The detractors, naysayers and negative comments just kill me. IT'S FREE!!! If you're not interested, then don't go and don't complain. Do any of you bashers have any idea what it takes to put on a concert of this magnitude, with the caliber of artist that the festival attracts... and make it free? Here's a hint, no one else does it. It's an impossible task to please everyone and for those not interested in attending it sure would be nice to live by the old saying "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." Of course that's just wishful thinking.
Well I guess i have a right to complain. Because to see a decent music festival I have to travel hundred of miles. This festival used to be pretty decent. Even last year you had pavement on a reunion tour that was selling out every where and lcd soundsystem on the farewell tour. Plus a bunch of acts that actually had appeale to me.
This year a DJ is listed second on the line-up. And how many times have I had to see TV on the Radio at festivals before (including this one). And they have one decent song. Black keys are awful and the opposite of cutting edge. Ghostland I have seen at lollapalooza twice. First time in front of 20 people. They were fun with that few people but really not a band I would want to see again. Patti Smith is terrible live and have skipped her before at a festival to see someone else.
And it is not really free. I spend about 100 dollars every year. Can you bring your own food in? How about beer? This isn't wolf trap. I am free to complain about the only area festival going downhill.
Sure Okkervil River and Alberta Cross I would like to see but it isn't really worth it for me to drive an hour to the festival and pay 9 bucks for a beer. I will be seeing the National and Wye Oak earlier that week. I love both of them. Maybe if they had charged money they could have gotten bands like the National and Fleet Foxes on the line-up and made it festival worthy.
So yeah complaining about something that has been allowed to go downhill is my right. If this were the first year of the festival it would be differant.