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1). At no recent ACL has the balance of the day's 60,000 festival-goers been as skewed to one side of Zilker Park as on Sunday. And Saturday, for that matter, but wait a second for that. On Sunday, 80 percent of the remaining crowd clogged the east side of the park since Foo Fighters has the final performance slot all to themselves on the AT&T Stage ... and three hours earlier, Blues Traveler (of all bands, why that one?) made the Dell Stage seem like the place to be despite horrible sound while Okkervil River put on a much more satisfying set on the park's west side on the AT&T Blue Room Stage. At one point during MGMT's performance on that same stage on Saturday, the throng was so solid all the way back to the knoll to the west of Rock Island that pedestrian flow completely stopped. Why MGMT? Who knows? Its set was about as compelling as Blues Traveler's ... 2). Speaking of sound: Only the Dell Stage's Sunday programming seemed to have any major mixing-board issues. Everything else sounded great all three days, particularly for a large outdoor festival. No technical demons like the post-Queens of the Stone Age fuzziness that plagued the AMD Stage at ACL 2007 reared up. 3). The Rock Island Hideaway had plastic lounge chairs, cable-spool bar tables and even a few couches underneath a temporary shed for those wishing to escape the sun and the sound. But the biggest attraction there wasn't any of that, nor was it the wine bar in one corner. It was the trio of flat-screen televisions that kept those interested up to date on important goings-on in the broadcast world -- you know, like Friday's presidential debate and Saturday's University of Texas at Austin-versus-University of Arkansas football game. Neither of those events drew the most people inside, though (and it wasn't simply finding shade, either; the Hideaway never became packed to the gills as in past years); that honor went to Sunday's NFL game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Redskins. The 'boys rallied late but lost by two points. |
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