Lollapalooza '08

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  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    Joe where were you at NIN and Rage? Up at the rail?
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  • LedZepFan
    LedZepFan Posts: 1,009
    Radiohead and Rage were both big events for me, seeing as Radiohead is one of my favorite bands and Rage is one of the first bands I ever got into...it was my first show for both of them. Unfortunately, the sound was pretty rough, and i wasn't even that far back. Rage kept switching between being too quiet and random spikes where it was just loud enough...if im seeing Rage at a festival, its gotta be LOUD! Radiohead just sounded too compressed because I was hearing it through a farther speaker set rather than off the stage....hope to get much closer for APW this weekend. Both were fantastic shows, just plagued by bad sound.

    I closed the weekend with Kanye. Ive already seen NIN and im really not a big fan so I thought id experience something new with Kanye....I wasnt let down. It was actually a very very enjoyable show.

    Smaller bands....nowhere near the quality of KOL or MMJ last year but Rogue Wave and the Raconteurs were still quality. Broken Social Scene surprised me with how good they were. Black Keys were repetitive and overrated as usual but still moderately entertaining. MGMT was really cool but the sound sucked and a nearby techno act drowned a lot of it out. Duffy was actually surprisingly good too.

    Main grip about this year-sound issues.
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  • lalalalaaaaaaaa
    lalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    LedZepFan wrote:
    Rage kept switching between being too quiet and random spikes where it was just loud enough

    Yeah, exactly what I heard from where I was. It seemed like every time Morello moved to the far right of the stage, he would get louder...then it would cut off when he moved back towards the center.
  • keelycan
    keelycan Via Chicago Posts: 410
    Am I the only person here who passed on rage and enjoyed a cold bottle of pino with WILCO they were one of my highlights along with BRoken social scene they never get enough time what a band , did anybody dance their ass off with sharon jones??? other good ones devotchka, GOGOL BORDELLO WAS AWESOME SO MUCH ENERGY!!!!! and the raconteurs wre fun also goood times
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  • lalalalaaaaaaaa
    lalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    keelycan wrote:
    Am I the only person here who passed on rage and enjoyed a cold bottle of pino with WILCO they were one of my highlights along with BRoken social scene they never get enough time what a band , did anybody dance their ass off with sharon jones??? other good ones devotchka, GOGOL BORDELLO WAS AWESOME SO MUCH ENERGY!!!!! and the raconteurs wre fun also goood times
    A couple people in my crew went to Wilco, and they said it was really good. Wish I coulda seen Sharon Jones. Gogol was cool tho haha...freakin' gypsies.
  • Its Evolution Baby
    Its Evolution Baby Posts: 849
    Joe2TheRevenge wrote:
    Radiohead was a borefest.

    The only time people cheered was when the LIGHT SHOW did something interesting.

    RATM was spectacular.

    NIN was godlike.

    And Bang Camero is my new favorite band.

    Sure.............

    Nobody likes Radiohead.

    I wasn't there yet I'm 100% positive this was a biased post based on your past Anti-Radiohead stance.
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  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    keelycan wrote:
    Am I the only person here who passed on rage and enjoyed a cold bottle of pino with WILCO they were one of my highlights along with BRoken social scene they never get enough time what a band , did anybody dance their ass off with sharon jones??? other good ones devotchka, GOGOL BORDELLO WAS AWESOME SO MUCH ENERGY!!!!! and the raconteurs wre fun also goood times

    I had to see Rage, but I agree with you on Broken Social Scene - never seen them before and they were good, as was Gogol Bordello. (I changed into a purple tee for Gogol hehe), and the Raconteurs were awesome. I felt very lucky to have been in the vicinity of both Jack White and Tom Morello in the same weekend. I'd listened to a bit of Devotchka online and decided they weren't really my thing.
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  • Kilgore_Trout
    Kilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    keelycan wrote:
    =GOGOL BORDELLO WAS AWESOME SO MUCH ENERGY!!!!!
    it was like something right out of borat! very cool and unexpected!
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  • lalalalaaaaaaaa
    lalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    Its Evolution Baby wrote:
    Sure.............

    Nobody likes Radiohead.

    I wasn't there yet I'm 100% positive this was a biased post based on your past Anti-Radiohead stance.
    Totally. Radiohead easily stole that festival. And I never liked them until about 5 minutes after they took the stage...at that point I was thinking "ok, I can dig this"...by the time National Anthem started, it was more like "AHHHHHHHH!!! wtfadkafldkaflda!!!!"

    Now I know why all their shows sell out so quickly.

    This is coming from someone who is a HUGE fan of both Nails & Rage
  • Joe2TheRevenge
    Joe2TheRevenge Posts: 904
    Its Evolution Baby wrote:
    Sure.............

    Nobody likes Radiohead.

    I wasn't there yet I'm 100% positive this was a biased post based on your past Anti-Radiohead stance.

    my bias has nothing to do with the fact that Radiohead spent 2 hours playing really mellow music that left everyone just standing there watching silently.

    Whereas NIN and RATM destroyed and had everyone screaming the songs at the tops of their lungs, and after they finished the chicago streets were overtaken by a sea of people cheering and yelling for BLOCKS AND BLOCKS, long after they left the park

    Ask anyone who was there

    there is no comparison when it comes to what people thought of Radiohead vs. the other bands. The crowd response was night and day.
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  • DeetroitBaasketball
    DeetroitBaasketball Posts: 379
    Joe2TheRevenge wrote:
    my bias has nothing to do with the fact that Radiohead spent 2 hours playing really mellow music that left everyone just standing there watching silently.

    Whereas NIN and RATM destroyed and had everyone screaming the songs at the tops of their lungs, and after they finished the chicago streets were overtaken by a sea of people cheering and yelling for BLOCKS AND BLOCKS, long after they left the park

    Ask anyone who was there

    there is no comparison when it comes to what people thought of Radiohead vs. the other bands. The crowd response was night and day.

    I was dancing to everything they played - even their slower songs have a good groove to them. But if you don't like radiohead, you don't like radiohead. I'm a big fan and wasn't let down.

    NIN was actually boring to me, but I've already discussed this and yes I realize I left before they really decided to pick things up. I like NIN too.
  • Joe2TheRevenge
    Joe2TheRevenge Posts: 904
    you missed out. their set was magical.
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