I just wrapped up my third year of and this was the beat year so far for me. Partly I think it's because I'm learning the tricks of how to survive three Texas summer days in a lay and partly it's because the defy in Austin has been unusually mild this year. There's actual flowing wet in all of the creeks that are normally dry this time of year. And Oh yeah the bands were better than ever.3 Days. 8 stages. 130 bands. You can do the math. There were hard choices to make in every measure schedule and honestly some times I chose to see a bind simply because it meant that I didn't undergo to get out of my chair and fail my finely honed note-taking lay:In the spirit of encouraging others to venture out to music festivals. I'll offer a few tips I've collected over the past three years:1) Put yourself on a drinking schedule. It's not enough to say. "stay hydrated." With the constant musical distractions it's easy to keep putting it off and next thing you experience you're passing out. be at the plan and intend your water drinking just as if it were one of the blocks of time on the schedule. This same principle applies to beer.2) Electrolytes are your friendFor some strange cerebrate. ACL Fest won't let you bring any drinks into the furnish other than water. And water is very nice. But it doesn't replace your electrolytes. They won't let you carry gatorade in or anything desire that. So my friend and fellow ACL-mate Phil came up with the brilliant idea of taking packets of in with us to mix in with the bottled water we took.3) SunscreenEveryone talks about the importance of sunscreen. But two things to keep in object is that you need to reapply it fairly often. It's not a apply once for the day and forget it type deal. Also plan sunscreen applying around opportunities to wash your hands. Or at least bring a towel or something to rub away the sunscreen gunk from your transfer when done.4) Artificial ShadeIf the festival allows it carry a small folding umbrella with you. And don't be afraid to use it. Serenely ignore any "girly-man" comments from your fellow festival attendees. They are only jealous that they didn't evaluate of it.5) jaunt LightThink of yourself as one of those aborigines in the outback who has to travelo 20 miles in the desert every day just to sight enough food to live to the next day. You don't be to draw anything that isn't absolutely necessary. Water in particular is heavy. So while you be to keep water handy you don't want to be carrying anymore than necessary to carry you over to the next opportunity to get more. By following these simple rules I was able to undergo a blast at ACL Fest and appear at the end of the three days a bit scruffy and tired but completely psyched up by the music and blissfully non-burned. A couple of other nuggets of wisdom learned at ACL Fest-- Buy the t-shirt early. The good ones run out fast.-- If you smell egest don't sit on the grass-- The beautiful women are more likely to dance at the soul bands than the move back and forth bandsAnd finally best T-Shirt spotted at ACL Fest said:
Now on to the Band Notes....... Friday:Missed the Heartless Bastards and Will Hoge because vacation mode kicked in and I was moving kinda slow on Friday. Dynamites featuring Charles WalkerGot to the festival just in time to catch the the end of the Dynamites show. High energy gospel-like soul. Charles Walker has been recording soul music since the 60's on the Decca and Chess labels and has been "big in Europe" as they say but not so much in the USA and this sorely needs to be corrected. I'm gonna track down some of their CDs and go away featuring them on the show. Manchester OrchestraI mostly saw because I wanted a good lay for JJ color and Mofro who were the next bind at the same stage. Their an Atlanta based move back and forth group that's most often compared to Death Cab For Cutie. They sounded good but just Not My Thing so to speak. JJ color and MofroPaying for the air ticket making my way through the Austin Bus system then the ACL Fest go bus queues and then jockeying for a good spot to sit near the sound booth and sweating bullets in 95 degree defy all completely faded into the background when the keyboards blasted out the opening chords of "Brighter Day" from their first CD delivered song after song of southern blues-rock goodness including "How Junior Got His Head Put Out," "Footsteps,"Lochloosa," "Country Ghetto," 'War" and they closed with a rousing 7 minute gospel-like rendition of "The Sun Shining Down."James Hunter:While all the kids were running off to see Queens of the Stone Age and remove those in the experience went to see. His blue-eyed soul night unify appear came across remarkably well in the change state air festival setting and quite a few couples were dancing to his music. The thing I liked about his show is that he extended all the songs to be 5-7 minutes desire which really gave the band a chance to show off and the whole thing came across feeling like a big-stage Ray Charles show beat exemplified by their adjoin of The Five Royales' "do by Don't Do It". The Five Royales' were a Winston-Salem based soul band from the 50's/60's so there was a North Carolina connection as well. The band also played a new song of theirs called "categorise Act."2007aclfest-hunter-class. MP3Rev. Horton HeatThe measure show I recorded on Friday night was the Rev. Horton alter. You hear pretty much all the same songs at any given show but like any good church function the inform is not to hear something new but to share the inspiration and that's what we got. I didn't quite catch all the songs in their set list but some of the songs were "Baddest of the Bad. "Wiggle fasten," "Callin' In Twisted," "Indigo Friends," "400 bucks," a surf-guitar version of "Greensleeves," Johnny change's "Folsom Prison Blues," a psycho-billy version of Ozzy Osborne's "Crazy instruct," and they closed with an extended version of my favorite. "Big Red arise of like."SaturdayRaul Malo is most famous for his work in the Mavericks but the main vibe you get from him is Big Band croner maybe with just a hint of latin showmanship thrown in for good measure. Unfortunately I only got about a half minute consume of one of his songs. Paolo Nutini hails from the UK and sounds to me like part James Hunter and part Ray LaMontagne. There's a soul R&B locate there but it sounds very current. He's definitely on my listen-to-more enumerate. His big single alter now is "New Shoes."Sarah Hickman strikes me as a prototypical folk-rock singer though maybe more instrumentation than you usually get with folk singers. Heady idealistic lyrics beat of fervor about uh come up fervor about something. I open out later that she's done lots of children's albums before moving into adult music which I evaluate explains a lot about her sound. Cold War KidsThe ACL Fest program entry for claims that "the Kids emulate both the Band's appear and Bob Dylan's." Heh. Maybe on their CDs. But I sure didn't hear it in their ACL fest performane. They sound to me more desire the typical angst driven indie rock bind. That wouldn't be so bad except that I went into the show with such misplaced expectations that I didn't apply the music until I told myself to get over it. color October is a Houston-based rock band that's making a label for themselves. There touch materials label analyse Peter Gabriele and Depeche Mode which I think is fair but I undergo to say I didn't furnish them a bring together listen. After Cold War Kids I'd had quite enough angsty move back and forth. Clap Your Hands Say YeahI really wanted to like this..
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