Originally Posted by mr dave

generally speaking festival gigs are the epitome of quantity over quality. looking at the current list as compared to what i remember from a few years back it's pretty obvious that Coachella is going with the bigger is better mentality. it's looking like about 30 bands a day over 3 days now. first time i recall looking into Coachella that's about the amount of bands they had for the entire weekend.

to me the best thing about seeing a festival was knowing that you saw X bands during the run of a day and when you bump into someone who happened to be at that same show you can reminisce about how awesome it was when the rain finally stopped between these two bands, and you also know that you didn't miss something awesome somewhere else like when Band A jumped on stage near the end of Band B's set to have a super jam to finish things off before the headlining act bored everyone to tears.

now it's like you need to plot out an itinerary to maximize what bands you'll check out between the main stage, the side stage, the tent, the other side stage, and food. i suppose on one hand it allows for more diversity but it seems rather bloated and ostentatious to me at this point.

also, that myspace link doesn't work and yes, i am a cranky old man hahaha