Saturday question #8: Dream Festival
Written on March 28, 2009 in Saturday Questions & with 32 responses
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Welcome to the eighth edition of Saturday questions.
You're curating a fictional festival and you can invite anyone you want. What's your line-up?
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My perfect lineup for a concert? It would start with RHCP, for an hour and a half set. Then the White Stripes would play for an hour. The Foo Fighters would take up where the Stripes left off, and play for an hour. Dave Matthews band would do a set. After that all of them would get on stage at once and play something...hopefully turning into an insane jam.
I know the last part would never really happen....but a guy can dream...plus, its fictional
My setlist:
rage against the machine
red hot chili peppers
warpaint
JOHN FRUSCIANTE
only the thought of such a festival makes my crazy
but his albums makes my already verry happy 
i've seen the Peppers already, but if i get a chance to see a live show of john... than i don't know, I think i can't believe it
First the supporting acts:
1. Megadeth, 2.Opeth, 3.Metallica, 4.Radiohead, 5. Green Day....each playing 3 songs only for Green Day to play two more.
And then the Chili Peppers will enlighten the stage as the headliners with a 2 hour setlist and numerous improvisations....
To wrap up the day,John would play "Anne" with an acoustic guitar.........
My Setlist:
RHCP
Manic Street Preachers
John Frusciante
Coldplay
Thomas Dybdahl
Arctic Monkeys
The Who
Michael Jackson
New Order
The Killers
Well, first of all John and the RHCP. Then John Mayer, Radiohead, and Blur. Oh, and Kispál és a Borz but I don't think anyone knows them
Iva, why don't you answer the questions too? What's your line-up?
Very good Question;)
Day1
Dizzee Rascal
Bernard Allison
Walter Trout
Aphex Twin
NeonNeon
Popa Chubby
Marcus Miller
Headliner: Led Zeppelin
Day2
Dinosaur Jr
Roger Chapman
Tony Levin
Wolfgang Haffner
Victor Wooten
Siouxsie and the Banshees
B.B. King
Headliner: The Mars Volta
Day3
Talking Heads
Can
Kraftwerk
Captain Beefheart
Van der Graaf Generator
Extrawelt
Venetian Snares
Zechs Marquise
Headliner: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Okay, absolute fantasy here, but bear with me, haha.
John Frusciante starts out with an awesome acoustic set, then he would play ALL of the Empyrean. Every song. Including the bonus tracks, because they are awesome.
State Radio would play with their patented awesome energy
Zappa Plays Zappa would feature Vai, Napoleon Murphy Brock and Terry Bozzio
Jeff Beck, because he changed rock music forever and I still haven't seen him and he might die soon
Return to Forever would play a seriously energetic set, and Al Di Meola would play an acoustic set right after, then Chick Corea would do his solo stuff too
Chickenfoot would play their hearts off, with at least one sick Chad Smith drum solo, then
Joe Satriani would play on his own, and sing to us his beautiful guitar melodies
Eric Clapton would set up a few songs himself, then Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce would step up and do a few Cream songs with him
Pearl Jam would smash everyone's faces with their awesomeness,
Velvet Revolver would reveal their singer was Chris Cornell all the time and play an awesome set
Liquid Tension Experiment would play their entire second album, before being joined by the rest of Dream Theater
The Bicycle Thief would re-unite and Johnny Fru would join Josh and lay some awesome solos in there
The headliners would, of course, be RHCP with a 9000+ hour set
And for an encore, Jimi Hendrix would come back from the dead and play with them. And I would die of happiness.
i would make a festival in my living room in front of 5 people with the following bands:
- Talking Heads
- Funkadelic
- King Crimson
- Helge Schneider
- Fugazi
- The Clash
- Wu-Tang Clan
- Frank Zappa
- M.I.A.
- Kazik Na Zywo
- The Cure
and then John Frusciante performing the whole "The Empyrean" album
followed by an allstar jam feat. Damo Suzuki, Buckethead and me (xD) as special guests...
i would play triangle...
well day one would start off with
fever ray
a place to bury strangers
radiohead
tv on the radio... and to top off the day a
pavement reunion
second day would be
circle jerks
cat power
primus
tool
and end the day with a half acoustic solo/half electric band john frusciante set
third day
jane's addiction
the evens
animal collective
yeah yeah yeahs
and a fugazi reunion playing every song they ever wrote
okay ahah here we go
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(in no order)
coldplay
david bowie
daft punk
jimi hendrix;)
john frusciante
kings of leon
radiohead
sly and the family stone
jack johnson
mgmt
oasis
pink floyd
nirvana
wolfmother
red hot chili peppers (headliners
Well, my dream festival would last at least 7 days
And the performers: Lily Allen [every night!], RHCP, John, Nine Inch Nails, The Mars Volta, Queens of the stone age, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Foo Fighters, Bruce Springsteen, Client, A Perfect circle, Duffy, REM, Auf der Maur, Jane's addiction, Faith no more, Manic street preachers, Mogwai, Mudhoney, Sonic Youth, Nine Black Alps, The White Stripes.....
Well, it'd start off around lunch time with:
Acoustic Afternoon:
Eagles
Fleetwood Mac
John Frusciante
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Then an Evening of Rock:
Queens of the Stone Age
Foo Fighters
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Then a Psychedellic Night:
Dream Theater
Genesis
Muse
Pink Floyd
The day after, Floyd would do Dark Side of the Moon with John as a guest, and then John would do The Empyrean with Gilmour as a guest.
Well, I guess that all of the dream festivals mentioned before me would be cool to visit.
But here's mine:
1st day:
Morrissey
Bon Iver
The Shins
Fleet Foxes
And finally Jose Gonzalez would make my day.
2nd day:
U2
Dave Matthews
Foo Fighters
The Mars Volta
Red Hot Chili Peppers
And finally John Frusciante
SATURDAY: Greenday open with a 45 minute set
Radiohead play for 30 mins and finish with ''just'' cause its amazing
Blur would then play for 30mins
Manic Street Preachers would then play for 40 mins then there would be a 10 minute break with free drink and t shirts of the bands
Paramore would play for 30 minutes and then they would jam with Blur just for fun.
The Offspring would then play a stunning hour set and the chilli's would finish the night with a 2 hour set including songs from the Hillel albums cause they all rule to. (;
SUNDAY: Muse would open with knights of kydonia and would play for an hour then some guitar improv from Matt.
Audioslave would re-unite just for this show and would play for an hour
poor Tom would have to keep playing cause Rage Against the Machine would then play for an hour and finish with an extended ''Killing in the Name of''
Linkin Park would play their heaviest set ever for 45minutes.
John would then play a 2 hour acoustic set then he would bring out his jag and effects pedal for unreachable and then the choir would come and help him with Dark/Light.
The lights would then go out and the Chilli's would finish of again with a 3 hour set that would be recorded for a DVD/CD entitled ''The Best Show Of All Time''. It would be sold in HMV and would be given away for free to anyone who had a ticket to the show so they could see it again.Plus all money from it would go to charity.
IT WOULD RULE.
It would be......
1st Day:
Ben Harper
Zwan
Brendan Benson
2nd Day:
Rage Against The Machine
Muse
Nine Inch Nails
3rd Day:
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Mars Volta
Ataxia
Its all still possible!
that's an interesting question. well my line up will be: ( very long one!)
red hot chili peppers
the mars volta
funkadelic
sly stone
bootsy collins
joy division
josh klinghoffer ( with the chili peppers and john)
ataxia
fugazi
the circle jerks
the bombastic meatbats
chickenfoot
foo fighters
warpaint
johnny marr
bicycle thief
and the list go on.........
wel id have to have a tent show before the mainstage, those performers would be : daft punk. Wu-Tang Clan. micheal jackson. Floors and Walls.
then for the mainstage id have : rolling stones. RHCP. Ataxia.jimi hendrix.
then the show topped off by a full live performance of the empyrean, complete with an orcestra and choir. and of corse john Frusciante
Short Sets
Death Cab
The Shins
Arcade Fire
Libertines
The Gaslight Anthem
Yea Yeah Yeahs
Kings Of Leon
Long Sets
The Killers
Cajun Dance Party
The Strokes
Jakil
White Lies
The Cribs
Maximo Park
RHCP
Day One:
Megadeth
Metallica
Rage Against the Machine
Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath (with Ozzy)
Led Zeppelin
Day Two:
James Brown
Van Halen
Cream
Jimi Hendrix
Guns N Roses
Paul Simon
Day Three:
Lamb of God
Bloc Party
State Radio
Nirvana
RHCP (all songs in order of appearance)
John Frusciante (all songs, preferably a random shuffle, but must end with acoustic Your Pussys...)
The most similar line up to mine...I really donno why others dropped the heavy metal bands such as Metallica and Megadeth,so I'm very pleased to see you include them in your list...but let's not forget that RHCP are way ahead of all these bands,anyways.
red hot chili peppers
radiohead
yeah yeah yeahs
the white stripes
spinnerette
queens of the stone age
eagles of death metal
le tigre
mgmt
vampire weekend
against me!
tegan and sara
devendra banhart
regina spektor
the strokes
david bowie
and ataxia.
and fleet foxes.
Tool
King Crimson
Pink Floyd
John Frusciante
Omar Alfredo Rodriguez Lopez
The Mars Volta (ft. John Frusciante)
Just thinking about the concert makes me all giddy... too bad this is only a fictional set list
Day one:
Incubus
Portishead
Sigur Rós
P J Harvey
Ataxia
Nine Inch Nails
Day two:
Mark Lanegan
David Gilmour
Cat Power
Eric Avery
Omar A. Rodrigues-Lopez
John Frusciante
Day three:
Radiohead
R.E.M.
Travis
Coldplay
Warpaint
RHCP
my lineup, would be something like this
John Frusciante (performing Walls!)
Nico
Warpaint
John Cale
The Diary of IC Explura
RHCP of '85
Philip Glass
The dream set- will require the UN to shift their focus from world affairs and instead to egotistical primadonnas in order to make it happen but whatever
(I belive that there shouldn't be too many bands at once- makes you unable to appreciate the music fully)
1
Funkadelic
Depeche Mode
Pink Floyd (RIP Richard Wright)
2
Queens Of The Stone Age
Oasis
Led Zeppelin
3
The Mars Volta
The White Stripes
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Other acts could include
- The Who
- The Hives
- Muse
- Jack Johnson
- Donovan
- Dire Straits
- David Bowie
- Billy Joel
- Eric Clapton
- Bob Dylan
- Queen
- Paul Simon
And many more....
As for Frusciante (solo)- I don't want to see him performing a festival- I would rather have a string of club dates with different focus (his electronic stuff, acoustic, rock-etc) and finish it up with the Empyrean in all its glory- faithfuly accompanied by Klinghoffer, Flea, the New Dimension Singers and the Sonus Quartet.
Ataxia could possibly also play at the festival, but i'd rather see them doing two nights at som club- half jam, half with their released material (not separated by which night though)
PS-
Janis - I agree with you when it comes to Walls- amazing track!
Well, if it's a festival, it would have to last all day, so i would start it with something light like John Frusciante playing an acoustic set while there is still light, for about an hour, following would be Warpaint, after that it would be nice to hear Janes Addiction, while dawn we could have the Red Hot chili Peppers for a while... then two Chili Peppers would leave the stage leaving Flea and John with guest musicians to play The Empyrian!..... finalizing in a long jam with porevious musicians.... i wouldn´t need anyhing else after that.... i'm sure it would be awesome!!
hello to everyone, specially to John... from more than 20 years fan from Mexico who went to 2 Chili Peppers concerts down here and when there was a third concert and i didn´t go........ i crashed next day to near death on the road......... Mike Negrete
Dream Fest 09
Well I'm assuming that this doesnt only apply to current active bands, which means im very limited seeing as how RHCP isn't even current and active.
Night one
Thelonious Monster
ELO
Devo
Iron Maiden
Tom Petty
Bob Dylan (Headliner)
Night two
John Frusciante
Eagles of Death Metal
Elvis Costello
Nirvana
Jane's Addiction
RHCP (Headliner)
Night three
The Cure
The Cult
The Clash
The Doors
The Cars
The Beatles (Headliner)
Nine Inch Nails
RHCP
REM
Joe Lally
Neil Young
The Editors
Jane's Addiction
Placebo
The Jakeys (my band)
HEADLINER:
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
I will use people who are still living, that makes playing much easier.
This is just a one day event, spanning the entire day, let's say from 8:00a.m. to 12:00p.m.
Open:
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Show:
Peter Frampton
Pearl Jam
Foo Fighters
Journey (Pretend that Mr. Rollie rejoined and they played pre-Steve Perry Stuff)
Deep Purple (With Ritchie Blackmore Mach 3 I think?)
Boston
AC/DC
Interlude:
Buckethead (He can take up a lot of time to help with the flow of things
2nd Half
Aerosmith
Allmand Bros.
Tom Petty
Led Zeppelin (Mr Plant got things worked out)
Pink Floyd (They could use Mr Rollie on keyboards)
the Beatles (Eric Clapton -guitars, Paul McCartney -Vocals/Bass, Ringo -Drums)
Small stage.
Day 1:
13:50 - 14:35 Alamo Race Track
14:50 - 16:00 Beirut
16:15 - 17:00 !!!
17:15 - 18:00 Blood Red Shoes
18:15 - 20:05 Sigur Rós (with Amiina and brass band)
20:20 - 21:50 Ataxia
22:05 - 22:50 Low
23:00 - 04:00 The Mars Volta (John joins them on Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt)
Day 2:
12:30 - 13:15 Room Eleven
13:30 - 14:45 Bloc Party
15:00 - 16:00 Kanye West
16:15 - 18:30 John Frusciante
18:45 - 20:15 Joy Division
20:30 - 22:00 Röyksopp
22:15 - 23:45 Neutral Milk Hotel
00:00 - 01:15 The Clash
In the stadium next door:
01:30 - 03:45 Queen
Day 3:
12:15 - 13:15 Skik
13:30 - 14:20 C-mon & Kypski
14:35 - 15:25 Yann Tiersen
15:40 - 17:10 At The Drive-In
17:25 - 19:25 Talking Heads
19:40 - 21:00 Björk
21:15 - 22:50 Omar Rodriguez
23:05 - 00:00 The Dø
00:15 - 03:00 Red Hot Chili Peppers (with Omar Rodriguez & Josh Klinghoffer on Dosed)