Terrastock
posted by Kong on October 16, 2002
I spent the weekend in Boston at Terrastock.
I saw lots of great bands (check out my photos).
It was a psych fest - which is really a pretty useless term, since the music ranged from pop to acoustic hippie jams to ambient drones to Marshall stack freak outs.
Best Band: Kinski. Sort of like a muscular Sonic Youth. Noisy, with a lot of effects, but incredibly tight arrangements almost reminding me of Helmet at times (without the yelling). Just astounding live. These guys will be popular next year.
Major Stars were also great. Hawkwind style psych that was just perfect. I cheered the loudest for them.
Seeing Sonic Youth in a club was also pretty great (they played the new album, in the lp sequence).
One thing missing at a psych festival: drugs. Basically it was a lot of long hairs drinking beers. I didn't even smell marijuana for christ's sake.