Day 23:
Björk / Interpol / Jesus & Mary Chain / Arctic Monkeys / Gillian Welch & David Rawlings / Noisettes April 2007, Coachella – Play someone you saw at a festival, or someone who you would have headline your dream festival.
For a few years, I was part of a crew that taped every show at the Hopscotch Music Festival. It was hard work. It was also a complete blast.
My first year was 2012. Our team taped 175 shows over 3 days in 15 different venues. Quite a feat.
The great thing about the inaugural pass of documenting this festival is the organizer pretty much let us (the tapers) choose what gigs we wanted to cover. And with that, my musical Groundhog Day was born.
On night two, I taped Built To Spill, The Jesus And Mary Chain and Yo La Tengo back to back to back. BTS & JAMC played the same stage. After they both killed it, I had to quickly break down the gear and hustle a couple blocks away to get set up for YLT.
Every band was great and, with that said, I feel compelled to represent each here. The crazy thing - none of these recordings have seen the light of day as far as mass sharing goes. Since I was given free entry and press credentials as a taper, the festival organizers retained all rights to the recordings. After 5 years I actually put one of these shows up on Dimeadozen because I'm all about freely giving good music to good people. Within a couple hours, it was taken down.
This is my under the radar way of getting some of this stuff out there...
Get the Built to Spill Setlist of the concert at City Plaza, Raleigh, NC, USA on September 7, 2012 and other Built to Spill Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
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Built To Spill - 'Conventional Wisdom'. The earth physically moved...
Get the The Jesus and Mary Chain Setlist of the concert at City Plaza, Raleigh, NC, USA on September 7, 2012 from the Reunion tour Tour and other The Jesus and Mary Chain Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
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The Jesus And Mary Chain - Hopscotch Montage. A collage of songs performed throughout the set melded together...
Get the Yo La Tengo Setlist of the concert at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh, NC, USA on September 7, 2012 and other Yo La Tengo Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
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Yo La Tengo - 'Time Fades Away'. Of course, you want to start your festival set off with a more obscure, blazing, 10-minute Neil Young cover, right
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Built To Spill - Live
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