If you were at an outdoor festival in an open field, what kind of music should be playing?

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Not much love for jam bands around these parts.. But as I listened to QMS this morning, I thought (paraphrasing):

Long jams really lend themselves to being outdoors in the Autumn, with bonfire, beer and maybe a roasted pig.

So in that setting, I'll take the Allman Brothers over (whatever) Kylie...

What music is setting-dependent? Something you wouldn't normally put on, but is perfect in a certain place.

("Radiohead: perfect in Hell." OK - haha, I said it, joke's over.)

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 10 October 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Outdoor music festival, onreally good drugs = ANYTHING OTHER THAN SCREAMIN CHEETAH WHEELIES GOOD GOD MAKE THEM STOP MY BRAIN IS PUKING ITSELF OUT MY EARHOLES

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 10 October 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Burning Spear

― BrianB, Friday, 10 October 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Medeski Martin and Wood are one of my favorite bands in that they can take any setting - dingy falling apart brick-walled urban club, big outdoor festival, a concert hall usually occupied by a philharmonic, a solar powered shack in Hawaii - and not just rock it out, but tailor their sound to be most appropriate for that venue. Awesome.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 10 October 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

the city I live in is basically in the middle of an open field, so I speak from deep knowledge and contemplation when I say open fields are overrated.
but I wouldn't kick MMW out of my field.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 10 October 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

(Feel free to relate question to settings other than an open field. A dank basement, for example.)

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 10 October 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

if you think open fields are overrated though, you should check out closed fields...whooo, they stink.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 10 October 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I hope when I finally get to see Lightning Bolt it's in a tiny dingy basement.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 10 October 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The beautiful kind.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 10 October 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw Lightning Bolt in a fairly large dingy basement like area (which was awesome), but Arab on Radar right after them was even more awesome and fit perfectly with the surroundings.

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 10 October 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I could totally see that.

I've seen Wolf Eyes in a vaguely basementy setting and I don't think anything could have been more appropriate.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 10 October 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it daytime or nighttime?

― David Gates of Delirium, Friday, 10 October 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Trad Gras och Stenar

(trees, grass and stones)

― hstencil, Friday, 10 October 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Curt Wild!

― Miggie (Miggie), Friday, 10 October 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Pulp's 'Sorted for E's and Wizz'

― Sasha (sgh), Sunday, 12 October 2003 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

cygnus x - superstring

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 12 October 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

it was the crimson on the hilltop

it was the acorns in my hair

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 12 October 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

dank, poorly lit basement = Jandek, surely

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 12 October 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

or Half Japanese

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 12 October 2003 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

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