Raconpalooza, Lollaween
A little of last night's "Steady As She Goes" for ya...
Tried to get side-stage for them, but no go. "The Raconteurs want no one on stage. Good; I hate those all-access fuckers who stand on the stage at every festival. I digress...
Jack, Brendan, Jack, and Patrick nailed Boy Soldiers and three covers: Bowie, Bono (Sonny, that is), and Barkley. Here's the setlist:
Late-night I tried to see Ween and Death Cab. I sort of had to. Earlier in the day I crossed paths with Nick Harmer, who actually recognized me (OMG LOL WTF). "There are two maxims of live rock 'n' roll," he claimed. "Don't follow the Flaming Lips, and don't go on opposite Ween. I wanna see Ween." I told him not to worry. He suggested I play with the brightness settings on my Macbook. We're BFF."Intimate Secretary"
"Level"
"Steady As She Goes"
"Together"
"It Ain't Easy"
"Store Bought Bones"
"Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"
"Broken Boy Soldier"
"Yellow Sun"
"Blue Veins"
"Crazy"
"Hands"
So after enough Ween, I hightailed to DCFC for the end of their set at the Bud Light stage. Gene and Deaner delivered some sweet genre-hopping, career-spanning joke rock, Heavy on the Chocolate & Cheese, but only ONE tune from Quebec (so underrated). That was disappointing. Their setlist:
Amrit's taken some amazing photos (for a terrorist), but he's apparently too busy "showering" and "eating" to bake in the sun cropping photos at the moment. He'll get to it later today, though."Exactly Where I'm At"
"What Deaner Was Talkin' About"
"Spinal Meningitis Got Me Down"
"The Stallion Pt. 3"
"Light Me Up"
"Take Me Away"
"Touch My Tooter"
"I Can't Put My Finger On It"
"Puertoricanpower"
"Voodoo Lady"
"Baby Bitch"
"Buckingham Green"
"Captain"
"The H.I.V. Song"
"The Mollusk"
"I'll Be Your Jonny On Th' Spot"
"Wavin' My Dick in the Wind"
"Ocean Man" (AS SEEN ON TV!)
"Doctor Rock"
"Someday"
I'll be updating all weekend, so keep the suggestions coming. Decisions we haven't made yet:
12:30 - 1:30 Nada Surf Vs. Cold War Kids
1:30 - 2:30 Feist Vs. The Go! Team
2:15 - 3:00 Peeping Tom Vs Oh No! Oh My!
2:30 - 3:30 Built To Spill (sorry Coheed)
3:30 - 4:30 Calexico Vs Wolfmother Vs Lyrics Born Vs Elvis Perkins
4:30 - 5:30 Gnarls Barkley Vs Sonic Youth
5:00 - 6:00 Blackalicious Vs Disco Biscuits
5:30 - 6:30 The Dresden Dolls Vs Smoking Popes
6:30 - 7:30 Flaming Lips (sorry Common)
7:30 - 8:30 New Pornographers (sorry Thievery Corporation)
8:30 - 10:00 Kanye West Vs Manu Chao (Duh)
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Posted at 12:20 PM in Concert, Video
Tags: Broken Social Scene | Calexico | Cold War Kids | Death Cab For Cutie | Kanye West | Lollapalooza | The Flaming Lips | The Raconteurs
Wow...great Racs vid. 99 percent Jack, not a single shot of Brendan. You're like Jack's mom filming his little league game and never filming any of the other kids.
L-A-M-E.
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Feist! Gnarls! i agree - more brendan benson next time around, but keep up the good work.
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Feist! Gnarls! i agree - more brendan benson next time around, but keep up the good work.
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You're killing me softly with that Ween setlist. They need to stop being coy and play New York for crying out loud - not one local show since Gener's recovery. COME ON!!!!
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wait...don't tell me you missed Manu Chao...Kanye might be good n all, but Manu Chao's toilet droppings are way more amazing than anything Kanye will ever do.
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death cab over ween any day! sorry, but i choose ben gibbard always.
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Death Cab is great, but still, Gotta love the Ween.
They played a awesome setlist, Saw them at philly at the jam on the river, and seriously, you don't get any greater then them.
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You did a Gnarls show just a few days ago, so I suggest you give some love to Sonic Youth this time.
Feist vs. Go! Team is tough, but I'd say Feist.
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actually, "it aint easy" isn't a david bowie original.
i love that song, tis why i had to say. i had originally thought it was bettye lavette's original since she is from the same town as the orig songwriter, ron davies. but it was actually performed first by long john bauldry(?), bettye and then bowie. just did some googling to make sure.
i was trying to give bettye some props cause she was the first place i had heard it and her version is insane. ha ha.
speaking of covers, built to spill gladiators cover was awesome!
great coverage guys!
:)
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Does anyone have a recording of the Raconteurs set? I'd be interested to hear how "Bang Bang" is interpreted by those guys.
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Ahem, Scott, "It Ain't Easy" was indeed covered by Bowie, but it was originally written by Ron Davies.
P.S. I didn't realize it until later, but we kept photographing the same bands. You were wearing a Jefferson Airplane shirt, right?
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You forgot "Mister, Would You Please Help My Pony", which they played right before "Voodoo Lady", I believe.
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the ween setlist is wroooooong. the one listed on the site is what they were gonna play, but ween never follow the setlist exactly. they didn't play puerto rican power, but they did play you fucked up. should have stayed for the whole show. this one marks the 5th state i've seen ween in.
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