You got me again Stereogum.
I clicked on the linking hoping to hear some sweet jams from Arthur Branch/Trudeau dead actor Fred Thompson. So disappointed now.
I saw a show on that tour too. I remember Goldfinger being there at the Detroit show and getting a Reel Big Fish tape sampler from John Feldman since helped them get signed to Mojo. Good times.
I still have the Vans Warped Tour cd sampler signed by him somewhere in my basement. To this day I still can't figure out why Beck has some remix i have never seen anywhere else on there since I cant find anything that says he ever performed a single show on the tour.
Like most people that have gone to at least 1 of these, my first experiences started when i was in high school. I went to one or two a year from 1996 to 2003 and for the most part i have incredibly fond memories of it. This is why I went this year and took my 15 yo daughter despite the bands there aren't really what she listens to. She listens to exactly what the writer of this article says people her age listen to. She knew of less of the bands than I did.
She needed to experience this at least once because there is nothing like it out there. There are no more traveling festivals like this and there are only 1 or 2 festivals that come within 3 hours of us but those cost massive amounts of money that I cant afford. This is one day where the tickets are relatively cheap and i dont have to fork over a ton of money to stay somewhere before and/or after.
Despite it being a shell of what it once was, I think it hit the same notes for her as it did with me at that age. She went out of her comfort zone, heard/saw tons of bands she probably never would and hung out with a ton of them too. Also like me at that age, she ended up enjoying more of the side stage bands than the main stage ones. (Doll Skin and Trashboat were stellar live!)
She also saw with her own eyes that is severely lacking these days: despite all of our beliefs, socioeconomic standing, or the color of our skin we are family and we help everyone no matter what. Everyone we stood with in crowds or talked to in line for something were amazing. That girl 10 feet back cant see anything on the stage because she is too short? Take my spot at the rail. You want a pic with a band but your phones dead? I'll take it with mine and will text it to you if you give me your number. You're hungry but dont have enough to afford a $12 piece of pizza? Here's a couple bucks so you dont keel over in the heat. Time and time again it was stuff like this. Where else can you help a blind guy crowd surf of the first time?
This is the shit I will miss and I am sad that unless someone else pics up the slack she wont have something like this to grow up with.
She needed to experience this at least once.
On a side not, not having the skate ramps and bmx bikes was a huge bummer but being older and wiser than I was when I attended these in their heyday I get it. The coordination it takes to run these is ridiculous not to mention dangerous if they tried to pull something off like they did 15 years ago. Could you imagine having a motorcross ramp but having the walkway cut through it nowadays? No f'ing way could they get insured for it now.
We are going to have to agree to disagree on this one. This album is amazing. I managed to snag a copy 4 days early because the local music store owner liked me and knew they were my favorite band of all time. They still are. I will admit the first 3 or 4 times I heard it I didn't get it but I also knew that there was no way it could ever live up to my expectations so I shelved it. I picked it up a month later and never looked back. Outside of PB, this is probably my favorite of theirs as it slowly overtook CYH and IC.
I will admit though that Lee Scratch Perry song is complete garbage
Agreed. I still bust it out occasionally. It is a damn fine pop album.
The album the released after they broke up that has demos, unfinished songs, etc is hit or miss but there are a couple of great tracks on there too.
"with Haim producer Ariel Rechtshaid."
I'm sorry but it doesn't matter what else he does or how many industry awards he wins because he will always be the lead singer of The Hippos to me.
This article starts off aimless, a mindless sting of sentences and an ominous swash of nostalgia. James Rettig's "voice" invites you in slowly, and then all at once as the article picks up and the rest of the words kick into high gear. The article chugs along like a revenge fantasy that can never reach the revenge part of the equation
Either I can't read or I briefly went to an alternate dimension where they weren't obviously listed there but I popped back just in time to make the comment.
I think we both know the 2nd one is the simpler explanation.
I unabashedly want to go to this show but I sure has hell am not traveling 3000 miles to go to it.
Mustard Plug is a riot. Their cover of Waiting Room is great. It doesn't hurt they are based about 30 miles from me so I have seen them 50+ times in my life.
Sadly, no Mad Caddies though. Maybe they are part of the "and more"
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