http:\/\/www.coachella.com\/artists\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nIs it Goldenvoice’s problem that the acts, although viewed as cutting edge by some, are just about irrelevant in the heart of most Americans?\u00c2\u00a0 Hell, they sold a ton of tickets, so good for them.\u00c2\u00a0 But if you tell me this lineup is the future of music, I’m gonna turn in my headphones.\u00c2\u00a0 I couldn’t wait for Woodstock, pined when I was in Chicago for the summer and couldn’t attend, my mother sent me all the New York papers, with their photos and stories prior to the ubiquity of the Net, I felt like I MISSED IT!\u00c2\u00a0 To quote lousy comeback Aerosmith, I felt I didn’t miss a thing by staying home for last year’s Coachella.\u00c2\u00a0 I think most people who went were scenesters, and I never want to be associated with those people, who are more into hanging and SAYING they’ve been somewhere than the actual experience itself.\u00c2\u00a0 Hell, I spoke with numerous attendees.\u00c2\u00a0 Did I see glee in their eyes?\u00c2\u00a0 Were they waxing rhapsodic?\u00c2\u00a0 Were they foaming at the mouth?\u00c2\u00a0 NO!<\/p>\n
But you can only display the best of what’s out there.\u00c2\u00a0 And I guess alternative is piss-poor.\u00c2\u00a0 It peaked sometime in the last century.<\/p>\n
How about a rap festival?<\/p>\n
Well, the cost of metal detectors would ruin your bottom line.\u00c2\u00a0 And live rap is…\u00c2\u00a0 Well, let’s just say it’s a recorded medium.<\/p>\n
God, the mainstream landscape is incomprehensible.\u00c2\u00a0 Top Forty radio is urban and manufactured pop.\u00c2\u00a0 Mainstream rock is a backwater.\u00c2\u00a0 Alternative is a sad sick cousin to the mainstream.\u00c2\u00a0 But COUNTRY?\u00c2\u00a0 To quote Johnny Winter, it’s still alive and well.<\/p>\n
Now you can argue mainstream country is overproduced, and too bland, but it is one big tent, and EVERYBODY can fit inside.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, maybe country radio’s playlist isn’t broad enough, but the acts tend to have staying power, and those who once made it can still tour, as opposed to the Coachella acts who are already back working their day jobs.<\/p>\n
But now there’s a country festival at Coachella.\u00c2\u00a0 And it appears that it’s everything the ALTERNATIVE Coachella, the BIG Coachella, wishes it was.<\/p>\n
You’ve got George Strait and Kenny Chesney, bona fide superstars.<\/p>\n
You’ve got legendary Willie Nelson.\u00c2\u00a0 And alternative country fave Lucinda Williams.<\/p>\n
And not forgotten Ricky Skaggs and Earl Scruggs.\u00c2\u00a0 God, can you imagine ARGENT playing at the alternative Coachella?<\/p>\n
And soon to be gone Nickel Creek…<\/p>\n
And more stars are being booked and the COUNTRY Coachella looks more like Woodstock than the original festival in the desert.<\/p>\n
It’s real music.\u00c2\u00a0 All the bands play live.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not about what’s recorded on hard disk.\u00c2\u00a0 You can sing along.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s music that works outdoors, as opposed to alternative that requires dark clothing and a desperate disposition.<\/p>\n
I say cancel the mainstream Coachella.\u00c2\u00a0 Go completely country.\u00c2\u00a0 Hell, anybody still listening to new music who was around in the sixties is tuned into country, not modern rock, or pop.<\/p>\n
All that’s missing is Garth Brooks.<\/p>\n
Then again, the Beatles didn’t come back to appear in New York.<\/p>\n
Still, Paul Tollett should employ his west coast edge, take a risk and book the Dixie Chicks.\u00c2\u00a0 Do you really think the audience will stay home if they’re on the bill?<\/p>\n
Congratulations Golden Voice.\u00c2\u00a0 You did the unexpected.\u00c2\u00a0 THAT’S the rock and roll spirit.<\/p>\n
\nA country twang for Coachella<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You’ve got to understand.\u00c2\u00a0 Woodstock existed before the movie. I remember sitting in the library at Andrew Warde, my alma mater, wide-eyed, marveling at the lineup for what was then billed as the Woodstock Music & Art Fair.\u00c2\u00a0 You see, they had EVERYBODY!\u00c2\u00a0 Not only the classics, like the Jefferson Airplane and the Who, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-shows","category-music-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p96vPs-9H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}