I recently attended the annual New
Orleans
Dozens of bands
across the musical spectrum performed on four different stages throughout the
festival grounds.
The first day
of the festival fell on Halloween. New
Orleans
Friday was a
day littered with nostalgia as
Newcomers,
Twenty One Pilots;
Punk heroes,
Rise Against;
Grunge
pioneers, The Melvins;
Metal gods,
Slayer; and
Hip-Hop
revolutionaries, Outkast
all
performed a collection of hits as well as deep cuts throughout their
performances.
Twenty One
Pilots played a set which consisted of
Guns For Hands
Migraine
Ode To Sleep
Drunk In Love
(Beyonce Cover)
Can't Help
Falling In Love (Elvis Cover. It has also been spun on 90.7 a time or two.)
House of Gold
Addict With A
Pen
Holding Onto
You (their biggest single to date)
Car Radio
Following them
were Rise Against.
The change in
genre from one band to the next is truly remarkable and Rise Against is a band
who paved the way for modern day punk-inspired bands such as A Day To Remember
and Title Fight.
They played
Ready to Fall
Give It All
Re-Education
(Through Labor)
Behind Closed
Doors
The Good Left
Undone
Help Is on the
Way
Chamber the
Cartridge
Like the Angel
Prayer of the
Refugee
I Don't Want to
Be Here Anymore
Audience of One
Make It Stop
(September's Children)
Savior
(Satellite was
on the setlist, but not played)
Metal bands
come in all shapes and sizes, but none are quite as influential, and, well,
different as Slayer.
In my opinion,
they were definitely the scariest band at the festival and they were not
dressed in costumes.
However, the
hardcore fan-boys lined the front row of the barricade and proceeded to head
bang to every song the band cranked out from their extensive catalogue which
included:
Disciple
Hate Worldwide
Mandatory
Suicide
Chemical
Warfare
War Ensemble
Postmortem
Necrophiliac
Captor of Sin
Seasons in the
Abyss
Hell Awaits
Dead Skin Mask
Raining Blood
(Made popular by the video game Guitar Hero 3)
Black Magic
South of Heaven
Angel of Death
Taking a break
from main stage bands, I ran over to a smaller stage tucked away in the corner
of the festival grounds, The Carnival Stage, to see a staple to the Grunge
scene in Seattle, The Melvins. This band is so influential, yet overlooked in
modern Grunge. Kurt Cobain idolized The Melvins and even did a short stint with
them in the early days of his career (so records say). Their drummer was also on
an early Nirvana demo.
In the crowd,
their fans ranged from twenty-somethings to old nostalgic rocker dudes who were
reliving their favorite time period.
They played
Pigs of the Roman Empire
The Water Glass
Onions Make The
Milk Taste Bad
Sesame Street
Meat
Moving to Florida
Sweet Willy
Rollbar
Bride Of
Crankenstein
A Growing
Disgust
We Are Doomed
Youth of America
The Bit
Your Blessened
Night Goat
Fascists Eat
Donuts (Pop-O-Pies Cover)
The last band
of Friday night was the legendary Hip-Hop group, Outkast. They performed two
and half hours of nostalgic tunes for their diverse crowd to enjoy. When an
entire crowd sings all the words to your songs, you really have something
special and something worth writing about.
Outkast played
B.O.B.
Gasoline Dreams
ATLiens
Skew It on the
Bar-B
Rosa Parks
Da Art of
Storytellin', Part 1
Aquemini
SpottieOttieDopaliscious
Ms. Jackson
Big Boi Set:
Kryptonite (I'm
on It) (Purple Ribbon All-Stars Cover)
GhettoMusick
The Way You
Move (With Sleepy Brown)
André 3000 Set:
She Lives in My
Lap
Prototype
Hey Ya!
Hootie Hoo
Crumblin' Erb
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
Player's Ball
Elevators (Me
& You)
Roses
So Fresh, So
Clean
Int'l Player's
Anthem (I Choose You) (Underground Kingz Cover)
The Whole World
Day one of the
festival was a good mix of genres and a great Halloween atmosphere that truly
set the standard for the rest of the festival weekend.
