Seriously fuck every musician who agreed to this.
You're fighting a losing battle here. You're right to be concerned, but the show will go on.
Additionally, most of these musicians probably aren't actually rich, so they need to work too. After two years of cancelled shows, they aren't going to turn down a gig.
My millennial/zoomer cusp partner bought tickets to this. GenX music is Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day, etc. This festival is 100% targeted al millennials.
the youngest gen xers were 40 when smart phones came out
the way i know the term. gen x ends with people born in 1979-1980, so the youngest gen xers were about 40 years old when the pandemic began
Boomers were cooler, millennials had it better than gen x, gen z is absolutely psychopathic and I'm afraid of them.
Counterpoint: Gen X had the grunge/alternative scene, most of whom promptly died of heroin overdose.
There is no way that 3 stages is Enough for 60 bands in one day. The set list would be possible if it was just djs swapping, but guitar and drum tuning is slow.
No. It's not happening, half the bands will drop. There will not be refunds. It's a con job by livenation.
They also won't cancel this. As Nevada has to shut it down, and Vegas is business as usual.
Fetch my white belt and asymmetrical haircut. We ride once more
It's outdoors 9 months from now. Some of you are doing way too much with this doomer stuff.
Our understanding of viral diseases has reached a point where we know large gatherings of people will spread disease. Put it on the internet FFS!
Pretty sure humanity reached that understanding 100 years ago and we still gather in large geoups. I'm covid risk averse, my partner and I agreed to not socialize with anyone else until our local case positivity rate dropped below 5%, but you're taking this too far, imo. Again, this event is outdoors, 8 months from now. Calm down.
There are large gatherings the size of this festival every day in the US right now at professional sporting events and other xoncerts, I really don't see the point of calling out one music festival almost a yeat from now. Are we going to have a post for every NBA, major college basketball, NHL and NFL game? 2.5 million people rode the MTA on average every day last week, where does that rank on the superspreader scale? The government isn't going to help and people rely on these events to pay rent and feed their families. If you're lucky enough to have a job that allows you to work from home, good for you. Many people do not.
I haven't bought a ticket to anything, I'm actually one of the people who depends on events to put food on the table.
I mean, those things do rate real fucking high on my super spreader scale too. I legitimately get anxious when I'm reminded that sports are still happening and there is no aid in sight.
Are you seriously trying to sit here and say "the chuds go to the sports ball and the government hates us anyways so why can't I go relive my eyeliner days in peace?!??!!!??!!waaaaaaaaaaaa!!!"
Are you actually ok?
I have no intention of going to that show. I'm saying people need to eat.
you can just admit your taste in music was stunted in like fifth grade, there's no need to bend over backwards like this
you can just admit you're not actually worried about covid, you just want to feel superior to someone with different music taste than yours, there's no need to bend over backwards like this
I have severely immune compromised family members and personally I'd like to avoid the still-expanding laundry list of potentially permanent effects myself- that is if I were to get it and not be one of the unlucky people who dies even without comorbidities. But also get this! I actually truly don't want anyone else's loved ones to die because someone just HAD to see Avril Levigne in concert during a pandemic either. Seeing the very well-thought-out "b-but no treats FOREVER?" take on here of all places is just very disheartening. Even if you listen to Bright Eyes or whatever we can still be comrades though.
Yeah, to be clear, I'm on the side of don't go to concerts and sporting events right now, it's very much not worth getting sick or worse, getting someone else sick. So I'm with you. But your comment just came off as so very asshole-ish, I had to say something. That's all.
That's very reasonable. A jab at someone's music taste was all I could muster at the time, was going for smarmy but maybe I overshot.
All the best
I'm not going to that fest, I don't even like any of those bands. I said my gf bought tickets.
Is this site like entirely composed of depressed zoomers or what?
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Responses to this festival are making me think I’m not the right age for this site
If you're old enough to remember chapo trap house used to talk about socialism, you might be too old for hexbear.
I'm too old for hexbear.
Idk I'm an old zoomer if that makes sense, and older millenial relatives would share this kind of music with me. Not to mention it's the soundtrack to all the videogames I played on my PS2 as a kid.
You can be the cool millenial uncle guiding all the zoomers around lol.
:yea:
I know most of these band from the soundtracks of the burnout racing games and Tony hawk games on the PS2 lol.
i mean it's not like literally anyone in the USA anywhere at any level anywhere in the entire country except for like the one frazzled nurse working the ICU even cares anymore, at this point we're just kind of torturing ourselves
Yeah especially by October. Nothing will change by then. That's enough time that it will have run its course by then or we'll be tormented by a new variant and this will be cancelled. I'm not sure what getting red mad and nude about this 8 months in advance does lol
Most of them are B and C tier emo bands. I haven't heard the name Hawthorne Heights since 2004
if they wanted me to buy tickets they shouldve had REAL artists on the roster
all these bands fucking suck, and also suck for agreeing to this, but also, the music fucking sucks. afi was cool until they weren't, and that's all i've got to say about that.
La Dispute and Car Seat Headrest are on here. Those two alone would be worth admission in non-covid times.
alkaline trio have some great songs, but the singer kinda creeps me out tbh
Need to find an emo millenial niece or nephew to go to the great satan and attend this concert with lmao.
But seriously, unless Americans suddenly start getting vaccinated+boosted, I don't see the covid 19 situation being good enough for something like this, even in October.
Also there's no way the stagehands and technical team will be able to set up for so many bands lmao. Only the headliners will sound good, everyone else will sound like crap. But concerts are more about the experience than the music anyways.
