Craven. Ohhhh Craven ... how you've let us rock and roll guys down. There are a lot of great reasons to go to Craven. I think we all know the main one ... it was listed in Playboy as the third best event to get some action in the world!!! (I don't have any proof of that but I remember hearing that somewhere) .... the parties, the camaraderie, the shenanigans and skull duggery are all enough reason to go to the jamboree. But, let's be honest ... the reason people end up buying tickets, is because of the entertainment. And when you absolutely despise country music ... its tough to make it an annual event you want to attend.
Lets go back three or four years when it was Rock in the Valley. Three nights featuring some of the best bands at the time ... one night of great Canadian rock n roll, one night of the classics, and one night of big bands!
The weekend started with Sum 41 and 54:40 who always put on a great show. Saturday drew in the older crowd with Nazareth and ZZ top, and the weekend ended with Evanescence and Seether (best show of the weekend: Seether).
Funniest moment of the whole weekend: ZZ top gets up there to play ... and their lead singer Billy Gibbons tries to get the crowd into it by saying "Its great to be in ...... (long awkward pause)!!" The guy was so blasted he didn't even know where he was!! Then, just when you thought it couldn't get worse, he looks over to one of his roadies who yells, "Canada"! Billy then, after that long awkward pause, yells "Canada"!! It was awesome, they didn't even know what country they were in!
You just don't get that kind of entertainment with country music!! I understand that the only way they could ever sell out Craven is with a country music format because country music has a huge target demographic. I just miss the days when Rock in the Valley drew in 13,000 people, everybody got drunk like they do now, but the only difference was they weren't afraid to go watch the bands!!
Ok, back to ripping on Craven ... Bottom line, country music is evil! Quite possibly the worst thing that could ever happen to radio, is country music. I know that's how things started and everything, but, country music is terrible. Sure there's a ton of hot country music singers who have won awards ... but that was at country music awards and country music is terrible. Yes, I know George Straight is a big deal and has put out the most singles ever or something like that ... it doesn't really matter because country music is terrible. In fact, I feel sorry for the people who got forced into going to Craven for the partying, because they had to put up with country music, which is terrible.
To sum up this blog, Country Music is terrible. I hate Craven.
1 comment:
I get the feeling from reading this that you don't like country music. I'll take it any day over the some of the "noise pollution" that tries to pass as rock and roll today. You can run it down all you want but the bottom line is it's here to stay, like it or not. Testament to that are the very events like Craven that sell thousands of tickets and had people already buying tickets for next year as they left this year. Also the tens of thousands of people that go to see country concerts in western Canada every year. George straight, Keith Urban, Brooks and Dunn, Alan Jackson...etc.. sell out places like Credit Union Centre and the saddledome like nothing. You say country music is evil. Listen to some shit band like The Lamb of God and it's pretty obvious what genre of music is evil. By the way...what was there, like 700 people at the big default concert in an arena that can seat 3500 hundred or 4000 for a show. "nuff said, yer welcome.
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