This is Funk

coachella...mmmm...good times among hippies, hipsters and overpriced Heineken. This was my first year there and I have to say that there will definitely be a second. Through a bit of good luck my friend had an extra ticket to day 2 and 3 so I spent a 48 hour period watching some of the best shows I've seen so far. Highlights-Cold War Kids rocked, I think The Shout Out Louds are going to help me kick my Cure habit. -Portishead- "It's like I'm going through a really trippy horror-movie carnival and Beth Gibbons is the leading me through to the other side" -(loosely paraphrased)- Jim James of My Morning Jacket{they also rocked}. Also, if you've never listened to Yoav, do give him a chance, if you're into trippy-mellow rock, give him a chance, you will not be disappointed.
Just in case anyone that was there reads this I would like to state, for the record, that my buddy was the guy in the first 10 rows that randomly barreled through the crowd halfway through Roger Water's first set. I was the guy following in tow. That was one of the more action packed moments of the whole Coachella experience. Roger Waters...what can I say but pillars of fire, giant pig balloon and Dark Side of the Moon in it's entirety. I'm not going to lie to you, I get a little teary-eyed when Wish You Were Here comes on...that's enough of that then...
Also, I would like to apologize to the families of the people that I crippled while dancing like a spastic during the Gogol Bordello and Justice sets. Their loss provided my entertainment so, you know...um sorry for the crippling. Other than my random limb flailing goodness Justice rocked the...tent...and Gogol Bordello made an entire crowd succumb to exhaustion using only pure rock-energy. Eugene Hütz and your rocking Giseppe mustache>. Those were probably my two favorite sets next to the headliners.
Last but never least, Prince! Brilliant Performer, brilliant Guitarist and Radiohead fan? He did a set so good that I'm still babbling about it to random internet strangers. Not only did he have a set that included Morris Day and the Time, Sheila E, and some of the sickest guitar riffs possible, he still he topped it with covers of "Come Together" and "Creep". He owned the crowd and left all but the haters thoroughly satisfied.
I have very little else to say other than that the week-long exhaustion and 5 hour round trip was more than worth it. The End.