To get this thread back on track - can\'t believe how much crap I have had to wade through to get to the end of the thread - I agree with those both inside and outside the band who would like to see the band playing these big festivals. It would bring excellent exposure and hopefuly useful commercial returns from the hoped for/deserved slot on a major tour (though who\'d be brave enough to let them open, I don\'t know).
This year\'s line-up is however, something of a mystery to me - I, like someone else in this thread (can\'t remember who - it was back that many pages!) always saw the festival as a chance for jambands to have their own festival unpolluted by chart shit. Seems like Bonnaroo has gone the way of both Glastonbury and Reading here - excellent Rock festivals which went mainstream, got too big and lost their special identity. Yes, they keep a notional number of decent bands, but bit by bit, these get sidelined. Gotta agree with marcial - weakest line-up so far - and even the breakfast, panic and the biscuits couldn\'t save this one.
Which brings me to this:
All I keep thinking about is how Radiohead is going to flip some people out. I do not think the wooks and "kidz" are even ready for a band as intense as Radiohead. I hope Radiohead gets into the spirit of Bonnaroo and jams the hell out of some of their songs and sends a few folk to the looney bin!
NO f***ing chance of that - they couldn\'t even think about how to jam!! Intense? They couldn\'t even spell it. Sorry guys, but much as I would like to see the boys play Bonnaroo, do they really want to play at the Bonnaroo with the first named band being those boring, burned out tossers who are Radiohead? Though I have great respect for leith\'s taste in tlg and all matters Dead related, Radiohead??
On the other hand, do I want The Breakfast to be remembered as "the band who blew Radiohead off the planet"? Mmm, tempting idea.
