Comments on: 2007 Pitchfork Festival or How I learned to step in poop and still have an amazing time

By: Wotown

Wotown — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:19:01 +0000

Well maybe the Allman Brothers should have lent Pitchfork their sound guy. Touring bands who are used to indoor venues (capacity say 500 to 2,000) can’t be expected to magically know how to coax the best sound out of a huge outdoor park.

That said, I think ALL outdoor shows sound pretty assy.

By: Johnny Bravo

Johnny Bravo — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:34:38 +0000

The sound system had nothing to do with the “bad sound” of the festival. 99% of it had to do with the engineers that came with the bands. The Sound system used on the “A” stage was the same one used for the Allman Brothers tours for years. Unfortuneatly, when you have inexperienced “hole in the wall bar” engineers at the helm, “Garbage in” equated to “Garbage out”. I also questioned if most of the bands even knew how to conduct their stage volumes for an event like that. Some of them had WAY TOO LOUD stage volumes while others whispered like mice.Pitchfork fest is really “amateur fest”…..produced by amateurs and performed by amateurs. You can only blame the person at the wheel for bad driving, not the car.

By: hotshotrobot

hotshotrobot — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:30:38 +0000

No one needs to hear that much metal that loudly, ever.

This statement is just plain flat-out wrong.

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:22:12 +0000

Eh, of Montreal Schmof Montreal, I’d have been listening to Malkmus do Pavement songs. My best friend went to the festival and said Mastodon were great. I mean, what’s not to love about “Cut You Up with a Linoleum Knife”???

By: JoshD

JoshD — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:36:51 +0000

Hipsters still aren’t hip enough for Yoko?

I lol’ed.