feel like such a heel for laughing but...i did.
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Thursday, 11 November 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link
One of the hospitalized victims has died, bringing the death toll to 9.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 11 November 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
Hospitalized 9-year-old dies, death count now 10.
https://abc13.com/astroworld-festival-tragedy-ezra-blount-child-injured-at-travis-scott-concert-2021/11236835/
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 15 November 2021 03:11 (two years ago) link
It’s very sad, and I’m surprised children were there. Are festivals typically all-ages?
― heterologous booster (morrisp), Monday, 15 November 2021 03:26 (two years ago) link
Usually. You have to remember that this particular event was presented as being a kinda-sorta family friendly event, with amusement park rides and a carnival midway. I can imagine alot of tickets were gifted as birthday or early Christmas presents.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 15 November 2021 03:41 (two years ago) link
most festivals are all-ages, aren't they? unless we're talking like small-time punk festivals at one bar or something.
i can't think of any big festivals like this that are/would be 21+.
― alpine static, Monday, 15 November 2021 03:53 (two years ago) link
That’s interesting; I don’t remember seeing kids when I attended a fests back in the day, and they wouldn’t have seemed like an environment for children. Lots of drunk adults, rowdiness, etc. Not to put the blame on people who brought kids, I’m just surprised they were there.
― heterologous booster (morrisp), Monday, 15 November 2021 03:56 (two years ago) link
(I’ve seen kids at seated stadium concerts, of course)
― heterologous booster (morrisp), Monday, 15 November 2021 03:58 (two years ago) link
maybe they are different elsewhere in the world, but the big ones i've been to have all been kid-friendly, i think.
9 years old, went to a concert and died. so sad.
― alpine static, Monday, 15 November 2021 07:18 (two years ago) link
They removed Travis Scott as a Coachella headliner, but don't worry, Rage Against the Machine is still there, which means there will be plenty of chill music for the packed crowd to relax to.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 December 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
read that as Travis Tritt
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:29 (two years ago) link
I'd be down for Travis Tritt at Coachella
― DT, Monday, 13 December 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link
They could troll Travis Scott by just featuring bands and people named Travis. Travis Tritt, Travis Barker, Travis, Randy Travis ...
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 December 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
i'd be down for Hologram GG Allin
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 December 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
holographic piss
― DT, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 07:56 (two years ago) link
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – As Helping A Hero has already awarded over 150 homes to veterans across 24 states, Johnny Morris, founder of Bass Pro Shops, issued the 100 Homes Challenge to help fund the next 100 homes. As part of the challenge, Lee Greenwood and Paula Deen will serve as hosts of the Helping A Hero Telethon, which will premiere on Monday, December 27, at 8e/7c PM on RFD-TV, The Cowboy Channel, and One America Network.Music performances by Crystal Gayle, Debby Boone, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Frontmen, John Conlee, The Gatlin Brothers, Home Free, Darryl Worley, and a finale with Sam Moore and T. Graham Brown with special guests Janie Fricke, Lee Brice, Michael Ray, Tim Rushlow, and Darryl Worley will highlight the one hour program.
Music performances by Crystal Gayle, Debby Boone, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Frontmen, John Conlee, The Gatlin Brothers, Home Free, Darryl Worley, and a finale with Sam Moore and T. Graham Brown with special guests Janie Fricke, Lee Brice, Michael Ray, Tim Rushlow, and Darryl Worley will highlight the one hour program.
Yes, it's a telethon, not a festival, but I'd say anything from the founder of Bass Pro Shops, in conjunction with Paula fuckin' Deen and Lee fuckin' Greenwood, raising money for "military personnel severely injured in the war on terror," broadcast on the Cowboy Channel (wtf?) and One America Network, has got to be one of the worst ever *anything.*
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 19:17 (two years ago) link
If they're truly raising $$ for wounded vets (as opposed to more... sinister things that crowd could be up to), I'd call it a draw.
This is kind of a weird lineup:
https://vegasexperience.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/970x250-standard-copy.jpeg
― Texas Medicine v. Railroad Gin (morrisp), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 21:09 (two years ago) link
vegas is unspeakably weird so it's vmic
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
doesn't seem that weird to me.
― DT, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 04:12 (two years ago) link
I don’t see any two of those acts going together—maybe Vanilla Ice and Tone Loc?—let alone all five. Maybe I’m wrong
― Texas Medicine v. Railroad Gin (morrisp), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 04:20 (two years ago) link
it's an 80s and 90s dance party in Las Vegas. what exactly are you looking for here? some sort of stylistic coherence or something? people are not there expecting the bands to "fit" together.
i'd actually say that's a pretty impressive/understandable lineup of live performers for an 80s/90s dance party on NYE in Vegas.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 05:55 (two years ago) link
xp: Bobby Brown is also roughly era/audience appropriate.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 14:02 (two years ago) link
I don't associate the Village People with the '80s, but hey, why not throw them in, right?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link
They were already "Ready For the 80's" in 1979!
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 15:30 (two years ago) link
I'm really starting to question the integrity of this Fremont Street Las Vegas 80s and 90s dance party
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 15:48 (two years ago) link
The Fremont Street Experience, a cultural institution with an insanely high bar
― mh, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 16:06 (two years ago) link
It’s not eligible for this thread because Vegas? LolNot to belabor this, you guys – but to me, that collection of acts just didn’t fit any particular “taste profile”… unlike the more intentionally curated “retro” concert packages you see all the time. I have a hard time seeing someone rush to buy a ticket based on that lineup, even if they do just wanna party on NYE. That’s why it’s funny! I’m not mad at it.
― Texas Medicine v. Railroad Gin (morrisp), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link
Shit From Ages Ago Party
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link
Hoping the Village People do the "ice ice baby" background chant.
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link
Are we expecting lineups to somehow have a very specific theme? That can work, but I much prefer large, genre-spanning lineups. I know that can and has gone wrong and that ILM likely prefers the former.
― DT, Thursday, 30 December 2021 04:46 (two years ago) link
morrisp are you familiar with the oeuvre of any dance-y cover act that plays at a local outdoor (non-music) festival? most have stepped up a bit but songs from all those artists could be done… by one bandor a cover band that plays at any suburban festival to be half-listened to with families milling around
― mh, Thursday, 30 December 2021 05:04 (two years ago) link
I’ve also had the “beer tent at a state fair where every song is country or hip hop” experience so idk
― mh, Thursday, 30 December 2021 05:06 (two years ago) link
Yeah a decent wedding band trying to please an audience aged 40-70 would almost certainly bring out some of that material, with Flock a sort of odd band out - maybe if the the groom had been a new wave dude in '85, they might add "Space Age Love Song" to the mix. Maybe not the full intro to "Modern Love Is Automatic" unless specifically requested.
― ; (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 30 December 2021 12:43 (two years ago) link
its a funny lineup in the sense that back in their day all of those acts fans would have actively hated each other. but yeah, also its pretty much a direct lift from the playlists of many oldies stations in 2021 and millions of modern listeners wouldnt identify those acts as being different genres today, in the same way that they would classify frank sinatra, elvis, and the ronettes together.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 30 December 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
I'm familiar w/the Jack FM principle, but I guess in my mind there's a difference btw "this playlist is so random!" and "I'm going to buy a ticket to stand in a room and watch each of these particular artists play multiple songs" (who even wants to hear Vanilla Ice play multiple songs?)
― Texas Medicine v. Railroad Gin (morrisp), Thursday, 30 December 2021 15:37 (two years ago) link
(...but for all I know, it's sold out, and you guys are totally OTM!)
it’s an entire street experience, man
― mh, Thursday, 30 December 2021 15:50 (two years ago) link
fwiw i believe "the fremont street experience" is a big open-air shed covering fremont st, so my guess is that this is a free show on an outdoor stage for the benefit of revelers at the surrounding bars. i agree that this show would be a more WTF concept as a ticketed indoor concert where the expectation is that ppl would want to watch each band one after another.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 30 December 2021 16:04 (two years ago) link
Oh - if it's free, then sure, all bets are off (geddit?)
― Texas Medicine v. Railroad Gin (morrisp), Thursday, 30 December 2021 16:08 (two years ago) link
it’s on the website noted on the flier, $50they also have a package deal that includes airfare and a zipline ride
― mh, Thursday, 30 December 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
It depends on how far away you live
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 December 2021 18:02 (two years ago) link
Airfare OR a zipline ride
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 30 December 2021 18:16 (two years ago) link
If you live close enough to get there by zipline, tix are half price
― Texas Medicine v. Railroad Gin (morrisp), Thursday, 30 December 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link
i grew up in vegas and the most surprising thing about that lineup is that it isn’t cover bands
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 December 2021 18:42 (two years ago) link
https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/272107147_10159587567183788_4693032640654839016_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=DLWQbIzVSmsAX81mAQl&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&oh=00_AT8f5iqsb_xoBH_R4Rf2LhWrp3cV-wRlJO9Ckn_4HUSq1A&oe=61EC4227
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:24 (two years ago) link
lol 3OH!3
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:25 (two years ago) link
yuck
― jpg trouble in wallo gina (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:36 (two years ago) link
surprising no one i would hell of go to this
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:37 (two years ago) link
https://snltranscripts.jt.org/00/00kvalentine.phtml
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:38 (two years ago) link
Has Avril always been accepted in the emo community, or is this a new development?
― Rockin’, and rollin’, and whatnot (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 January 2022 19:48 (two years ago) link