Yup! No restrictions - you just save some dollars by committing to buying 3-days at once.
YAY SOMEONE HELPED AND IT WAS THE ANSWER I WAS HOPING FOR.
Thank you!
Tagged Posts: summerfest
May 2nd
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A Summerfest 3-day pass is just like having three General Admission tickets, right? Like, it doesn’t have any before 4pm restrictions or anything, does it?
July 9th
Here are some bad pictures I took when I saw Death Cab for Cutie on Thursday. Despite getting to the stage two hours before the show we didn’t get a good spot for actually seeing the stage, but instead we managed to snatch up a picnic table behind the sound booth and right in front of this screen. I have no problem with sitting at a table instead of standing on the bleachers for an hour and a half.
July 6th
Journal Sentinel has its Death Cab review up:
Death Cab for Cutie
Sensitivity can be risky business at the Harley-Davidson Roadhouse.
Ben Gibbard may have gotten an abrupt education on that point Thursday night. The Death Cab for Cutie frontman opened the band’s set by coming on stage with an acoustic guitar to open the show with “I Will Follow You Into the Dark.” Leaving aside for a moment the oddity of opening an outdoor rock festival set with a somber tune about death, Gibbard seemed to be doing fine until about halfway through the set, when Mat Kearney cranked it up next door at the Miller Lite Oasis.
Wisely, Gibbard called for reinforcements, and two tunes later the whole band was grinding through that long, thumping bass intro for “I Will Possess Your Heart.” Gibbard also reverted to the outsize physicality that rules at Summerfest, shaking his moppish hair and even employing an occasional knee drop.
The bulging crowd was clearly delighted, but it’s worth asking whether a band with a varied palette like Death Cab doesn’t work best in a more intimate setting.
Opening with I Will Follow You Into the Dark was definitely odd, and I forgot all about the issues with music from the other nearby stage was interfering a bit, though it seemed to me to be worst in the beginning (I wasn’t sure if that was just a consequence of where we were sitting or the stage, since I’ve never watched a headliner at this stage before, but apparently not).
I think as a band you’re probably in an interesting position playing a festival. Even if you’re really popular or have been around a long time, if you’re playing a ground stage you’re going to have people around who might not even know who you are, who came for an earlier band or no particular band. I think maybe they have a point about Death Cab working better in an intimate setting, but really, I’d say it was a good show and I enjoyed it despite not being acquainted with all their albums. And they’re not a bad band to hear on a warm, dark night with bats flying overhead and cars passing on the freeway.
WENT TO SUMMERFEST.
SAW DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE AND THEY WERE PRETTY GREAT.
WORE MY VLOGBROTHERS SHIRT AND AS I WAS LEAVING A BOY IN A NERDFIGHTER SHIRT CALLED OUT DFTBA TO ME.
NERDFIGHTER BOY SORRY I DIDN’T STOP TO TALK TO YOU OR ANYTHING BUT I WAS WITH PEOPLE AND WE WERE LEAVING BUT YOUR GREETING WAS APPRECIATED.
sorry it’s a capsy sort of night
April 6th
Not particularly excited about Summerfest headliners (Grounds / Amphitheater) announced thus far. I’m happy to see Ben Folds on there though I just saw him a year ago.
Have they always announced headliners without even announcing stages or anything? I can’t really even begin to figure out what bands I can actually see.
August 2nd
Speaking of panoramas, I tried to take a big one at Germanfest but it didn’t quite work because I didn’t like them up right. But I got these two smaller ones that turned out okay.
July 7th
Can I take a moment to express my fierce jealousy toward this Summerfest attendee? I think the reasons for my jealousy go without saying.
Another video from my Summerfest escapades — the intro to and most of the song “Dark Horses” which will be on Switchfoot’s next album.
Sounds great. I’m looking forward to Vice Verses.
July 6th
I SAW SWITCHFOOT. They’re my favorite band and I haven’t seen them in several years now. I was especially pumped since their latest album, Hello Hurricane, is one of my favorite Switchfoot albums ever and I wanted to hear stuff from it.
The rest of my Summerfest experience sucked (packed buses, long lines, including half an hour wait in line to buy tickets and it was starting to drizzle…), but the band sounded great. Jon’s voice was probably better than I’d ever heard it and it’s awesome to hear a song like Stars playing at an outdoor venue like this.
This is as much of the set list as I can remember for those who care about that sort of thing (the order may not be correct):
Mess of Me (from Hello Hurricane)
Stars (from Nothing is Sound)
Oh! Gravity (from Oh! Gravity)
Sabotage (Beastie Boys cover)
This Is Your Life (from The Beautiful Letdown)
Happy Is a Yuppie Word/Free (from Nothing Is Sound/Hello Hurricane)
Your Love Is a Song (from Hello Hurricane)
Dark Horses (from the upcoming Vice Verses)
Meant to Live (from The Beautiful Letdown)
Awakening (from Oh! Gravity)
The Sound (from Hello Hurricane)
Encores (yes, they decided on a whim to do four instead of two):
Needle and Haystack Life (from Oh! Gravity)
Gone (from The Beautiful Letdown)
Afterlife (from Vice Verses)
Dare You To Move (from The Beautiful Letdown)
