VEGOOSE 2006: DREAMS SO HUGE

good stuff...looks like an amazing time

note editor: that was brain on the kit for praxis. dude grew his hair a wee bit since last time i seen him but his chops are very recognizable. praxis must do a late night freakshow next year!

i wish i could find a few grand and go blow it at vegoose next year...

that was a great review of the killers set.

great write up and photos. props to kayce for showin love to bill laswell.

Great music but piss poor lay out compared to last year. Bands played over one another unless you were close to the stage. Hip hop meshed into Widespread Panic segueways. (very annoying) The crowd was great again. It was great to see Phil, Trey, Rhythm Devils w/ Mike Gordon but.... The YARD DOGS ROAD SHOW was by far the coolest show of the weekend.

VEGOOSE SUCKED THIS YEAR

VIP WAS GOD AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWFULLLLL....

I PAID $500 FOR WHAT!!!!!!!!????????????

-A CRAPPY GATED OFF SPOT NEXT TO THE STAGE?
-A VIP TENT A MILE FROM THE MAIN STAGE?

WORST TREATMENT EVER...

I CAN'T BELIEVE MORE PEOPLE AREN'T OUTRAGED AT THIS

RIP OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nothing against the music... just crappy promoters

starting with NOT ANNOUNCING THE OFFICIAL LINEUP until LIKE A WEEK BEFORE

horrible..just horrible

The message was clear... Hide the children because Widespread Panic is back in town.

hahahah ur god damn right

tremendous!

PANIC IS BACK, YEAH BABY!!!!!!!!

This is how a review should be done! Excellent multimedia coverage! Love the photo work Jurick - nice to see someone do something different also.

Question... How many people were there? I kept hearing things about poor pre-ticket sales. Looked like a good time.

Sorry I missed the Panic.

Widespread Panic is a bunch of homos. Nice costumes, I bet the show "raged." WSP sucks.

to VWfiend...

can i ask who are you to say WSP "sucks"...thats the single most ignorant post you could make...just dont post if what you have is completely closed minded and of no relevance to the article as a whole...

and ps...panic doesnt suck one bit...in fact they are on their way back...hopefully people like you wont figure that out and stay away from the amazing things they are doing

I docked y'all one star. Here's why: my face melted at Vegoose. One show single-handedly made my Vegoose experience 5-star-worthy. Everyone in attendance was struck stupid after its completion at 6AM Sunday morning (I haven't seen that many confused kids post-show since the last time Phish was on). Apparently, Jambase found this show to be merely "mentionable," whereas I rate this show among my top 5 concert experiences, ever. So, you lost a star because I have a different opinion than you...

Phil and Trey late night was epic. Anyone who missed this show missed out on the weekend's best improvisational musical expression. The Orleans became a psychoacoustic lab experiment, and the scientists came out swinging for the fences. This show a) reminded me why I care about live music and b) beat me down for needing to be reminded. The set the next day was 60%, whereas this show was 120% (that's right, twice as good). ETC.!

(everything else was great though (videos!). rock on)

VwFriend - You slay me!!! You used the word homo, sucks, and put quotation marks around raged to insinuate satire. Classic stuff! It brings back memories of 6th grade.

The Mars Volta just made the entire festival for me....For all those fans who flocked away during their set they just didn't understand....and I feel bad for you....they were brilliant....my god i need more Volta now......wonderful, crazy, and did i already say brilliant?

Vegoose once again took a few years off my life. Different than last year for sure but equally as rockin. Good to see Trey & Panic making a kick ass return to the form. Check out
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LGuF83Aelg4

Vegoose once again took a few years off my life. Different than last year for sure but equally as rockin. Good to see Trey & Panic making a kick ass return to the form. Check out
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LGuF83Aelg4

Good stuff! Kayce you are the man! Great writing! Makes me wish I could have made it. WS MtrFkn PANIC!!!

I do agree that ticket sales were down... this year the Sam Boyd Stadium Bowl was completely closed and it seemed like there was still plenty of room near all the stages. (Granted I only went on Sunday). This alone shows ticket sales were way down. That is probably the reason for the poor setup, it would have costs too much money to open the stadium and with a stadium sparcely populated it would have made the festival look like a big flop.

I had a great time, but did more of Vegas than last year, so only did the Sunday fest and WSP Halloween show. The Panic shows were well worth the distance traveled.

Great article... Wish I had made it... Oh, wait I was there...

I thought that the music this year was incredible. Dcent article however I found myself in disagreement with the authors on several shows. I think the promoters did what they could to save this annual festival from failure. I think they have learned from this year and next year will be even better. HOwever this fan has had no complaints either year....such a managable festival

Hey VWfiend, I bet that you're not cool cuz you said panic sucks and they don't, they're awesome, so...ya know...you probably suck...but you know...you're brains the one with the shell on it...so...sticks and stones...ya know.....
PANIC!

I totally agree with redredwine abut the VIP situation. Complete and utter crap compared to last year and Bonnaroo. Sooo not worth $500.

What was with the "super vip" sections too? Like the couches that faced the main stage? Garbage!

This was a pure slap in the case from Superfly plain and simple. They won't be seeing any cash from me ever again because of it.

The music was great, and I had a blast, but with so many other festival options out there, why patronize a company that has lost touch with the little guy and behaves like a giant corperation?

- $.02

Such a fun weekend, such a great review!

great coverege...i feel like i could have gotten more out of the story than actually being there. jam base is good like that!

i cant imagine paying someone $500 to make me feel verry important (and thay fail???) at a festi... how about we all just go to the gen admission area of the festival and make eachother feel important like we do at FUCKING JAMBAND FESTIVALS ALL OF THE FUCKING TIME?!?! anyone ever hear Carlos Santana talk about 'the feeling you get when you are at a gratefull dead concert'- i thought that was pretty cheesey at the time he was rapping about this at his shows over the years but now i see the importance of this kind of vibe and feel like an asshole for taking it for granted when it was ripe! jam isnt dead - superfly is just holding it hostage at the G. W. Bush suite at the Luxor!

- panic or the roots???? so if i pay out the ass i gotta choose between two of my all time favs? I hope superfly lost thier asses on this event. i know - how about a superfly bail out fundraiser where the VIP ticket holders have a crack at the promoters in a dunk tank!

A+ for jambase! C- for superfly!

by the look of fiona apple's biceps it seems like she's been pumping some iron? in the words of ron burgandy "gotta sculpt the guns".

Fun,fun ,fun...especially late night with PHIL.Extraordinarily sweet.... Inside Sam Boyd set up sucked.......no seats....the sound mixes were way loud and overdubbed each other..Roots kicked major ass though.Thank you great fans and musicians...

Tristan - thank you , so much that is exactly how i feel. that show was undescribable and the vibe was beyond great. i have never been that bewildered after a show before and i have been to many a phish, wsp and phil show. words were hard to form for at least 48 hours. even big cypress didnt compare to the feeling of that night. at one point i felt like there were so many people on the same page and grooving together, it was something i havent ever really been aware of, its hard to descibe. i honestly felt like that was one of the most perfect nights of music i will ever see, i couldnt have asked for more. i love you phil, you are my hero!!!

panic is boring!

Check this out http://youtube.com/watch?v=LGuF83Aelg4

I feel compelled to weigh in an add a comment about the whole event. Granted I was one of the photogs on the team for this festival, I still feel that I was a fan as well. The festival's location, feel, vibe, and musical talent were pretty impressive. Sure there are lots of festivals these days, but this was a HUGE event (one of the premiere events in the country), and while SuperFly overcharged for VIP, you have to appreciate their skill in coordinating an event of this magnitude. Try not to knock them too hard - they really do try to make the experience the best it can be. I personally think ticket sales were down was because Vegas is an *EXPENSIVE* trip, and many fans that would want to go, simply couldn't afford it.

As for the Trey/Phil show, I was shooting the band that night and was pretty amazed at what I was watching. I've seen some incredible Dead shows in Oakland and ridiculous Hampton Phish shows in 97/98, and that Trey/Phil show on Saturday late night was seriously up there with those experiences. It was HUGE. Trey raised the bar and stepped into jamming with feral intensity some of the greatest Dead jams. Also, I personally thought the PLASMA set closer was one of the hottest pieces of music I've seen in the past few years. If you love jambands, this band was the quinessential jamband experience. They brought it the way you wanted it!

I hope this festival sticks around and can get better every year. The whole Vegas experience is crazy fun!

Enjoy all!

-Jurick

Trey-Phil late night was the show of the year. Show of the last 4 years, even. I can't believe it got such a lame treatment by this otherwise thorough review. Nothing since 97-99 phish has even come close to melting my face in such utter euphoria. I was nearly in tears the entire second set it felt so f*cking good to feel that good again. I almost forgot what it was like to be taken for a musical ride like that, reminded me of being 18 at the spectrum, hampton, etc. What a gift. Trey is back. I've been a hater recently, like a lot of you...To all the haters, he's back. Believe it. Better yet, go see it.

Hell i left thinking the Crowes was the best ones there. I don't know everyone else was just ok. I go to these festivals thinking i will see something new but everytime just the same shit.

thank god I won free VIP tickets because that was the worst Vip treatment I ever saw , if I had to pay for that S#^T I would be looking for a refund. Check out the McDowell Mountain Music Festival, they know how to do it right!!

HOW THE F^UCK.......do you review all of these shows and only give a set list for what was BY FAR the best show of the weekend PHIL+TREY late night at the Orleans?????????????
If I don't see an indepth, detailed review of this show on its own I have lost all respect for jambase.com!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously if this show doesn't get a review, that is pathetic.....one of the best shows in a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG
time and it doesn't get a review. Please save yourselves from shame and f*cking get it done already. I hope everyone see's this post because anyone who was at this show and anyone who heard this show on disc for that matter feels the same way I do gauranteed. Check yourself jambse!!!!!!!!