The theme for today was Texas almost losing to the University of Central Florida.
And the music.
Because of the game, we parked downtown and went to Ringers Sports Lounge first to watch the game at 2:30 CDT.
Chili Cheese Fries, tequila shots, beer, and football. Followed up by an evening at ACL Fest. Doesn't get much better than that.
Except.
Texas looked awful. After a rain delay and an incredibly long halftime, we left during the third quarter with UCF about to take the lead. They did, Texas eventually won, but it was ugly.
The other theme of the day was canceled performances. The White Stripes canceled for Meg's "medical issues" while Amy Winehouse needed Rehab. No, no, no. Supposedly just exhaustion, really. I don't believe it. The White Stripes cancellation really screwed up the scheduling, and the printed schedules didn't reflect it.
The shuttles to the Festival really worked out well. Surprisingly well. Much easier than any other options we had at that point.
We immediately went to the Austin Ventures stage to watch Kelly Willis. Met up with our friends from yesterday with the addition of one wife. They had come earlier to see Steve Earle. He was on the Dell stage, playing acoustically, and evidently the sound was awful.
As always, Kelly Willis was good Texas Music. The Austin Ventures stage is by far my favorite. The smaller venue set in front of the rocks is just great. Sound is usually great and you can get pretty close.
I also slid over to see the Arctic Monkeys a little during Kelly's set. It was hard to get close enough to have decent sound, though. I should have gone over to Damien Rice instead.
Cross Canadian Ragweed was by far my favorite show so far. The way Cody Canada was dressed in a green army hat reminded me of J.W. George that always plays at Shorty's Bar in Port Aransas.
CCR played everything I was looking for except Carney Man. My guess is that they're damn tired of that song. When he introduced "Boys from Oklahoma", he said "this isn't even on the playlist, but evidently it's the only fucking song some of you think we know, so here it is...." A damn good dope smokin' song if you ask me.
On one song, he used a megaphone to sing into the microphone. Awesome effect.
They finished the show by saying "Well, the Statesman said we'd do a cover, so I guess we're obliged" and went in to a Neil Young cover. Pretty funny, because I had read that in XLEnt on Friday in Michael Corcoran's pick's. Hell of a way to end their set.
Because of the White Stripe canceling, Muse pushed up into the headliner set, along with Arcade Fire. It was basically a coin flip, but we went to see Muse. At this point, we were tired and pretty much ready to go. I really liked the songs I heard and am going to follow up, but we were ready to beat the traffic and get out of there.
25 minutes on the shuttle, and we're back at the car and going home.
Tomorrow: Robert Earl Keen, Wilco, and Bob Dylan!
I also slid over to see the Arctic Monkeys a little during Kelly's set. It was hard to get close enough to have decent sound, though. I should have gone over to Damien Rice instead.
This is one of my favorite places at the Fest.
Cross Canadian Ragweed was by far my favorite show so far. The way Cody Canada was dressed in a green army hat reminded me of J.W. George that always plays at Shorty's Bar in Port Aransas.
CCR played everything I was looking for except Carney Man. My guess is that they're damn tired of that song. When he introduced "Boys from Oklahoma", he said "this isn't even on the playlist, but evidently it's the only fucking song some of you think we know, so here it is...." A damn good dope smokin' song if you ask me.
On one song, he used a megaphone to sing into the microphone. Awesome effect.
They finished the show by saying "Well, the Statesman said we'd do a cover, so I guess we're obliged" and went in to a Neil Young cover. Pretty funny, because I had read that in XLEnt on Friday in Michael Corcoran's pick's. Hell of a way to end their set.
Because of the White Stripe canceling, Muse pushed up into the headliner set, along with Arcade Fire. It was basically a coin flip, but we went to see Muse. At this point, we were tired and pretty much ready to go. I really liked the songs I heard and am going to follow up, but we were ready to beat the traffic and get out of there.
25 minutes on the shuttle, and we're back at the car and going home.
Tomorrow: Robert Earl Keen, Wilco, and Bob Dylan!
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