When We Were Young Festival (Las Vegas) Tour • Page 198

If they did it two days in a row it was on purpose

 

The last time I saw them at Warped Tour he trolled the crowd by having them chant "fuck donald trump" and then him saying that he actually likes Donald trump and that he is a smart business man. He is similar to Ronnie radke that he likes to start shit and knows others will talk about it on social media.

 

Bert just feels like someone that will get cancelled eventually. On stage alone he comes across badly. And judging by what Quinn has alluded to, his upcoming book is going to shed some light too.

 

The Used is the only band I’m aware of getting cut off. In my experience, all of the bands seemed to have their own approach - either playing the full album (or most of it) or simply playing a set that at least heavily favored said album. Nobody was rushing through their set, though.

It all felt totally normal and I personally didn’t see or hear anyone complaining at any of the sets I attended. I think most people understood the time/logistical constraints of it and just seemed to be enjoying the experience. Lots of smiling, singing along, etc., even during the sets that weren’t doing a strict album play through.

That said, the crowds were massive, so I’m sure somewhere in there some people were bummed out at certain points, but that definitely didn’t seem like the prevailing sentiment.

 

YUP I was wrong. You can tell by his screams - they’ve never sounded like that live and around 2:52 he’d never be able to hit that high note and sound like that. Embarrassing stuff.

 

He stinks!

 

I guess I had it in my head that bands had 30-40 min set times, which cuts off potentially 3-4 songs if you had a shorter set, but it doesn’t sound like anyone had to cut *that* much short. so I think my broader question is did they do anything differently to give the average bands more time to play a full album (or most of one+others) compared to warped which cut off everyone at 30, or was there a correlation between bands with shorter sets not playing full albums? I haven’t gone either year so I’m just trying to reconcile what all seemed like logistical impossibilities with what sounds like a generally successful experience.

 

From the outside looking in it seems like bands were asked to play albums and no thought was gone into how long those albums were. Maybe don't ask Coheed to play a 70+ minute album?

 

from Mike’s ama from a few weeks ago, bands weren’t asked. They were told what they were playing, and they were told after agreeing to play wwwy.

 

Have fewer bands, give everyone more time. It wasn't rocket science.

 

They must've been paying a ton of money for bands to not pitch a huge fit about that. I know a few still did, but still.

 

hahahahahahaha

 

What’s so funny?

 

all of it. they just keep getting worse and worse live, haha.

 

Genuinely one of the worst live bands

 

That was pretty standard TBS. At least we know they aren’t lip synching haha

 

"Pretty standard TBS" isn't a good excuse. If anyone should be lip syncing, it should probably be them haha.

 

I'm hearing some pretty rough reviews to the lame crowds this year. Little to no moshing, or even movement at all. I'm glad I went in 2023 then

 

Moshing is overrated. *shrugs*

 

I saw The Used open for Taking Back Sunday and Blink 182 20 years ago and The Used were hands down the best of the three live. Good to know it's only gotten worse.

 

mcr was so good! I was so tired though lol.

got to see all the bands I loved in 2010 (boys like girls we the kings the maine even hey monday despite the underwhelming set). v happy

saw all of the above + mayday parade, the used (great), silverstein (one of the best sets), we the kings (great but still mad about august is over >:)) saves the day, a bit of nada surf, snippets of jimmy and hawthorne

I watched a bit of the starting line and felt bad for Kenny. clearly didn't want to be there but was trying to put on a show regardless.

 

I would never rate a crowd by the amount of moshing, I'm not 14 years old

 

Made a shirt for Saturday and had a great time at UO’s set!

Overall great day, Stay What You Are was my favorite of it all - but holy cow an I out on festivals now. Too many people.

 

I went both days and have bruises from the pits I was in, but definetly I expected more and bigger ones. Still had a blast tho! Easy to move around and grab a good spot for almost every set

 

It’s a long day. Everyone’s feet hurt and it got hot around mid day. The crowds were fine lol