Its just a fact.
Bon Iver, your songs gave me the chills; Springsteen was better.
Elvis Costello, Id walk to the ends of the earth to hear your voice; Springsteen was better.
But there is a very good chance that Springsteen was still better.
After the jump, a day that saw lots of band-hopping (Bon Iver and Elvis Perkins!
Jenny Lewis and Elvis Costello!
NIN and Dillinger Escape Plan!
Come along, wont you?
Ive got a spare pair of hemp-rope sandals you’re free to borrow and everything!
No, Rod y Gab are quite different, son.
Truth be told, my last album was just for me, said the former Tony!
frontman of 2008sThe Way I See It.
Thank you for allowing me to dream my dream.
Also dreaming: Me, that Elvis Costello would join Jenny Lewis on stage.
(Church camp again!)
And yet my favorite moment may have been Rise Up With Fists!!
how bad do you think that would piss Mars Volta fans off?)
wails into the sunset sky via the white corded microphone he wields like a whip.
At approximately 9:30 p.m., everything I just wrote about was forgotten.
before kicking into a run that included Badlands, No Surrender, and Out in the Street.
Springsteen said, once he got into big-tent-revival-preacher mode.
First out of the pile was a life-sized picture of Santa Claus.
Its too fing hot for Santa!
Again I say: Joy.
Joy that continued through Thunder Road and even the prescient sobriety of The River.
(That piece of posterboard was nicely illustrated with a little river and everything.)
Joy that flagged a bit during Kingdom of Days.
(Listen close: Iknowhes saying Come on, Whitney!
Youre all Bonnarooed out!
Dont be sad, he told the dismayed crowd.
Id keep doing this but I think Im gonna lose my fing mind.
Then he played The Hand That Feeds, which may or may not have been intentional commentary.
The photo pit, too, was closed.
Because Springsteen yells 1!
better than you do, and you will sound like a child.
I am still right here, Trent sang, and they roared to life.
Thank you very much.
You rock, Trent said, and then he disappeared forever.
Twelve hours in the field yesterday.
My dogs have stopped barking and begun to bite.
Anybody out there in Mixer land got anything theyd like to contribute?
Anyone catch Jimmy Buffett?
I hear he was fun!
Photo Credit: Whitney Pastorek/EW.com
