Posted by Brian Waters
Langerado :: 03.08 :: Big Cypress :: Florida
After receive a little over four hours of sleep due to the Langerado wind punching my tent last night, I promised to not turn this blog a lack of sleep, weather man bash blog. There are always enough topics to mention about at a hippie festival and on a strange note, this one is about fashion. It's a sad day for sunglasses enthusiast, during the third day of the Langerado festival it was apparent that the aviator's era has pasted. It is believe that the ex champ the ray bans sunglasses have taken the back over with Bob Dylan coaching from the ring corner. Ray bans beat out the aviators at least five to one with support from artist and festival goers like in this new ultraviolet trend. Let us not forget our aviators though, we had some great times together. I will always remember the time together when we went to the lake house in 2005, the years of surviving Bonnaroo without a scratch, and who could forget the classic pictures created with the reflection off the shades. So do not throw away your aviators in haste just because they have a scuffed on one side. Keep them to show your kids when they are old enough or maybe the triumph comeback of the aviators in a few years, which ever comes first.
Today might be the sturdiest line up of shows for Langerado. After reenacting the Beastie Boys set with better sound in my dreams, I was ready for a nonstop line up of shows. Blitzen Trapper would be the first show that most people would stumble into being the closes to the Langerado gates. Blitzen Trapper was a good example of the festival lineup becoming more diverse than the jam band scene. Performing a majority of songs from their new album "Wild Mountain Nation", Blitzen Trapper provided mellow western sound that made the crowd forget about the terrors of mother nature put us to sleep with the night before. I would much rather Blitzen Trapper sing me a lullaby any night over the everglades' storms, which is an open invitation to the band. Blitzen Trapper is playing at The Exit/In in Nashville
The Bad Plus from appearance looks like a high school band teacher, Tom York's brother, and that uncle that shaved his head before he went bald. The blending the trio made for a distinctive, classical three piece collaboration with a mixture of original songs and covers. It was disappointing when The Bad Plus did not cover "Iron Man" by Birmingham like previous shows, but they perform a cover of "Blondie" was refreshing.
The first let down of the day would be the last minute cancellation of the Avett Brothers. As five hundred fans stood waiting, cheering at the sound check of a stand up bass ended with a roadie come out later announce that the Avett Brothers had canceled. Suddenly, as if one person yelled out Arrested Development, the entire crowd walked to the Sunset Stage. The crowd slowly learned that the possible secret of youth could lie in sounds of positive hip hop, while watching seventy five year old could Baba Oje pumping up the crowd supporting an African garnet. When they played the song "Tennessee" , for a second I became homesick, but this instantly went away when remembering about the five inches of snow on the ground in Nashville Tennessee
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