Comments on: There’s A Festival Coming To The NYC Area, But Don’t You Dare Call It “Coachella East”

By: rocknrollwife

rocknrollwife — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:24:36 +0000

Bummerfest ain't going anywhere. Where else would the Def Lepard/Foreigner/Dickie Betts/Puddle of Mudd/Lindsey Buckingham/Weird Als of the world play for hoards of middle-aged yabbos and the underage skanks who cocktease their way to $7 wine coolers?

YUCK.

These are the same folks who helped Harley-Davidson choose Elton John as the Headliner for their huge 100 year anniversary party. You can't imagine what a homophobic debacle that was.

They really gave up the ghost when they brought in a white-bread uber-corporate guy to hustle more beer sales and sponsorships.

By: MTS

MTS — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:14:53 +0000

@Whigged: Not if the residents of Vineland have their way...

By: Whigged

Whigged — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:56:31 +0000

@mcginstein: This isn't the same one - that's the one that is *allegedly* going to take place in Vineland.

Now, with this one popping up, South Jersey appears a safe bet not to go off...though strangely in no better condition and no more appealing than before.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:46:53 +0000

@dennisobell: It's funny, that's all I could think about when I read this post, too. They gave a wonderful show that night, and the schoolbus transport they offered from the station to the venue was just a cap on the whole moment of "lost innocence" as I remember it now....I even got a free DVD. Sigh.

By: werewolf

werewolf — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:56:27 +0000

Yay! Who doesn’t love being surrounded by 100,000 tripping teenagers?

By: Chris Molanphy

Chris Molanphy — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:48:45 +0000

Wow, memories flooding back thanks to your Radiohead/pre-9/11 reference. My commute home after that show (16 Aug 01 - I still have it in my organizer) was the last time I walked through the World Trade Center, and that stroll was of a piece with the whole night: spooky, surreal. (Remember: this was post-Amnesiac Radiohead we'd been watching.) I now look back on that night, with 20/20 hindsight, as some kind of foreboding/last moment of innocence.

Sorry for the tangential reverie. Anyway, I'd happily go back to Liberty State Park for another show with Yorke & co.

By: Halfwit

Halfwit — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:45:31 +0000

@mcginstein: That, plus weren't they proposing to hold it in Fairmount Park? NIMBY, buddy.

By: mcginstein

mcginstein — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:20:07 +0000

It was supposed to be in Philadelphia, but the terrible former mayoral administration couldn't get their ish together.