  Jeduncan Member Username: Jeduncan Post Number: 93 Registered: 11-2006 |
I wish there was a rock festival of equal proportion to the hoedown. I hate country music. Or a ska festival. | ||
Chow Member Username: Chow Post Number: 372 Registered: 10-2003 |
please! no more ska revivals! we have had enough! there is no reason!!! that said whatever happened to MC2? | ||
Jeduncan Member Username: Jeduncan Post Number: 94 Registered: 11-2006 |
What's wrong with Ska? Horns make music so much more interesting. :-) | ||
Chow Member Username: Chow Post Number: 373 Registered: 10-2003 |
thats why i listen to jazz. | ||
Mayor_sekou Member Username: Mayor_sekou Post Number: 887 Registered: 09-2006 |
There isn't a rock fest? I'd love to go as I am trying to become more aware of other "cultures". lol. But I stayed away from the hoe down, too many hee haws and harleys for me. And the traffic was terrible downtown last night. | ||
Miss_cleo Member Username: Miss_cleo Post Number: 596 Registered: 05-2005 |
Check out the Mountain Rock Festival in Farwell | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 449 Registered: 10-2003 |
What about the Hamtramck blowout? What about the Dally in the Alley? | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 804 Registered: 04-2006 |
IhearttheHoedown | ||
El_jimbo Member Username: El_jimbo Post Number: 162 Registered: 12-2006 |
I suggested in the TOURISM IDEAS thread that it would be great to have a big festival either on Belle Isle that was somewhere along the lines of Lollapalooza. Although, other locations might work too. It would be great for the city to have a big festival of national headlining acts come into town. It would probably fill up all the hotel space and really be a big economic boost for the city. | ||
Warrenite84 Member Username: Warrenite84 Post Number: 98 Registered: 01-2007 |
Rockin' On The Riverfront (GM Riverfront Plaza)might be your best bet that I know of. Grand Funk Railroad on June 29 Asia on July 6 Marshall Crenshaw on July 13 The Guess Who on July 20 The Romantics on July 27 Eric Burdon and The Animals on Aug. 3 .38 Special on Aug. 10 | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 1664 Registered: 05-2005 |
quote: please look up the song "ska sucks" by propagandhi as true today as the day it was written | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 1592 Registered: 11-2005 |
quote: Did you ever hear original old ska from Jamaica? It does not suck. | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 1665 Registered: 05-2005 |
in the context of the "Rock festival" title of this thread, i assumed he was refering to newer/punk ska, which is what that particular tune also references. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 9245 Registered: 12-2003 |
Security guy picking up a carry-out from Foran's during the Wings game yesterday said the Ho-down Saturday night was a nightmare! Lotsa fights, people jumping and breaking barriers into the VIP seating area...and I heard more hootin' and hollerin' per square block on my drive through after the Detroit Film Center's VideoSport screening then ever! Who-down is always a curious weekend culture shock in the city. He said it was one of the worst he'd ever seen. Funny that, not long after he left, a commander of the police department came through to introduce himself and see if everything was alright. Dude walked the entire CBD, checking out every restaurant and bar...in full parade dress. | ||
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 1746 Registered: 02-2004 |
Ska does not suck. Listen to Westbound Train, a very good new ska band. http://www.westboundsound.com/index2.html (Message edited by oldredfordette on May 21, 2007) | ||
Bearinabox Member Username: Bearinabox Post Number: 194 Registered: 04-2006 |
Ska can be done well and it can be done badly. An entire genre of music can't "suck." I generally don't like jazz, but I can still appreciate a truly excellent jazz artist simply for the quality of the music. I would never say that jazz "sucks," only that most of it isn't really to my taste. There were and are some excellent ska bands out there, and you're cheating yourself if you write them off as crap without ever having heard them. | ||
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku Post Number: 1350 Registered: 03-2006 |
anyone remember ska against racism at the palladium on gratiot back in 1997? | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 1678 Registered: 10-2003 |
"anyone remember ska against racism at the palladium on gratiot back in 1997?" ROSEVILLE? You're introducing ROSEVILLE into this discussion? Meh. | ||
1805 Member Username: 1805 Post Number: 52 Registered: 03-2007 |
Yeah, I'd definitely qualify the Blowout as a topnotch rock festival. It's local, and local is good. Also, Warped Tour makes a pit-stop in downtown Detroit every year -- if you like the degenerating lineup of lame bands. But, if you like good ska, Grand Rapids' own Mustard Plug will be making their triumphant return there! | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 1670 Registered: 05-2005 |
anyone remember the motorcity rock fest held right behind the majestic a few years ago? warped tour is another decent example, so isn't wasn't the snowjam (dunno if that one is happening again though)...apparently there is going to be some metal fest in or around the state theatre this summer with gwar headlining. the best, even though it was out it wayne, was michiganfest, until the guy from sweep the leg johnny got up into the drop ceiling and fell out onto the crowd, ruining any chances of the fest to return there....'course that was just icing on the fact that the whole scene was starting to show cracks by that point | ||
Patrick Member Username: Patrick Post Number: 4436 Registered: 10-2003 |
I'm sorry but that Rockin' On The Riverfront lineup fucking sucks. | ||
Oldredfordette Member Username: Oldredfordette Post Number: 1749 Registered: 02-2004 |
Marshall Crenshaw will be excellent, but as for the rest...but look who is sponsoring it. It could have been much, much worse. | ||
Jeduncan Member Username: Jeduncan Post Number: 95 Registered: 11-2006 |
lol, my mind drew a blank to the dally in the alley. I missed the blowout this year though. :-( Please excuse my forgetful nature. lol | ||
Warrenite84 Member Username: Warrenite84 Post Number: 99 Registered: 01-2007 |
If you've never heard Steve Howe from Asia play a 12 string classical guitar, you've missed something.(He also has a PH.D in Classical Music) Back in the early '90's, The original members of Asia were supposed to play at The Ritz on Gratiot. The placed was over booked. Only the lesser known keyboardist was the original member. Steve Howe showed up and prevented a riot.(Played well too). Yeah yeah, moldy oldies, back when people made ORIGINAL music with skill, not sampling everyone else's stuff. | ||
48202 Member Username: 48202 Post Number: 39 Registered: 10-2003 |
4th Street Fair TasteFest-Cityfest Not Rock, but worthy of advertising: Detroit Festival of the Arts Jazzin' on Jefferson | ||
Emuaaron Member Username: Emuaaron Post Number: 19 Registered: 07-2005 |
Michiganfest was bomb. I'll never understand how those kids put that together. | ||
Pete Member Username: Pete Post Number: 70 Registered: 10-2003 |
HOEDOWN! |
