What bands did you see?

[velvetc]

The bands I saw with a rating of their show:

Lettuce (D)
Lotus (B-)
Greensky Bluegrass (B)
Umphreys McGee (B-)
Keller Williams (B+)
The Heavy Pets (C-)
Passion Pit (B)
Ghostland Observatory (A-)
moe. (A+)
The Felice Brothers latenight (A-)
Roots of Creation (C+)
Drive-By Truckers (B+)
She & Him (B)
Grizzly Bear (D)
STS9 (B+)
The Flaming Lips (D)
Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad (A-)
EOTO (B-)
The Constellations (C-)
Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band (B)
Furthur (B+)

Show of the weekend - moe. I like moe. but wasn't overly excited for their show but damn if they didn't blow my mind. Great time.

Surprise show of the weekend - Giant Panda. I only went out for the first half of the latenights because my friends were walking over. This show grabbed a hold of me and made me stay for the whole thing. Loved the mix of reggae/dub/jamming.

Disappointment of the weekend - Flaming Lips. Ok, I had heard many times that the Lips are not good live that they use all the confetti and gimmicks to cover up their live playing ability, but I figured it couldn't be that bad. To be honest I thought they were awful. It was neat to see a little bit of it, but there was just too much stageshow while musically it was unsatisfying.

Band I wanted to see but didn't get to - Max Creek. Really was looking forward to this show but I ended up smoking myself stupid and just gave up.

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The only thing not subjective about this list (and not entirely that, even) is who you actually saw; I have to disagree with some of your grades, Velvet, but I'm glad that you got to catch such a good number of acts.

You missed a pretty good Creek set, it was interesting to see 'em play to a good sized audience for once.

Lotus (C+)

Greensky Bluegrass (B)
The Felice Brothers, early set (C-)
Umphrey's McGee (A-)
Keller Williams (C+)
Jakob Dylan & Three Legs (B+)
Jackie Green (A+)
Passion Pit (C-)
moe. (B)
Felice Brothers, late set (B)
Ryan Montbleau, late set (A)

Ryan Montbleau, early set (B+)
Moonalice, surprise short set (B-)
Drive-By Truckers (B)
She & Him (C-)
Grizzly Bear (B)
STS9 (C)
The Flaming Lips (A-)
Toubab Krewe (A+)
EOTO (B-)

Moonalice, early set (B)
Max Creek (B+)
Zappa Plays Zappa (A)
P-Funk, and sometimes George Clinton (D+)
Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band (A-)
Furthur (B)

[idio]

I really saw Ghostland - from the rail!


and it blew my mind

[itrainmonkeys]

Jul 6, 2010 14:50:51 GMT -5 @playingdead said:

I have to disagree with some of your grades, Dexxy, but I'm glad that you got to catch such a good number of acts.

Do you mean velvetc? Or are you reading a post that I can't see lol.

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@itm
Yep... the weekend warped my brain pretty good I'd say.
rahaha.

[velvetc]

Oh yeah, completely subjective. Out of 21 bands I saw I gave 15 a B- or better. Can't argue with that kind of satisfaction.

[pimpmcgeorge]

A C- for Passion Pit?! Whaaaaaa?!?!?!?!

[iamwelting]

I'm not going to grade the sets because it would take me too long. Suffice to say the only disappointing set for me was P-Funk.

Here's what I saw, by day:

Thursday:
I got all camped around 10, so I only saw Lotus, who were sweet (and about 50 yards from my tent!)

Friday:
Greensky Bluegrass
Felice Bros.
Keller
Jakob Dylan
Jackie Green
Passion Pit (second half)
Ghostland Observatory (!!!!!!!!yes!!!!!!)
moe (last couple songs.. zzzzzz... didn't do it for me)

Saturday:
Ryan Montbleau (baby making music for real)
She & Him
Grizzly Bear (somewhat disappointing)
STS9 (dankness)
Flaming Lips (peak of the fest for me. absolute euphoria)
Giant Panda
Toubab Krewe
EOTO (till the sun came up! breaking noise ordinances never felt so good)
Silent Disco (bring more headphones and better DJs next time)

Sunday:
Took me a while to recover
Zappa Plays Zappa (really pleased with the musicianship and energy)
P-Funk (Zappa should have had this spot, P Funk are a dried husk of the band they once were)
Derek and Susan (beautiful as always)
Furthur (Didn't play for as long as I would have liked, but they sounded good for the most part)