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Festivals

Setlist History: The First Bonnaroo in 2002

In June 2002, the first Bonnaroo was held in a giant, unused "farm" about an hour's drive from Nashville, Tennessee. The 10,000 locals in Manchester, TN, where The Great Stage Park is located did not believe 70,000 music fans would pilgrimage to their town because the last time a huge festival was attempted it flopped miserably.Likewise, after watching the news reports from the disastrous Woodstock '99, why would sweet souls subject themselves to the violence and mayhem that occurred in New York just a few years previously?

Festivals

PowerTrip Could Make News If AC/DC Plays Some of These Hits

AC/DC has a chance to give the PowerTrip heavy metal music festival audience something special.The Aussie legends are slated to play the Saturday night (October 8) spot after Ozzy at the Polo Fields in Coachella and they could do something they haven't done in 32 years: play their highest charted hit single, 1990's "Moneytalks." At the end of the '80s, the masses weren't really buying new music from Angus, Malcom, Brian and the boys. After delivering one of the most popular albums in history with Back in Black in 1980, and the decent follow up, For Those About To Rock in '81, the rest of the '80s were more misses than hits for the hard rockers. Even their greatest hits/soundtrack album, 1986's Who Made Who seemed half baked.