VirginFest!

Yesterday's festival experience was amazing! I saw some excellent live music. My favorite sets were The Who and The Raconteurs. I must say that their live act is TEN times better than the album. And Jack White is phenomenal. He's also kind of cute in person too! The Who were absolutely fantastic. They played an 80 min set and many of the festival artists were on the left side of the stage watching their set with mouths agape - and rightly so! The Killers were great too. This was my first time seeing them and the Chili Peppers and I wasn't disappointed. Although I wish the Chili Peppers had played more older stuff. They played NOTHING from Mother's Milk. The camera Nazis were about and video taping was NOT allowed. But I managed to get quick 5-10 second clips of songs. Plus lots of pictures. It looks like vests are back in fashion since a lot of the artists were wearing them. (Except for Gnarls Barkley - who came out dressed in Roman apparel complete with bronze breastplates and togas. They called themselves "Chariots of Fire" - lol. Cee-Lo's voice transfers VERY well live. They had a live band and string quartet backing them up. They were one of the most impressive sets of the day). I missed the Scissor Sisters & Flaming Lips set because they were on at the same time as The Who and Chili Peppers. There were Southern Comfort fruit smoothie drinks that cost $10 a pop. Beer was $8. I got stepped on by several people and hit on the head by several beach balls and people crowd surfing over me, plus I had other people's drinks spilled on me. But hey, I expected these things since it was a festival setting. (This is why I only go to these on occasion!) But I must say, this was one of the best ones I've been to as far as line-ups. They said there were over 40,000 people there. It was NOT a sell-out since they made 60,000 tickets available. Still, I say that was quite enough people because I was smashed up against a side gate for most of the major sets and it started getting hard to breathe. There was NO elbow room at all. It was an absolute nuts-to-butts situation. All in all, I'd say this was a successful venture(I got my money's worth), glad I went EARLY to miss out on the traffic jam that happened later (my cousin was caught in this!). Now if I can just get my voice back from all the screaming that I did. Plus my leg muscles are so sore from standing for about eight hours. Am I getting too old for this? Naaaah!