I'm with MNG and Greg about this. The festival itself isn't what it used to be, and so what. I'm just glad there is something, the music is at least pretty good and sometimes excellent.
I can't think of more than an hour or two over eight years when it sucked so bad on four stages that I just gave up (and when that happened I went to dinner in Greektown and buzzed back on the PM anyway), and to be brutally honest with y'all, the afterparties suck even more and in fact always did. But there are wonderful moments there too. Aaron-Carl played a brilliant set to like 3 of us in the side room at McCarthy's last year. I'll never forget Gary Martin's record release party at Push in Eastern Market where he played the all time genre-hopping cover the map set. Who could forget the Seventh City parties or the 430 West 10th anniversary or Cannonball or GU and the Chicago crew playing all night at the Camellian, or BMG and Plaslaiko going off the fooking hook in the back of the Stick last year. Or Kenny Larkin's large, large set where he turned the sound system at Bleu into a musical instrument, or the Timeline live show at the community center. And so many others, and I know I have not mentioned some of your favorites. And by the way, there were candy ravers, scads of 'em, in 2000 at the festival and I have pictures to prove it. Same as it ever was. cheers fh ----------------- >On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Thomas D. Cox, Jr. ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> but some of the artists over >> the past 2 years have been a gigantic joke. maybe you want to go back >> to bad raves, but i feel like that is devoid of any culture at all in >> 2008. > >I can't the last year's lineup on the site because i keep getting >redirected to the photo gallery, but the press release highlights Jeff >Mills, Moodymann, and Model 500?! There have been joke acts every >year, and the rave crowd started showing up in spades at least two >years before Paxahau took over. > >-- >matt kane's brain >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://hydrogenproject.com http://wzbc.org >AIM: mkbatwerk >
