The big headliners for day 2 of ACL was Dave Matthews and Ghostland Observatory. Eric and I were torn as to which headliner we wanted to see (since they played at the same time). Eric really wanted to see Ghostland and I really wanted to see Dave. I love Dave Matthews and tried to go see them years ago but the show got cancelled, so I was looking forward to seeing them again.
Ghostland Observatory is a band from the Austin area and they play here a lot. And usually tickets to Dave Matthews are pretty expensive at least compared to Ghostland. So we developed a plan and worked it out to see both bands. Since Ghostland would be playing from 8:00 to 9:30 and Dave was going to Play from 8:00 to 10:00, we would go see Ghostland first for a little while and then go see the last half of Dave.
Well it didn’t quite work out that way.... Because I was so grossed out by the mud and the restroom line was so long I decided to ‘hold it’ and wait to use the restroom at home. I then started to be in so much pain that we didn’t know how long we (or should I say I) was going to last for the rest of the day at ACL. Eric said we could just go see Dave Matthews. So we went to Dave and stood kinda towards the back and I wasn’t that impressed. Maybe because we were towards the back and I couldn't hear that great or maybe because we were towards the back and I couldn’t see that great (even the big screens) I just didn’t enjoy the show as much as I would have hoped. I was so bummed out! After about 4 songs I said we could go.
Ghostland was playing on a stage near our exit, so as we exited we stopped and listened to Ghostland for a few songs (as long as I could stand it). Ghostland put on WAY better show than Dave (I cant’ believe I said that). Ghostland is kind of techno dance music but with singing. One song they even had the entire UT marching band on stage doing the instrumental part It was really fun to dance too. I wish that we could have stayed longer to hear them (but I had to go, literally!). I tried to get pictures of Ghostland because even though we were late we got a pretty good spot off to the side, but the my battery on my camera started to die.
Even though my face is chopped in half on this pic it still cracks me up every time I see it!
The Group:
These are the best pictures I got of Dave Matthews playing since we were so far back. But I love them since you see Austin's famous Frost Tower all lit up in the back ground.
Me, Christy, and Albert watching Dave:
Aww that' a better picture:
Eric dancin' to Dave:
The Dave Matthew's Band: Official ACL Set List:
Don't Drink The Water
You Might Die Trying
Funny The Way It Is
Seven
So Damn Lucky
Shake Me Like A Monkey
Why I Am
Jimi Thing
Spaceman
Corn Bread
Burning Down The House (Talking Heads Cover)
So Much To Say
Anyone Seen The Bridge
Too Much (Tease)
Ants Marching
Two Step
Band Bio:
From their first gig at an Earth Day festival and their early days on the traveling H.O.R.D.E. Festival to their current status as the hardest-touring summer act since the Grateful Dead — not to mention frontman Dave Matthews’ status as the fourth performing board member of Farm Aid — the Dave Matthews Band is practically synonymous with festivals and outdoor concerts. A hero of the jam band nation, Matthews and his jazz/rock fusion outfit, formed in Charlottesville, Va., can be counted on not to stick to a formula. You want samplings from this June’s, Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King? Odds are good. You want “Tripping Billies,” “Crash Into Me,” “What Would You Say,” “Ants Marching” or his feverish cover of “All Along the Watchtower”? You might get lucky, but keep an open mind, because this band’s got a vast repertoire and isn’t given to delivering rote versions of the same old hits. Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, violinist Boyd Tinsley and drummer Carter Beauford, along with sax player Jeff Coffin of Béla Fleck’s Flecktones (replacing LeRoi “Groogrux” Moore, who died last year from injuries sustained in an ATV accident) and trumpeter Rashawn Ross, are given to flights of sonic fancy marked by the kind of tightness that only bands on a telepathic wavelength can achieve night after night.
Ghostland Observatory:
Band Bio:
Already legends in their hometown of Austin, the duo of Aaron Behrens and Thomas Ross Turner melds guitars, sequencers and programmed beats into a white-hot mix of punk rock, digitized funk and techno. Taking cues from disparate influences ranging from Daft Punk to Jerry Lee Lewis to Queen, Ghostland Observatory delivers with sweat and screams. Studio albums include 2005’s delete.delete.i.eat.meat, 2006’s Paparazzi Lightning and last year’s Robotique Majestique, but Ghostland’s calling card remains its high-energy live shows — a cathartic experience for the duo and their devotional crowds alike. And don’t be fooled by the act’s reputation for incorporating over-the-top light shows into their festival showcases; far from being a smoke and mirrors distraction, all those lasers are merely techno-gravy ladled onto the duo’s already explosive dynamic. Singer/guitarist Behrens may well be one of the most electrifying frontmen in rock working today, and the deceptively reserved-looking Turner is a veritable mad scientist behind his bank of keyboards, cooking up one sky-rattling jam after another.
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