This was my first year at ACL (Austin City Limits Music Festival). I absolutely loved it.. it was absolutely worth every cent of the 170 dollars for a 3-day pass. Some of the more ignorant were fussing about how (unlike last year, when they had Muse, Bob Dylan, and co. over) there weren’t enough big-name bands and how the Foo Fighters weren’t closer material. I had my doubts too, and when the heat started getting me and I got a little bit annoyed, i thought so too. As the festival went on, however, I found myself wanting more but unable to b/c I was so tired.
On the first day (Friday Night), I couldn’t attend the entire thing because (obviously) of school being over at 3:35. I was still able to catch Slightly Stoopid, N.E.R.D., and last but not least, Mars Volta.
Slightly Stoopid were ok, but I didn’t REALLY like them. They had the funk, but not the musicality or the pure, raw performance of other bands. N.E.R.D., on the other hand, had the music and the performance. I just don’t like the genre.
Mars Volta can be simply described easily as absolutely ridiculous. My friends and I had looked forward to Mars Volta all day, so we stepped over some people sitting down to get pretty close to the front. Their sound completely blew everyone away (although some may have been due to the amount of pot they were smoking). They somehow managed to play like four songs in the course of 75 minutes, but I think I may have gone into a trance about a halfway through.
The vocalist, the guitarist, the drummer, and the wind guy all had great performance in them. It was as much of an eye candy as it was an ear candy. It hurt my ears a little bit though.
-Continued tomorrow with Day 2 (Beck)
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