{"id":1536,"date":"2013-08-18T12:15:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T20:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2013-08-18T12:15:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T20:15:56","slug":"outside-lands-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/outside-lands-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Outside Lands Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of my <a title=\"Coachella Recap\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=925\">2010 Coachella recap<\/a>, here are some thoughts on last weekend&#8217;s <a title=\"Fester eBook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fester-ebook\/dp\/B00E332OY0\">Fester<\/a>-esque trip to Outside Lands in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arrived a little late on Friday, mostly getting the lay of the land while gearing up for Paul McCartney&#8217;s highly anticipated headlining set and fulfillment of my lifelong dream to see a Beatle live. \u00c2\u00a0(Yes, I realize that in some regards <a title=\"17 Signs You're Too Old for Music Festivals\" href=\"http:\/\/sfist.com\/2013\/07\/31\/17_signs_youre_too_old_for_music_fe.php\">this might be me<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>Band of Horses were ok, but not exactly what I expected. The National were more impressive and quite solid. But Sir Paul <a title=\"Paul McCartney Outside Lands Setlist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.setlist.fm\/setlist\/paul-mccartney\/2013\/golden-gate-park-san-francisco-ca-1bc6cdb8.html\">exceeded all expectations<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and then some.<\/li>\n<li>I could go on and on but I&#8217;ll try not to, consolidating down to two points: If the reason I went to shows was to seek the perfect performance, I could stop now. (Don&#8217;t worry, I won&#8217;t.) And if you say your favorite band is anyone other than the Beatles, you are a liar.<\/li>\n<li>Ok, a little bit more. Singing along to &#8220;Paperback Writer&#8221; was a transcendental life moment. As was &#8220;We Can Work It Out&#8221; and &#8220;Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da&#8221; and &#8220;Hey Jude.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0Unexpected surprises included &#8220;Magical Mystery Tour,&#8221; &#8220;Your Mother Should Know,&#8221; &#8220;All Together Now,&#8221; &#8220;Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite!&#8221; and &#8220;Day Tripper.&#8221; And my neck still hurts from banging my head to &#8220;Helter Skelter.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0Wow&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>The Beer Lands &amp; Wine Lands concepts were pretty cool, though I was most impressed with the special beers at the Sierra Nevada Beer Camp tent. Shawn Smith from <a title=\"Fester eBook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fester-ebook\/dp\/B00E332OY0\">Fester<\/a> would have been in heaven &#8212; assuming he could get a wristband and some scrips&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I liked the location in Golden Gate Park better than the Empire Polo Field where they hold Coachella. Cool wooded walkways, a nice hillside view of the second stage, a fun old-timey side stage (complete with 3 card monte for a buck!) &#8212; plus it&#8217;s not 3 gajillion degrees out in the middle of the desert.<\/li>\n<li>Day two highlights included Thao &amp; the Get Down Stay Down (still holding the lead for my album of the year), Tallest Man on Earth, and the Head and The Heart.<\/li>\n<li>The most fun of the whole weekend (outside of Paul) was the <a title=\"Outside Lands - Bring the Rock\" href=\"http:\/\/lineup.sfoutsidelands.com\/band\/bring-the-rock-with-greg-behrendt-and-the-reigning-monarchs-and-guests-matt-braunger-dave-hill-bruce-mcculloch-thao-nguyen-and-n\">Bring the Rock<\/a> show in the Barbary comedy tent at noon on Sunday. Quoting the perfect description: &#8220;Comics and Musicians tell funny stories about music and then&#8230;they rock.&#8221; The rocking was all cover songs (Replacements, Lucinda Williams, Stone Temple Pilots, Mot\u00c3\u00b6rhead, Social Distortion) that loosely tied to the previous story. If this was a recurring thing in LA I&#8217;d go see it every month.<\/li>\n<li>Day three became the inevitable festival lightning round day due to setlist conflicts. Got to see Camper Van Beethoven play &#8220;Take the Skinheads Bowling,&#8221; Fishbone cover &#8220;Date Rape&#8221; by Sublime, some kick-ass rocking from Deap Vally, and the first half of a fun set by Trombone Shorty.<\/li>\n<li>Hall &amp; Oates were a neat nostalgic trip, though I still can&#8217;t fathom how they could NOT play &#8220;Private Eyes&#8221; or &#8220;Kiss on My List.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Rounding out the night Dawes were impressive and warrant a further listen, Willie Nelson made for nice hillside viewing, and I think I re-aggravated my &#8220;Helter Skelter&#8221; neck injury with some guilty pleasure rocking out to &#8220;Give It Away&#8221; at the end of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next up on the belated Fester festival tour will be <a title=\"Newport Folk presents Way Over Yonder\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wayoveryonder.net\">Way Over Yonder<\/a> in October. See you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of my 2010 Coachella recap, here are some thoughts on last weekend&#8217;s Fester-esque trip to Outside Lands in San Francisco. Arrived a little late on Friday, mostly getting the lay of the land while gearing up for Paul McCartney&#8217;s highly anticipated headlining set and fulfillment of my lifelong dream to see a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-oM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/antagonized-to-protagonize\/","url_meta":{"origin":1536,"position":0},"title":"Antagonized to Protagonize","author":"LBDG","date":"April 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I had an interesting day yesterday to say the least. 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