Best Outdoor Summer Concert In Oregon/SW Washington?

I'm thinking the Blues Fest (LOTS there), Steely Dan, Ziggy Marley, or, perhaps, John Mayer.

What say you?

 

Bluesfest is cool. The Zoo has some good shows sometimes.

Also, every Thursday evening during the summer Esther Short has concerts. They've had some pretty good bands there too. If I remember right, the Steve Miller Band was there last year.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_I

 

Counter-culture and me don't jive.

 

EDM festivals

http://whatthefestival.com/

http://paradisofestival.com/

 

Have you been to those? I went to Paradiso in the Gorge a couple years back. It was like 3 day bender.

 

Yeah I was at Paradiso last year, 3 day bender is a good way to describe it.

 

Man I wish I was still young, but I'm not going to be 40ish guy out dancing with a bunch of 20-somethings. I still listen to EDM a ton, and still have my turntables and sound board.

 

Tiesto on June 28th would be awesome, and I see the Crystal Method is playing as well.

 

I definitely want to see Tiesto, just because he's the biggest. I was listening to some of his music from like 1993.. That guy has been doing this for a long time.

 

I've been listening to him since the mid-90s. My DJ style was along the lines of Tiesto and Paul Oakenfold. I wasn't nearly that good, LOL, but I like synths and trance and incorporated it with big drops. I still spin for my kids sometimes, but my wife actually is so over that music that I think she'd be fine never hearing EDM again.

I will say that using a PC these days makes it much easier to DJ. When I started, you were mixing vinyl.

 

Kansas at the Linn County Fair July 18th.

Foghat at River Rythms (free show) at Monteith Park on August 8th.

Both here in Albany.

 

Man, I'd love BOTH of those shows! Maybe see ya there.

I remember seeing Foghat @ the Memorial Coliseum. Sammy Hagar was their intro.

 

Got back from Paradiso at the Gorge Amphitheater last night. It was the most fun weekend of my life so far.. so many people and all of them are just as happy as can be.

 

I saw Jack Johnson out at the Gorge..fucking dope.

 

In an unrelated note, 100 people OD'd on MOLLY over the weekend at Paradisio.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/...so-Festival-Gorge-Amphitheatre-213783041.html

[video=youtube;reAZiJlEuL8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reAZiJlEuL8[/video]

 

From that article:

What? There's no cocaine, LSD, or meth in molly.. And when those things or other drugs are mixed with molly that's what makes it ecstasy.

Molly is pure MDMA, this is a poorly researched and written article.

 

And I definitely heard that song a couple times!

 

Vanilla, how was the Tiesto set on Friday?

 

I'm guessing the hospital visits had more to do with dehydration than anything else. E makes you sweat like a beast, and when it's already 90 degrees out, you need to be sucking down water, because you body is doing everything it can to flush the MDMA out of it. A gallon every few hours wouldn't be too much on a hot day of dancing and using E.