That
night Christopher Lawrence performed a set that completely blew the
crowd away. Not since Woodstock '99 had I seen a set move so many
people to the music in one unified vibe. The last time I had seen
this many people together under one festival roof was for Fat Boy
Slim's 1999 Woodstock performance in which approximately 100,000 people
came together in and around an old airplane hanger.
The vibe in the main tent for Christopher Lawrence reminded me of
that festival of two years ago. My best guess would be around 100
feet or so of tent length, completely packed with people, with a sound
system that was impressive, to say the least. Christopher played some
amazingly pounding trancy tracks that had the crowd completely lost
in the rhythm.
The lasers and visuals were also quite dazzling and completely synchronized
with the music. I would like to give major props to the laser company
that produced some of the best laser effects I have seen to date.
This would include the "laser girl" which was a female dancer
made from laser light that pranced about completely in tune to the
beat of the music. It was simply amazing.
Later, in this same tent, Fat Boy Slim came on board to show the
crowd why
he is one of the most charismatic DJs in the world. 
I am not talking
about Fat Boy Slim, the producer. I am speaking purely of his DJ-ing
style.
His first track out of the gate was "Halfway
between the gutter and the stars" track. Then, later on,
he mixed Daft Punk's "Da Funk" into a remix of Madonna's
"Music" causing the sing-a-long crowd to jump up and down,
singing the lyrics at the top of their lungs:
"Music makes the people come together
Never gonna stop
Music makes the bourgeoisie and the rebel
Never gonna stop"
Can you even begin to imagine thousands of people singing to this
in unison, with FBS on deck wiggling his ass and obviously enjoying
the hell out of it all? Wow, the memory still gets me excited.
Basically, the crowd completely lost it. It was exciting to see so
many people dancing and not lounging around as you would expect after
being at a festival all day long. I mean, these people should have
been completely exhausted by now, but the damn mix was just too good
to do anything else but dance.
Fat Boy Slim mixed in some of his most popular productions off the
"You've Come a Long Way Baby" album like the "Illin
In Heaven" and "The Rockafeller Skank".
All
in all it was an incredible experience. We ended our night with watching
Jane's Addiction and singing to all the
old songs like "Jane Says" and "The Mountain Song".
It was everything you would expect from the band and more, including
some great magical effects like lead singer Perry Farrell popping
up seemingly out of nowhere in the middle of the crowd on top of a
tower scaffold. The mix of dance crowd, rock lovers and hippies was
interesting to say the least.
My only gripe was at the end of a day, between flying from Atlanta
to being overly stimulated by music and crowds, finding our rental
car in a sea of automobiles over acres of parking was not the most
pleasant thing to do at 2 am. Yes, I did say 2 am. That was as long
as we lasted from all the fun.
