Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Kanye Takes On Bonnaroo

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I have friends who were at Bonnaroo (a music festival in TN) and they complained about Kanye's set. Well, Mr. West, never one to hold back has taken to his blog to hit back. Sounds like it was the officials at the festival who screwed over the fans, NOT Kanye.

Here's an portion of what Kanye wrote, click here for more.
LET'S BREAK DOWN THE WALLS ON THIS TRUMAN SHOW AND LET YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY OCCURRED!!! FOR OVER A MONTH WE WENT BACK AND FORTH ON WETHER OR NOT WE COULD EVEN FIT MY STAGE AT THE FESTIVAL. ONE DAY THEY WOULD SAY YES... WE'D SEND THEM OUR SPECS THEN THEY THEY'D SAY OK... THEN THEY WOULD SEND SPECS BACK THAT DIDN'T FIT THE STAGE. WE WERE OBVIOUSLY DEALING WITH FUCKING IDIOTS WHO DIDN'T REALLY HAVE THE CAPACITY TO REALLY PUT ON THIS SHOW PROPERLY. THEY TRIED 2 GIVE ME A TIME SLOT WERE IT WAS STILL LIGHT OUTSIDE ... I HAVE A FUCKING LIGHT SHOW DUMB ASS, IT'S NOT CALLED GLOW IN THE DARK FOR NO REASON SQUID BRAINS! MY PEOPLE WORKED OUT A COMPROMISED STAGE PLOT AND A 3AM TIME SLOT AND I AGREED. FAST FOWARD TO THE DAY OF THE SHOW. MY PRODUCTION MANAGER TRIED TO LOAD IN FOR 24 HOURS BEFORE I WENT ON STAGE BUT THE FESTIVAL WOULDN'T ALLOW US TO DO ANYTHING UNTILL PEARL JAM LEFT THE STAGE. PEARL JAM ENDED ONE HOUR
LATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AT THAT POINT WE'RE RACING AGAINST THE SUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AT 4:20AM DON COMES BACK 2 THE BUS AND TELLS ME, " IT WOULD TAKE 45 MORE MINUTES TO PUT ALL YOUR PYRO IN!" I SAY I HAVE TO GET OUT THERE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE . I HIT THE STAGE AND PEOPLE HAD BEEN THROWING SHIT ON THE STAGE...

4 comments:

Stacee said...

This was totally not his fault. People need to appreciate that he did the best he could given the fuckwads they had running the show.

atky2000 said...

i'm down with mr west, but i think he could have forseen this and planned accordingly.

it's part and parcel of his "by himself he so impressed" 'tude.

Unknown said...

I agree that it was pretty obvious the GITD stage wasn't going to work.

Anonymous said...

Hmmmm.... I'd say it was a failure on many parts. Light show or not most people don't go solely for the secondary, they want the music. Stage isn't going to work? Happens all the time. Pyro or lights don't function properly? Get over it. Ask a touring musician how often that crap comes up. Get off your high horse, stop being full of yourself, and get on stage.

Is Kanye talented? Yup. Batshit insane? Also yup.