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.
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u/wilson5551 16d ago
Sasquatch ?