Rollins Band "Weight" sounds like something from Woodstock '94. Parts of it (like the song 'Fool') actually sound like they were recorded live from the soundboard. This made me want to pull out my double live album from Woodstock '94 (see below) and wouldn't you know it, Rollins Band does have a track included there as well.
The Rollins Band album starts out with 'Disconnect'. The lyrics are laughable, but the music in the chorus is great with almost a prog rock feel. 'Liar' is a good song with a great video. I always crack up at the guy listed as the sound engineer just sitting there with a pair of headphones on. 'Volume 4' starts off great. 'Shine' has some great music/feedback/guitars in the 3rd verse, but it contains the line, "It's hero time, time to shine." I laugh and picture someone actually listening to this and getting pumped up before something like a job interview.... and then punching the interviewer in the face.
The booklet for Woodstock '94 contains a plethora of pictures of mud-encrusted burnt out hippies, and the hype guy who announced the next act to come on stage seemed to really enjoy his job. I will always think about the footage of Green Day's infamous set when I think of Woodstock '94. As a pre-teen/teenage boy, I was really into the idea of these big festivals and used to discuss with much fervor the possibility of going to Woodstock 2004 (before the fires of 1999, I assumed they were going to do this every 5 years until the end of the age). The inclusion of The Red Hot Chili Peppers 'Blood Sugar Sex Magic' is an interesting choice, and makes me think that the song selection for this album was an effort to relay a certain atmosphere about the festival to the consumer. I really like hearing Porno for Pyros and Primus from back in their hey-day, and it really does seem like all the heavy stuff is backloaded at the end of the Disc One. I'm also pretty sure that Gilbert Godfried introduced Nine Inch Nails. Disc Two starts out with Metallica doing a hokey 'let's get the crowd into this' routine. I still remember listening to their set at Woodstock '99 as it was broadcast live over the radio and being enthralled. I couldn't get enough of this stuff back then. The Neville Brothers definitely have a place in music lore, but I can not help but wonder why we enjoy listening to stuff like this at festivals as much as we do. A Neville Brothers-like musical act is at most every festival that you go to, unless your hitting up something real specific like Ozzfest. I do not understand this. And maybe it was different if you were in the audience that day, but Bob Dylan's performance is almost unlistenable. Pretty much the only thing I took away from Disc Two was the thought that it would have been cool to see Sheryl Crow back then when she was first starting out.
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