bonnaroo--first reports don't look so good

I think Lucky Knott is a better name for any one of the 100!

Well, I'm having an extraordinarily good time at Bonnaroo. We saw a lot of police on 81 in southern Virginia, but in TN we saw none at all until we were a mile from the Farm.

internal security is pretty mellow. Bag checks on the way in to Centeroo very light. I haven't seen a single uniformed officer on grounds, and only two rent-a-horsie dudes. Roo built a million dollars worth of permanent flush bathrooms for all levels of tickets; very clean and line moves quickly. The complimentary food and beer in VIP have been great. 

LCD and M83 were fantastic yesterday. I wish they would play again today. For me LCD has been the headliner.

First thing on my schedule today is Grace Potter. 

Tame Impala is like accidentally drinking a psychedelic smoothie. 

Goes down easy, leaves you a changed man.  

So each jar weighed approximately 0.074 milliliters? Milliliters? Are you sure about that?

Cut and paste. Not responsible. Not insane.

I am really not trying to trash on Bonnaroo. Went to the first one, and had an amazing time. I get the idea of music "collectivty", and I like offbeat/unexpected and diverse music acts thrown into my music festival lineups to keep things fresh and to keep exploring new music. Around 2010 (and arguably before, although I would argue with you) Bonnaroo really stopped being a Jam/Rock centric Festival in my mind. It looks more like Coachella to me now. Which is totally fine! I like Indie, Hip-Hop, Pop, Electronic, and Comedy...but for my personal taste, they are best sprinkled into a festival lineup I would be geeked for, versus dominating. Admittedly totally a personal perspective.

Having pulled in between 70-90k people each year for your first 14 years, regardless of whether you loved the lineups past 2009 or so is moot...that is surely "success" in their books. Rumors are they had somewhere around 50k this year. You don't undersell by 20-40k tickets and not take a huge financial hit.

I love lots of bands that played at Bonnaroo, including some of the non-rock or jam stuff, and I am sure there was lots of good stuff beyond what I would have known was good heading in. I do wonder if their curation has become too focused on musical "collectivity" without a pervasive common musical thread (other than being "good" or "well executed") of some kind that ties the experience together.

Being all things to all people doesn't usually work. Yes, you can make an argument all music has common threads, we should all be open to all kinds of music, music can bring diverse people together around a common shared experience, and I totally agree. But from any reasonable perspective their lineups seem like they want to serve EVERYONE in lieu of making a couple music factions really excited. Maybe festival lineups like Bonnaroo are what move music forward and forge new and exciting evolution, or maybe they are bound to fail because they forget their roots. Will be interesting to see what they do next year in reaction to an admittedly lower turnout. There is a lot of infrastructure, and a lot invested in that Festival's future by LiveNation...and they sell everyone's tickets - so it is not like they are bound to any genre of music.

Roo was great, as usual. You can always find a great time there. That said, this will probably be the last year we go because the lineups are consistently skewing away from the music we love and to pop/edm. It's just too long of a drive/too unbearably hot/too expensive to justify the expense when I can go to fests that align with our musical tastes better than Bonnaroo now.

Each jar may have 200 or even 0.074 milliliters (but that would be minute) capacity or volume but the cannot WEIGH any amount of milliliters. It would be like saying it weighed a teaspoon. Milligrams yes, milliliters no.

outside small and specialty fests, the market is the music the young 'uns like. So if a certain type of bands starts it, and are relatively new, then if they still play 15 years later, they are not new. So every year the cards will be filled with new acts, and as we age, that means new styles as well.
One guy in the business says he wants to see a 19 year old like the music. Now, remember, at one time, lots of 19 year olds liked Grateful Dead. Then, 30 years later, a lot of 19 year olds liked the Grateful Dead. So the older acts can still cycle back on the list. But that may help explain the atrocity of EDM, too.

No that isn't what EDM stands for. Electronic DANCE Music. You may argue that its the same thing but that's what it stands for.

Even Blue Grass dude Keller Williams uses a loop machine.

"If it's too LOUD, you're too OLD"

Still true after all these years. Except today it would be "If it's too LOUD, your too OLD"