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Post by headoverfeet2021 on Dec 12, 2021 23:15:41 GMT -5
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I rarely talked shit on it even after the lineups became genericized because it was fun as shit. I always have more fun there than ACL or Bonnaroo even when I wasn’t a big fan of the lineups. Corporatization eventually fucks shit up, and that’s probably what happened. Maybe Rehage will buy it back and go back to non-standard lineups.
I'm not sure Rehage is even in business anymore there's almost no trace of him online, his old office building no longer has any signage and hasn't for years. I wish Jazz Fest/AEG had honestly bought the festival back in the day Voodoo was the only major festival in the city that isn't run by AEG.
I rarely talked shit on it even after the lineups became genericized because it was fun as shit. I always have more fun there than ACL or Bonnaroo even when I wasn’t a big fan of the lineups. Corporatization eventually fucks shit up, and that’s probably what happened. Maybe Rehage will buy it back and go back to non-standard lineups.
I'm not sure Rehage is even in business anymore there's almost no trace of him online, his old office building no longer has any signage and hasn't for years. I wish Jazz Fest/AEG had honestly bought the festival back in the day Voodoo was the only major festival in the city that isn't run by AEG.
Yeah. I don’t know what he’s up to. He retained 49% ownership in the sale to Live Nation but apparently was just a silent partner after that. Hopefully it’s just a hiatus for Voodoo and they’ll bring it back at some point.
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good read, but the basic idea is that Live Nation doesn't want to do Voodoo unless Rehage sells them his 49% share.
Agreed, interesting read. Thanks for sharing.
Tough spot that Rehage is in, going up against a S&P 500 company with $2B in revenue. Guess LN's math is simple--in theory, 2 years of Voodoo at 51% share = 1 year at 100%. Hard to see LN blinking first unless Rehage is just so committed to bring down Voodoo just to spite LV even at his own loss.
I have no doubt that if/when Voodoo returns it can pick up where it left off. It coexisted perfectly fine with Jazz Fest and Buku all those years and there will always be demand if the lineup isn't totally trash.
Rehage ought to just say fuck you and make them sell him back the other 51%. C3 did a superior job with operational aspects, but their booking was mostly festival-generic with only a couple surprise artists each year to carry the random rock torch. His former place of operations on City Park Ave. @ Bienville is for sale, and the bus that used to be parked there hasn't been there in a year at least. I know LN doesn't give a quack and can hold it up indefinitely with no problem, but they are otherwise here and run a couple of local venues including the Fillmore which is probably top concert hall in the city that isn't a theater. Anyway, these fuckers need to figure something out soon. With the complete lack of interest I have in ACL this year and very minimal interest last year after not missing several of them in a row, I need Voodoo back.
Voodoo under Rehage reflected an idiosyncratic sensibility with a tastemaker at the helm who tried to create a broader experience that would expose a rock festival’s young target audience to New Orleans music that they might otherwise not hear, and bring in older audiences with local, Jazz Fest-friendly acts.
Voodoo under Rehage reflected an idiosyncratic sensibility with a tastemaker at the helm who tried to create a broader experience that would expose a rock festival’s young target audience to New Orleans music that they might otherwise not hear, and bring in older audiences with local, Jazz Fest-friendly acts.
^^^this is what made rehage-era voodoo special. that and the lineups, while palatable to a general audience, were just a few notches darker than your typical fest. that balancing act is what made the rehage lineups so impressive, and typically i had acts i wanted to see from open to close.
voodoo was also the first multi-genre festival i remember establishing a stage just for electronic music. ahead of it's time, in the US anyway. i saw the mau5cube at voodoo in like 2010.
Live Nation is stupid. They could make the a festival that stands alone is completely different from anything else like Voodoo fest was from 2007-2012. Those were the best years of that festival. Live Nation is just fucking dumb and greedy. This is all fucking greed.
Corporate fuckers always squeeze out all originality, creativity, in the name of making more $$$. And even if it backfires on them, they never learn. Hope that this all gets figured out for the better soon, and we can have this fest back. I've never been, but my wife went twice. She had a ball.
