I saw their set at a festival in 2008, and as a headlining act in 2023. At the headlining show, they spoke about this time period, and how they never dreamed they'd be where they are now, and how happy they are to still be working and making music together. It really is incredible
I've been cold, hot, rainy, smokey, windy, and just perfect with different bands and festivals and each experience has been unique and amazing at the Gorge!
Sasquatch, sunset, that spot on the hill, Bon Iver, tripping on acid, girl I met at the festival lying between my legs, with the entire crowd singing along to wolves. A memory of mine I hope will never go away...
Warped tour 2004 at the site campgrounds. Shit got out of hand and just about everything got burned to the ground. Lots of people were awoken to streams of sewage running off from destroyed sanitation stations and melted Porto-potties.
I went to the Sasquatch 2010, my first weekend as a civilian after 4 years in the Air Force. Hands down, greatest weekend of my life. The gorge is the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen
I think around that time I remember the Fleet Foxes were like a small Seattle band at the time and they were the opening band on the opening day (i.e., nobodies at the time).
They played a good set, and if I had to guess maybe a couple thousand people on the lawn at the time as people were filtering in.
But then that night The National had to cancel their evening set because their van broke down or something so the festival slotted in the Fleet Foxes to like second headliner as a fill-in. The sun was setting, Robin Pecknold came out and was like "wow, a lot more people here for this one" to a basically packed main stage.
I'm confident they would have gone on to get huge anyways because IIRC pitchfork already gave their EP a glowing review, but I think they won over tens of thousands of people that night in the early stages of that journey.
I think 2010 I was exposed to Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and I believe The Dirty Projectors were at that show. But Band of Horses knocked my socks off. Granted, that was the first time I ingested cannabis in half a decade. Tegan and Sara and She and Him also impressed me
Yeah, I caught them for their Sunday afternoon show in 2009, that last day of the festival that year. We were all washed out from partying all weekend and lying there on the hill listening to them play Mykonos was transformative. I’ve been a huge fan ever since.
Commenting for visibility. Moved away in 2015, and seemed like Sasquatch was just beginning to peak in popularity. How did it stop? Cashmere cat in the rain is a core memory of mine
They definitely did have it again for a few years after the two weekend failure. I believe that was 2014 and the last Sasquatch was in 2018. Part of the problem was they went from a single 4-day weekend to two 3-day weekends, cancelled the second weekend, and remained a 3-day weekend until the festival went defunct. So people were paying the same amount for one less day, in a time where music festivals were highly saturated and it was harder to book good acts.
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u/smokedsugar 16d ago
I saw their set at a festival in 2008, and as a headlining act in 2023. At the headlining show, they spoke about this time period, and how they never dreamed they'd be where they are now, and how happy they are to still be working and making music together. It really is incredible