feeling strangely fine
Aug. 26th, 2008 06:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asimplechordBuzzFest XXII was announced yesterday, and I am strangely unexcited about it. I think I'm overdosed on fests, maybe. I'd like to see a couple of the bands, but at least two of them were at ProjRev (at the same venue, even!) Sunday, and I'm not feelin' the love for the Pavilion at the moment.
It was fucking HOT, and there was no shade, and people weren't allowed to bring purses, towels, pretty much anything, into the pavilion, or even allowed into the pavilion proper - even if they had tickets in the covered reserve - until 4:30pm. Gates opened at 1pm and the first band was at 2pm; that's a long time to stand in the sun. I saw more people sick with heat exhaustion there than I saw all day at Warped.
I've said this before: CWMP FAILS when it comes to being good hosts for music festivals. It's fine for a two-band show, but not for bigger events. Plus, the logistics of getting from the main stage to the second stage? Ridiculous.
Revolution Stage:
Armor For Sleep opened. Good set generally, but there was mongo huge feedback in the sub-woofers, so the first song was muffled by overpowering bass smothering pretty much everything else. I... was pleasantly surprised by Hawthorne Heights. I thought for sure they were done when their guitarist OD'd last year and then they had all sorts of contract issues with their label. But no. 10 Years, blah blah blah. I've had enough of Beautiful, move on, people. I bailed on Atreyu, because as they started the pavilion opened, I wanted shade like you would not believe. I scoped out the merch booth on the way, and was appalled. Dear Linkin Park, your hoodie is the ugliest thing I've ever seen. And I've seen Cobra Starship's merch, okay? That's heinous, but at least it's a deliberate neon 80's ugly. This year's LP hoodie is just fugly. Why would anyone fork out $50 for that thing?
Main Stage:
What's up with Busta Rhymes? He was in the program, and I know he was listed on the LPU/PR website as a performer, but his name was whited out on the poster with set times, and he did not appear.
Who's the fourth person in Street Drum Corps this year? Because they only list the Alt brothers and Frank Zummo, but there was def. a fourth guy on stage playing the trash can and power tools. (The chick behind me actually yelled at them to get off the stage. WTF? I mean, if you don't like a band, fine. But seriously? That's just rude, especially when they're not actively *bad*, you just came to hear the headliners. And besides, it's not like yelling that is going to get the headliner out there any faster.)
I have ASHES dIVIDE's album, but have only listened to it a couple of times. *shrug* Good show, and I maybe possibly had a fangasm when Chester Bennington joined Billy Howerdel to sing... whatever song it was that they did together.
The Bravery were up next. :DD
Sam Endicott cracks me up. "We'll be out by the merch booth. Come by and talk to us. Tell us you loved us. Or you hated us. We'll sign your posters, your shirts, your tits."
It was at least 97deg out, and the bassist (Michael?) wore a jacket and tie. Everyone else was stripping down, Sam was so sweaty that his shirt was translucent, but the jacket and tie stayed on, the shirt buttoned up to the top. It made me hot to look at him. And not in the way I usually get over bassists.
I really want them to get back to the studio and make new music.
Their set list:
Swollen Summer
No Brakes
Believe
This Is Not The End (Prefaced with "this is a new song". Um, no it's not. What?)
Time Won't Let Me Go (Hee, The Outsiders)
An Honest Mistake
Every Word Is A Knife In My Ear
Fearless
Unconditional
Chris Cornell. Before his set they piped in Black Hole Sun, a violin version. After, during the set tear-down, a jazzy trumpet version was played. Also, who wrote the blurb about him in the program? Because if it was him? Hey, hi, EGO. But Chester actually praised him and his voice when they sang together, so maybe it wasn't his idea.
Also? Art work for his album was shown. :D
The new material. Sort of more pop/rock than hard rock, at least of the two songs he did. Actually, he didn't do a lot of his older solo stuff; there was lots of Audioslave and Soundgarden instead. Which I did not mind at all. His solo work is "floaty weird shit". (Heh.)
Cochise
No Such Thing
Outshined
Spoonman
Hunger Strike (I maybe possibly had another spontaneous fangasm over this song. Possibly. Because I *love* the studio version of this song, but I have not liked it when I've seen CC live, because his voice just doesn't work where the harmony with Eddie Vedder should be. But the harmony with Chester. BEAUTIFUL. I was not alone with this reaction.)
Watch Out (from his new album)
Like A Stone (acoustic)
Be Yourself
Show Me How To Live
Burden In My Hand
Scream (title song of new album)
Black Hole Sun
Rusty Cage
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why_me_why_not for a couple of CC songs and some LP songs. I need to remember to call LJ for a voice post next time, so everyone can hear.
Street Drum Corps came out again and got stuff started for Linkin Park, and as they played (they had glow-in-the-dark stuff on, and the lights were off) the LP guys filtered in, Chester and Mike last.
They performed:
What I've Done
Faint
No More Sorrow
Given Up
Lying From You (My favorite LP song ever. EVER. I'm not sure what that says about me.)
Don't Stay
In Pieces (NRGH, Mike Shinoda, with your guitar slung across your back, leaning over the keyboards, mouth against the mic.)
Somewhere I Belong
Points Of Authority
Leave Out All The Rest
Numb
Shadow Of The Day
Hands Held High (NRGH again: Mike Shinoda, how I love your politics)/Crawling (Chris Cornell came out to sing this with Chester and Mike, and I swear, he and Chester faced each other on the edge of the stage and crooned at each other. Then they fanboyed all over each other's talents and voices. Oh, guys. ♥_♥)
In The End
Bleed It Out (Rob Bourdan's drum solo. Again with the flailing.)
Pushing Me Away (Hee, Chester put on a cowboy hat that someone from the pit passed up to him. "You really want me to wear this? ...only in Texas.")
Breaking The Habit
One Step Closer
So, the set was probably not so different, song-wise, from last year's PR, but I was busy with a college-girl reunion and missed it when it came through Houston. Plus, no pyrotechnics this year, so it was probably marginally cooler, if you can believe that. Ugh, that pit would've been MISERABLE.
Then I drove home. 130 miles round-trip. It was totally worth it because I really love Chris Cornell (I know I've flailed about him here in the past) and I like The Bravery and A4S and Linkin Park, but I think MrIris is going to really have to want to go to BuzzFest this time for me to be willing to drive that trip again in the near future.
I'm supposed to be typing up some girl!Bren fic, and then maybe some Brendon/Spencer PWP, so I suppose I should get back to it, yes?
It was fucking HOT, and there was no shade, and people weren't allowed to bring purses, towels, pretty much anything, into the pavilion, or even allowed into the pavilion proper - even if they had tickets in the covered reserve - until 4:30pm. Gates opened at 1pm and the first band was at 2pm; that's a long time to stand in the sun. I saw more people sick with heat exhaustion there than I saw all day at Warped.
I've said this before: CWMP FAILS when it comes to being good hosts for music festivals. It's fine for a two-band show, but not for bigger events. Plus, the logistics of getting from the main stage to the second stage? Ridiculous.
Revolution Stage:
Armor For Sleep opened. Good set generally, but there was mongo huge feedback in the sub-woofers, so the first song was muffled by overpowering bass smothering pretty much everything else. I... was pleasantly surprised by Hawthorne Heights. I thought for sure they were done when their guitarist OD'd last year and then they had all sorts of contract issues with their label. But no. 10 Years, blah blah blah. I've had enough of Beautiful, move on, people. I bailed on Atreyu, because as they started the pavilion opened, I wanted shade like you would not believe. I scoped out the merch booth on the way, and was appalled. Dear Linkin Park, your hoodie is the ugliest thing I've ever seen. And I've seen Cobra Starship's merch, okay? That's heinous, but at least it's a deliberate neon 80's ugly. This year's LP hoodie is just fugly. Why would anyone fork out $50 for that thing?
Main Stage:
What's up with Busta Rhymes? He was in the program, and I know he was listed on the LPU/PR website as a performer, but his name was whited out on the poster with set times, and he did not appear.
Who's the fourth person in Street Drum Corps this year? Because they only list the Alt brothers and Frank Zummo, but there was def. a fourth guy on stage playing the trash can and power tools. (The chick behind me actually yelled at them to get off the stage. WTF? I mean, if you don't like a band, fine. But seriously? That's just rude, especially when they're not actively *bad*, you just came to hear the headliners. And besides, it's not like yelling that is going to get the headliner out there any faster.)
I have ASHES dIVIDE's album, but have only listened to it a couple of times. *shrug* Good show, and I maybe possibly had a fangasm when Chester Bennington joined Billy Howerdel to sing... whatever song it was that they did together.
The Bravery were up next. :DD
Sam Endicott cracks me up. "We'll be out by the merch booth. Come by and talk to us. Tell us you loved us. Or you hated us. We'll sign your posters, your shirts, your tits."
It was at least 97deg out, and the bassist (Michael?) wore a jacket and tie. Everyone else was stripping down, Sam was so sweaty that his shirt was translucent, but the jacket and tie stayed on, the shirt buttoned up to the top. It made me hot to look at him. And not in the way I usually get over bassists.
I really want them to get back to the studio and make new music.
Their set list:
Swollen Summer
No Brakes
Believe
This Is Not The End (Prefaced with "this is a new song". Um, no it's not. What?)
Time Won't Let Me Go (Hee, The Outsiders)
An Honest Mistake
Every Word Is A Knife In My Ear
Fearless
Unconditional
Chris Cornell. Before his set they piped in Black Hole Sun, a violin version. After, during the set tear-down, a jazzy trumpet version was played. Also, who wrote the blurb about him in the program? Because if it was him? Hey, hi, EGO. But Chester actually praised him and his voice when they sang together, so maybe it wasn't his idea.
Also? Art work for his album was shown. :D
The new material. Sort of more pop/rock than hard rock, at least of the two songs he did. Actually, he didn't do a lot of his older solo stuff; there was lots of Audioslave and Soundgarden instead. Which I did not mind at all. His solo work is "floaty weird shit". (Heh.)
Cochise
No Such Thing
Outshined
Spoonman
Hunger Strike (I maybe possibly had another spontaneous fangasm over this song. Possibly. Because I *love* the studio version of this song, but I have not liked it when I've seen CC live, because his voice just doesn't work where the harmony with Eddie Vedder should be. But the harmony with Chester. BEAUTIFUL. I was not alone with this reaction.)
Watch Out (from his new album)
Like A Stone (acoustic)
Be Yourself
Show Me How To Live
Burden In My Hand
Scream (title song of new album)
Black Hole Sun
Rusty Cage
I concert-called
why_me_why_not for a couple of CC songs and some LP songs. I need to remember to call LJ for a voice post next time, so everyone can hear.Street Drum Corps came out again and got stuff started for Linkin Park, and as they played (they had glow-in-the-dark stuff on, and the lights were off) the LP guys filtered in, Chester and Mike last.
They performed:
What I've Done
Faint
No More Sorrow
Given Up
Lying From You (My favorite LP song ever. EVER. I'm not sure what that says about me.)
Don't Stay
In Pieces (NRGH, Mike Shinoda, with your guitar slung across your back, leaning over the keyboards, mouth against the mic.)
Somewhere I Belong
Points Of Authority
Leave Out All The Rest
Numb
Shadow Of The Day
Hands Held High (NRGH again: Mike Shinoda, how I love your politics)/Crawling (Chris Cornell came out to sing this with Chester and Mike, and I swear, he and Chester faced each other on the edge of the stage and crooned at each other. Then they fanboyed all over each other's talents and voices. Oh, guys. ♥_♥)
In The End
Bleed It Out (Rob Bourdan's drum solo. Again with the flailing.)
Pushing Me Away (Hee, Chester put on a cowboy hat that someone from the pit passed up to him. "You really want me to wear this? ...only in Texas.")
Breaking The Habit
One Step Closer
So, the set was probably not so different, song-wise, from last year's PR, but I was busy with a college-girl reunion and missed it when it came through Houston. Plus, no pyrotechnics this year, so it was probably marginally cooler, if you can believe that. Ugh, that pit would've been MISERABLE.
Then I drove home. 130 miles round-trip. It was totally worth it because I really love Chris Cornell (I know I've flailed about him here in the past) and I like The Bravery and A4S and Linkin Park, but I think MrIris is going to really have to want to go to BuzzFest this time for me to be willing to drive that trip again in the near future.
I'm supposed to be typing up some girl!Bren fic, and then maybe some Brendon/Spencer PWP, so I suppose I should get back to it, yes?
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Date: 2008-08-27 12:22 am (UTC)I listened to the concert voicemails again today at lunch -- they came through really well and make me happy.
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Date: 2008-08-27 03:12 am (UTC)Also? I have been in bandom too long if I noticed that Chester was wearing red Calvin Klein briefs and thought they matched Bden's. *head/desk*
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Date: 2008-08-27 03:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-27 03:15 am (UTC)Well, uh, if I had a choice between riding in a van and doing small club shows and scraping money together vs. having a nice bus and getting radio play and playing arenas and amphitheaters, I might sell out, too. I don't really understand why success is equated with selling out.
It sorta made me think again about the way we, as fans, think of bands as our friends, even though we really don't have a personal relationship with them.
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Date: 2008-08-27 03:28 am (UTC)