Had a blast at the Bash festival, but sadly the weather didn't hold out for us and Rancid only got to play a few songs before they called cancelled it. So here's my review:
Show starts as a 3 hour beer festival. For the price to include a beer fest with maybe 25 or so microbreweries (each with 2-4 different beers to sample) was pretty awesome, but was surprised there was a 10 taste limit. I did not expect that but it turned out to be unneccesary. You could buy more tickets for tastes, but the breweries didn't like this. All but one asked for a ticket, so as I got lower I stopped offering the tickets and just got the beer. They also had a hard stop 4pm. The breweries wanted to empty their kegs and we were definitely willing to help but a staff guy went to all the kegs and cut them off as everyone complained. I guess rules are rules, but it seemed like neither the customers nor the breweries wanted it. Oh well. This was a fun couple hours so those minor complaints didn't ruin a thing for me.
The venue was pretty cool, it's a recently abandoned racetrack for drag racing. I had lots of friends who would go there with their cars to spec them out. Cool if you are into that, I am not so had never been here, but it was interesting since it was clearly old and not used in some time. The had the beer festival outside the stands in the parking lot next to the track and the stage was inside between the two stands and the pit was at the end of the roadway for the drag races. Kind of cool if you ask me. And since it was GA, you could sit in the stands or go in the pit, security was loose here and it was really nice.
Now the show started with Madball. Actually thought they were better than I expected. I didn't think I'd find any of it enjoyable but a couple songs were alright. The sound was terrible but that's kind of expected for an outdoor punk show. Once they ended was when the show started to have weather issues. Literally one dark cloud came over the venue and they called for a delay and told everyone to leave the venue (lots of metal with the stairs and former track so I guess if there is lightning, you wouldn't want to be there). Kind of odd to leave the venue, espeically when they continued to server (now you had to buy) beer. Boought a few with the friends and we went to their car to chill. A solid hour delay and it never rained.
L7 came on while we were still waiting outside, I guess the sound of music was the alert that we could go back in. I actually didn't watch them at all, once inside I was just chilling with my friends for a bit during their set. I really have no comment on them.
Then came Suicidal Tendencies. Like Madball, not totally my music, but I found their set to be fun. The singer is really into it. I've seen them before last year opening for the Misfits. They didn't sound terribly tight with guitars going in and out, but its hardcore and it works for this music. You get the crowd worked up and they did. I'm not going to be buying their albums or going to their shows, but I respect them still doing this for so long. I remember first listening to them as a kid and thinking they were an old school band then
Then came Pennywise. I really enjoyed their set. I watched from the stands to start and felt like I finally wanted to feel the rush. Got right into the pit and felt at home. I haven't listened to them in years but I felt like I knew all the songs (I didn't but I did know more than I expected). Singer sounded great and overall, the band sounded tight. I didn't think I'd enjoy them this much. Here is a timestamped moment, the best moment of this show for me, where the mosh pit gets wild:
Pennywise - Society LIVE timestamped for crazy mosh pit moment 
And then came the rain as they played their last song. Another short delay as it was light and stopped quickly. At least it actually rained this time. Rancid finally came on as it was now dark out. Sucked sooo hard as they sounded good and were just started when during a song the speakers just started alerting and they had to stop and said there would be another weather delay. This time it downpoured hard though. It did stop after like 20 minutes, but when I emerged back onto the field, security stated the show is over. That sucked big time as that was the one badn I really wanted to see and only got a small taste. It felt like if they just didnt have that first delay then Rancid would have been able to play their set on time. Instead we got lots of delays and a cancellation.
At the end of the day, the concert and day were a ton of fun so hard to bitch about losing 40 minutes of that day, but it is what it is. I wasn't even going to go for sure so making a full fun day out of this was worth it.
On a side note, it totally sucked getting out of there as the place is kind of remote so all us Uber folk got stuck hanging out for awhile so one guy and I hotboxed an old ticket sales booth for the racetrack
maybe the funnest part of the night really and totally random and cool. Security came by after to tell us not to go inside as he went into the same box to lock it and had to of had gotten a contact high
Anyway, here's my full video documenting the entire day:
The Bash Beer and Music Festival featuring Rancid, Pennywise, Suicidal Tendencies, and Madball
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