The Black Crowes
Jazz Aspen Snowmass Festival
Aspen, Colorado
September 5, 2010Sting Me
Jealous Again
Twice As Hard
Soul Singing
Wiser Time
Poor Elijah (Tribute To Johnson)
Oh Josephine
Thorn In My Pride
Hard To Handle
She Talks To Angels
Been a Long Time (Waiting On Love)
It's nice to have goals in life. They inspire people to push themselves. If you're a professional Black Crowes fan, it's probably safe to say that hitting the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Festival was not one of the goals you laid out on your tour itinerary for 2010. Festivals are like eating Chinese food - you walk away knowing you consumed something pretty good but you just don't quite feel satisfied. You might as well walk around, enjoy the day, buy your sweetheart a lemonade and check out some of the sights and smells because if you're hoping for Dirty Hair Halo to show up in the set, you're going to be kicking dirt and walking angrily back to your car. Stop expecting those things to happen at festivals for your own health, and for the sake of everyone else, stop whining about it when it doesn't happen.
Yes, there were times in the past when the band would play a festival set to please no one but themselves. And guess what, half the people were looking around going "Huh?" There may have been a few dozen stoned weirdos in the crowd who had shit eating grins plastered across their faces but these days the point is to please as many people as possible, and that's why you don't get sets like this at festivals anymore.
So we're not going to spend any time breaking this one down because you wouldn't get anything out of it even if we did. We're not going to address the fact that Skynyrd was the headliner. Wait, we just did. Those of you who like to follow Gorman on the Twitter already know he took in the Wilco show the night before and described it thusly: Watching Wilco in Snowmass. Wow. Seriously- this is ridiculous.
Those of you who read birdcage liners like US Magazine and watch garbage like Entertainment Tonight are probably more interested in gossipy tidbits like this. We didn't find it particularly interesting but we did notice the wine list at Matsuhisa. One bottle in particular caught our eye - Clos d'Ambonnay 1995 - which just happens to go for $9000 a pop. Waiter, we'll take two. By the way, Ambonnay is a village in the Montagne de Reims, France. Speaking of France and 1995, did anybody happen to be at this show? And if so, do you have a tape? Let us know.
In any case, we're headed to Mescalero, New Mexico...but before we go, we leave you with a photo compilation below that someone was kind enough to put together and throw up on the YouTube.
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