Beck And Puppets At Bonnaroo 6/17/06
Special shoutout to Beck and his band of puppety oddballs.
Beck had one of the most entertaining mainstage sets, incorporating lip-synching puppets and a video clip satirizing Bonnaroo culture ("The enzymes you can get from fresh fruit are so … epic." "Jackalopes are an endangered species. There's only a few of them left." "Drum circles and puppets should be illegal.") Beck, who played immediately before Radiohead and sang a few lines of the band's material and worked them into the video with five puppets singing, "I'm a creep ... I'm a puppet." (Source: USA Today.)
For the record, almost every band was compelled to comment on "Bonnaroo culture," with a gleeful Mike Skinner handing a bigass bottle of brandy to his latest converts and Be Your Own Pet warning the hippies that drugs are bad. So cool to see Beck up close, though. Off the top of my head (don't have my notes on me): he opened with "Devil's Haircut," played all the Guero singles, some new tunes, and a fantastic cover his former tour partners' "Do You Realize?"
So much more to blog about -- Sonic Youth were intense, if not youthful, and Bonnie Raitt was great too (really!). It rained right before Phil Lesh came on. Which isn't so bad, 'cause everyone who stuck around smells pretty funky, as Bonnie noted. She also predicted a lot of tentsex tonight. Happy 64th Paul.
Posted at 10:04 PM in Concert
Tags: Bonnaroo
Interesting he would still play Flaming Lips after Wayne Coyne has talked some mad shit about him.
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He stole Pete Doherty's hat!! Now THAT'S Rock and Roll!!
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Beck's got a 2nd chin coming in!!
What is this world coming to?!
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SWEET. i'm seeing him tomorrow night here at the cain's ballroom in tulsa. my first beck experience. i'm pumped.
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what about Radiohead??
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When I saw him, all he had were boomboxes of ascending sizes, one that had to be lowered from the ceiling. And during "The Golden Age", his bandmates played the dinnerware they were eating off of.
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I thought Beck's performance was really unimpressive. The highlight of Beck's show wasn't even the music. The puppet video was hilarious. Radiohead's show was unbelievable. I was probably 20 rows back, and the energy of the crowd was incredible. The best moment of the night was the huge sea of people singing "We hope you choke." Thom seemed to be loving every minute of it. One of the best live shows I've ever seen.
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For some reason, that photo sums up what I imagine the 'Bonnaroo culture' to be. I'll get there one day.
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For some reason, that photo sums up what I imagine the 'Bonnaroo culture' to be. I'll get there one day. Did you see Cat Empire?
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years ago, my mom talked me into seeing bonnie raitt and jackson browne. they put on one of the best live shows i've ever seen. i couldn't believe it.
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Just me or is beck overrated?
http://www.musictimes.com.au
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Scientology is gay
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MT, it's just you.
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Beck believes in Xenu. He's a level 13 Thetan OT. He has the ability to bend time with his mind.
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Where did Wayne talk shit about Beck? I don't doubt it, I'm just curious to read it.
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Check out the Flaming Lips' song "Free Radicals"...it's about Beck
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ese guero es uno de los mejores artistas de los estados unidos....
deberian darle sus gracias!
soy un perdedor...
blah, blah, blah....
beck rules!
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MY MORNING JACKET AND COMMON on Friday were awesome ! Gomez really sounded good on Saturday and we skipped Beck on purpose because his studio stuff is great but his live shows suck ! BONNAROO 2007 - we need us some PEARL JAM hands down !!!!
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Nice chins. Is Beck entering his Brian Wilson stage?
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I think it may be just a bad angle for him...he's not rocking the 2nd chin when he's looking up in other pictures I've seen from the show.
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"see, when i was writing devil's haircut... what was that song about, again?"
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Wayne's been talking shit about Beck ever since the tour together. I think it was in Mojo magazine the other month where Wayne had a photo of himself, Chris Martin and Beck singing an xmas song and captioned it with words to the effect that 'Beck was struggling to have a good time, as usual'.
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Caroline, The Flaming Lips 'Free Radicals' isn't about Beck. The song was based on a dream Devendra Banhart had about negotiating with a terrorist.
Wayne's beef with Beck started a few years with a comment claiming Beck's nothing but a Diva, or something along those lines.
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"Maybe if I start wearing this old man hat I can gain entry into the club of respected singer-songwriters like Costello and Petty, like they feature on VH-1..."
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My favorite Bonnaroo comment by an artist
Thom York: This is a new song. So, everybody can zone out... Well, this is Bonnaroo.
I agree. Exit Music was my favorite moment of the concert. "We hope that you choke"
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The most underrated show at Bonnaroo 06 (and maybe my fav.) was Ben Folds. Music pedagogy just makes people feel good.
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I missed beck but i heard i didn't miss much ... i couldn't force myself to leave cypress hill. i'm normally not a cypress fan ... but i am now. Their show was the best one i saw, with inflatable buddha, and smoking a blunt that was tossed on stage ... phil lesh was another winner ... the rain enhanced the experience , as did the windowpaine
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colin, so it was you who trashed that field after cypress hill... where we were trying to play frisbee during radiohead? damn hippie.
if "bonnaroo culture" is something i should look forward to as the gleaming edge of american counter culture, then fudge it i'm going to marshalls and buying a suit and a tie. that place was enough to make a boy turn republican.
ive been to three radiohead shows and wanted to run and hide from every one. everybody singing "we hope that you choke" together... isn't that what made thom go completely nuts and WRITE Kid A? can you seriously sing along "i'm not here, this isn't happening."? that's not good news! i understand the appeal of seeing artists like radiohead, but freakin cmon once you get past the starstruck thing it's really demented to me. like a big public caricature of everything i found important like 6 years ago. bonnaroo makes me think i was just crazy and high, and i KNOW i was neither. and they couldn't get that damn water mushroom to stay on when i really needed it. fart.
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and i think beck and coyne's beef was a comment by coyne along the lines of "beck has never accomplished anything by himself" referring to, i guess, his help from the dust brothers for Odelay and the like. at least, the stuff that gained the type of respect that coyne thought he (and rightfully so) deserved. still, trashing an ally is a pretty bitch thing to do.
i thought this was a part of the reason for the melancholy on sea change, and also why coyne joined him for that tour, and why they're friends now.
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Hi, my name is Coral I am am alsmost 11. I saw the bEck consert in Hollywood a couple of days ago. I have a question that has been stuck in my head ever since then, What is Ryan's (the dancer, also know as becks cheerleader) last name? I have been searching every thing on google so I think this is my lucky day... anyway..I am sure you would or SOMEBODY. I think beck is a great band I shook hand with everyone on the band!!! Any ways halp with the last name, thanks!!!
- Coral Natania McKelvey
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