Dexfest Saturday!!

Saturday morning I woke up pretty early, around 9, and went to the pool for awhile. After relaxing a bit and taking a little nap from 12:30 to almost 2, I headed down to mainstage to see Greenhouse Lounge. They put on a really good show, and their drummer absolutely blew me away. I hope they are able to do a Shreveport show. After that was a group called Deep Fried 5. I found my friends and set my mat down next to them again and took a little nap during Deep Fried 5 and Charlie P. After Charlie P was a band called Agobi Project. They sounded very similar to STS9, but their guitarist was actually better. They put on a great show, and they had some great songs. I recommend listening to them. After that I went and grabbed a bite to eat before Papadosio came on. I had heard of Papadosio before, but never heard any of their music. They had probably one of the best sets of the whole weekend. They drew in a huge crowd, especially considering it was only 8 o'clock. Papadosio is another band I really recommend listening to. They're like a jamband mixed with electronic and dance. They are going to be at All Good and Camp Bisco, where I definitely plan on catching their set. After Papadosio was a rapper called Count Bass D. He was a pretty good rapper, and he was old, he said he was born in '77. Even though he was pretty good and had some good beats, the large crowd that was at Papadosio disappeared for the most part. After Count Bass D was DJ Kidsmeal. DJ Kidsmeal had performed with a couple of the bands the day before, and I was impressed with his turntable abilities. He brought the crowd back up to a pretty big size, and for good reason. He had a great DJ set, mixing dubstep, rap, jam, reggae, and everything in between. After DJ Kidsmeal was Conspirator. Conspirator consists of Marc Brownstein and Aron Magner of the Disco Biscuts, so I was surprised when I saw a third person on drums. It turned out to be Lane Shaw of Pnuma Trio. Marc Brownstein was absloutely amazing to watch. He jammed out on bass, and danced the whole time. At one point he said "When we were asked to do Dexfest, I was like'seriously?', but I got here about 10 hours ago, and this is one of the best festivals I've been to all summer. Don't ya'll wish The Disco Biscuts were playing? Maybe next year, but I'll be here for sure next year, even if I'm not playing!" and he was right, Dexfest was incredible. I spent a good amount of time watching the live art installations in front of the mainstage during Conspirator, and almost bought one, but didn't have enough cash on me. Conspirator played a good mix of music, starting out sounding alot like Disco Biscuts since there was a drummer, but for about the last 30 minutes it was just Marc and Aron playing. I was pretty tired after that, but I went to the Pavilion stage to check Arpetrio for a little bit. He had played some sick dubstep, and had a really cool visualizer. After watching a little of that I went to my tent, but couldn't fall asleep so I got to hear Bowie Van Ling's set on mainstage, and the beginning of MINDELIXIR. MINDELIXIR was really good, and I want to check out more of their music. I finally fell asleep sometime around 4:30am.

Dexfest Thursday!!

After I got my camp set up and took a nap I went to go see The Malah at 10:15 on the Main Stage. Since I was VIP I was able to go backstage and watch the show from the side of the stage. They also had a keg of Yazoo beer set up for the VIP, and it was actually really good beer. The Malah put on a good show, and they were followed by Big Gigantic. I had seen Big Gigantic once before when they opened for Rusko in New Orleans, and knew it would be a good show. For this show they brought out another keg, this time it was an ale that was dark, but really good. Big Gigantic played a good variety of music, everything from dubsteb to trance that sounded similar to Disco Biscuts. After that was a group called LABCOAT: Two Fresh, Bookworm, & Jables. This was a DJ set, and each DJ had a turn spinning, and then at the end they all got up together. After this show I went back to my tent and listened to the beginning of EP3 before falling asleep around 5am.

Chattanooga to Dexfest

Wednesday morning I woke up around 11am and packed up camp pretty quickly and made it to downtown Chattanooga by noon. Once I found a parking place among all the construction and Riverbend traffic I headed for the Moon Pie store. Riverbend is a small annual arts and music festival in Chattanooga similar to Red River Revel. The Moon Pie store was a little underwhelming. Now don't get me wrong, I love Moon Pies, but I was expecting more than a small store within a bookstore with gelato. I bought some Moon Pies and a book and an R/C Cola and headed toward my car. On the way I enjoyed the "workingman's lunch" of the early 1900s which consists of a 5 cent Moon Pie and 5 cent bottle of R/C. I headed for the other side of the river to go to Rock/Creek outfitters. I looked around there for a while and then got on the road for Knoxville. Once in Knoxville I found a Borders to use wifi at and stayed there for almost four hours reading and using their wifi to download the new True Blood episode. I then continued onward toward Panther Creek State Park right outside of Morristown. I ran an extension cord into my car and watched the True Blood episode, which was just as great as last season, and crawled into my backseat to sleep. I awoke around 7:30am and walked to the showers. After cleaning up I drove around the park and found a 2 mile hiking trail down to the lake. I took it down and saw soo many beautiful sites along the way. I passed a teacher training for the Appalachian Trail who could not believe that I was hiking barefoot. I saw many different kinds of birds, and even some butterflies. After I made it back to my car I hung around the overlook reading my book for awhile before heading to Morristown to pick up a package my dad sent. In it were gift cards to Outback, Cracker Barrel, Barnes & Noble, and Visa, some candy, and my dads amazing cookies. I then headed south to a Cracker Barrel to use my new card. After eating I headed for Dexfest snout 20 min away. I got there, upgraded to VIP and got my campsite set up before 5 o'clock. I have an amazing spot right between the stages and vendors. I am probably 200 yards from the main stage, and I'm in the shade! After meeting some people I took a little nap in my camper for about 2 hours, and now I'm fixing to go see The Malah and Big Gigantic. Dexfest looks like it's going to be a pretty awesome festival!