I wasn’t planning on going to this year’s ACL Festival. In fact, I’ve never gone. Apart from SXSW, I’m not a big festival guy. But, as has happened on occasion, Caryn Ganz from RollingStone.com convinced me cover it for her. (I owe her for this, so I have a hard time saying no.) And so, the “not a big festival guy” will end up attending three music festivals in the same city — I’m set for Fun Fun Fun Fest in November — in just over six months. You can find my coverage here, here, and here. After the jump, a couple of photos (not of bands — you can find plenty of others that would be better than faraway iPhone shots), and some bits and pieces that didn’t make it in.
One other thing: Girl Talk (aka Gregg Gillis and his computer) is apparently a big fan of local hip-hop, mixing Dorrough’s “Ice Cream Paint Job” and the GS Boyz’s “Do Da Stanky Legg” into his set. And just by typing that last sentence, I have proven I am still not that old.
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