Video: Hippies Emerge from Hole in Ground at All Good

Apparently sick of paying hundreds of dollars for festival tickets, these hippies built themselves a tunnel directly to the parking lot at this year's All Good Music Festival...

All Good and 10klf lineups: meh

Maybe I've just seen this exact same lineup too many times. Let's just say I could be more excited the initial lineups for the All Good and 10,000 Lakes Festivals.

From All Good's website:
Phil Lesh & Friends, Widespread Panic, Gov't Mule, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Keller Williams and the WMD'S, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi Soul Stew Revival, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Railroad Earth, Tea Leaf Green, The Bridge, Hot Buttered Rum, RAQ, Bonerama, Pnuma Trio, The Wood Brothers, Bassnectar...

From 10,000 Lakes' website:
Phil Lesh & Friends, The Flaming Lips, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Mickey Hart Band feat. Steve Kimock & George Porter Jr., Slightly Stoopid, Dark Star Orchestra, Panjea with Michael Kang, JJ Grey & MOFRO, New Mastersounds, Everyone Orchestra, Cornmeal, WBPN, The Hue, and over 40 more acts to be announce...

It's nice to see Phil in a bunch of headlining spots. It just seems like the festival scene's a little saturated this year. Literally you could do a major festival every weekend from SXSW in May until Coachella East in August. Anyway, it just seems like the festival tour is replacing the band tour and I'm not so sure where I stand on that. On one hand it's nice to be able to catch 10 acts in one day and not have to worry about driving anywhere that night. On the other hand, festivals are expensive (and only getting pricier) and can be a major hassle between lines to get in, lines to use the bathroom, and anything else that associated with 50,000 people congregating in a really big field somewhere.

I just hope that this trend doesn't spawn off a new trend of major acts abandoning traditional nationwide Summer tours in favor of the festival circuit. I love festivals, but most of the time I just want to see one or two acts in a night for $20 and not deal with the rest of the hassle. I don't think I'm alone...

[EDITOR'S NOTE: I guess I'm being a little bit harsh on All Good. Solid Lineup. I would go. 10klf is still a major disappointment though. I can't stand the Flaming Lips. Why would anyone want to sit through their geeked out lead singer rambling incoherently with a camera pointed up his nose? He just talks. They don't even play music half the time! I mean they have kind of cool special effects but come on people we can demand better! I would rather see Lotus as the headliner than the Flaming Lips. At least they can make music. That wasn't sarcastic either. Lotus is awesome.]

WeTube Wednesdays: Deep Elem Edition

This week's WeTube Wednesday comes special from the heart of Dallas. Here's a tributary "Dire Wolf" and "Deep Elem Blues" from the Grateful Dead in 1981...



In other news...

-today is Hunter S. Thompson's birthday. Celebrate over at Rock Daily

-Ben Harper will play every theatre he possibly can this Fall

-Los Lobos announced Summer and Fall tour dates

-Hidden Track does some outsourcing to get a review of the last "Last Dispatch"

-take a ride on the Led Zeppelin roller coaster (and hold on to your feet)

-the joker's got Trancegression clips

-and some AWESOME clips from this weekend's All Good Festival

More Good @ All Good

The Benevento / Russo Duo, Drive-By Truckers, Sam Bush, the Bridge, Lee Boys, and the Ryan Montbleau Band have all been added to this year's All Good Music Festival in Masontown, West Virginia from July 13-15.

These artists will join Bob Weir, moe. Leftover Salmon, Keller, Michael Franti, Les Claypool, STS9, and Tea Leaf Green among others for what is shaping up to be a spectacular festival.

They really aren't trying to make it easy on me this summer. Not only have recent String Cheese announcements put my 10,000 Lakes plans in jeopardy, but now I may have to consider skipping out on a three-week job after two and half weeks as well...