Nateva Saturday!!

Saturday morning I woke up later than usual, around 10:45. I went to Nick's tent and hung out there for a little while before going to see Roots of Creation at the Music Hall. We left and headed for the end of Ryan Montbleau on the Maine Stage. John Brown's Body played next, and they were fun to listen to. They played "Among Them" which I enjoyed. Halfway through JBB I went to check out The McLovins. The McLovins are 15-17 years old, and they can cover Phish songs incredibly well. They were way to good to be that young! Kelci was done with her WET shift, so we met up in the Chair Room and headed back to her campsite so she could change and so we could grab some beers. We got back and ended up hanging out with the whole group in the campsite for a couple of hours, and I missed the entire Drive-By Truckers set, which I really wanted to catch, but I had fun! We made it just as She & Him started playing. She & Him were incredible yet again, of all the sets at Nateva, She & Him was probably the loudest. Zooey was looking just as beautiful as ever, and she rocked out to Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven". After She & Him Grizzly Bear opened with "Southern Point". I was right up front for Grizzly Bear with Sam and Max, and about halfway through the set Kelci came up and tapped me on the shoulder and I went back and joined her and Adam and Jen around the camera boom area. Grizzly Bear played Lullaby into Knife, which was incredible. It was amazing to see how much soul they put into their music, and its impressive just to listen to the things they can make their voices do. We left Grizzly Bear a little early to get front row for Sound Tribe Sector 9. STS9 opened with "Twilight" just as the sun began going down which was impressive in itself, and the show only got better from there. They had the best sound quality of the entire weekend, which was great after the disappointing sound at Waka. They played a good mix of old and new stuff, which I was excited about. This show was one of the highlights of the weekend for sure. The Flaming Lips were on after Sound Tribe, and Kelci and I went to get good spots while Sound Tribe was on their last song. We were on the left side of the stage about ten people back. They opened with "The Fear" with the naked girl dancing on the screen behind them, and Wayne and the rest walked out of the screen from her "flaming red lips". There was confetti everywhere, and massive balloons floating about the crowd. Wayne got into his giant hamster ball to roll around the crowd again, and Sam later told me that she got kneed in the face by Wayne as he was rolling about(Edit: it was actually Maxine who got kneed). They played "She Don't Use Jelly" into "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" which was very cool. They of course played "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" and followed this with "See the Leaves". They played lots of songs off their new album Embryonic, but mixed in lots of old favorites. They played "Taps" like they do at every concert until the war is over, and they ended the set with "Convinced of the Hex". For the encore they played "Do You Realize" again, I think this is their standard encore. Overall an incredible show, and everyone was surprised that hadn't seen them live before. After the show was over we went to meet up with everyone and see Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad play late night in the Port City Music Hall. GPDS was good once again, and EOTO was scheduled to play after. I left a before EOTO started to go get a good position for Toubab Krewe. I met up with Nick, James, and Abhi front row for Toubab Krewe. We were close enough to touch the instruments. Toubab Krewe was amazing! They're most well known for the instrument Justin plays called a Kora, which is a 21-string harp-lute from Africa. He also plays a smaller harp-lute with 12 strings. During the first song they couldn't get enough sound from the Kora, we could barely hear it being right in front of it. It turns out there was some sort of technical difficulty, and the Kora didn't work the whole night. This is the equivalent of say seeing Phish without anyone playing lead guitar. But Toubab Krewe was still able to put on an amazing show, and everyone left thinking that that was how it was supposed to be. They are amazing musicians, and I can't wait to see them again. I was dog tired during the set, so about halfway through I went and sat in the back for a little while before checking out EOTO for about ten minutes and going back to my tent to go to sleep. I was able to listen to Toubab Krewe from my tent as I fell asleep, which was very nice.