Worst ever festival line up?

(I wonder if you added them all up how many original, founding or key members are represented, total?)

Is “Draked” a Drake tribute band?

Dra-ked Edge

(it actually appears to be Drakeo The Ruler, who I’ve never heard of)

that's Drakeo The Ruler, recently released from a couple of years being held in solitary in a supermax prison on completely fictitious "rapping about murder" charges, hours after the DA prosecuting him was voted out.

The case of Drakeo the Ruler embodies everything fucked up, morally reprehensible, & systematically racist about the US criminal justice system.

If you're just following this case, they've locked up Drakeo's entire rap crew on charges ranging from murder to commercial burglary & vandalism. Using fascist gang and conspiracy laws, they're holding them w/out bail and trying to use their lyrics against them in court.

The D.A. isn't even saying that Drakeo committed the murder in question, or even ordered it. They're claiming that because he went to a party with the alleged intent to kill someone (and didn't do it), he's culpable for everyone's crimes who he went to the party with.

The D.A. is claiming that the Stinc Team, one of the best LA rap crews ever is a gang & by rapping about the Stinc Team, Drakeo's songs are recruitment advertisements for "the gang." Therefore, he's also guilty of any crime anyone in the Stinc Team commits. It's absolute insanity.

Anyway, free the ruler and the whole Stinc Team. Cold Devil stays the best rap album of the last two years. Fuck the LAPD and the LA Sheriff's Department, etc.

It should be unreal that this shit could still happen in 2019 but here we are.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/drakeo-the-ruler-speaks-to-tablet-from-prison

https://www.thefader.com/2019/07/11/drakeo-the-ruler-murder-trial-los-angeles-report

https://genius.com/a/interview-drakeo-the-ruler-talks-about-murder-trial

https://www.theringer.com/music/2020/11/13/21563566/drakeo-the-ruler-trial-release-prison-interview-we-know-the-truth

https://www.passionweiss.com/2020/12/04/drakeo-we-know-the-truth-review/

i find it funny that these festivals that have been discussed in this thread for the past day or so cater towards a demographic that is increasingly wary of festivals

Hmm. Can you expand on that?

Twenty-somethings are visibly far more reckless about the pandemic?

But older people have a higher vaccine rate. Especially by May of next year.

And presumably have more money to burn on VIP packages and the like.

Deserves its own thread

expanding on that to be as succinct as possible: we're all getting older and festivals aren't as fun as they used to be once you're old

although i guess it helps that these Festivals for Elder Millennials are one-day things

For sure - no one’s camping overnight to see Interpol and Wolf Parade, but a day at the Rose Bowl sounds like fun.

https://scontent-msp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/p843x403/208866566_1335788886817366_6733880078685696636_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=gqME-30iDMkAX8NIcH6&_nc_ht=scontent-msp1-1.xx&tp=6&oh=99446d37bb20e747b54b3d48df4a900b&oe=60DF402A

just four headliners, that’s not a lot:

“Great White” Vince Neil
“Third Eye Blind” Bret Michaels
Goo Goo Dolls & Gin Bottoms
“Big & Rich” Rodney Atkins

“Dak Jam” because... Dakota?

that looks dire

the local paper said this of a recent Vince Neil gig at a similar festival

The band started out with "Looks That Kill" and transitioned to "Dr. Feelgood," where Neil forgot some of the lyrics to one of Crue's most famous songs.

"I felt physical pain watching this," said one commenter on a clip of the performance posted to YouTube.

And the show didn't get better as the night went on. When performing a cover of the Beatles' "Helter Skelter," Neil struggled to keep up with the song's tempo and lyrics. Commenters pointed out that the singer was reading the lyrics off of a printed out sheet of paper taped to the stage, and joked that the 60-year-old singer still wasn't able to keep up.

Who is even the target demographic for that Dak Jam festival?

One of the saddest anecdotes in The Dirt was about Vince Neil trying to start a riot at one of his solo concerts so it would get cancelled and he could make it to the local strip clubs before they closed.

the ones here are open until 5 am, how late was his show going to go

Maybe he only starts riots in towns with early curfews?

places small enough the strip club is in the next county

That Dak Jam poster is a design atrocity as well.

Hampden Park, your woodwork took one hell of a beating

Lol wrong thread

Do they mean Captain Geech & The Shrimp Shack Shooters, or is this a special solo appearance from the Captain himself?

https://captaingeech.com/about-us

Dak Jam stage, your woodwork took one hell of a beating

if i were more cool i might know some of the supporting acts but since i'm not and i don't it's fun to think of them as just people the poster designer/festival organizer knows who volunteered to get onstage and noodle around before the bands arrive

"gayle's gonna do a monologue from her one-woman show! and lanie, she's bringing her ukelele, it's gonna be lit!"

and they're just up there on a huge bare stage in the bleak afternoon sunlight, rocking out, crowd going apeshit

Who is even the target demographic for that Dak Jam festival?

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 18:53 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Chuck Eddy & friends?

One of the saddest anecdotes in The Dirt was about Vince Neil trying to start a riot at one of his solo concerts so it would get cancelled and he could make it to the local strip clubs before they closed.

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, June 29, 2021 1:55 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

the ones here are open until 5 am, how late was his show going to go

― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Tuesday, June 29, 2021 1:56 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Maybe he only starts riots in towns with early curfews?

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, June 29, 2021 1:59 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

places small enough the strip club is in the next county

― mh, Tuesday, June 29, 2021 2:36 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Did a quick review of setlist.fm's entries for Vince Neil in the mid-to-late 90s. One of the places he played was in a strip mall next to a carpet store and another has since become a standalone gyros shop.

Christ, he played at the Tumble Inn in Eckerman, Michigan (now Eckerman Self-Storage). That's in the Upper Peninsula and it's not even Marquette! It's kinda impressive that he made inroads so deep into nowhere.

https://scontent-iad3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/187984198_10223099076658916_492872178646393938_n.jpg

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Ceasar the Wrestling Bear is definitely a contender for worst festival line up.

oh that is all so grim, i kind of want to become a nun now, or dwell in a cave and live off nettles

It's kinda impressive that he made inroads so deep into nowhere.

yeah this is a positive imo

the semi-local (small town a 45 minute drive from me) festival Vince Neil played at was some combination family arts&crafts, fishing derby, car show thing. The other musical acts were Great White and Night Ranger

not that late may 2021 was a prime time for live music, however

yeah this is a positive imo

― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, June 29, 2021 9:50 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, I mean like, I realize that he was there because his career had hit the absolute skids, but way cool for people in the UP who got to see Neil in their town with a population under 400.

This thread has taken an amazing direction. I want to see the other bills and eventual fates of all of Vince Neil's off-the-beaten-path venues

I am also extraordinarily curious as to how safety and insurance work for a wrestling bear attraction that promises a cash prize to "anyone who can pin him"

I imagine a 13 part web series where Vince Neil travels back to the tiny venues he played as a solo act, keeps getting mistaken for Bret Michaels.

I saw him at the Molson Ampitheatre (iirc) with Poison and a Sebastian Bach-less Skid Row in 2003. He was actually the best of the three, easily.

did this trip begin with having a burlap sack placed over your head and being shoved into a van?

Poison's "Unskinny Bop" didn't blow you away?

Someone was handing out free tickets on the street.

There's another sad story in The Dirt, where Nikki Sixx goes on L.A. radio in 1994 and says he's handing out free concert tickets on the street. Two kids show up.

I am also extraordinarily curious as to how safety and insurance work for a wrestling bear attraction that promises a cash prize to "anyone who can pin him"

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, June 30, 2021 11:39 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

No idea, but here's more on the poor bear. Gonna guess this guy was fewer than 6 degrees of separation away from Joe Exotic.

https://gawker.com/5618474/a-hungry-caged-bear-mauls-its-caretaker

ugh, no surprise though

https://peloton.shorthandstories.com/all-for-one-music-festival/assets/TdlfFfW2vk/afo-poster-us-1044x1728.jpeg

I don't get it. So, it's a bunch of Peloton workouts set to different music playlists? Which is what Peloton usually is/does, but they're calling it a ... festival? Um, OK.

haha wtf

I know when I listen to Alice Coltrane it always makes me want to get on a fucking exercise bike.