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I went last year and it was a really great time. It's not corporate at all, and there's so many stages with so many different styles going on, it's easy to find something good. Also, Bonnaroo usually has pretty long sets. Afternoon bands get 1:15 to 1:45 which for most mid-level bands, is the same as doing a regular show (sometimes minus an encore). Then the headliners get 3 hours and the late night acts often get more time than that. Yeah, there's certainly passed out hippies everywhere, and really obnoxious things concerning their culture there, but when it comes to festivals, it doesn't g

I've never been wild about fake encores at all. I saw the White Stripes at Bonnaroo this past summer, and about 55 minutes into their set, they just said "goodnight!" and walked off stage. The crowd was pretty bewildered and wasn't exactly calling for an encore, but then the stripes came back out 2 minutes later to play for 30-40 more minutes. On the flip side, when Guster played with the Boston Pops a while back (2003? 2004?) the applause was so enthusiastic after they finished, that despite not having any more music prepared with the pops, they needed to play another song. They then launched

Kind of a rough order: 1. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks 2. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme 3. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 4. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 5. Joni Mitchell - Blue 6. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run 7. Radiohead - Kid A 8. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions 9. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home 10. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker

Hmm, Soul Meets Body, Different Names, and Heart is an Empty Room were all great tracks for me. The only songs I had problems with on the album were Summer Skin (oh so boring), and Someday You Will Be Loved. Other than that, I thought it was great, and I'd rank it just below Transatlanticism and Photo Album. I'm really looking forward to the new album.

If you like Magnolia Electric Co. then you might want to get the Songs: Ohia albums. It's the same songwriter... good stuff Okkervil River is one of my favorite bands and they kind of go along with the alt-country influenced rock you listed. I suggest their album Black Sheep Boy

1. The National - Boxer 2. Radiohead - In Rainbows 3. Okkervil River - The Stage Names 4. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha 5. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 6. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible 7. St. Vincent - Marry Me 8. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky 9. Iron and Wine - Shepherd's Dog 10. Feist - The Reminder The order kind of shuffles a bit occasionally, but those are definitely my top 10 of the year

4:18 to 4:22 in Misunderstood - That snare fill, then that huge chord also, "I'm working on my abs"

Boy, I love his explaination of You Are My Face. It also really impresses me when a band uses the music as a way to express the lyrics rather than just support them. He describes the droning past (very simple musically with a monotonous vocal melody), the kinetic present (the drums kick in, a guitar solo, and passionate vocals), and the ambiguous future (the noise at the end of the song). It just really amazed me

I had the fortune of seeing Tori on her 2005 Beekeeper tour in Boston and it was one of the great pleasures of my life. 2 hours of solo music including many of my favorite songs of hers (Winter, Playboy Mommy, Pretty Good Year, Caught a Lite Sneeze, an amazing cover of Dream On). In my opinion her first 4 albums are incredible (Under the Pink and Boys for Pele being my favorites), Venus and Back isnt really my bag, and Scarlet's Walk was a little too adult contemp, but has some INCREDIBLE moments such as I Can't See New York and Your Cloud . However, Beekeeper and American Doll Posse have abou

Besides Heartbreaker (undoubtedly his best), Love is Hell is my favorite Ryan Adams album, so don't ignore that one either. Cold Roses and Stranger's Almanac are great as well. I find Gold to be really overrated and uneven, but as with all RA albums, theres some amazing tracks on it

That's funny, because I always said that the reason I don't like most pop-country is because it takes my least favorite parts of Garth Brooks, and my least favorite parts of Jimmy Buffett, and puts them together.

A guy I met on Friday night claimed he had 5 ounces. We also saw a guy getting arrested going into the festival Thursday morning with 3 enormous bags on his hood Also, what the hell is a dose? Everyone was asking me if I had any doses and I had no idea what the hell they were talking about...

I actually only got to catch 3 jazz shows (philly, ravi, and lionel loueke), because of the lines and the fact that you could only see 1 show at a time. I was really looking forward to those double-bill late night shows but oh well. I heard Ornette passed out or had to stop early because the heat, which sucks for those that were there. I was at the White Stripes/Wilco at the time of his set.

1. The Philadelphia Experiment - I missed the lips for this, but christ was it worth it. For those that don't know, it's ?uestlove, Christian Mcbride, as well as a keyboardist and a sax player all doing jazzy funk in a MMW style (more grounded though). It was just one of the best shows I've ever seen. 2. The Hold Steady - Like said before, it was just so much fun. Everyone was rocking their hardest and the setlist was perfect. 3. Gillian Welch - I was simply blown away. Her and David Rawlings were amazing nonstop. John Paul Jones played mandolin and sang harmonies on 3 songs, and they also

"A ghost is born" "Something in my veins bloodier than blood" "I've got reservations about so many things but not about you" the second time

I wasn't immensly impressed by the schedual at first (I still got a ticket), but I've since checked out bands I didn't know but now really dig and with the addition of the Somethin' Else tent, I am now psyched out of my mind to be going! Besides the beginning of the day on Saturday and Sunday, there are bands I really want to see at all times, so there's no point where I'll really have to worry about bad music. Also, I was a little bummed out about how stacked the end of Sunday is and how much I'll be missing. I'll probably do exactly what the other poster said (See the first half hour of D

1. Airline to Heaven 2. Monday 3. Remeber the Mountain Bed 4. Jesus, etc 5. A Shot in the Arm 6. Pot Kettle Black 7. Thirteen 8. I'm the Man Who Loves You 9. Someday Soon 10. Sunken Treasure (IATTBYH version) 11. Hummingbird 12. Theologians 13. New Madrid 14. One By One 15. War on War 16. On and On and On I feel like that's listener friendly, diverse, and has a good flow. Also, ITMWLY has to be put in the middle. It's a great middle-of-the-mix pick me up track, and it would be lame to open the mix with such a lyrically direct track. Now I'm gonna go listen to that mix!

Not in any sort of order: Via Chicago (ESPECIALLY live) Remember the Mountain Bed Sunken Treasure (Acoustic Arrangement with the Full Band) Misunderstood She's a Jar Jesus, etc. Pot Kettle Black At Least That's What You Said Theologians Sky Blue Sky

I am working on my abs

I hate to be another newbie asking for a PM, but I missed the webcast last night because I was playing a gig, and I would just love to have the album Thanks!

Sorry to say, but it's true. When a Man Loves a Woman was actually inspired by She's a Jar.

I've heard Hummingbird, Heavy Metal Drummer (In several stores too), Hoodoo Voodoo (Some Candy Shop had it on a work cd too), Box Full of Letters, and Outtasite. All of those induce those jumping in the air "yes! i love this song!" moments.

It just has to be YHF for me. After all the hype, and all the praise that's always surrounds it, I still hear Jesus, etc, Pot Kettle Black, and Reservations and think "could it get any better than this? no, it can't "