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Ariana Grande/ DMB/ The Cure Tame Impala/ A$AP Rocky/ Skrillex
Neil Young/ Travis Scott/ 21 Pilots Billie Eilish/ The Chemical Brothers/ Wilco
Radiohead/ Foo Fighters/ J Cole Lana/ My Morning Jacket/ Flume
Let’s discuss. Any seem plausible? What are your favorites? What would sell the best?
How about a mix of above, WITH Frank in the line-up :
Radiohead / Chance the Rapper / Frank Ocean / Vampire Weekend
Billie Ellish / The Chemical Brothers / Wilco / A$AP Rocky
If you end up with Radiohead, there's zero chance of them affording Frank Ocean currently and Chemical Brothers. Wilco would be banished to where The National was on Sunday which means if you don't have the energy, no one shows. Booking ASAP right now is a near impossible action until we know where his court case will go.
Billie Ellish is high but I don't think that's not going to happen, just not that high up unless set to Which Stage pre-HL for no particular reason (look, I don't know, I know she's super popular).
I do want to say that Radiohead / Frank Ocean / (SURPRISE ME FOR ONCE)
would be an amazing bonnaroo. Especially if any of the days was actually a female HL'r finally.
Without a ridiculous buy-in for Sunday that leaves space for the undercard, assuming no high-level electronic act gets billed. I do not know where the tides are rolling these days; they kneeled away from electronic music being on main stages and went full on the plazas instead. Cost-wise that is a better analysis and will alter they way they book (esp. if they keep hiring out AC/e)
So I was thinking, if Bonnaroo can't put together an interesting superjam next year should they even bother? For example this year's "GOAT Superjam" hosted by Griz is probably one of the most uninspired things I can imagine. There would definitely be huge backlash if there wasn't a superjam on the lineup when it came out. But it could be for the better if we actually got two good late night acts in one tent instead of one uninspired superjam.
So I was thinking, if Bonnaroo can't put together an interesting superjam next year should they even bother? For example this year's "GOAT Superjam" hosted by Griz is probably one of the most uninspired things I can imagine. There would definitely be huge backlash if there wasn't a superjam on the lineup when it came out. But it could be for the better if we actually got two good late night acts in one tent instead of one uninspired superjam.
Agree 100% - Superjams haven't been good for a while now. I'd rather them get rid of it and give the tent slot to an established act. I think I've fallen asleep at every superjam i've been to
So I was thinking, if Bonnaroo can't put together an interesting superjam next year should they even bother? For example this year's "GOAT Superjam" hosted by Griz is probably one of the most uninspired things I can imagine. There would definitely be huge backlash if there wasn't a superjam on the lineup when it came out. But it could be for the better if we actually got two good late night acts in one tent instead of one uninspired superjam.
i mean, they ditched the superjam for a couple years in the past already, so yeah if they can't put together something worthwhile just have it on hiatus for a year. i missed '17 and '18, so i can't comment on those, but I don't think they've had a worthwhile superjam since 2014 (where both the skrillex and derek trucks SJs were pretty good).
I think maybe doing something for the SJ that is more niche might be a better approach than they have taken for the more recent ones, which seems like they are trying to be something for everyone. Like in 2008 they had les claypool and eugene hutz playing tom waits songs. or 2011? with dan auerbach and Dr. John doing blues and NOLA stuff. May not appeal to everyone, but it's at least unique and caters to some slice of the overall roo audience. More of an actual theme, with theme-relevant musicians, than just a wedding karaoke setlist.
I’d be fine if the SJ had to take some time off. There weren’t massive complaints from ‘09-‘11 when there were no Super Jams. It was a bit of a bummer, sure, but definitely was better not havin’ somethin’ mediocre (at best with some of the recent ones) and givin’ that time to another artist.
The reddit and facebook crowd would freak out because no matter how bland the superjams get there will always be a sizeable amount of people saying "you can't miss the superjam!!!"
Obviously I'm still in favor of them trying to pull one off. But if you can't put together anything remotely interesting I don't think it's worth the recourses.
Sounds like I'm in the minority but I liked the superjams of '17 and '18. I would trade last year's SJ and a couple of others for a lazy river though. Page 30 already of the HL thread. Bonnaroo is back!!!
Sounds like I'm in the minority but I liked the superjams of '17 and '18. I would trade last year's SJ and a couple of others for a lazy river though. Page 30 already of the HL thread. Bonnaroo is back!!!
So I was thinking, if Bonnaroo can't put together an interesting superjam next year should they even bother? For example this year's "GOAT Superjam" hosted by Griz is probably one of the most uninspired things I can imagine. There would definitely be huge backlash if there wasn't a superjam on the lineup when it came out. But it could be for the better if we actually got two good late night acts in one tent instead of one uninspired superjam.
i mean, they ditched the superjam for a couple years in the past already, so yeah if they can't put together something worthwhile just have it on hiatus for a year. i missed '17 and '18, so i can't comment on those, but I don't think they've had a worthwhile superjam since 2014 (where both the skrillex and derek trucks SJs were pretty good).
I think maybe doing something for the SJ that is more niche might be a better approach than they have taken for the more recent ones, which seems like they are trying to be something for everyone. Like in 2008 they had les claypool and eugene hutz playing tom waits songs. or 2011? with dan auerbach and Dr. John doing blues and NOLA stuff. May not appeal to everyone, but it's at least unique and caters to some slice of the overall roo audience. More of an actual theme, with theme-relevant musicians, than just a wedding karaoke setlist.
i agree with all of this.
if they are going to do a superjam they need to break out of the mold they've pretty much had since 2013.
2013: rock and soul dance party 2014: skrillex dance party 2015: pretty lights dance party 2016: kamasi sleepy time 2017: soul shakedown dance party 2018: tom petty superjam 2019: GOAT dance party
i'd forgotten the 2018 was tom petty themed, at least that puts some boundaries on what can be played. the kamasi superjam had so much potential with kamasi at the helm, i thought it would just be all out jazz weirdness but instead it was the worst bonnaroo set of all time.
2013 was fun because it was new, also they had a lot of recognizable names sitting in, not just the trumpet player from Odesza's spotify session. but besides kamasi and the tom petty one, every superjam has pretty much been the 2013 superjam over and over again. as snowman notes a wedding karaoke setlist.
honestly probably the best thing they could do is give the superjam to les claypool and sean lennon and tell 'em to go nuts. but if they are going to do the coverband thing i concur with snowman that something more niche and specific is called for. otherwise i'd be fine with having that LN slot freed up for another act, because if next year the superjam is "Space Jesus Presents: A Funky Soulful Groovalicious Dance Party" i'm going to see Interpol instead.
Post by 3post1jack1 on Jul 29, 2019 14:42:30 GMT -5
also they don't have to have the superjam be late night. if it's takes the pressure off of making the superjam an "event" they could put it in a 90 minute slot in the afternoon. get kacey musgraves to do a tribute to women in country music and get dolly parton to sit in for the last song holy shit i just made it an event
So I was thinking, if Bonnaroo can't put together an interesting superjam next year should they even bother? For example this year's "GOAT Superjam" hosted by Griz is probably one of the most uninspired things I can imagine. There would definitely be huge backlash if there wasn't a superjam on the lineup when it came out. But it could be for the better if we actually got two good late night acts in one tent instead of one uninspired superjam.
also i stole your good question and put it on reddit.
So I was thinking, if Bonnaroo can't put together an interesting superjam next year should they even bother? For example this year's "GOAT Superjam" hosted by Griz is probably one of the most uninspired things I can imagine. There would definitely be huge backlash if there wasn't a superjam on the lineup when it came out. But it could be for the better if we actually got two good late night acts in one tent instead of one uninspired superjam.
also i stole your good question and put it on reddit.
I feel like reddit might not understand the premise of the question. Like "they should just get John Mayer to do it". Okay what if they can't get John Mayer.
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So I was thinking, if Bonnaroo can't put together an interesting superjam next year should they even bother? For example this year's "GOAT Superjam" hosted by Griz is probably one of the most uninspired things I can imagine. There would definitely be huge backlash if there wasn't a superjam on the lineup when it came out. But it could be for the better if we actually got two good late night acts in one tent instead of one uninspired superjam.
also i stole your good question and put it on reddit.
I think the big problem is big artists don’t jam anymore. Not gonna get exciting names to lead a super jam when the vast majority of exciting names aren’t virtuosic at their instruments/know songs from other artists
Post by piggy pablo on Jul 29, 2019 17:16:39 GMT -5
Yeah. Ezra has pretty much everything you want in a DJ curator. Connected, collaborative, likes jam shit. He could have his buddy from his podcast be the band leader. He has a Grateful Dead cover band and they've opened for VW.
Yeah. Ezra has pretty much everything you want in a DJ curator. Connected, collaborative, likes jam shit. He could have his buddy from his podcast be the band leader. He has a Grateful Dead cover band and they've opened for VW.
He also has a regular band that's fairly established... but now Jake Longstreth is just Ezra's buddy with the Grateful Dead band
Yeah. Ezra has pretty much everything you want in a DJ curator. Connected, collaborative, likes jam shit. He could have his buddy from his podcast be the band leader. He has a Grateful Dead cover band and they've opened for VW.
He also has a regular band that's fairly established... but now Jake Longstreth is just Ezra's buddy with the Grateful Dead band
What band? I only know of him from his and Ezra's appearance on R U Talkin REM Re: Me?
