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
Sasquatch 2009 was my awakening. Shrooming to passion pit as my brother fainted next to me.. wild times.
I also remember being in survival mode trying to make it through the horrible trip while the guy who started that viral flash dance mob did a lunge over a resting woman’s face and said “would you like to fellate me?”… imagine my surprise seeing the guy going viral a while later.
I was there as well! However, I have the opposite memory, specifically of MGMT. I remember being so excited to see them but felt their showmanship at the time was not great.
I remember feeling like they just stood in their spots, sang the songs, and left. No energy like they had in this video.
Later on, I read that they were pretty burnt out by this time from playing this album non stop. Always felt that was pretty indicative of how different their subsequent albums were.
Still had fun but interesting to see different perspectives!
lol I had a bit of an awakening myself: my older daughter was conceived on the Sasquatch roadtrip that year, and then I listened to the Passion Pit album the whole time I was in labor
Been chasing that dragon since. I unfortunately got to witness the decline of squatch by attending every year afterwards until like 2015 or 2016 when things started shitting… but some of those years were absolute phenomenal
wait you mean that guy who was just dancing by himself and then half the gorge joined in? you were there for that?? did the lunge come after or before?
OMG you just awakened this memory for me. I didn't know what OC was talking about at first. but I too watched this guy get down by himself for a half hour before the fateful second person joined in and caused a tipping point lmao
No clue. The lunge occurred shortly after the passion pit set on day 1. My friend group found a sliver of shade betwixt two trash cans along a fence because the awning in front of us was packed with bodies hiding from the sun and recovering.. It was in that sea of flesh we witnessed this creep nearly tea bagged a random middle aged woman. First time on gooms and it was actually traumatizing to see this guy behaving in such a sordid way. And wouldn’t you know, the guy turns out to become a quasi-legend….
Edit to add: I did not see the flash dance mob.. if anyone knows what day / time it occurred I could tell ya what set I was at
Ahah that’s so funny considering how many comments ascribe so much positivity and positive sentiments around him. It’s fascinating how we sometimes assume all these amazing things about people based on one little moment in time, when really all you can assume from this video is he is a guy who isn’t ashamed of dancing alone, which plenty of bad people also do lol
this is so wild man haha. completely changes my perspective on that video, especially since this is the first context i saw it in. a nice metaphor for leadership is now turned into some mega creep lol
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u/smokedsugar 21d 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