I am the maddest motherf**ker on earth...
Meshell was scheduled to play River Stages ( an annual weekend long orgy
of bands held here in Nashville ) this past weekend. She was to go on after
Travis, who ended up being an hour and a half late going on, essentially
playing in her time slot. After they were finished with their set it was
another fourty five minutes until Meshell took the stage, but I didn't care,
I was going to get to see Meshell do her thing and I was excited. ( she was
the only reason I bought the freakin' ticket... ) Three songs into her set,
one of the stage hands comes out and whispers something into her ear that
pisses her off so bad that she takes her bass, throws it down on the ground,
and walks off stage with the rest of the band in tow. A split second later
some local radio yokel introduces Gov't Mule on the second stage and they
launch into their set. The only explaination that I can come up with is that
they must have cut her off in the interest of time. The whole deal had to be
over with at a certain time and there were still three more bands to go after
Gov't Mule. I was so pissed off that I left. She was the only soul / r&b
artist amongst the onslought of three chord rock that dominated the weekend,
and she gets clipped short because a bunch of scottish cats can't show up on
time? Please...
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