WE ARE THE CHOSEN: VEGOOSE

Thanks for the great overview of one of the best festival experiences of my life...i was blown away! Pissed i missed some of the bands...mostly flaming lips and arcade..had to see the meters and wasnt goin to miss panic...anyways great job guys. kayceman has it right on about the panic halloween...were was the down and dirty!! i had a great time but little dissapointed..coconuts was a lame show closer if you ask me. great arleen..but thanks man for telling it how it is!! thanks to everyone who covered this great event..see y'all next year!!!

Wow!!! - I am lovin listening to the flaming lips set on disk I click open the internet to jambase and bam... I get a great read. This was just what the doc ordered to get me outta the office on a friday evening.

Thanks Jambase!

Oh Halloween can't come soon enough! Perhaps the 'jam band' scene and production there of, will get a hint and book more 'weekend' shows to fly into over the next year. It's a great city and even better with more to do, both HOB and Aladin are fabo venues!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nevada Rocks!

Very well put together review, made me realize how much I missed throught the festival, it was damn near impossible to catch everything but what I did catch was mind blowing. My festy highlight was most certainly SCI late night show, the craziest s*** I have seen!! Thank you again Superfly, volunteers, fellow festival goers, and to everyone else involved, cheers to you all!!! Later

if you read this and weren't at the HOB friday, UM was on of the best non-panic shows i have seen. and yes from another panic-head holloween sucked, but the boys had a great year non the less ATL babyyyy

ZILLA!!!ZILLA!!!ZILLA!!!ZILLA!!!ZILLA!!!ZILLA!!!ZILLA!!!ZILLA!!!ZILLA!!!ZILLA!!!ZILLA!!!ZILLA!!!ZILLA!!!ZILLA!!!

How did high Sierra make it into the powerful intro, including Wayne Coyne's words, about these wonderful music festivals? Speaking of truth and illuminating our chosen tribe, does anyone out there know if it's true that the High Sierra promoters are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to local law enforcement to arrest festival-goers? It's time someone came out with the truth, because for many of us in California who have seen our friends and family arrested at campsites, just the mention of that festival brings a suspicious undertone to the whole music scene in this already polarized society. In short, it's hard to believe Vegoose wasn't full of corruption seeing as how it was grouped with High Sierra.

Sounds like a great festival, but I have to question the timing. I was quite bit sad to see Vegas pretty much taking a monopoly on the Halloween shows this year- didn't leave much for the rest of us. Yes, this will happen with almost any major festival (good luck seeing shows elsewhere during Bonnaroo). But for me, NYE and Halloween are the two nights of the year I make SURE I am at a show. This year, unfortunately, I couldn't make it out to Vegas, and had nothing else to choose from.

yo tranquillo -- go back and read what you just wrote:

"does anyone out there know if it's true that the High Sierra promoters are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to local law enforcement to arrest festival-goers?"

now ask yourself if theres any way on earth that theres even a whiff of veracity to that notion. heres the answer: no.

having worked at high sierra for several years, i can tell you that theres no secret deals bt the organizers and local authorities. maybe theres cooperation, but the only thing HSMF is spending that much cash on is the artists that you go and listen to. talk to anyone else who attends the festival and im sure youll find that youre peeps -- the ones who get "a suspicious undertone" when they hear the words high sierra -- are in the minority.

but this thread is sposed to be about vegoose, so back to the vegoosing...

The choice between Primus or Beck ain't no choice at all. Primus. Come on. Beck is just a "pop music footnote," in the words of Homer Simpson. Arcade Fire vs Widespread Panic? Please! Panic can wipe the floor with those fools.
There were only two hard choices (aside from the late-night shows): Cheese vs Mule and Ween vs moe.
Ween rocks. Is there anyone here who doubts it? I don't think it's a secret.
Great review otherwise.
Just my opinions; don't care if you don't like 'em.
Zilla Rocks!
Boards of Canada needs to play more shows.

Great article except all the panic references. Its no suprise that panic played a bad halloween show because everyone needs to realize that PANIC IS LAME PEOPLE! go see a real band like Umphrey's or Cheese. Cheese show looked sick can't wait to listen to it it's too bad I missed vegoose...all you panic fans too dont get too pissed about this its just my opinion but it is also truth that panic is passed their prime

tranquillo: are you nuts? have you ever been to High Sierra? Do they have to pay the city for the additional cops and overtime pay for the weekend? yes. (Keep in mind, High Sierra TRIPLES the population of Quincy for the weekend) But ALL festivals have to do that. Hell, you have to do that if you throw a 250 person concert in San Francisco. That's just how it works. Do you honestly think 10,000 people can get together in this country and party like that without there being some arrests? Like you, I wish that wasn't the case, but the folks who put on these festivals are the LAST people you should blame for that. Considering the world we live in, it's a HUGE priviledge to be able to celebrate our values so freely.

I happen to know that the folks who put on HS are some of nicest, most down-to-earth people in the music biz. They are fans, just like you. They lost money on that festival for many years in order to see it through to the point it's at now. They have passed up opportunities to make it bigger, and more lucrative, to ensure the spirit of the festival remains true to their vision.

If you're going to go around flaming people in this forum, try and seek out even the TINIEST bit of actual knowledge before you do. I think I speak for everyone who attends High Sierra when I say that we're doing just fine without you. If you don't want to come, that's fine. But go easy on the BS, you're stinkin up the joint!

Ahh, thanks everything is slowly coming back to me. However, two words, THE METERS. Ya skimmed over them like they were crap on your shoe being wiped off in the grass. ITs been 25 years my friend. That was the best show for me. I lost my voice screaming 'Fiya on the Baya' I spoke to people Friday night when I was coming out of a ridiculous Umphrey's show and (no joke) on four separate occasions I ran into people saying how bad the Trey show sucked, so I didn't even bother to leave PAPA FUNK and his all-stars reuniting. (Granted Leo goes off on a little to much tangent) but its worth it when George says step aside. I will say that Trey tried to make up for things with Panic. "Slippin into Darkness" was a beautiful experience. And you're right buddy and everyone else, Ween sucks AIDS so buy Beck tickets instead.

My compliments to the promoters for pulling off such a lofty undertaking...I had never been to Vegas before, never really had a desire to go, but the moment I found out that the boys, WSP,were playing on Halloween (my NYE) I couldn't NOT go! I had no idea how I was going to get there but I knew I HAD to be there. The only down side for me was that online they were saying that the show was sold out. I paid and enormous price for my ticket and stood next to a guy at the show who paid $35 at the box! WTF??? As a virgin Panic Hallow's Eve attender- it was my first time- I guess I didn't know any different and thought both sets were great. I really didn't understand what all the bitchin' was about them being mellow...As a soul sista with Deetroit roots, I especially enjoyed the older covers that left half of the younger crowd blinking in bewilderment. I was especially proud of myself for calling "I Put a Spell..." JB,you shook this mama to the core when you started to sing it! When they open up with f*ck truck it's all about the groooves son, and if your junk wasn't boogie-in' there musta been some kinda voodoo working on your mojo... YEEEE HAAAAW!!!

I've never added comments to articles but I just can't let this slide, - if you think Cheese is a "real" band then i feel really sorry for you. they are musically bankrupt, completely derivative, and totally lacking in any form of true musical orginality. just because they know how to market themselves to a given audience as a place where you can party and get fucked up does not make them good. i encourage you to try and give an objective listen to their playing and see if there is ANYTHING, one riff, one chorus, that hasn't been co-opted from another musical talent. i know people are gonna freak at me when they read this, and that's fine, but i just hate to think that you are missing so many other "real" bands because you are wasting time, money and effort on a band that if you took away their superfluous trappings you'd be left with music that is the N'Sync of the jamband scene, but far less talended. Honestly.

What a wonderful event. I talked to an officer on day 2 inside the grounds who told me they only had 5 arrests on day 1. Not to shabby for the estimated +40,000. He also said they didn't care what you did as long it wasn't blatenly in front of them. As long as you were cool, they were cool. I liked Vegas, the weather was picture perfect. It was nice to be able to go back to your room for a shower and go out again- it's Vegas after all! Transportation (shuttle busses)was very easy and fun even when the mind was slightly altered. All prices for tix and vending I thought were fair. As to be expected. Thanks Superfly, see you next year. What about Dave and Tim??? That was a great warm-up!!!

The "cut" on Cheese - if you like to call yourself playitleo you have to give it up to Kyle. Dude's out of control.

Hollingsworth for President. That dude rips. Say what ya want about other members, but Kyle steals the show. I also saw him solo with DJ Harry at Knicking Factory and trust me Playitleo, he's wayyyyyyy ahead of the pack he plays with.

Thanks for covering a great event! As for the negative comments on the Cheese from Leo--keep them to yourself. If you don't like the cheese then don't listen to them, no need to bring the negativity to this scene. And clearly you have a very narrow view of music if you think they have no talent. If you are bitter that Phish isn't playing anymore why don't you rip on Trey like the rest of his former fanbase seems to be...