Douglas totally lied to Right-Wing Vitriol's viewing public, Lil Jon was the most surreal, ironic experience ever -- Lil Jon had a robot's voice down from twenty when he came on stage, for instance -- that was capped off with his leading us in song to, I jest not, a medley of "Sweet Home Alabama," "Sweet Child O' Mine," and (which I totally, totally called, aloud, to my friends moments before it started) "Don't Stop Believin'." Check it out:
I have so many questions: How can this ever be topped? Why doesn't this have 9 million views? Why weren't we ready for Guns n' Roses?
The coolest thing I saw all weekend, though, as Douglas has somewhat alluded to was the Grace Potter show. They played the entire set as one big ol' song and then in the middle of one they all just left their instruments during the drum solo. I got confused for a sec, but then they all went toward the drum and did this (this clip isn't from Rites of Spring, it's from another show of theirs, but this is what it entailed):
Um, YES. Then they went back and finished the song! That was really choice. The head of The Music Group, which gets the Rites lineup, said in the newspaper office the other night that Grace Potter and the Nocturnals were by far the best of both nights.
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