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This is the First time I have heard of this festival. It is a small festival located in Arizona.Tickets are extremely reasonable ($35) and charge an extra $15 for camping per day. Here is the lineup thus far..mind you they two headliners have not been announced:
The Neville Brothers Toots & the Maytals Grace Potter and the Nocturnals Railroad Earth Tea Leaf Green Jackie Greene Gelatinous Groove Walt Richardson & the Peaceful Warriors 2 Tone Lizard Kings
If you're in the vicinity, the early ticket price can't be beat.
Assuming we end up getting those first round cheap tix, I'm thinking the gf and I can do tickets, camping, flying (free), rental car, and miscellaneous expenses for just over $300 total. For two people and a pretty solid two day fest -- I'd be really happy with that.
Bought our tix for this last night! Anybody else hitting it up?
Here's the schedule...
Friday April 27, 2007 Line Up
Gelatinous Groove 1:30PM to 2:15PM 2 Tone Lizard Kings 2:30PM to 3:15PM Tea Leaf Green 3:45 to 4:45PM Grace Potter and the Nocturnals 5:15 to 6:30PM The Neville Brothers 7:00PM to 8:30PM Bob Weir & Ratdog 9:00PM to 11:00PM Saturday April 28, 2007 Line Up
Azz Izz 11:00AM to 11:45AM Walt Richardson & the Peaceful Warriors 12:00PM to 12:45PM Papa Mali 1:30 to 2:30PM Jackie Greene 3:00PM to 4:30PM Railroad Earth 5:00PM to 6:30PM Toots & the Maytals 7:00PM to 8:30PM Los Lonely Boys 9:00PM to 11:00PM
I reaaallllyy wish Los Lonely Boys weren't closing out the fest.
LLB put on a good show at roo in 04. They have alot of energy and love crowd participation. I personally would like to see a bigger name than them, but for the price you pay for the tickets you can't complain.
LLB put on a good show at roo in 04. They have alot of energy and love crowd participation. I personally would like to see a bigger name than them, but for the price you pay for the tickets you can't complain.
Yeah -- I remember hearing them from a distance and kind of digging it. Plus, the performance on the '04 dvd is pretty decent. I guess it's the overexposure of a couple of their tracks that has worn my patience a little thin.
It was $170 (includes ticketfuc*er fees) total for our tickets and camping passes.
LLB put on a good show at roo in 04. They have alot of energy and love crowd participation. I personally would like to see a bigger name than them, but for the price you pay for the tickets you can't complain.
Yeah -- I remember hearing them from a distance and kind of digging it. Plus, the performance on the '04 dvd is pretty decent. I guess it's the overexposure of a couple of their tracks that has worn my patience a little thin.
It was $170 (includes ticketfuc*er fees) total for our tickets and camping passes. I'm alright with that!
Yeah -- I remember hearing them from a distance and kind of digging it. Plus, the performance on the '04 dvd is pretty decent. I guess it's the overexposure of a couple of their tracks that has worn my patience a little thin.
It was $170 (includes ticketfuc*er fees) total for our tickets and camping passes. I'm alright with that!
$170? I thought it was alot cheaper than that.
Well that was for two of us, with the camping fees.
It's $60/weekend pass and $15/day for camping (group of five or less)
Then there's the fact that we fly for nothing -- assuming we don't run into load issues -- means it's around $300 for the whole weekend.
I'm not going to this festival, but I'll stand up for Los Lonely Boys. ;D
If you go into their live show with an open mind, then I think you'll really enjoy it. Believe me, I'm tired of "Heaven" too, but when I saw them at ACL this year they were surprisingly good. Good guitar driven improvisation, the guy on lead guitar rocks hard. If you get lucky they'll do some pretty cool covers too, I would imagine you'll hear some with a two hour set.
"White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high." Jimi Hendrix
Ok, first and foremost, it was very hot. At one point, the (white) rental car dash read 107 degrees -- I'm sure it ticked at 98/99 outside. We flew down there, sans shade tent, so the neighbors with a shady area were high on the wishlist -- we lucked out and met some incredible people in the process. The camping area was fenced in, relatively small -- they let you drive in, unload, and then go park a few hundred yards away in GA parking. The crowd was a whole lot of fun and the scene was very laid back. The "no alcohol in the camping area" was respectfully disregarded (thank god) by nearly all. There was no search, but there really wasn't a sketch factor to worry about. We had one early morning visit from some dude who was spun out of his mind, but after instructing the gf to stay in the tent, I talked with him about absolutely nothing for a few minutes, gave him a hug, tightened his backpack on his back, and then he was gone. On a semi-related note, oddly enough, the already semi-lax staff seemed to unravel along with the crowd as the weekend passed!
The concert area itself was very open and had a variety of vendors -- once again though, a lack of shade that definitely made it rough for some folks. As for that Sierra Nevada happy hour I mentioned up thread -- yeah, a blessing and a curse! I got pretty toasty on lots of tasty Sierra Nevadas for two bucks a pop and passed out in the cooling shade for Grace Potter. I was disappointed the next day, but I lived. The girlfriend dealt with me, thankfully.
Oh yeah, the music. There were some dizzying performances this past weekend. Tea Leaf Green rocked as hard as always, rumor has it that Grace Potter was excellent, and The Nevilles completely surprised me!! I know the tradition and legendary status of the Nevilles, but I've done my best to avoid them up until this point. Sure, there was Aaron's "whhooo, hahhh, ahhh, whoooohhooo, ahhhaahhh" thing, but it sounded great. They rocked. Then there was Ratdog who proved themselves to be more than a Dead revival band and were every bit as good as Phil & Friends. It was my first time seeing them and I can't wait to catch them again. The choice of covers ("She Belongs to Me," "Tomorrow Never Knows," etc.) was superb. I'm looking forward to a good recording.
***scene missing, good neighbors, booze, other stuuuufff, scene missing***
Saturday morning began slow, but the day picked up with Jackie Greene's set. He was solid and summed up the weekend nicely with his vocal outburst of 'holy shit it's fucking hot here.' From there, things got weird and wonderful. We watched curiously as a storm slowly came at us from over the mountains that backdropped the stage. Eventually, about halfway through Jackie's set, we realized the storm was heading right at us. I gathered the camera and other non-water resistant items and decided to scoot back to the tent real quick (two minute walk). As I exited the music area, I saw the storm sweep down and though "here comes the wet." Of course, it wasn't wet...it was dry...and dirty...and powerful...because it was a dust storm. I began to run to the tent and saw shade tents collapsing and whipping all around me. Folks streamed out of the show show area, the colorful banners cracked and snapped -- then the scaffolding on the stage began to shake, rattle, and even crumble a bit. Jackie Greene's band (wisely) ran for cover and the music stopped. Everybody with a tent was trying to hold it down. Our neighbor's elaborate shade tent was decimated. It was all really fucking fun. The gf soon followed and helped me hold things down as best as possible as a monsoon of garbage and dust whipped around us.
After things toned down a tad, I whipped out the bourbon and things got all post-apocalyptic and wonderful. Folks had that 'we survived the storm' sense of giddiness and after a slight delay, Railroad Earth came on and provided the perfect soundtrack to the colorful tapestry of weather remnants that filled the sky for the rest of the daylight. Toots then came on to remove all doubt and solidified this as one of the most enjoyable days I've had in awhile. After a round of debauchery at the campsite, a few of us wandered back in for a bit of Los Lonely Boys who, semi-surprisingly, put on a pretty fun show. Of course, they had to disappoint the newly converted with a show ending version of that "Heaven" song. Oh well. You can't have everything, eh?
Come morning, we packed up, exchanged info with our new found friends, washed ourselves at the sinks, made ourselves look mildly presentable, bickered a bit, made up, got breakfast at Village Inn, sat at the airport for hours, and then made it onto the flight back that we really didn't think we'd make it on due to the tight loads.
Haha -- some video footage of the sandstorm was passed on to the fest organizers and they included links in their "Thank You" email that was just sent out. The funny part though, is that the guy who filmed the campground footage was our neighbor who panned around the little area where we hung! About 1:43 into that one, you very briefly see a poor sap in red shorts and a white shirt, trying to hold his hat on his head and his tent to the ground -- my fifteenth of a second of YouTube fame!
I wish I'd seen this thread a few weeks ago. Glad you enjoyed the fest! That storm sucked. I got caught on the freeway when that thing hit.
I had an incredible time N1. Met some great "lot friends." Tea Leaf Green was amazing. I've been into them for a while now but had yet to see them live.
Those $2 Sierra Nevadas were kind to me. I had a navajo taco back by the jumpy thing (which was fun as hell). I still dream about that taco.
There was no search, but there really wasn't a sketch factor to worry about. We had one early morning visit from some dude who was spun out of his mind, but after instructing the gf to stay in the tent, I talked with him about absolutely nothing for a few minutes, gave him a hug, tightened his backpack on his back, and then he was gone. On a semi-related note, oddly enough, the already semi-lax staff seemed to unravel along with the 
