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Bluegrass can go, but I'm not voting for it. Too many fun ass (hootin'?) times at Wakarusa at the backyard stage or whatever they called it. Who knew so many wooks were into bluegrass? I guess they're everywhere they can pickpocket someone or bum a cigarette or drink. Also, Billy Strings > - memes today or otherwise.
I don’t even understand the Billy Strings hype with the youth. Sure, they’re really good but there’s lots of bluegrass that good or better that no one pays any attention to .
I don’t even understand the Billy Strings hype with the youth. Sure, they’re really good but there’s lots of bluegrass that good or better that no one pays any attention to .
I think he scratches the jam itch better than many/most other bluegrass bands.
Bluegrass can go, but I'm not voting for it. Too many fun ass (hootin'?) times at Wakarusa at the backyard stage or whatever they called it. Who knew so many wooks were into bluegrass? I guess they're everywhere they can pickpocket someone or bum a cigarette or drink. Also, Billy Strings > - memes today or otherwise.
I don’t even understand the Billy Strings hype with the youth. Sure, they’re really good but there’s lots of bluegrass that good or better that no one pays any attention to .
I think he scratches the jam itch better than many/most other bluegrass bands.
But the kids hate jam. It just got voted out here.
For me, techno is probably my least favorite of the remaining genres. It’s just not my cup of tea. I am an old codger, though. 👨🦳
Isn't techno a relic from Generation X though? If so, it's probably older than half the people posting.
techno is definitely more popular today than it was in the 90s. Awakenings I think is the biggest techno festival and it attracts 80,000 people. tons of other techno festivals. every major electronic or multi-genre festival in the US books techno artists.
THUMP: Tell us a bit about seeing the Grateful Dead in 1991 in NYC. What exactly did that experience do for you?
Rocco Veenboer: I really had no idea who the Grateful Dead were before I went to the run of shows. Everything from the production, to the community around the music was really inspiring for me as an event producer. The entire Dead experience was so immersive that it seemed to completely take hold of everyone who was there just as it did for me. I felt at home immediately, which was a really foreign feeling for me.
From a production standpoint, even though we were in a huge stadium, all the fans were transported to another world. Even if someone wasn't initially interested in the music they became totally captivated by the visual experience and couldn't help but dance to the songs and try to sing along. It was the first time I had seen lighting work and lasers on that level. Everything was seamlessly linked to the music and really enriched the whole experience.
All I wanted to do [with Awakenings] was replicate this type of dedication and separation from daily life—an escape from reality that helps people get through their day to day and inspires them to do the best they can no matter what their path may be. I think that techno events can be seen in a similar light in many ways; people go to their first warehouse events to listen to an often eclectic type of music, and it is the community and the production that really pulls them in. Once they are fully immersed into the experience the music starts to take hold of them, people can go from not knowing anything about the music to being a dedicated member of the community in one night. It is this escape and embrace of the scene that is so powerful and is definitely something that I have seen at the Dead shows i've been to. People are coming together to not only celebrate music, but really lose themselves to a community that is so different from typical life.
I think it's cool that you can trace the importance of the visual element of live electronic music to one dutch guy's experience at a Grateful Dead show in 1991.
so thank Jerry today for indirectly inspiring the Daft Punk pyramid.
Isn't techno a relic from Generation X though? If so, it's probably older than half the people posting.
techno is definitely more popular today than it was in the 90s. Awakenings I think is the biggest techno festival and it attracts 80,000 people. tons of other techno festivals. every major electronic or multi-genre festival in the US books techno artists.
So not a relic but a product of Gen X. Vieux loves her some techno.
techno is definitely more popular today than it was in the 90s. Awakenings I think is the biggest techno festival and it attracts 80,000 people. tons of other techno festivals. every major electronic or multi-genre festival in the US books techno artists.
So not a relic but a product of Gen X. Vieux loves her some techno.
so i had to google, but it's right on the edge. the originators of techno were kevin saunderson, derrick may, and juan atkins, who were born in 1964, 1963, and 1962, respectively. the cutoff for gen x is 1965. which means techno is technically boomer music.
So not a relic but a product of Gen X. Vieux loves her some techno.
so i had to google, but it's right on the edge. the originators of techno were kevin saunderson, derrick may, and juan atkins, who were born in 1964, 1963, and 1962, respectively. the cutoff for gen x is 1965. which means techno is technically boomer music.
I knew of no one who went to a rave until way later, but I did know some girls who used to go to this bar with a dance floor that played acid house and industrial (Blue Crystal) in the late 1980’s. They were all Generation X kids.
Hip-Hop out here laughing like Charlie Murphy because we have at least.... 8 more rounds before we get pushed out - there's just too many genre's and variations of hip hop (and age groups if we have to keep bringing that the fuck up)...You literally can be a boomer, gen x, millenial, gen z and there's a different sound and scape of focus especially between cities/regions. Awww it's nice not to be pissed off at one of these survivor games for once.
Hip-Hop out here laughing like Charlie Murphy because we have at least.... 8 more rounds before we get pushed out - there's just too many genre's and variations of hip hop (and age groups if we have to keep bringing that the fuck up)...You literally can be a boomer, gen x, millenial, gen z and there's a different sound and scape of focus especially between cities/regions. Awww it's nice not to be pissed off at one of these survivor games for once.
hip-hop is easily one of the best genres of all time. unassailable.
Don’t we usually have 3 in the finals? It would be difficult to explain how a genre celebrated for its mass appeal and musical mediocrity would be in the finals of music geek survivor.
bluegrass is winning as if sturgill simpson didn’t put out two albums of him doing bluegrass covers of his back catalogue which made a handful of the songs even better
Don’t we usually have 3 in the finals? It would be difficult to explain how a genre celebrated for its mass appeal and musical mediocrity would be in the finals of music geek survivor.
First of all, I think there are plenty of poptimists on this board. Secondly, it's the broadest category on the list by far, and incorporates a whole bunch of great subgenres - it's like if we had just "Rock" on the list. Like, I wouldn't call myself a fan of Backstreet Boys, but Duran Duran? Blondie? Robyn? Prince? Etc.
I could be wrong - it's Inforoo, 'n' all - but pop just seems too big to fail, to me.
I actually quite enjoy a bluegrass show just for the novelty of it. And the musicianship. I always kinda dig when bluesgrass artists cover popular songs, like Infamous Stringdusters' cover of Just Like Heaven.
Only halfgrass but one of my favorite daytime sets at bonnaroo was Del McCoury band with Preservation Hall Jazz band. Most of the youngs here would have likely found it boring, but everyone at that set had huge ass smiles on their face and were boppin.
Whereas with the Sigur Ros latenight in 08 I was laying in the grass in and out of sleep as were many others.
I actually quite enjoy a bluegrass show just for the novelty of it. And the musicianship. I always kinda dig when bluesgrass artists cover popular songs, like Infamous Stringdusters' cover of Just Like Heaven.
I actually quite enjoy a bluegrass show just for the novelty of it. And the musicianship. I always kinda dig when bluesgrass artists cover popular songs, like Infamous Stringdusters' cover of Just Like Heaven.
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