Originally posted by kosmo:
seeing the beasties do sabotage on bravo's coverage bums me out that they are playing Vfest, which I've all but given up on due to the Police stinking up the place so bad. just not worth VIP money at this point, so the weather is the factor at this point... i think that was Money Mark playing keyboards with them again.
leave it to the Police to turn a train wreck into a toxic spill by brining out Kanye West and John Mayer with them, OMG did that Stink
oh and Roger Waters seemed like he would have been worth seeing, so that makes two artists from the US show.
I don't know how it came across on TV or even if it was televised but Melissa Etheridge was really solid live, as was Roger Waters, KT, and the Pumpkins. I thought Fall Out Boy and Taking Back Sunday were the same band, so were surprised when they played twice.
I'm not a bon jovi fan really, though I did see them on their first tour when I was in high school and thought they were pretty good but my tastes were a lot heavier so I never really followed them after that, but I didn't know they had evolved into what I imagine is on easy listening radio, everyone around me was singing word for word and when I say everyone I mean from about 12-80 years old, there were like 6 generations of one family and every male member was trying to keep the mullet alive.
By the time they (BJ) were done, I was kind of thinking perhaps if global warming could be targeted to take out certain people from New Jersey that perhaps it wouldn't be such a bad thing.
It was hot early, but everything wrapped up by 10, and I bailed on the police so I didn't see the train wreck everyone's talking about, but I could imagine, I heard early in the day Kanye was going to play with them, the news alone was enough for me to hit the road early to catch Fujiya & Miyagi.
All and all it was an entertaining day, but I don't think shit was accomplished if the people around me were any indication, half of them didn't even know what message the concert was trying to convey, it was just a chance to tailgate and see Bon Jovi and Dave Matthews, and there must have been a mass give away up there because no one I spoke with paid for their tickets. Felt kinda like TC at Merriweather a few weeks back, where EVERYONE seemed to have backstage passes.