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FFF6 living up to its name
First day = success (for the most part)
I started my day with the Cloud Nothings. Enjoyed them exponentially more live, in person. For the first time, I experienced D Generation - fantastic show. Their catchy, punk-rock sound and energy was contagious. Their sound left me humming their tunes hours later and wanting to get their record. One word for Joe Black Lewis and the Honeybears - OUTstanding! The pace of their songs layered with the horns and James- Brownesque vocals. Rock n' Roll, baby! Saw them last year at an Austin City Limits taping and discovered he hails from Round Rock, Texas. I am from Georgetown so I too must be destined for greatness - it's in the water, right?
For the not so successful section of the evening... Danzig. I must confess. I've only have heard their music because I came home early a few times when my husband wasn't expecting me. That's when he plays his hardcore punk and metal, not in my presence. Anyway, he was insanely excited for the Danzig Legacy showing because of the Misfits songs, their drummer and a possible appearance by Henry Rollins, yaddi-yadda.
Danzig did not start until somewhere between 30 and 45 min late, and from the looks of what his crew was messing with, because of technical difficulties with the heater. Really.... you (excuse my name calling) pussy. Your fans are standing in the cold, freezing, and you can't get your ass out on stage and work up a quick sweat. Then, when he finally gets out there, he can't finish his set because there is a city ordinance to turn all music off at 10p. The knucklehead tries to blame it on the big bad meanies of power and authority saying "Don't blame me. I want to keep playing for you guys." Then he proposes everyone start a riot.
As we were waiting to see what would happen, a group was leaving the show and we hear a guy say, "It's too cold to riot."
How about you get out on stage, on-time, Danzig and then you would have been able to finish your set.
Here's to hoping for a better close of the evening....Spoon! (I have a feeling they won't disappoint.)
Comments
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Muttley said:
Awesome! It's true. No one was 45 min late except Danzig and his "cold". Not happy with that old man...
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 8:39 AM, AimAxe said:
Found this on the FFF6 facebook page...
Hi. I book the fest. Those that are hating could NOT be more wrong. Yes, someone has your money and ripped you off. His name is Glenn. Stop by his house in LA with some kitty litter in trade for your refund, but we still had to pay him and he didn't deserve it after what he pulled. Here is how it went down...check the timeline:
-glenn flies in this morning and says he has a cold and doesn't want feel like playing the show. he demands french onion soup and vitamins brought to his hotel suite. he wants to soup now and wants it hot. we get it.
-glenn says it's freezing in austin and he can't go on. says it's going to be 28 degrees tonight and he won't perform (keep in mind, it's currently 71 and sunny with a night forecast of maybe 50+). he says we have to move the show/festival inside if we want him to play (obviously, that's not possible).
-we rent stage heaters (no other bands, public enemy, mcd, passion pit, etc need or want heaters on stage...it's warm up there and not cold out) for glenn per demand, as well as bring in an onsite doctor to make him happy and be there if his cold doesn't go away.
-agents and managers assure us he's going to play now.
-glenn's band/crew arrive before him in the afternoon and load gear. they said it all works, they get up the danzig banner, check lights, are happy.
-glenn arrives at 7:45 (half hour before showtime, they go on at 8:15 exactly and have a 90 min set...park curfew by the city/police is 10pm sharp)...when he arrives, he says he's not going to play. says he doesn't like how the banners are hung on stage and doesn't like the lighting or stage size (all this was advanced in email and phone well in advance and the band/crew loaded in mid day and were happy with it and said it would work...stage wasn't small at all). he wouldn't leave his trailer to go look at the stage, though, so the lighting company drew up specs for him to look at of the stage lighting 50 feet from his trailer and brought it to him to look over and prove him wrong.
-in the meantime, glenn's bodyguard gets pushy (literally) with murder city devils manager and tells them they can't have their friends watch MCD from stage and wants them to cut their set. kicks them off stage and gets physical with the band and stafff....oh, also danzig says he's just as big as slayer and slayer is playing a bigger stage on sunday and that's bullshit and wants to play the same stage slayer is playing...or won't play. makes him look bad.
-it's now 8:15 and time for them to go on. the band is ready, corpse make ups done, guitars tunes. glenn says he's not playing and that it's too cold outside. he said big stages should have windscreen so wind can't blow on him from the side. the stage managers then goes and gets tarps and tarp the entire side of the stage so now wind will hit him.
-it's now 8:40. we explain that it's cutting into the set and he's going to have cut the 90 min set if he doesn't play soon, as park curfew is 10. he says he doesn't feel like playing. says "i got a deathbug. if i go on stage and get sick, i'll die. i'm not getting sicker for this show" (NOTE: he totally looks and seems fine...no coughing, no paleness, no vomiting, just some balding and a gut, from what i can tell). we get the Dr and he says he can do a b12 shot or anything he needs if he feels bad...danzig says he only treats illnesses naturally, so won't do that. we finally get him to agree to play and have already informed his crew that it's only 60 mins (9pm at this point) and they start cutting some songs from the set list, so they can still do misfits, but obviously didn't cut enough.
-they went on almost and hour late due to the HANDS DOWN biggest rock star moment we've ever dealt with and then he tries to start a riot and blames the fest, the city, the cops and everyone, but himself. goes backstage and tries to fight a few ppl and get in the van and leaves.
the end....
we're bummed to. we wanted to hear Skulls.