Heads up for live music lovers who missed out on the intriguing lineup at this year's Bonnaroo Festival (June 11-13): LiveBonnaroo is offering downloads of a bunch of the shows from the festival, available in crappy mp3 or as lovely lossless FLAC files. Prices vary depending on the length of the set, as some shows are maddeningly only offered as "EPs" instead of the full show (why?!) but generally seem to be between about $7 and $17 (Damien Rice's show is a four-song, 25 minute EP at $7, and the mostly-reunited-original-lineup Praxis' three-disc offering is $17.) Sound quality, going by the mp3 samples available, is spectacular. This is a much better way of serving the fans with music from the festival than those crappy one-song-per-band compilations usually made available. Umphrey's McGee fans get the best deal - a whopping FIVE DISC concert for about $20 for the FLAC files. Wish I was into them, but the sound samples offered me nothing appealing.
Who's on offer?
6/11/2004 Dave Matthews & Friends
6/11/2004 String Cheese Incident
6/11/2004 Yonder Mountain String Band
6/11/2004 Calexico
6/11/2004 North Mississippi Allstars Hill Country Review
6/11/2004 Umphrey's McGee
6/11/2004 Chris Robinson & The New Earth Mud
6/11/2004 Praxis
6/11/2004 The Black Keys
6/11/2004 JoJo & His Mojo Mardi Gras Band
6/11/2004 Mike Doughty
6/12/2004 Galactic
6/12/2004 My Morning Jacket
6/12/2004 Del McCoury
6/12/2004 The Dead
6/12/2004 Kings of Leon
6/12/2004 Primus
6/12/2004 Doc Watson
6/12/2004 Rachael Yamagata
6/12/2004 Jazz Mandolin Project
6/12/2004 Damien Rice
6/13/2004 Soulive
6/13/2004 moe.
6/13/2004 Burning Spear
6/13/2004 Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos
6/13/2004 Guster
6/13/2004 Barbara Cue feat. Todd Nance of Widespread Panic
I would keep checking back - a notable absence is Ween - as the site mentions that more shows will become available as artists give their approval.
Personally speaking, I'll definitely be getting the Praxis set - three discs of the classic Praxis lineup (Bill Laswell takes over for Bootsy on bass) and I may wind up getting the Dave Matthews set as well. As much as I dislike what the Dave Matthews BAND has done in the past couple of studio albums, I really enjoy Matthews' solo album Some Devil. A live set of that material would be welcome.
(Totally approved and welcoming: the beautiful lull.)
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