"Desert Trip" Concert: October Coachella

[Anybodyhome]

3 nights, 6 bands, October 7-9 in Indio, CA.

Two bands will play each night and do a full set each. Not the usual festival with several different stages and music all day and night, this is a single stage event.

First night: Rolling Stones & Bob Dylan

Second night: Paul McCartney & Neil Young

Third night: Roger Waters & The Who

$399 3-day general admission all the way to $1500 reserved seating.

 

[cookinwithgas]

man I wish i could do this.

[Anybodyhome]

Wife was going to surprise me with tickets, but we're in the middle of dropping some serious cash into a kitchen reno and spending a few thou on a frivolous trip like that would not be fun for me. Besides, I've seen 5 of the 6 acts who will be performing.  

[davos]

I may actually go.  Won't be too far living in La Jolla. 

[Anybodyhome]

42 minutes ago, 15 said:

I went to coachella this year already which is one of the main reasons I won't go. Will be sick though and the weather will be nice.

I think Golden Voice chose to do this as a way to phase classic rock headlining acts out. Every year they bring a big name classic rock act to headline and they end up getting way less of a crowd than any DJ or pop act.

Who was it this year? I don't recall any "classic rock" bands on this year's lineup. GnR is certainly not considered a classic rock band if that's who you were referring to. 

And they're doing it because the demographic for Desert Trip is 2 generations removed from those who attend Coachella and they will make as much from ticket sales for these 6 bands as they did for the 50 or so at the Coach.  

[Anybodyhome]

29 minutes ago, 15 said:

Guns and roses is a classic rock band, turn on any classic rock station - you'll here guns and roses. 

Coachella tries to bring in classic rock bands to headline recently but fail to get as many viewers as any of the DJ headliners, which is why you're starting to see DJ's and rappers headline.

this will definitely make GV a lot of money, but definitely not as much as coachella. People literally go to coachella just to go to coachella, and it covers almost every age group. Popular music > old popular music.

I don't listen to terrestrial radio. And by almost any definition of classic rock you'll see the genre is pre-1980-85

GnR didn't even sign their Geffen record deal until 1986. 

 

[Anybodyhome]

1 hour ago, 15 said:

You can call them whatever genre you want, but when GV books ACDC and GNR back to back years and their crowds are outnumbered by DJ's and rappers, you get this "Old-chella".

Paul Tollett: "Damn we gotta stop booking these old bands during coachella, just look at the numbers! Okay, I got it. Lets just make a giant ass festival with the 6 bands we were going to use eventually for headlining acts and charge the same price. Brilliant!"

It's amusing when someone with a point of reference somewhere in the 90's tries to explain history to someone who lived it. 

To each his own. 

[Jangler]

Is Bryan Adams classic rock? Fyck no, but classic rock stations play his hit.

[pstall]

5 hours ago, 15 said:

Guns and roses is a classic rock band, turn on any classic rock station - you'll here guns and roses. 

Coachella tries to bring in classic rock bands to headline recently but fail to get as many viewers as any of the DJ headliners, which is why you're starting to see DJ's and rappers headline.

this will definitely make GV a lot of money, but definitely not as much as coachella. People literally go to coachella just to go to coachella, and it covers almost every age group. Popular music > old popular music.

When a song is over 5 mins some people fall apart to look into their phone for  the 80k time.

[Jangler]

Back to the show... Old people like dry air.