Nothing got your keyboards buzzing like Kanye West’s controversial 4:30 a.m. Bonnaroo set this week. Here are the three best reader commentaries:
“Hendrix played at 6 a.m. at Woodstock. Since when did all you rockers have a bedtime? Staying up all night to watch the seminal rap artist of the age play a sunrise set is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I’m sure some lame hippies were selling uppers. Learn how to live. Barcelona’s Sonar Fest — the world’s premier avant music fest — doesn’t even get going until 3am!” — Ray LeMoine
“What’s the worst thing about this whole issue? Many of us missed amazing shows because we believed that Kanye was going to do something we had never seen before. Hello, the Flaming Lips last year at Bonnaroo had a glowing SPACESHIP, and the lasers and lights were out of this world. Kanye’s show was just okay. Considering that most people took the candy about an hour before he was SET to come on, most of the people there were coming DOWN by the time he was coming ON… and since it was suppossed to be ‘GLOW IN THE DARK’… it was RUINED by the fact that the SUN came up after what, his fourth song? Really? Bonnaroo? It’s becoming to mainstream and commercial, and all about money… Expect them to either crumble next year or go back to their roots. Either way, unless the lineup is amazing, I won’t be paying for a ticket.” — Luxxe
“So, Phil Lesh, who is 68 and prostate cancer and hepatitis C survivor had to cut the setbreak out of his show and play three hours straight for this? And he got up the next day and played a ninety minute acoustic set? They should rename Kanye’s ’space opera’ Blows In the Dark…” — IV

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