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$1000 in tickets or so.

2009-09-29T00:30:00.001-07:00

This next month and the schedule ahead is throwing me in the mix for tons of shows that are gonna hit me like a freight train. I am getting prepared for ACL this weekend currently. This weekend starts off a ridiculous amount of shows.

Oct 2-4th - Austin City Limits Music Festival
Oct 5th - The Dead Weather @ House Of Blues Dallas
Oct 7th - Kings Of Leon - American Airlines Center - Dallas
Oct 12th - U2/Muse at Dallas Cowboys stadium in Arlington.
Hopefully Oct 19th Rodrigo Y Gabriela @ House Of Blues Dallas
Oct 20th - Goodie Mob @ House of Blues Dallas
OCt 31st - Ghostland Observatory @ Palladium Ballroom
Nov 6th - Deadmaus @ House of Blues Dallas
Nov 7-8th - Funfunfunfest in Austin Texas
Nov 10th - The Pretty Lights @ Granada Theater
Nov 29th - Misfits @ House of Blues Dallas
Any House of Blues Club passport shows I choose
2010 NBA All-star Game @ Dallas Cowboys stadium

As stated,
I have alot to keep me busy. I plan on writing some reviews of the shows, but I was having issues uploading pictures and videos to the blog. hopefully I will figure it out.

My top 75 live bands

2009-08-31T19:31:00.000-07:00

So this is ripped from my facebook page, but I have put together a list of the 75 best bands I have seen live. It's not in a definitive order other than about the last 20 or so. I plan on adding a few more to this thing later and might change it to the top 100.

Anyways, here goes.

75. The Police
74. Galactic w Mc's at Bonnaroo
73. Ghostland Observatory
72. Stephen Marley
71. MGMT - would be higher but missed most of their show twice
70. Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
69. Silversun Pickups - partial set
68. Dan Deacon
67. Atmosphere (2X)
66. Erykah Badu - cameo of Tyrone with My Morning Jacket was amazing.
65. Gogol Bordello (2X)
64. The Queers (3X? old school) I was dropped on my head crowd surfing at their show.
63. Cut Chemist (2X)
62. Al Green
61. The Mars Volta
60. Gomez
59. Q-Tip
58. The Monotonix - insane playing drums held up by crowd while crowdsurfing.
57. The Roots (3X)
56. REM
55. Kool Keith
54. Battles - the best noise ever
53. Dj Tiesto (3X) not super, but brings the party
52. BB King (2X)
51. Kanye West - Bonnaroo 2008 was a timing disaster. Show started at 4:30 AM!
50. Robert Randolph - thinks Kanye sucks at Bonnaroo 2008
49. Spoonfed Tribe (20X) seen more times than any other band back in the day
48. Beastie Boys - were slightly rusty at Roo this year, now out of commission
47. The Gourds (6X) - great live
46. Santogold (2X) - she belts it.
45. Ratatat
44. MSTRKRFT (2X) - almost started a riot at SXSW this year
43. The White Stripes
42. Red Hot Chili Peppers (2X)
41. Manu Chao (2X)
40. Broken Social Scene (2X)
39. The Arcade Fire
38. Buddy Guy (4X) - best blues artist alive
37. Pretty Lights
36. DJ Shadow
35. Death Cab For Cutie - Sunday evening closer at Roo 2008
34. Willie Nelson - awesome live
33. That1Guy (4X) - the best 1 man band ever. Crazy show, must be seen once.
32. The Coup (3X) - played an acoustic set at Bonnaroo 2008
31. Hot Chip (3X) - dance party
30. Animal Collective (2X) - needs to be seen at night
29. Nomo (2X) musical candy
28. Sigur Ros - Awesome melloness - Late night Bonnaroo 2008
27. Digitalism (2X) - one of my favorite electronic acts
26. Snoop Dogg is the shit live.
25. The Flaming Lips (2X) - missed the UFO landing at bonnaroo 2007
24. Beck (2X) - Beck and The Flaming Lips together was amazing
23. Metallica (2X) - first major concert
22. Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals
21. Ben Harper and the Relentless7 (2X) - one of my most intimate shows ever at ACL TV studio.
20. Girl Talk (5X) - always fun, always.
19. Justice - Hardcore set, still unhappy I missed their Coachella set
18. KRS- ONE - Best MC ever
17. Guttermouth (3X?) - back in the day
16. Propagandhi (2X) - Saw them in Turku Finland, it was awesome, also Emo's years ago
15. My Bloody Valentine - They are amazing live, also loudest show ever.
14. M.I.A. - Party
13. Andrew bird - One of the best stringed artists ever. Musical Genious.
12. Rage Against The Machine - 7 year reunion at Coachella 2007
11. Crystal Castles - They bailed on Dallas show, but had the craziest party at Bonnnaroo.
10. Rodrigo Y Gabriela (3X) Their Bonnaroo 2007 set was life changing. Gabriela rocks.
9. Phish (2X) - Their light show and glowstick war is AMAZING - Bonnaroo 2009
8. Tool (2X) - Bonnaroo 2007 blew my mind.
7. Pearl Jam - Bonnaroo 2008 - Blew me away, cant wait for ACL. Amazing live.
6. Radiohead - Dallas 2008 would rank higher if I was closer. Victim of perspective.
5. NOFX (3X) - SXSW 2008 show - They played Punk In Drublic and we were on stage
4. Bjork (2X) - Coachella and Austin city Limits 2007 - Best vocals ever.
3. Muse - Austin City Limits 2007 - They rock your face off.
2. Nine Inch Nails - Bonnaroo 2009 Intensity on levels I have never seen before
1. My Morning Jacket (2X) Bonnaroo 2008 4 hour late night set in the rain and Dallas 2008 show. Their energy level has to be seen to believed. They connect on every level.

This is the beginning.

2009-08-19T17:15:00.000-07:00

I am a little late on starting this thing. I have been meaning to for quite sometime and decided to bail on the buying a url idea that I was thinking about. Although someone already stole the http://www.rideincircles.blogspot.com address, I just added a the to it. They haven't used that blog since 2002. What an asshat, I could make it more useful.

So anyways about my blog and whatnot. I plan on making this a location for my festivals/concerts/adventures/vacations/otherrandomshitifeelliketyping with an emphasis on concert writeups photos and videos from shows and whatnot.

Here are some random facts from the last 3 years of concert stuff I have been to:

2007 - started off my festival binge with a Grand Canyon to Coachella to Vegas roadtrip. Best Road Trip Ever Enough said. Everyone should go to all 3 places. Grand Canyon is a must if you live in the USA.

Then Bonnaroo 2007 blew my mind, not that coachella didn't either. Its just more freedom involved on the activity levels. This turned me into a Bonnaroo junkie. Tool killed it also.

Followed up by Austin City Limits 2007 where Muse and Bjork ruled all. Arcade fire was skipped for Muse and not regretted.

2008 involved the best punk show ever with NOFX @ SXSW playing all of punk in drublic for thousands of punks. Then bonnaroo again with My Morning Jackets epic 4 hour late night rain set, best concert ever. Pearl Jam was also amazingly amazing. Throw in another MMj show and some random Dallas concerts and Funfunfunfest and that was 2008 in a nutshell. Oh yeah I also saw Propagandhi in Finland, that was noteworthy.

2009 is still an ongoing project. 3 days of SXSW with the Ben Harper & the Relentless7 show in the ACL tv studio taking the cake for SXSW awesomeness. Lots of other good stuff like Nomo and almost getting trampled by police horses trying to get into the MSTRKRFT show made SXSW a blast.

My Bloody Valentine at Palladium Ballroom is worthy of its own sentence. Amazingly Badass loudness and the 15 minute Did you realize caucophany of noise and strobes that almost destroyed my eardrums.

Bonnaroo 2009 was the best Bonnaroo so far. Nine Inch Nails came out with a vengeance, and it was so awesome that it was scary. Phish sold me. Crystal Castles was the coolest late night glowstick tent party Bonnaroo has ever seen and the rest of the time was just wasted. Not. Too late to write about it now.

Some other facts:

I have 600+ videos on youtube, mostly of concert stuff. I usually try and record a song or two from every concert I go to, somehow I made it a habit. My youtube account is now up to 1 million views on my videos, so I am going to try and incorporate my audience here. It gets around 10000 views a week lately.
Here it is:

Http://www.youtube.com/rideincircles

I have 14000 photos on iphoto on my computer which freezes up my old mac. I take a lot of photos at concerts and of random stuff. I could backtrack on old photos forever if I decide to. I still haven't got an SLR yet though. It's the next step.

I will be attending ACL 2009 and my plan is to go to Glastonbury next year.

So thats a quick summation of what I plan to ho here.

My name is John.