I'm in for Friday Weekend 2. Gonna opt for pinball on Saturday so Metallica will just have to wait.
I hear you, and I can’t be critical of anyone ever going see Justice and in particular if it’s a live set. I would have liked to have seen them again. Hopefully a bunch of that set ends up on YouTube so I can watch it when I get back home. Otherwise, and I know I’d be in the Inforoo minority saying this, I don’t even view it as a conflict. Justice live was a conflict with St Vincent in December. I passed by to pay some respects, but I felt like the musical value for me was, once I got there, to stay at St. Vincent - was the tour with just her. St. Vincent also wouldn’t rate as a conflict with Metallica for me.
(All above assumes a conflict). If Justice ends up being between Metallica and Deftones, that would be ideal for me.
No I mean I’m literally gonna play pinball instead that day. Metallica wasn’t enough alone for me to break for the extra day. The rest of the weekend is kind of hit and miss for my taste. I’ll get another shot at catching Metallica I’m sure. The lineup worked out nicely for me though because the majority of the acts I wanted to see are on Friday. The single day was the best option for me and I don’t care for Greta Van Fleet so weekend 2 it is.
Edit: I don’t think there’s anyway to avoid that conflict unfortunately. Knowing that they will probably conflict just renforced my decision to grab a day pass.
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Word. Well I think it’s always a mistake to miss Metallica, but I only saw them once in person, and it was pretty incredible. I’m weekend 1 so I have Deftones also that day who are a personal indulgence band for me. I’ve also only seen them once and loved the show.
But pinball is some shit. I grew up on it and learned “the flex”* with the flippers from some older guys and pretty much could biff a side drain ball back into play with a pop from my right lower inside hand. I was never a wizard but I also never found a machine I couldn’t pop a game on. Is there some bad ass pinball place in ATX I should know about for next trip?
*Flex worked with any center draining ball on Williams and Bally machines, but some of the Gottlieb machines were set up to fuck you on a center drain as the space is too wide to compensate with flipper flex action.
I love Metallica and have only seen them a handful of times but not once this decade. Catching them again is definitely a priority. Gonna finally see Ozzy a couple of weeks before this though so I’ll get in my metal fix. I’ve seen Justice and Vincent recently and I don’t care for CHVRCHES. Think I’m good on Deftones shows at this point but understand the appeal.
If I can catch Macca, Byrne, Jungle, and maybe BROCKHAMPTON in full on Friday then I’ll be quite satisfied.
Is there some bad ass pinball place in ATX I should know about for next trip?
Pinballz is pretty great. They have lots of retro games and just about every themed pinball machine you can think of. It’s fairly priced and best of all byob. I need to hone my skills though. I just like to whack the ball and hope for things to light up pretty.
I love Metallica and have only seen them a handful of times but not once this decade. Catching them again is definitely a priority. Gonna finally see Ozzy a couple of weeks before this though so I’ll get in my metal fix. I’ve seen Justice and Vincent recently and I don’t care for CHVRCHES. Think I’m good on Deftones shows at this point but understand the appeal.
If I can catch Macca, Byrne, Jungle, and maybe BROCKHAMPTON in full on Friday then I’ll be quite satisfied.
Is there some bad ass pinball place in ATX I should know about for next trip?
Pinballz is pretty great. They have lots of retro games and just about every themed pinball machine you can think of. It’s fairly priced and best of all byob. I need to hone my skills though. I just like to whack the ball and hope for things to light up pretty.
I feel like, if you don't care about Metallica, Saturday is easily the worst day.
I think it's Sunday regardless unless someone likes pop and mainstream more. There are some okay lower and middle card acts, and Childish+Arctic Monkeys. Travis Scott < Deftones though his show will be wild as usual. I don't really care about Camila Cabello. I don't like Illenium. Rezz is pretty bad in my opinion, and I'm not even sure she's a button pusher or actually lives off of anything but the spiral glass gimmick. I blame Goldenvoice for promoting the shit out of her the last couple of years. Revolution is fine and Khrungabin should be good if I bother going Sunday.
Saturday - Metallica, Chvrches, Deftones, St. Vincent, Highly Suspect, San Holo (depending on what he plays, and who knows?), Blood Orange, The Breeders, Wombats and SMINO should all be at least pretty good. The bottom of the card is a mystery to me that day. I don't know any of it outside of Durand Jones & the Indications and Alice Merton. If any of the bottom 3 lines or Paris or Curtis Harding are any good or worth seeing, someone let me know. I will probably do some research once the schedule comes, out, but I don't know from Saturday Week 1:
Kupira Marimba
Red Yarn
SAULPAUL
Bells of Joy
Naked Giants
Dizzy
Molly Burch
Jackie Venson
Sweet Spirit
Flor
Supa Bwe
Ikebe Shakedown
Slenderbodies
(plus Paris and Curtis Harding)
I also don't know Mon Laferte, IAMDDB and Verite on line 4. That's kind of rare for me to never have even heard of 3 of the 5 acts on a line in the top half of a lineup. It happens for Day for Night, but this is Live Nation/ACL
Ikebe Shakedown is worth checking out and Parquet Courts should be a party on Sunday.
There's plenty of throwaway acts sprinkled throughout this undercard. There's some cool acts each day but I wouldn't consider it stacked by any means. I guess I would choose Saturday just because Metallica/Justice.
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Post by Jake Jortles on Aug 2, 2018 20:32:27 GMT -5
Way too stacked Friday to discourage camping at the main stage? This is a horrific development. Oh well. Tickets already purchased. May have considered not coming if I had seen this.
Post by Fitter Happier on Aug 2, 2018 20:45:11 GMT -5
I can't fly to Austin for this in the middle of the semester, but Sharon Van Etten on her new album is a must see and I would see Justice over pretty much anything else there. But, if I lived down there, I totally would go. I liked the festival in 2016 and saw Radiohead from the front, but thought the undercard was lacking. They should really run David Byrne>The National>Paul on the mainstage that Friday. Plus you have Father John Misty, BROCKHAMPTON, Manchester Orchestra, Noname, Alvvays, Big Thief, Natalie Prass, St. Vincent, Blood Orange, The Breeders, Japanese Breakfast, Sylvan Esso, Janelle Monae, Khruangbin, Parquet Courts feeling out that undercard... And you still have your choice of Childish Gambino and Arctic Monkeys Sunday night. I can't travel for this, but I like that lineup enough to go all three days after the day-by-day, if I lived in Texas.
I feel like, if you don't care about Metallica, Saturday is easily the worst day.
I think it's Sunday regardless unless someone likes pop and mainstream more. There are some okay lower and middle card acts, and Childish+Arctic Monkeys. Travis Scott < Deftones though his show will be wild as usual. I don't really care about Camila Cabello. I don't like Illenium. Rezz is pretty bad in my opinion, and I'm not even sure she's a button pusher or actually lives off of anything but the spiral glass gimmick. I blame Goldenvoice for promoting the shit out of her the last couple of years. Revolution is fine and Khrungabin should be good if I bother going Sunday.
Saturday - Metallica, Chvrches, Deftones, St. Vincent, Highly Suspect, San Holo (depending on what he plays, and who knows?), Blood Orange, The Breeders, Wombats and SMINO should all be at least pretty good. The bottom of the card is a mystery to me that day. I don't know any of it outside of Durand Jones & the Indications and Alice Merton. If any of the bottom 3 lines or Paris or Curtis Harding are any good or worth seeing, someone let me know. I will probably do some research once the schedule comes, out, but I don't know from Saturday Week 1:
Kupira Marimba
Red Yarn
SAULPAUL
Bells of Joy
Naked Giants
Dizzy
Molly Burch
Jackie Venson
Sweet Spirit
Flor
Supa Bwe
Ikebe Shakedown
Slenderbodies
(plus Paris and Curtis Harding)
I also don't know Mon Laferte, IAMDDB and Verite on line 4. That's kind of rare for me to never have even heard of 3 of the 5 acts on a line in the top half of a lineup. It happens for Day for Night, but this is Live Nation/ACL
Bino/AM, Rezz, Monae, Khruangbin, Parquet Courts, Amen Dunes is a pretty kickass day if you can catch four or five of those.
Saturday is Metallca, Deftones, Justice, Blood Orange, Japanese Breakfast and Ikebe Shakedown for me. Metallica and Justice are huge, but I'm going Weekend One and they might conflict.
Metallica is a big deal for me. I've never seen them. Just saying if I maybe had seen them once or twice before, like I probably should have by now, Saturday would be a little thin for me.
Edit: oh, and Shame is tight and they're on Sunday as well.
Rezz is not everyone's thing. She's not even necessarily my thing. But she's probably the most entertaining artist in her little corner of EDM. That's admittedly a pretty bad one, the brostep/electro/big room genre, but I'd rather see her than Skrillex or whatever other trash gets thrown up on Perry's or Sahara these days.
Post by Jake Jortles on Aug 3, 2018 7:48:03 GMT -5
I would love if Janelle would break this baby out. Think she's played it like 5 times total but for some odd reason it is my favorite song of hers. It's a shame that first album seems to be completely gone from her sets outside of Tightrope and Cold War. It's ok since the newer albums are good, but that first one was just unreal.
Rezz is not everyone's thing. She's not even necessarily my thing. But she's probably the most entertaining artist in her little corner of EDM. That's admittedly a pretty bad one, the brostep/electro/big room genre, but I'd rather see her than Skrillex or whatever other trash gets thrown up on Perry's or Sahara these days.
We're 1000% opposite on that. She doesn't belong in the conversation with Skrillex. If anything, she's a Deamau5 protege', so if there was any comparison with established producers, maybe a trancier version of some of what he does.
But I'd happily take Skrillex 100 out of 100 times vs. Rezz. We watched him last week at Fuji Rock, and while he kind of blew through all his hits on that set, it was at least somewhat augmented on stage. Last night, we flipped back and forth between Rezz and Camila Cabello. There were 4 of us. We repeatedly all were laughing at the Rezz show. It was absolute gimmickry. Skrillex is one of the top producers in the world now, and that's why he works with so many great musicians and rappers. He does play too much pop along the way, but he's going to drop out of that and into more house party and dub stuff whereas Rezz is like a boring version of dance-trance. JMO, but I don't see them as apples to apples.
I would love if Janelle would break this baby out. Think she's played it like 5 times total but for some odd reason it is my favorite song of hers. It's a shame that first album seems to be completely gone from her sets outside of Tightrope and Cold War. It's ok since the newer albums are good, but that first one was just unreal.
I got an email that said that weekend 1 passes are sold out to everyone but me, and I have a link that has 3-day weekend one passes available. Am I the only one that got that?
I got an email that said that weekend 1 passes are sold out to everyone but me, and I have a link that has 3-day weekend one passes available. Am I the only one that got that?
I got an email that said that weekend 1 passes are sold out to everyone but me, and I have a link that has 3-day weekend one passes available. Am I the only one that got that?
Got to say - this membership was worth the investment
Well fuck. I am going to really have to think about this. I mean I can make a trip to ACL with as little as $300 thanks to friends that live there and proximity. It is the 2-3 days of missed work and if I could get PTO figured out, that would be the clincher.
My wife's comment on Rezz during the stream last night really hit home: "She's not even turning any knobs!"
I don't know if I mentioned it, but this geeked out basshead kid I know who is all about electronics and electronic engineering told me she doesn't do shit live. I don't even know if she produces any of her own music or just pushes play, dances and throws her arms around or just has someone loop shit for her. I haven't been able to find anything on the web at all on whether or not she's even real (beyond being a real person). That's why I was kind of surprised when Pablo compared her to Skrillex and said she would be better to see. I mean, she's not even remotely Alison Wonderland, not even What So Not. IDK, but I just don't see anything redeeming there. It's okay to dance or bob to at a show for sure. But it's not something that's going to move the needle from 0 to 1 for me.
Post by piggy pablo on Aug 3, 2018 14:41:35 GMT -5
She was signed by Deadmau5 to mau5trap, but she's not similar musically to him. She's more similar to something like Skrillex, or probably closer even to Bassnectar. I just think her singles are more fun and hit harder than, for example, that new Skrillex track with the chirpy pitch-shift vocals that sound like a Porter Robinson song. Alien, for one, was a banger.
She has a creepy, industrial vibe that appeals to me, and her songs have a little melody to them, at least. Unfortunately, that separates her from a lot of stuff out there.
I can't attest to how many knobs she turns live. I hope she turns more knobs than you are saying she turns knobs. But I'm also gonna guess that a lot of the knob-turning by the knob-turners you see is for show. I'm pretty sure Bassnectar, for example, has much of his sets planned and mixed ahead of time, for the most part. I've heard him basically say as much.