nanafish goes to lollapalooza chile

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nanatod said:

please save the "nanafish goes to lolla chile" thread. I don't care about anything else I've ever posted here or elsewhere.

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nanatod said:

arbee said:

Do they have the internetz in Chile?

apparently the "el cheapo" hotel that I am booked into is the (only?) downtown chilean hotel that charges their guests for use of the internet.

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nanatod said:

unlike the mexico trip, this trip is being made intentionally without certain facebook friends knowing about it. so, any updates will be on this board, and nowhere else. 1st update: even though she wasn't originally going to go, it now looks like the better half may be going along on this trip.

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nanatod said:

symbionese said:

i'd go. even more so if he doesn't speak spanish.

3 1/2 years of high school spanish.

up until 6 months ago, worked for two years for a company that concentrated in assisting spanish-speaking clientele.

can make myself understood in spanish, not always able to understand people speaking to me, though.

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nanatod said:

2nd update: although the last time I owned and operated a camera was before Faith No More became a band, I will have a digital camera in Chile. This is much thanks to reedeeda's best neighbor, who loaned us one last night when neighbor, better half, and I were at McCormick & Schmick's for food and drink.

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nanatod said:

Five_Hole said:

When do you actually leave?

a little bit after lunch today, we're off to the airport.

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nanatod said:

hjkz1982 said:

It's Schmick's, you schmuck.

it wasn't my choice. they were already there when I left work, so I just met them there, and it's not my part of the loop, so I never really paid attention to the name of the place.

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nanatod said:

kells bells said:

Did Perry give you his blessing?

after seeing the twitter picture that his wife took that was posted on another thread, I hope not.

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nanatod said:

I´m typing this at the hotel´s computer center. i´ll try and remember as much as possible, but it may be in outline form.

thursday afternoon - I and better half instead of taking blue line, get driven to ohare by bh´s old boss. flight is overbooked. because bh got her ticket several hours after mine, we didn´t get seats together, and also afraid bh will be bumped to later flight which only would give her 55 minutes to get from one gate to another in atl. but we both get on flight.

i end up in middle seat at bulkhead. bh is two rows behind at window, with too fat woman in middle seat, who makes bh miserable for two hours because bh is squished in.

get to atl. have seats to chile which weren´t together changed to at least same row. loved everything about atl airport.
because have time til flight, from corner of eye, saw display case with suit, thought maybe it was promoting mens warehouse or competitor. turns out to be dr. martin luther king jr.´s suit, part of special exhibit promoting mlkj by including personal items, photos and replica of nobel prize. too cool. bh and i glad we stopped to see.

didn´t want food court with mcd´s and panda express. saw sojourner cafe by gate, had fried green tomatoes with sauce and had sugar snap peas. both really great. get to gate, see no one there, think plane has gone, but just moved to different gate due to problems with scheduled aircraft. wait for new aircraft means no takeoff until close to midnight.

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before flight talked to 2 guys from atl who were going to chile lolla because had friends who lived there. talked to chile dude going with holland gf who was distantly related to armin van burin.

brutal flight to chile. much turbulence. able to sit next to bh in window seat, though when window seat patron didn´t show for flight. tortellini not bad. airline mag said first movie would be king´s speech. nope, turned out to be reese + rudd, king´s speech didn´t start til way late, and fell asleep early on. woke up and sandler - rock movie was on, ignored it.

after hours of flying over scary mountains, sun finally up and landed. took forever to get through reprocity payment line. bh noticed scruffy looking guys in line. finally got through line, immigration line, baggage claim, and customs. bh and i talked with atl native who lived in chile for years, and helped us not get ripped off by cab to hotel because she went with us before she went on to farther santiago destination. bh saw scruffy guys again, i caught a glimpse. atl native then informed us that they were THE NATIONAL. not on our plane, but still.

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nanatod said:

got to hotel. hotel much better than reviews on travel advisor and yelp that didn´t like it. bh napped, while i took walk. walked along 8 lane main road near u of chile, lots and lots of people like nyc. lots of young people, not a lot of people over
40.

after more or less mile and half walk, got to park around 1:30 pm. tried to find someone who spoke english re when box office to open. met lots of people who spoke as much english as i spoke spanish and vice versa. talked to 15 or so people before finally found out box office not to be constructed and opened til 4. saw layout of stage, took pictures on camera of reedeeda´s best neighbor, so can´t download until back in chicago.

four of the people i met were just young people going to show tomorrow; all especially psyched about deftones, but i ´m not.
wanted to accompany me to department store two blocks from hotel where they knew equivalent to ticketmaster was selling tix. with them, took two separate subway lines that i´ll need to take in next two days.

when we got to store, the two of the four that were left, told me that promotion at particular store was 2 tickets for price of one with empty energy drink can, which one of them had for my use. not like ticketmaster. took over an hour to get to front of line with only one ticket worker.

walked back to hotel, almost getting lost. took taxi with bh to neighborhood called bellavista. nice restaurants and bars. went to place off main street where had sirloin entree, fish entry, half-sized wine bottle, two chilean diet cokes and bottled water for less than equivalent to 40 dollars.

went looking for supermarket for snacks for room. after number of blocks found supermarket, where met u.s. students studying in buenos aires who took bus to santiago for purpose of seeing lolla. identified them by their unaccented english.
took cab back. found out hotel had internet for guests, started typing.

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nanatod said:

nanatod said:

before flight talked to 2 guys from atl who were going to chile lolla because had friends who lived there.

forgot this part. 2 guys bought tix to chile 3 months ago, didn´t get much discount, because their tix were only 170 dollars less than the chi - atl - santiago - atl - chi were for me last week. fares to chile basically svck.

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nanatod said:

too busy to post yesterday, and the business center here closes at 10 p.m., so here we go with my recap of yesterday

THE FIRST DAY OF LOLLAPALOOZA CHILE

prior to the fest--
after breakfast, wanted to visit the museum across the [alley] from the hotel, but i was an hour early, and it didn´t open yet. i then realized that through the alley, there was a whole neighborhood of cobblestone streets and old buildings behind the hotel which is on a modern main street. walked along the streets, and took pictures of the old buildings, including very small off the beaten path hotels. saw where the hostel and its huge courtyard were. went down an alley with little shops where old men were buying ham and cheese sandwiches for breakfast at a number of different stalls - stands- holes in the walls. saw what at first i thought to be a homeless dude asleep in the alley, but he had a mohawk, so later, speaking with concierge´s assistant we figured it was just someone who had too much to drink the night before. went into an open mini-mall that included two back to back old school barbershops, an old school diner that hadn´t opened yet, and a store that sold guns and knives, apparently for rabbit hunting.

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went back to hotel, then later walked into the centuries old church adjacent to the museum. very dark, lots of statues. paid the admission for the colonial museum. in the rooms surrounding an open courtyard there were lots of dark tapestries, lots of statues, all religious. the museum also houses parish offices. in the courtyard saw two peacocks and two of symb´s favorite birds. took pictures that´ll be posted as soon as we return to u.s.

around 11, and backtracking the way i had went the day before with the chilean guy and the chilean girl, better half and i took the train near the hotel to the main transfer point, changed trains, and arrived at parque o´higgins. lots of people around in lines, but not as many as usually waiting for chilolla gates to open. lots of city police in green uniforms with guns and nightsticks - these dudes don´t use tasers, they´re old school.

gates open 11:30, and when we walk in, i realize that most everything that is built up that is not a stage, wasn´t there less than 24 hours ago, when i was looking over the grounds. we make our way to the stage farthest from the entrance, called the tech stage because i´ve heard we need to see this band, Devil Presley.

THE TECH STAGE IS INDOORS. I REPEAT, THE TECH STAGE IS INDOORS. this is the first indoor stage ever at lolla, and it seems to be the greatest invention ever. you go through a gate, then you walk into the surrounding area to the doors of the theater. the theater is half the size of the park west. the theater has a floor, and it has what i call carpeted pews rising up from the floor. we sit on a pew, in this so far sparsly populated space, and right on time, Devil Presley starts. they are a chilean metal band, and their performance hits the spot. this is the best metal band i´ve seen since the first time i saw high on fire in the late 1990s. they´re sort of like metallica if robert trujillo was the band´s leader instead of lars or james. they remind me a little of suicidal tendencies, not in sound, but in posture. we stay for almost all of this band´s relatively short set. nature boy needs to see this band, now. I give this band an A+. I think this is the best opening band for a festival since Richie Havens opened the woodstock festival movie.

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after devil, we go all the way back to the coca cola stage, one of the two blacktop stages, and the one of those furthest from the entrance. chile´s Francesca Valenzuela is playing, and the first song we hear makes her sound like a spanish language thin brunette britney. then she and her band roar into a really great rockbilly version of folsom prison blues that has to be heard to be believed. there´s a horn section and the band is just rocking out. If Francesca moved to nashville, she´d break up marriages there faster than leann rimes.

next, we go to the lg stage, which is going to be the perry´s stage, and which is in the movistar arena dome. imagine if instead of buckingham fountain, chilolla had the uic pavillion in its place. this is the bh´s favorite stage at chilepalooza. there´s one entrance to the floor of the arena, and a different entrance to what i´ll call the mezzanine. the air circulation is good, there may or may not be air conditioning, but it is a pleasure to be able to sit in a stadium seat at a lolla set. Chile´s New Kids on the Noise is okay edm, and they´re audio goes out for 5 minutes, but they make sure to keep up the visuals, and then they get the power back.

we go back outside to the claro stage, the other blacktop, for los bunkers, who i think are on the coachella bill. the crowd really loves them, but i think they are the bon jovi of chile, and really have no use for them.

we head over to kidzapalooza, but the scheduled band is moved up one hour, so there´s no music there. bh takes picture of me on one of the fake beanbag trees. the area is more spread out than at chilolla, ánd it doesn´t seem to be as tightly structured.

then, back to coca cola for my most anticipated set of chilelolla, steel pulse, the only old school reggae band not in the trapper keeper. before this set is where i finally find all the stoners, and i am offered, and i politely refuse offers of enough marijuana to make snoop disoriented. steel pulse starts, they´re all old, they make perfectly fine reggae, and i´m glad i finally got to see them, but that´s it.

we go back over to tech for anita tijoux, a chilean rapper originally from france. the tech stage is overstuffed, because people just stand in the doorway and don´t move off to the side pews. she´s no salt n pepa, and i´m not really even fond of salt n´pepa. bh is uncomfortable with the crowd being so big in such a small place.

after anita, we take a break, see one song of James, who I´ve seen before, and who don´t seem to have the pep they did when i saw them twice early on, and we head back to tech.

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nanatod said:

for bomba estereo, tech is a little less crowded and we get pew seats. this is another female hip hopper; the difference between bomba estereo and anita tijoux is that the lead woman of the former wears a blue cape and has a prominent guitarist-keyboardist, and the latter wore a red sleeveless blouse and had a horn section.

i think both bomba and los bunkers are at coachella - i´d recommend a skip for both of them.

then over to lg for zeta bosio, who used to run big argentina band soda stereo. another edm dude, better than new kids on the noise, but not on level with wolfgang gartner. perry-etty-chris cox was supposed to be next on lg, but instead we get joachim garraud, because the schedules were apparently flipped. i missed joachim at lolla 2010, and here in chile he´s just on fire. best visuals of the day, best beats, he´s throwing out to the audience plastic alien masks for them to wear, he plays the keytar, etc.

then it´s back on the asphalt for ben harper, who´s in the trapper keeper twice already, but we see his full set because even though he´s just ok acoustic, and just ok electric, when he gets out the lap steel and the slide, there´s nobody that can fvckin´ touch him. unbelievable burn down to the ground, as usual.

by this time, bh has been with me at the fest for 6 hours, and we agree that she´s had enough if she wants to be ok for sunday. as she´s leaving she hears a little of the National, and grabs a taxi at the gate and sees lots of people waiting until then to start arriving at the festival.

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Meanwhile, I go two or three places from the rail stage right for the National. even though i´ve seen them twice at chilolla, this is the first time i Get them. three or four songs in, matt sings bloodbuzz, ohio, which is my national song of choice, and it is just terrific to see this live. a tall brunette spanish speaking woman standing next to me is just going crazy for the National -- she really is digging matt, if you know what i mean. after a couple of more songs, i head back to tech, because i want to see Datarock, the scandanavian band, but THE GATES TO THE TECH STAGE ARE CLOSED.

apparently management finally awoke, because they realized what a hazard tech was becoming. datarock is playing, and they have an audience, but it is allegedly so big that there are over 100 people who can´t even get near the building because the gate is closed. half the people are there being bummed about not seeing datarock, the other half are people waiting for CSS, and hoping that the gate will open when datarock are done.

because i therefore rule out further saturday tech performances, i listen to a lot of the rest of the National´s set while walking around the rest of the grounds (only one outside band playing at a time from now on).

i then go to the floor of the arena for perry-etty-chris cox, which is more or less self explanatory. chris djing, perry djing with him at the table, then chris djing while perry takes a mike, and etty takes a mike and perry and etty dance around the front of the stage. from stage right, it is again apparent that etty´s legs are a miracle.

because i don´t bother with tech, i see or hear almost all of the deftones, who start out okay, but get a little tiresome by the end of their one hour and a half. with half hour to go, i go by the stage for the killers.

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nanatod said:

waiting for the killers, i hear english again, and it´s three students from notre dame, who are spending the semester or the year studying in chile. to me, meeting people from so close to chicago, it´s like the fighting irish just scored a touchdown over usc and kicked the extra point in the direction of touchdown jesus.

but these kids are a little unprepared. dude alleged had a box office mixup, where it took several (3?) hours to get his will call tickets. the three were big harper fans, but only one of the three caught a song or two from him. maybe if these students got up a little earlier in the morning, they´d have had a better time at the fest, instead of showing up half way through.

killers were fifteen minutes late. when they started, the crowd surged forward and i stepped back to a light pole, and talked to a teacher from oregon, who teaches english in chile instead of being unemployed back home. a lot of the killers songs sound similar to me, so here is my stab at a setlist:
1. it´s all in your mind
then 1 or 2 songs i didn´t know.
3. someone told me
4. smile like you mean it.
5. something about feeling one´s skin
6. this is the world we live in
7. reasons unknown

time for some fat boy slim. it´s now so crowded in the arena, that the entrance to the floor has been closed and shut down. i´m one of the last or the last person to be allowed into the mezzanine doors, before they are closed. the balcony entrances are open, however. i don´t hear the rockafella skank, but i do recognize snippets of seven nation army. after about twenty minutes, i´ve had enough. it´s nice to use an arena bathroom, instead of a porta potty at a festival -- it´s sort of like milwaukee summerfest . i go back to the killers set, and hear the last part of

8. human,
9. cinderella in a party dress
10. read my mind,

and i´ve had enough, even though there´s supposed to be another 45 minutes of show.

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nanatod said:

I take the train with a lot of people back to the main transfer point, and then get on the second train to the hotel. i cross the street and notice some barricades, but don´t give them a second thought.

Sunday morning, we hear loudspeakers from below, and we think it´s a broadcast from the church next door. no, it´s some sort of run (5k?) and walk down the main street of the area. we eat breakfast, and i go right to the business center to start typing before i forget anything. but we have to leave soon for day 2 of lolla.


some misc things about yesterday:
1. food is typical fest food, nothing special, probably because main concern of organizers was putting festival together, not fine-tuning.
2. lot of krentist doppelgangers at the festival, or maybe it is just the haircut.
3. the bootleg t-shirts being sold outside the fest have the headliners as cypress hill and the deftones. maybe it is the hispanic connection, as the deftones leader is chino moreno, and as cypress hill is los angeles´finest.
4. even though i´ve seen flaming lips 3 times, they and their bubble are a must see today, because it´ll be a change of pace, i think.
5. i know people like them, but i didn´t check out either james or cypress hill yesteday, because there was just too much new to check out.

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nanatod said:

HERE WE GO AGAIN.

because it took so long to write out everything here yesterday, i was running a little late. we therefore ended up at the park about 12:20. we had taken the two trains again, and had our wristbands, so we got in quicker. And it seemed the lolla personnel were running just as late.

at claro, quique neira, a chilean dude with very long dreads, and who does dancehall with a band, horns, and backup singers seemed to just be getting started when we got there, instead of having ten minutes to go. he played another 20 minutes and he was a fine way to start day 2 of lollapalooza chile.

then it was off to the coca cola stage for mala rodriguez who had lots and lots of young women fans waiting for her. but erika badu-style, she waited over 15 minutes to go on. mala is a rapper with a guitarist and drums, and she was maybe the worst rapper i´ve ever heard. I take back everything I said yesterday about Anita Tijoux, Bomba Estereo, and salt n pepa. She was wearing an outfit that´d make madonna or gaga blush, however. it was a leather corset with a bottom bikini that was not much larger than a g string, and that prominently displayed her behind.

after a couple minutes, it was off to the tech stage, to see if lolla solved yesterday´s problems. we made it in time for the last song of hip hop band called Como aesinar a felipes, and they were okay, and extraordinarily popular with the audience. we found pew seats and decided to sit through as much of the tech indoor stage as possible. bh went to get some food, and we spent the next 2 sets at tech.

1st up was The Ganges. not a reggae band, it was a chilean band where the musicians thought they were the cure. but they were only a 4th or 5th rate Cure. They were however a 1st rate Stone Roses, and they were by far the best band we saw in the two days in Chile. if you closed your eyes, you couldn´t tell that they weren´t the stone roses.

next up at tech was popular chilean band Fother Muckers. they were indie or alt rock, sort of like menomena or voxtrot or pobpah, the kind of band pitchfork festival has playing the main stage in the first hour or two. crowd liked them a lot more than me or bh did, but we didn´t mind that we took the time to listen to their full set.

next up was Devendra Banhart, and the plan was to see about ten minutes, and leave tech for perry´s stage. but the bh went for water, and in the interim, hundreds of people who had been waiting outside tech, rushed in, taking up every available space to sit or stand. i was afraid if i stayed, i couldn´t leave half way through in the dark, and i was worried that bh would be standing outside tech fretting.

so i pushed my way out to the exit. we´ll have to catch devendra the next time he plays pofo or park west. it´s not like he doesn´t tour the u.s

we then headed to the dome, and finally got to see for the first time ghostland observatory. all of you know about them, and i knew what to expect, and glo did what they always do, with special emphasis on the light show. bh didn´t like them at all, and the mix was way to loud, so after about 15 to 20 minutes, we headed to coca cola to get ready for flaming lips. i had never seen the bubble, because two times i saw them were pre-bubble, and at pofo, i didn´t have a good view from the side of all the goings on.

here´s my notes on the Lips, not like anyone hasn´t seen this shtick before:
- video of woman
- wayne in full suit
- assistants in yellow pants and orange tops
- wayne gets in ball
- wayne walks over audience
- song?
- balloons / confetti

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nanatod said:

- wayne thanx for having us at 1st (chile) fvckin´lolla.
- when she´s high
- wayne rides bear
- do you realize
- 6 yeahs in a row
- with all your power
- acoustic her name is yoshimi
- chime for it
- last song that wasn´t she don´t use jelly
- throughout wayne claimed there wasn´t enough time to do a lot of songs.

then, back to dome for 20 minutes of fisherspooner, who were kind of like glo, but with ballet dancers on stage, and more egomania.

then on to claro for Sublime with Rome, who were pretty popular with the crowd, but they are what they are. what i got was early in the set, there was a cover of scarlet begonias, and santeria and another hit closed the set. bh had had enough lolla for the day (6 and 1 half hours) and grabbed a taxi back to the hotel.

I have to step away from the computer, so the rest of 2nd day of lolla chile, and the story of monday in chile will have to wait, maybe until tomorrow. coming up: kanye, steel pulse meeting, haircut in the alley.

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nanatod said:

I'm back at my computer in Chicago, and ready to return to the narrative:

After I said goodbye to the bh on Sunday, I was originally planning to check out 30stm, because I missed them at chicago lolla 2006, and didn't want to pay real money to see them, say at the aragon some time. but I was near the kidz stage, so I thought I'd check out the act that was about to start, and then go to 30stm.
It was called "Power Peralta," and they were a crowd favorite, but not really my cup of tea. Power Peralta is two dudes who dress identically, and do robotic hip hop dance moves in a synchronised fashion. And they were really in sync. I didn't last more than 10 minutes at the stage, but I had to admit it was a different type of act.

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nanatod said:

I didn't last more than 15 minutes or so at 30stm, either. But then again, I'm not big on emo performed by a band including a semi-famous actor. So, it was on to the big dome for more edm with Boys Noise, who had played Perry's Stage in Chicago in 2009. Like Garraud's set the day before, I could have sat there all day listening to Boys Noise's edm, although his showmanship wasn't as great as Garraud's. In Chile, it constantly required willpower to push myself away from just sitting in the stands at perry's stage and listening to edm all day. it was very comfortable temperature-wise, the seats were comfortable because being plastic they had some sway, and because the light shows accompanying all the sets were incredible. So, after a half hour or so, it was time to go back outside to see JA.

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nanatod said:

while I was waiting two or three people back from the stage right rail, the stoner dudes in the steel pulse audience yesterday spot me. they do speak more english than most of the rest of the chileans in the crowd. now that I see him again, I realize who the 1/2 chilean, 1/2 new hampshireian guy looks like. He's a miniature doppelganger of concertgoer. Anyway, we're yapping about what we've seen, and about what jane's set is going to be like, and one of the dudes runs back to us and shows us a picture of (himself) with Matt Beringer from the National (the backstage area is at a 90 degree angle to the outside stages, so one can theoretically see who's milling around in part of the area. I go and look for Berringer to get a picture of or with him, but he's nowhere to be found. I do snap a blurry picture of Dave Navarro getting ready, and it'll be posted with the rest of them when they can be downloaded from the camera.

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nanatod said:

Unlike the other acts, there is a big curtain blocking JA's set before the show starts. It drops, and there is the four of them, along with two women who are in aerial harnesses attached to the back of their bras. The women fly back and forth during the first couple of songs, and the crowd goes crazy. The setlist includes the title track to Nothing's Shocking, Been Caught Stealing, the new song End to the Lies, and for the finale, Jane Says. There are a good many other hard rock moments in the set, and Sunday, I especially noticed the musical interplay between Perkins and Navarro. I'm not going to exactly repeat what I wrote in the line-up thread about chile palooza, but I and some others believe that for this show at least, Avery is back on bass.

I think Sunday's JA performance is way superior to their 2009 Lolla Chicago headlining set, in every way.

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nanatod said:

About 2/3rds of the way through JA, I walk a few steps back into the LG stage, to see edm headliner Armin Van Buuren, who I read somewhere this week was known to be voted the best dj in the world between 2007 and 2010. And, immediately I can see why he was. His set is really, really smooth, much smoother than Boys Noise or Joachim Garraud. The beats and rhythms just seem to flow naturely, as does the light show. I do have to give the edm edge to the weekend to Garraud, because he involved the audience in a way Armin did not.

So, after some Armin, and JA doing Jane Says, it was time to walk over to the other outdoor stage to get ready for Kanye's set. I get more or less to the rail stage left, and I am closer to the center than I was for the Killers the day before. The audience is diffinitely chilean; unlike some of the other sets, there aren't a lot of non-chileans at this one. After a relatively short way (way less then Mala Rodriguez, for example), Kanye walks out to a more or less bare stage. I don't recognize the first number, but the second one is Diamonds in the Sky. Kanye is better this night than Lolla 2006, but I find that he lacks Jay Z" charisma or immediacy.

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nanatod said:

Nature Boy said:

I thought Chris Chaney was playing bass with them.

A quick check of the web shows that you are correct here. Apparently, the lolla travel assistant I talked to on Monday afternoon, was as confused by the set as I was.

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nanatod said:

About four songs in to Kanye's set, I see four or five guys run from the backstage area of the coca cola stage around to the area in front of the stage. I spot Wayne Coyne's hair immediately. They're more or less hidden from the audience by the height of the rail and by security. A couple of songs later, I turned around, and in the (public) space leading from the coca cola stage to one of the sides of the dome stage, is the long-dreadlocked lead singer of Steel Pulse. He's got an LP he's signing for some fan, he's being mobbed by some fans, and he's apparently talking to press people at the same time. I manage to talk to him for a couple of seconds, and let him know that Steel Pulse was my most anticipated band at Lolla Chile. I chat for a longer time with his los angeles based sound man, and also the band's bassist, who I find out is working on his phd. The phd is apparently about the future of reggae music and the impact of reggae music upon its fans. he videotapes everyone he talks to, including me. In the course of my conversation with either the best or the soundman, I find out from one of them that Steel Pulse is in negotiations to play not Chicago lolla 2011 (there's not enough lead time), but Chicago lolla 2012, and the next day I created the new thread on 2012 in the line-up forum.

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nanatod said:

hansford said:

i can;t wait for the next thread "Nanafish learns the actual titles of all the songs he referenced in the Chile thread".

most everything in the thread once I got to Chile was written on the fly, as I had very little time to type. If I had googled the lyrics to each of the songs I referenced, I wouldn't have been able to get to more than a couple of bands each day.

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nanatod said:

Thisismyname said:

Trance vs. Electro House

music for the ladies versus music for dudes?