Can you make the drive out there not as long next year?
Thanks beforehand.

What an epic event. Thank you all again for continuing to blow my mind with each event you produce. Priceless 2008 was no different. My only suggestions are these:

For a weekend festival, I prefer when the festival doesn't have any schizophrenia about whether it's a daytime or nighttime event. LiB does a particularly good job at this: they rock it out all day and into the early part of the night, but then everyone sleeps. Priceless has great stuff going all day and night, and it's hard to choose what to miss! It's a high-class problem to have, I know, but the reality is that I felt like there was a small drop in energy on Saturday night right after Seuss because most of the people seemed to be waiting for their favorite music to start at like 1:15AM. I wonder if simply reorganizing it so that people's favorite artists played earlier would have helped, leaving the (seemingly) less popular music for the late night?

My only other minor nit-pick is that, at one point on Saturday night I wanted a change of pace and went over to the "chill" space (you know, the place with the 100BPM speed limit sign) and finding PsyTrance. Loud, hard, and fast beats that were anything but chill. Perhaps the second area shouldn't be called a "chill" stage and should just be an "annex" stage? Still, I'd rather it be truly chill and know that there's always a retreat from the madness.

I look forward to next year!

Before I go any further, I want to make sure y'all know what a good experience I had this year- I felt very well taken care of and attended to and I thought everything sounded great and the lineup was mega-sick. Myriad props and thanks. :)

That said, while I was only there from Saturday night on, just looking at the schedule it looked like the balance programming-wise was a little better on Friday than Sat. I loved much of the music (Elliot Lipp- yowsah!) but myself and MANY others found ourselves wandering from the chill tent wanting something a bit more lively, only to find more of the same, or (ironically enough) blasted by really abrasive sounds in the wee hours. Quality music or not (and it all was), this proves very frustrating.

I am aware that at certain events, there is obviously a common thread that is unique to each one, and that, basically, it is just not possible to please everyone. And in the end, if the general steez musically isn't to someone's liking, perhaps they should consider that before coming out. That's fair enough as far as I'm concerned.......however, from a Libran Devil's Advocacy point of view, when taking into consideration the lineup AND the way its programmed, organizers are wise to keep in mind the general demographic and also that their own tastes and preferences are not necessarily mirrored by said attendees..........

I know, it's tricky. My range of friends is exactly like my range of musical interests- all over the goddamn place, and frankly, it can be a bitch sometimes. Many of you reading this fall on one side or the other of what I'm talking about, and lest we pretend the elephant chilling in the living room is imaginary, let's go there for a second: No matter which end of this little see-saw you fall on (some, though, are also in the middle, I know), let me be the first to tell you- you are not as open-minded about music as you think. And to whoever smiled at that, guess what- I'm talking to you, too. Take it from the Unintentional Double Agent: I strongly recommend that no matter what your preferred BPM range is (if you have one, that is), take a good, honest look at WHY you really feel the way you do about it.....you may be surprised at what turns up (or maybe not). Just a thought...... Look, I don't like getting hit over the head with 130+ bpm house/electro/breaks/whatever ALL NIGHT LONG. It's exhausting. Similarly, when I find myself at multi-system events and there is more than one (or worse, all of them) blasting downtempo, "glitch hop", or dubstep at the same time- for hours- I'm bored to tears after a while.

Lots of people were murmuring about this sort of thing during and after this weekend. And again, trust me- some/lots of you were on one end of the argument or the other. To those people, I say this: I agree with all of you. I also wanna say: Maybe try not being so fucking snobby and biased about your musical druthers- not everyone likes the shit you and your friends like, and one is not better than the other. *That is directed to ALL of you.* (Yes, you too.)

Nothin' but love, though. Really.

I know this thread is supposed to be for feedback for the organizers, and I know I rambled (sorry) and went a little beyond that, but I feel like this subject inevitably brings up things that need addressing where attendees are concerned, too. I wouldn't feel so inclined to pipe up if I didn't have a view from squarely in the middle- a place which can be both amusing and lonely. This particular elephant in this particular room is ready for it's close-up.

Respect.