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It'll be funny if we vote out 2019 which sold out before we vote out 2016 which sold 45,000 tickets.
TBF, we don’t know how many tickets “sold out” means these days. But ya, 2016 was bad.
They brought back Pod 1 and it felt as crowded as ever. It also took me 12 hours to get in Wednesday night (supposedly there was some shitty traffic management that probably didn't help either)
I just realized the 2009 poster isnt the final one. Down didnt end up playing that year. When they cancelled they added high on fire, shadows fall, and coheed
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know you realize that life goes fast - It's hard to make the good things last-you realize the sun doesn't go down - It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
How the hell is Phish - Post Malone - more Phish not in the lead here? Yeeeeshh.
It's not Bonnaroo headliners survivor, for one.
That is true, and any decent festival is so much more than the 90-minute headlining slot each night - but those are the big ticket items, and if the headliners suck, then it sometimes makes more sense economically to catch the acts I'm interested in elsewhere.
So in the interest of fairness, I've edited each lineup to show only the acts I'd have anything more than a passing interest in. Basically, my criteria was "if this act were playing in my city, and tickets cost what you would expect of an artist of that stature, is there any chance I would purchase a ticket?" And 2016 wins handily for me.
A lot of that stuff on 2016 is just super boring to me, like Rateliff, HAIM makes good music but wasn't a very good show, Clutch is pretty much the most generic *hard rock* band out there, Papadosio was a mega-yawn, Eddie Vedder was hammered.. You'd really plan an evening out around going to a Lolawolf show?
Not going to do a side-by-side with the full poster in 2019 but there's stuff you're missing that's good like Brandi Carlile, Comet, Grand Ole Opry (wasn't there but had to be better than '16 SJ) Brockhampton.. I like Lamb of God more than a lot of folks and even left Claypool Lennon midway to see some of them, but Gojira and Deafheaven are both much better bands than they are, so the Metalroo was better. Also, I was at Dead and Co and only saw Phish on the livestream but Phish brought it in both sets, whereas Dead and Co did what they do, which is pretty soft. I'd rather have the two nights of Phish. Sounds like you don't like Phish. That's totally understandable.
2019 gets way to much credit for being just slightly better than 2018 with acts being booked as Solange, Lonely Island and Gojira while the hate for 2016's line up boils down to them not being able to sell out because of LCD Soundsystem and Tame Impala not doing a longer than they were scheduled to. I think. The amount of EDM makes sense given the time period and also because there wasn't a stage dedicated to EDM back then. Voting for 2019.
Post by Teddy Flair on Oct 4, 2020 11:19:32 GMT -5
I went to 2016 because of the lineup, and skipped 2019 because of the lineup. Also, why is LCD always blamed for ticket sales instead of PJ and the Dead?
I went to 2016 because of the lineup, and skipped 2019 because of the lineup. Also, why is LCD always blamed for ticket sales instead of PJ and the Dead?
A former poster used to argue that the only reason 2016 did poorly was LCD and it was so transparently stupid still goof on it to this day.
I just read the first few posts and wow Launch really came in hot. Was he the one who would say that about LCD originally? I was on the board by then but didn't really know what was going on there.
I just read the first few posts and wow Launch really came in hot. Was he the one who would say that about LCD originally? I was on the board by then but didn't really know what was going on there.
Yeah his whole argument was that not enough college kids knew about LCD and since college kids primarily attended Roo they didn’t hold weight. The undercard would’ve sold fine that year if they just went with a different headliner - though the next couple of years proved otherwise.
