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A deep 🧵 on @moporobbie music: I will be taking a brief respite from what has been 6 months of focus on the #RussianInvasion & support for #Ukraine to announce some #MotionPotion stuff. Honestly feeling crappy since 🇺🇦 gets no breaks & very little to hear other than shelling.
2) The timing is awful since 50+ #Azovstal defenders, some of the modern world's most heroic warriors were murdered recently in order to cover up the fact that they had been abused & tortured by the #Russianterrorists. & here I sit, safe & sound in 🇺🇸 posting about music. 😰
3) Please be patient with me & know that this brief detour back to the person I have been for 25 years: a musician, DJ & event world professional, is in no way distracting me from the needs of the brave humans fighting for my freedom & way of life in Ukraine. My 💙 is with you.
#outsidelands was interesting this year (I'm skipping today, though I'm bummed about that). On one hand it was a big celebration of TheBeforeTimes. A vaccinated crowd outdoors in a highly-vaccinated city might be the equation that works.
I certainly hope so. For a lot of people (including a lot of the artists who played), this was what they've been waiting almost 2 years for. A chance to play to a real crowd. A chance to be in a real crowd. A chance to shout "I've Got ASS!" with 50,000 @Lizzo fans.
A number of acts mentioned that this was their first gig back (and in a couple cases, their only gig of 2021). The sense of sheer joy in the crowd over the fact that we get to do this again was palpable.
The classic SF weather (SUN! then extra beautiful FOG!!) certainly helped.
The classic SF weather (SUN! then extra beautiful FOG!!) certainly helped.
The Strokes headlined Day One of #outsidelands and had some controversial things to say about San Francisco. sfgate.com/culture-events…
Bad sound plagued the set, which singer Julian Casablancas complained about in the middle of opening song "The End Has No End."
The crowd roared in agreement when he called it "crazy low"
