So JT, in 2 different posts you're basically admitting that you
didn't go to the festival either last year or the year before?
If so, you've automatically lost your right to bitch about it.
Detroit, to me, is not a festival.
Detroit is a pilgrimage to Mecca.
Detroit is about reuniting with good friends, the vast
majority of whom I have met through this list.
It's about eating in Greektown or Mexicantown.
It's about (313) list BBQs at Dennis Donohue's old place.
Or at Ian & Linda's.
It's about going to Record Time.
It's about cruising around Belle Isle.
It's about going to see what's new at the Heidelberg Project.
It's about peeking in the foyers of those beautiful old Deco
buildings downtown.
And it's about the surreal experiences, the Only In Detroit
moments. Like coming out of Juan's crib at 6:00 AM and thinking,
"F--k, I was just in Juan Atkins' basement." Or being in a gallery
in Eastern Market and seeing couples freaking on the dancefloor.
To Rolando.
Yeah. Let's see you get that kind of experience at
<insert some generic Euro festival here>
You can always find more good music than you have time to see
(hello, afterparties?) anyways. I spend far more time going
to hear music in Detroit than I do when I'm in, say, Barcelona.
When I hear you all bitch and moan about the festival having
gone to the dogs (er, candy ravers), you just make me laugh.
The bottom line for me is that I am firmly convinced that you
cannot possibly have more fun than you can have in Detroit
over Memorial Day weekend. Paxahau or no Paxahau.
Anyone who makes their decision to go or not go to Detroit
based on the festival lineup is, as my brother would say,
"Unclear on the concept".
- Greg
