Prince Added to Coachella

I'm too lazy to find the Coachella thread…but they added Prince to the Saturday night show, making it:

Prince
Portishead
Kraftwerk

ALMOST enough to get me on a plane…

Portishead and Kraftwerk and Aphex Twin are the reasons to go.

shit

get him at vfest
please?

Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
Portishead and Kraftwerk and Aphex Twin are the reasons to go.

Didn't see that Aphex Twin was Saturday as well. They're sold out of one day passes though.

Prince, Portishead, Kraftwerk and Aphex Twin are about the best one day lineup I've ever seen. Amazing.

Originally posted by Julian, certified WEBLEBRITY:
Prince, Portishead, Kraftwerk and Aphex Twin are about the best one day lineup I've ever seen. Amazing.

Aphex Twin is actually on Friday - I double checked.

Originally posted by callat703:
Aphex Twin is actually on Friday - I double checked.

Then its less impressive. But still really good.

Never seen Prince or Portishead…but Aphex Twin and Kraftwerk are 2 very memorable shows. I would love to see Prince.

I've seen Portishead twice and it's just mind blowing.

Prince is a definite hit or miss. He was horrible last time I saw him. He did about 1 minute of "When Doves Cry" and some other hit for 30 seconds. I don't understand when artists do medleys of their popular songs. HATE IT.

I've seen Prince 5-6 times and he constantly delivers. In fact, the show at the Warner where he did almost no hits was possibly the best one.

I'd love to see him added at either Lolla or VFest. If Radiohead is playing Lolla on Friday night, Prince would be one of the few acts "bigger" than Sir Thom that could be a Sunday night headliner.

am i the only one who misses the days of Coachella when it was 20 good djs, 40 bands you've never heard of, 1 good reunion and 4 bands from the 90s that you werent really bothered with seeing anyway.

and when you went there were 25,000 people with ample bathrooms, shade and space to get up front and center for any band you chose?

sigh…

Go to pitchfork festival.

Chicago is better than the desert anyway.

Originally posted by Erinaceous Sonickus:
am i the only one who misses the days of Coachella when it was 20 good djs, 40 bands you've never heard of, 1 good reunion and 4 bands from the 90s that you werent really bothered with seeing anyway.

and when you went there were 25,000 people with ample bathrooms, shade and space to get up front and center for any band you chose?

sigh…

Prince and Kraftwerk would definitely get me to V Fest. What I've seen thusfar won't.
Still, kudo's for at least making it a local festival option every year.I hope it continues to do well. Bring on the Man Machine!

Yeah no way Seth will get Prince or Kraftwerk. If he did they would have at least been announced as main headliners. So a no go.

Prince on the Purple Rain tour was my first concert. That was a long long time ago.

Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
I've seen Portishead twice and it's just mind blowing.

Just curious since I've probably seen literally thousands of live performances in nearly every type of venue and can't really say that I've ever had a "mind blowing" experience. I've seen memorable shows and even shows I would call great, but I'd be interested in what defines a show as mind blowing? Even my favorite band, Clutch, who I've seen maybe 70 or 80 times and who, in my personal opinion, puts on the best live club show out there, has never left me with that feeling of having my mind blown.

Originally posted by Shadrach:
Even my favorite band, Clutch, who I've seen maybe 70 or 80 times and who, in my personal opinion, puts on the best live club show out there, has never left me with that feeling of having my mind blown.

Well, then obviously you're taking the wrong drugs.

Brian

Originally posted by Shadrach:

Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
I've seen Portishead twice and it's just mind blowing.

Just curious since I've probably seen literally thousands of live performances in nearly every type of venue and can't really say that I've ever had a "mind blowing" experience. I've seen memorable shows and even shows I would call great, but I'd be interested in what defines a show as mind blowing? Even my favorite band, Clutch, who I've seen maybe 70 or 80 times and who, in my personal opinion, puts on the best live club show out there, has never left me with that feeling of having my mind blown.

The shows I've described as mindblowing left me feeling as though I'd seen something that was unlike anything I'd ever seen before. Very few shows really get that distinction, I think…Daft Punk is the only recent one that I think I'd put in that category.

Originally posted by Shadrach:

Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
I've seen Portishead twice and it's just mind blowing.

Just curious since I've probably seen literally thousands of live performances in nearly every type of venue and can't really say that I've ever had a "mind blowing" experience. I've seen memorable shows and even shows I would call great, but I'd be interested in what defines a show as mind blowing? Even my favorite band, Clutch, who I've seen maybe 70 or 80 times and who, in my personal opinion, puts on the best live club show out there, has never left me with that feeling of having my mind blown.

i agree, although one time i saw the Chemical Brothers and i thought they blew my mind, but it may have been the ecstasy.

perhaps some ppl are more easily amused.

Bands that at one point or another have blown my mind:

Inspiral Carpets
Queens of the Stone Age
The Orbital
Aphex Twin
Red House Painters
Echo & the Bunnymen
Yo La Tengo
Peaches
The Germs

And more specifically, that means leaving the venue feeling like I had just witnessed something really unique…even a band like Echo, on a great night, makes you feel like you've just seen the greatest rock band on the planet. I think it's often the bands that you know little about or don't see much are the ones that can leave the biggest impression as opposed to the ones that you see over and over.