You don’t quite get it until you go there. And that’s what’s so great about the Sphere. Or, to adapt Don Henley’s lyric, we haven’t had that spirit here since 1995 and the advent of mass use of the internet, never mind the launch of YouTube in 2005. Suddenly everybody could see everything. You could […]

Re: Bottlerock-Day 3 Had to take a second to comment about the band Cannons (who I am not aware of) and their “live” performance not being entirely live as you mentioned in your Bottle Rock review. Thank you for calling that out. I have been on a soap box now for years about the massive […]

Now THAT’S a headliner! Bottlerock is so civilized, such a good experience, that you believe it’d be headliner independent. But it is the acts that make the difference, sans known names that appeal to many, you can’t sell out. And you need to sell nearly every ticket to make the economics work. Pearl Jam? To […]

1 So Pearl Jam has left the stage and I’m standing by the soundboard talking to Dave Graham, one of the three majordomos of Bottlerock, and these two guys approach us, shake our hands and then all three start speaking Spanish. I was stunned that Dave was fluent, I was catching an occasional word from […]