{"id":1825,"date":"2007-09-15T13:23:49","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T18:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2007\/09\/15\/acl-2007-day-1-recap\/"},"modified":"2007-09-15T13:23:49","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T18:23:49","slug":"acl-2007-day-1-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/acl-2007-day-1-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL 2007 Day 1 Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thechunk\/1387107001\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1387107001_1a538f7c46.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/images\/2007\/09\/1387107001_1a538f7c46.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinist.com\">Austinist <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/blogs\/content\/shared-gen\/blogs\/austin\/music\/index.html\">the Statesman<\/a> have got many more feet on the ground and they don&#8217;t have kids, so go there for the full coverage. Here&#8217;s my bullet point take:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We brought coozies for the cans this year only to find that they&#8217;d done away with cans and switched to cups. Why? I can&#8217;t think that they&#8217;re better from an environmental sense. It&#8217;s aluminum versus plastic. Did they get a better deal on kegs? It was much easier to carry the cans around. Maybe they&#8217;re trying to cut down on beer consumption? Anyone?\n<li>Gotan Project seems to be the consensus winner of Friday.\n<li>Queens of the Stone Age were good.\n<li>LCD Soundsystem isn&#8217;t my bag generally, but they were good.\n<li>We liked checking out Reverend Horton Heat, but they were drowned out by Kaiser Chiefs and what was up with the cover medley? Play your own stuff.\n<li>Bjork was a good closer. I&#8217;d never seen her before. Very orchestral.\n<li>It was damn crowded yesterday. We arrived at 3:30 to a mob trying to enter. That&#8217;s the first time that I&#8217;ve waited to get in to the festival.\n<li>They should bring back the patrolling festival staff to kick people off the beach who don&#8217;t have kids. It was a welcome respite for families in past years and there were a lot of jerks stealing chairs without asking.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austinist and the Statesman have got many more feet on the ground and they don&#8217;t have kids, so go there for the full coverage. Here&#8217;s my bullet point take: We brought coozies for the cans this year only to find that they&#8217;d done away with cans and switched to cups. Why? I can&#8217;t think that <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/acl-2007-day-1-recap\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-tr","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}