Adding a third stage is a sign of expansion, but makes scheduling overlaps a little difficult to maneuver. Friday night I opted for Cake, whom I'd never seen before, over the previously attended Jane's Addiction. Cake's songs all sound fairly similar but are still fun and groovy, as was their performance. The eccentric lead singer rambled a little much between songs but the sound quality was stellar. They played all their radio hits and threw in a cover of "War Pigs".
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| pretty far back for Weezer |
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| Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys |
Saturday was in a word "soggy." The rain didn't let up until late afternoon. I missed almost all of Weezer waiting to get in the park with hundreds of others, but I could hear them. I finally got in to see the last 3 or 4 tunes of their set. Arctic Monkeys were next up and blew the doors off the joint, as usual. The fast paced Brits burst on the stage and filled their hour long set with tracks from their new album as well as their hits like "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor". Leader Alex Turner kept a comb in his pocket and slicked back his greaser hair due between songs which the ladies loved. After their set, I waited at the back of the crowd of Imagine Dragons until they cleared out so I could get close for Queens of the Stone Age. A huge mud hole prevented me from getting even closer, but I still had a good spot. Hard-charging Queens came on stage loud and proud, aggressively jamming through older hits and a selection off the latest,
...Like Clockwork. Josh Homme slayed his guitar with the confident swagger a rock star is born with. They played a little over their short one hour set while Red Hot Chili Peppers started on the other side of the park. By the time they finished, it was way too late to get a good spot and where we were the sound was awful and we couldn't really see them anyway, although I could see that Flea is still a total maniac. So, we decided to beat the traffic and headed home early.
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| Homme on "The Vampyre of Time and Memory" |
Adding a third stage is a sign of expansion, but makes scheduling overlaps a little difficult to maneuver. Friday night I opted for Cake, whom I'd never seen before, over the previously attended Jane's Addiction. Cake's songs all sound fairly similar but are still fun and groovy, as was their performance. The eccentric lead singer rambled a little much between songs but the sound quality was stellar. They played all their radio hits and threw in a cover of "War Pigs". 
Saturday was in a word "soggy." The rain didn't let up until late afternoon. I missed almost all of Weezer waiting to get in the park with hundreds of others, but I could hear them. I finally got in to see the last 3 or 4 tunes of their set. Arctic Monkeys were next up and blew the doors off the joint, as usual. The fast paced Brits burst on the stage and filled their hour long set with tracks from their new album as well as their hits like "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor". Leader Alex Turner kept a comb in his pocket and slicked back his greaser hair due between songs which the ladies loved. After their set, I waited at the back of the crowd of Imagine Dragons until they cleared out so I could get close for Queens of the Stone Age. A huge mud hole prevented me from getting even closer, but I still had a good spot. Hard-charging Queens came on stage loud and proud, aggressively jamming through older hits and a selection off the latest, ...Like Clockwork. Josh Homme slayed his guitar with the confident swagger a rock star is born with. They played a little over their short one hour set while Red Hot Chili Peppers started on the other side of the park. By the time they finished, it was way too late to get a good spot and where we were the sound was awful and we couldn't really see them anyway, although I could see that Flea is still a total maniac. So, we decided to beat the traffic and headed home early. 
