Comments on: Langerado Lineup Shows Just How Tough It Is To Get Decent Headliners These Days

By: Dan Gibson

Dan Gibson — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:55:36 +0000

@Michaelangelo Matos: Stop arguing with me and step up your Wordscraper game, Matos.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:27:36 +0000

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:23:01 +0000

@goldsounds: GruveShroom™ has been on hiatus since the bassist, Devin "Pinky" Henshaw, got picked up for picking up teenage "Sugar Magnolias" using the personal ads in Relix.

By: Michaelangelo Matos

Michaelangelo Matos — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:21:53 +0000

I was merely saying that I didn't think it was that big of a deal or a real headscratcher to me is all that these were the two headliners.

Shhhh! You're giving it away!

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:20:49 +0000

@Dan Gibson: Oh, it's $165. Eesh. But, still, a Death Cab concert would cost 30 bucks or more. Girl Talk would be 25. And so on and so on. I'm not sure how Parliament/Funkadelic is live these days, but it would be worth checking out. It's not highway robbery is all I'm saying. And I bet some folks get added to the bill. I'M not gonna pay that dough, but I'm not exactly the target audience for this one.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:20:43 +0000

Any idea if GruveShroom is playing this year?

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:18:10 +0000

@Dan Gibson: I think for that audience that Thievery Corp and Snoop are absolutely stars on the same level, and keep in mind that I am an REM fanboy and I like the Beasties quite a bit, too. I wasn't really picking a fight here...I was merely saying that I didn't think it was that big of a deal or a real headscratcher to me is all that these were the two headliners.

By: Dan Gibson

Dan Gibson — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:14:06 +0000

@Michaelangelo Matos: You're right. They're perfectly legitimate acts to ask people to pay $165 for. I take it all back.

By: mexiback

mexiback — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:13:30 +0000

@unperson: OMG That's exactly what I was just thinking, wouldn't it be the coolest if suddenly after Girl Talk the music from "Me estás quemando" started playing?

By: Michaelangelo Matos

Michaelangelo Matos — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:11:31 +0000

And obviously Snoop is an oldies act too. That’s part of your point about him being not-quite-a-headliner, surely?

By: Michaelangelo Matos

Michaelangelo Matos — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:06:49 +0000

Though 3121 is certainly a good deal better than anything R.E.M. or the Beasties have made this decade.

By: Michaelangelo Matos

Michaelangelo Matos — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:06:05 +0000

@Dan Gibson: I wouldn't have stamped my feet if someone had, no.

By: Dan Gibson

Dan Gibson — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:03:54 +0000

Wait, that was supposed to be @Michaelangelo Matos. I don't deal well with disagreement, apparently.

By: Dan Gibson

Dan Gibson — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:03:05 +0000

@Dan Gibson: Just to try to ease the tension here, I'll kick in a twenty dollar bill towards your Langerado three day pass when the on-sale date rolls around.

By: Dan Gibson

Dan Gibson — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:02:03 +0000

@Michaelangelo Matos: Did you make the same point when Prince was added to Coachella?

By: highlifer

highlifer — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:57:37 +0000

I'm with Michaelangelo M. This is kind of a Bonnaroo-lite anyway, and those bands are big crowd-pleasers the hippie/fratboy types love.

Also, Beasties and REM are the Tom Jones of music fests. Not many people under 30 are digging on them, and they've never quit touring (much) so there's no retro love either.

By: Rob Murphy

Rob Murphy — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:52:57 +0000

@Michaelangelo Matos: Last R.E.M. album to go gold: Reveal, in 2001...

I know this has nothing to do with your point, but the statistic you cite here makes me sad. I have never been an R.E.M. fanboy, but I think Accelerate is a terrific record, and the "headscratcher" for me is that it's stuck in the mid-300s.

By: Michaelangelo Matos

Michaelangelo Matos — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:51:35 +0000

as far as R.E.M. and Beastie Boys, in 2009 they’re both oldies acts. not sure how that’s any better than middle-headliners, honestly.

By: Michaelangelo Matos

Michaelangelo Matos — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:32:20 +0000

“This band headlining this festival = not surprising” isn’t “defending” anyone.

By: Dan Gibson

Dan Gibson — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:20:53 +0000

@Michaelangelo Matos: To clarify, you're saying that Thievery Corporation are stars of the same level as R.E.M. (5 albums platinum or beyond) and the Beastie Boys (all of their albums platinum or multiplatinum other than their instrumental disc)? I'll give you Snoop, despite the fact that he was down bill on the Rothbury festival last year (behind 311 and John Mayer), but seriously, you want to be the person defending the Thievery Corporation? Seriously?