NYC ilxors: I am calling you out

I'm an old dude who loves going to shows, would go to a couple a week if I could, but 3-4 bands is the perfect size for a bill, and the closer you get your set to 20 minutes the happier I am

x1000

whiney you might want to consider some stendhal syndrome-like response when music lovers express repulsion at festivals

some ppl can't gorge on live music, it gets exhausting

I'm an old dude who loves going to shows, would go to a couple a week if I could, but 3-4 bands is the perfect size for a bill, and the closer you get your set to 20 minutes the happier I am

― (e_3) (Edward III), Tuesday, August 3, 2010 12:46 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

like i said, this has all been very enlightening.

ned is beyond atp.

tbh I like hanging out with my wife more than I like going to multiday events, and my wife would absolutely hate this and I am not particularly interested in seeing any of the people there, so my wife wins

ned is beyond us all.

To be honest I hate festivals too, which is why I totally fell for atp massively when I first went and then went on about it so much that they gave me a job. If you haven't been to one though it's hard to see how it would differ from the usual uncomfortable shit sound crowdedness of most fests.

actually i would like to play cards with steve albini, dan, and his wife.

Jamie knows what's up

i had great times at primavera the last couple of years but it's like a 13 minute metro ride or shuttle away from where we stay and you could come and go as you please.

plus it's in SPAIN

i think it should be kinda noteworthy when i actually stan for something

It is! But check out the other side of the coin -- isn't it just a treat to see all that nonstop hate/dismissal for something that really revs your engine?

it's wild!

chris are you really not getting the thing that people can "love music" and still rather spend time with their wives than watching the fucking books live?

I love movies but I've never gone to a film festival, don't think I'd want to either

film festivals have seats.

jess, how many times am I going to have to say "this has all been very enlightening" before you get off my balls about it?

until i decide to get back to work.

and easily accessible bathrooms

xp

perhaps if you said it in the form of a hipster puppy jpg

xxp

haha also man saying "this has been really enlightening" smacks of snark-ish "now i see how you people REALLY are" type shit.

i don't mean it like that

If you haven't been to one though it's hard to see how it would differ from the usual uncomfortable shit sound crowdedness of most fests.

This is quite telling -- if your background of a festival experience is solely Lollapalooza/Reading/Glastonbury/Coachella and its endless descendants and spinoffs and ripoffs, ATP doubtless is a breath of fresh air. My experience happens to be more varied due to interest, luck of the draw and my own personal history -- I didn't plan on catching several dates of the Scott Walker-curated Meltdown, for instance, until I realized I'd be in London at the same time it was going on -- so ATP is certainly enjoyable but not a Road to Damascus moment for me.

the thing is that i really DONT love music anymore.

how ARE the books live?

no one's answered this important question.

To get back to the warning that I received. You may take it with however many grains of salt that you wish. That the brown acid that is circulating around us isn't too good. It is suggested that you stay away from that. Of course it's your own trip. So be my guest, but please be advised that there is a warning on that one, ok?"

strongo, i honestly couldn't see why a message board full of the nerdiest rock dudes on earth didn't think this was awesome event and now I have a simple answer. that is enlightening

whiney have you ever realized going to a music festival is like making love to 6 women a night, eventually you are going to collapse a lung

the books are pretty good live alfred. i saw them at a museum once.

i saw iggy perform (much of) Raw Power in 1973. that was enough.

maybe he's on some sting shit xxp

1000TimesYes...each night.

saw the books in barcelona recently, was fantastic and a lot more visceral than i expected. they also had a drunk stage invader girl, which was pretty amusing given their music.

i do have to say the growing "institution" slant of the headliners for these things (moldy oldies performing whole albums etc.) is a real turnoff above and beyond my general gripes.

whiney have you ever realized going to a music festival is like making love to 6 women a night, eventually you are going to collapse a lung

― (e_3) (Edward III), Tuesday, August 3, 2010 12:58 PM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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ILM needs a little after-school special in its day to day life. Congrats everybody.

ps, loved the books at Big Ears this year.

moldy oldies performing whole albums etc.

I'd be quite happy if this idea suddenly disappeared in the world's biggest memory dump.

Most baffling statement to me is that someone could like Oneida albums circa 2002 and not like the live experience more. I like both, but certainly around 2002 the live experience was WAY more gratifying than the album experience.

But I love live music.

I turned down a free ticket (and ride) to Live Aid in Philly w/no regrets but I'm still kicking myself for missing this one (mom & dad wouldn't let me go)

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i do have to say the growing "institution" slant of the headliners for these things (moldy oldies performing whole albums etc.) is a real turnoff above and beyond my general gripes.

this too for me - "performing their classic album live" is something I refuse to go to on principle & hope never to have to resort to personally

u generally need a classic album first, dogg

haha too easy

not on the evidence of some of the "classic albums" being performed, all you need is something 100 ppl will stan for

I got that

I would maybe pay to see Oneida do all of Steel Rod EP live, but I doubt that'll ever happen.

oh man, reminds me of when I went to see maiden a few years ago, fucking dickinson is back, it's gonna be awesome, getting ready for a night of aces high and powerslave and killers, and then they come out and say "as a special treat...we are going to be performing the entirety of our new album, dance of death!!"

oh my god that fucking sucked

Yeah, I'm totally against the play-the-album thing and have been since the get-go. I've only been to two shows where a band played a whole album, and in one case I didn't know it because it was tech-death band The Faceless playing their new album Planetary Duality front to back and I wasn't familiar enough with the record yet to know it. The other one was Mastodon doing Crack the Skye.

Pretty sure I did see Steel Rod live a couple of times, but a lot of the Oneida shows blur together. Saw them a lot in the 2000-2003 era somehow.

yeah man i mean in any world where isis (who i like okay, don't get me wrong) are "performing their classic 'oceanic' in full" we've scaled back the requirements considerably.

the thing is that i really DONT love music anymore.

― strongohulkingtonsghost, Tuesday, August 3, 2010 12:56 PM (6 minutes ago)

wait, why?

life.