The Festival Files: All Good
Story by: Leah Anderson
This summer might just prove to be a battle of the epic music festivals. After Bonnaroo and Coachella released incredibly impressive lineups, The All Good Music Festival followed suit this week and released an equally musically exciting lineup. Usually considered the underdog of music festivals, All Good has stepped up their game this year. Not only will they be hosting their traditional jam bands but they now have major names coming that should make any audiophile start packing for the mountains immediately. From July 8 through 11, All Good will be hosting Furthur, Widespread Panic, George Clinton and Parliament Funk, Umphrey’s McGee, Yonder Mountain String Band, Cornmeal, Lotus, The New Deal and Perpetual Groove, and others that will be announced in the coming weeks.
One of the most exciting bands included in the lineup is Further, a band consisting of Phil Lesh and Bob Weir formally of the Grateful Dead. With both Furthur and Dark Star Orchestra playing at All Good,I have a feeling we are all going to leave feeling like we hung out with the Dead for four days. Phil Lesh also just celebrated his 70th birthday, potentially making this Further/Dark Star treat a rare musical experience that deserves to be taken advantage of.
For those who do not know, All Good sets up shop on Marvin’s Mountaintop in Masonville, West Virginia and has the kind of views that provide the absolute ideal backdrop for a music festival like All Good. This amazing campsite is unlike others that you might venture to this summer in that you cannot camp near your car (less people booming trance at 5am from their Honda Civics) and most importantly the folks at All Good do not want you to miss a single show. This means that all shows are independent of each other and there is no set overlapping! So for four whole days an individual, with the means and the will, can see every single show performed at All Good. Long gone will be the nightmares of picking and choosing what to see at This stage or What stage at Bonnaroo. This just points to the kind of people who are behind All Good and how they feel about the music they are putting on: it is just too good to miss.
Just saw Furthur last night… Phil and Bobby are playing with more intensity than any post-Dead incarnation I’ve ever seen. The mixing and instruments sound like classic late 70s dead. I’m sure they’ll throw down a monster show at all good.. can’t wait.
Fyi guys, All Good just added (today, March 4) to their lineup:
Keller Williams & the Added Bonus
Bassnectar
Garage a Trois
The Travelin’ McCourys
Dr. Didg
Lee Boys
ALL GOOD 2010! This festival will sell out, it is going to be amazing last ten year less than 15,000 people went to all good. They are looking at 35,000 this year. If they would just add one major band…… STS9????????? Roger Waters doing The Wall? They also have to add Trampled by Turtles. See you all there. And all you people who think all good festival is sketchy… Stand up and go, because that is one less sketchy person there. And this is pretty much a Grateful Dead lineup, you really think we are thinking about stealing and violence. Come on. Its a festival in the Mountains in the middle of nowhere with people coming from every state in the country to camp side by side. Everyone respects each other. Buy Tix, get a friend to go and see you July 8 on the mountain!!!!! Drive speed limits, and don’t draw attention to us flocking there.
We heard all the hype about a bad element and it doesn’t faze us one bit. Saginaw MI will be represented by a select handful of good peoples. Can’t wait to see y’all there!