The trolls are back! OK then.
@Kc musician: This piece is from my nightlife column in the print issue. The reason it took two days for your angry, beady little eyes to read it is that the column doesn't go live online until the day we ship the week's issue. Also, you seem like a gross, sad troll!
@Rob Rasher: This is a nightlife column. Part of the point is for it to be boozy.
@the show was...: Sorry you wasted three minutes of what I can only assume is a very rich, fulfilling life. Also, no, I did not forget what I was covering. You know how you can tell? Because of the title of the story, and because of how everything in it relates to things that happened at this year's Pitch Music Awards.
@Burt Turner: Good job of not participating!
Dead girls played to 15 people at Coda counting the two bartenders the Sat before this event.
New rule. If your band won an award in your category last year, you can't be nominated again for three years. That would show us what kind of scene we have.
If I knew it was this kind of party I'd stick my dick in the mashed potatoes.
I don't know who's posting as "Rob Rasher", but I want to be clear these are not my comments. -Bob Asher
See! Look at how important and special this event is! And how much it helps the local musicians! I'm so happy to know the same band lost the same category for five years. What were we going for again?
Maybe you guys can trot out the same shit next year, jerk each other off and I won't participate then either.
Good coverage, especially about you and Don Draper. Maybe you forgot what you were covering? Here's your award; best waste of 3 minutes writing a story.
Maybe you should send a non-alcoholic reporter to cover your biggest music event of the year?
Seriously, it took you two days to puke out this horseshit and put up two lousy pictures?
If they'd add a big name band or two to the plaza arts festival it'd be blow up and turning an even larger boon for the economy.
There are plenty of things Louisville has that I wish KC had (in a nutshell: they have much better bars, much better architecture, their Cordish disaster seems to be slightly less disastrous than ours, and they have Churchill Downs if you're into that sort of thing. In our favor, the Z-Man is a whole lot better than the Hot Brown.). But I don't envy them a freaking music festival. I love live music, but holy Jesus do I ever hate music festivals. As Sid says, if I want to go see Neko Case or Wilco, I'll go see Neko Case or Wilco. And if I want to discover new music, I'll read record reviews, listen to stuff, check out random stuff at the Record Bar that people seem excited about...none of which require me to stand in a big field full of sweaty people or wear a wristband while I hold spots in lines outside of bars like I'm waiting for the last tickle-me-Elmo doll. I mean, I guess it's good for journalists since you get to review a lot of stuff (and I suspect you get to jump some lines), but my interest in music fests pretty well disappeared along with my 20's.
"nastiest fast-food chain in the United States"?!?
I remember going to the blues and jazz fesitvals when I was little. It was an annual event for my family. What the hell happened to that thing?
I guess we have cockfest. If you are into methamphetamine, juggalos, muffin tops, bad tats and camel toe...
Are you actually FROM around here? If you were you would know Kansas City has had festivals even larger than the one you mention in the past, they all went bankrupt. The Kansas City Spirit Festival was around for 20 years. It died a slow and painful death from lack of civic and public support. There are many, many things that go into an event being competitive. Unfortunately, KC has very few of them.
I disagree with you on lots of points, and agree with a few, but the web is a stupid place to try to communicate. So instead let me say that if "Bassnectar or a Black Keys or a Wilco or a Jack White" play the Middle of the Map Fest, I'll stop going and covering it. My favourite festivals are the small ones (Sappy Fest in Sackville, NB or IndieTracks in Derbyshire, UK Emmaboda Festival Sweden). If I want to see Wilco, I can see them the six times a year they play within driving distance. No one is going to come to KC and put up with festival bullshit (aka stand at the edge of the stage for 8 hours without moving or you wont be close enough to see them when they do play) to see Wilco when they could see them the day before in Tulsa or Columbia, or 3 months earlier in KC at a nice low-drama venue.
I really enjoyed this column and couldn't agree more. I've been to Lollapalooza in Chicago three times and that festival brings so much excitement to the city. Lollapalooza is about more than music, in my opinion. Being in the city with all of the people (locals and out-of-towners), Chicago-style restaurants, unique bars, downtown hotels and after-parties make the weekend event special. I'm still hoping Kansas City can figure it out and create something that people will travel good distances to experience.
@lex: No, it's a nightlife column.
this is a review?
I put down a lot of eggs and bacon at the Waid's on Winner Road back in the old Northeast.
There was a waitres named Vanda there that was so well stacked, the pancakes would get jealous.
Re: “Tying one on at the 2012 Pitch Music Awards”
I care about the local music scene and read The Pitch to help keep up with it, so it's frustrating that this article about an awards show just reads like someone trying to convince their friends how cool they are. Seems like a missed opportunity for a more interesting article.