{"id":1689,"date":"2015-10-29T04:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2024-04-14T04:04:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T04:04:44","slug":"dust-traffic-and-sonic-bleed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=1689","title":{"rendered":"Dust, traffic and sonic bleed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Venue fail:<\/strong> This year\u2019s Aftershock Festival<\/strong> marked its first time at Elverta\u2019s Gibson Ranch, the same spot that held August\u2019s City of Trees Festival. And once again, while the location may have looked good on paper, most attendees will readily agree the dust-laden site at Discovery Park\u2014the festival\u2019s previous and very successful site\u2014was better on many fronts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who made the trek on Saturday, which featured a sold-out crowd of 30,000 strong<\/strong>, experienced wait times of up to two and three hours just to get there, sitting in dead-stopped traffic on the venue\u2019s side-street entrances. Sunday\u2019s attendance, however, dropped considerably and appeared to be half that number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once inside the festival, the layout was quite impressive with four stages, local and regional food vendors, a Marlboro tent<\/strong> (target audience?), more Monster Energy drink paraphernalia than should be allowed and even an indoor ring with live wrestling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to logistical issues that desperately need to be addressed<\/strong> by organizers next year, many music fans were unhappy to find that bands that played concurrently at different stages experienced lots of sonic bleed. Each time a song ended, it sounded like someone\u2019s boombox<\/strong> had been left on at a competing stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RavenEye opened the festival. Singer and guitarist Oli Brown roamed the stage like a madman<\/strong>, dragging his guitar behind him and standing on nearly every side-fill speaker whenever possible. The band played songs from its new Breaking Out<\/em> EP and garnered the kind of applause some later midday acts didn\u2019t even receive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who caught Helmet\u2019s Saturday set were either caught in a whirlpool of dust<\/strong> from a rowdy pit or pierced by the direct sun overhead. Thankfully, these seasoned New Yorkers didn\u2019t let either of the two potential problems keep them from delivering crushing interpretations of their classics, which included \u201cUnsung,\u201d \u201cTurned Out\u201d and the always fantastic \u201cIronhead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday, Los Angeles\u2019 Failure, the kings of cerebral rock fare<\/strong>, played lots of material from the fabulous new release The Heart Is A Monster<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday\u2019s lineup also featured Jane\u2019s Addiction, which found singer Perry Farrell struggling to stay in key and hit his own, often-complicated high notes. Fans yelled expletives whenever Farrell pointed the mic to the crowd or backed down from important vocal lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With any luck, Aftershock will get its many kinks worked out before the next one is staged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(SN&R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Venue fail: This year\u2019s Aftershock Festival marked its first time at Elverta\u2019s Gibson Ranch, the same spot that held August\u2019s City of Trees Festival. And once again, while the location may have looked good on paper, most attendees will readily agree the dust-laden site at Discovery Park\u2014the festival\u2019s previous and very successful site\u2014was better on many fronts. Those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}