There were, of course, some shows I wasn't so impressed with:
- Beastie Boys: this was sad because I've seen them a few times and they were always good before, but... They're just tired of this stuff and "old in spirit", and it shows. Pretty flat performance, with quite a few mistakes, and very short (45 minutes or so was all we got).
- Animal Collective: I was excited to see them, and it probably would have been good had it been at a different time (it was first thing on Friday right at the hottest time of the day), but I just couldn't get into it. I probably needed some sort of "additive" that I didn't have in order to fully "comprehend" the show. Felt pretty flat and mellow to me.
- Band of Horses: This isn't really the band's fault, but I switched directly from seeing Snoop Dogg to Band of Horses. This was too much of a switch, and didn't really work well for them. They sounded good, but I wanted to fall asleep.
- The Dirty Projectors: They were pretty heavily hyped, but it was way too much "art house" disjointed screeching for me (and I can take some weird disjointed screeching).
All in all, though, there were tons of bands that put on really good shows that I saw at least part of: Jimmy Buffett (heck yeah!), MGMT, Bon Iver, Snoop, Public Enemy, TV on the Radio, and Erika Badu were all great too.