Open Thread: Outside Lands
On Monday, San Francisco’s Outside Lands Music Festival will drop its 2009 lineup. Until then, the festival’s Ranger Dave, aka Twitter, be teasing us with “hints” pertaining to this year’s lineup. So, we figured now would be an appropriate to time open things up, take a stab at these hints (see our thoughts in red), and provide you an area to voice your hopes and predictions.
As it stands now, Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, and Beastie Boys look to be this year’s headliners, while The Mars Volta, TV on the Radio, and Midnite are three names currently independently confirmed.
Now, onto the hints…
- “Ranger Dave’s ears are burning”
- “Ranger Dave may ask you for a light and leak a juicy lineup on you”
- “Ranger Dave is doing his AM flexes” = The Morning Benders
- “Ranger Dave wishes this bird could fly” = The Dodos
- “Ranger Dave is a well-toned accident”
- “Ranger Dave is researching planetary wattage at the California Academy of Sciences” = The Mars Volta
- “Ranger Dave loves his pussycat Delilah”
- “Although the mustache never moves, Ranger Dave is always dancing on the inside”
- “Ranger Dave likes it dirty with handcuffs” = Kinky
- “Ranger Dave loves old Chuck Norris movies” = M.I.A. (Missing in Action)
- “Ranger Dave has finally awoke from a slumber to sunshine and morning dew” = Why? (Notice the album cover)
- “Ranger Dave can sometimes be painful and illegitimate” = Heartless Bastards
- “Ranger Dave misses his St. Croix roots” = Midnite
- “Ranger Dave is a child of the 70’s” = Cold War Kids
- “Ranger Dave is daydreaming of Chincoteague”
- “Despite his name, Ranger Dave is alive and well as a forecaster” = The Dead Weather
- “Ranger Dave will show you how to march” = Dave Matthews Band?
- “Ranger Dave needs to clean out his earwax” = Q-Tip/The Roots
- “Ranger Dave is having beers at the Park Chalet” = The Mermen
- “Ranger Dave says hold onto your wallets folks, these bandits are gonna steal the show” = Gogol Bordello
- “Ranger Dave is dodging the tucson tumbleweeds” = Calexico
- “Ranger Dave has the creeping suspicion that things are not as they seem” = Dave Matthews Band?
- “Ranger Dave drives an el camino in the west” = Grandady/Jason Lytle
- “Ranger Dave flies planes with his eyes closed” = Blind Pilot
- “Ranger Dave says there is no camping in Golden Gate Park”
- “Ranger Dave’s iphone is charging on his clock radio. Good night” = Apples in Stereo
- “Ranger Dave is drinking blue bottle coffee to start his sunday morning”
- “Ranger Dave is reading the Fremont Argus” = Ween?
- “Ranger Dave thinks that woolly mammoths have habited the outside lands in the past” = Matsodon
- “Ranger Dave just twisted his ankle in Speedway Meadow”
- “Ranger Dave is a fan of Robert De Niro”
- “Ranger Dave spent time in the redwoods studying banana slugs”
- “Ranger Dave is thinking about tire country”
- “Ranger Dave remembers the Justice League on Divisadero”
- “Ranger Dave has eliminated all Aedes mosquitos from Stow Lake”
Hat tip to the Coachella Boarders, the Lolla Boarders and Ants Marching…
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Does anyone know what time the official lineup will be posted 2mrw?
Got beaten twice this year by “Big Ten Basketball” - The Spartans
GO GREEN!
“Big 12 Basketball”- The Jayhawks
Check out SFGate.com right now. They are running an Outside Lands ad early. Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews, Beastie Boys, Modest Mouse, Ween, Mars Volta, Black Eyed Peas, Jason Mraz, M.I.A, Thievery Corporation
Camper Van Beethoven has to be the most famous Santa Cruz band, right?
Another notable Santa Cruz band is Comets on Fire, but they’re sort of on hiatus at the moment, so who knows… they played the Sup Pop festival last summer though.
Ranger Dave thinks that woolly mammoths have habited the outside lands in the past. - Widespread Panic
Ranger Dave spent time in the redwoods studying banana slugs.
Banana slugs = santa cruz.
Famous alumni singers - Brett Dennen (more likely) or Dead Kennedys (Jello Biafra)
“Ranger Dave’s ears are burning” - Whitest Boy Alive?
I’m telling you guys, children of the 70s is Mike Watt, possibly with Ed. The Cold War lasted from the 40s to the 90s.
And how many times do we have to guess Tom Jones? Dallas69’s needs more attention…
Ranger Dave is a fan of Robert De Niro. = Deerhunter
The fact that you added “Lolla Boarders” to the hat tip mention makes me very happy.
or Decemberists “Red Right Ankle”
Ranger Dave just twisted his ankle in Speedway Meadow. = “Ankle Injuries” = Fujiya & Miyagi
“Ranger Dave says hold onto your wallets folks, these bandits are gonna steal the show”
Thievery Corporation?
“Ranger Dave loves his pussycat Delilah”
Tom Jones? haha
Ranger Dave thinks that woolly mammoths have habited the outside lands in the past. = Mastodon
“Ranger Dave has the creeping suspicion that things are not as they seem” = DMB
this is a lyric straight from “the stone”
“Ranger Dave will show you how to march” = The Walkmen
Good guesses everyone. Updated with the most recent hints.
“Ranger Dave says hold onto your wallets folks, these bandits are gonna steal the show” = gogol bordello
although the bandit link is there, thievery has never been known to steal a show….gogol has.
Ranger Dave is reading the Fremont Argus. = WEEN
“Ranger Dave flies planes with his eyes closed”- Blind Pilot
dallas69 nailed it. Tom Jones has a song called “Delilah” and, of course, the famous “What’s New, Pussycat?”
Also, I’m willing to bet a large sum of money that the Child of the 70s clue is a reference to Mike Watt/Eddie Vedder’s colab Against the Seventies (”speaking as a child of the 70s”). Could mean the new Mike Watt project and/or Eddie’s solo project.
“Ranger Dave loves his pussycat Delilah” - Plain White T’s
El Camino in the WEST!!!! THATS DEFINITELY GOING TO BE JASON LYTLE FROM GRANDADDY
“Ranger Dave says hold onto your wallets folks, these bandits are gonna steal the show” - RX bandits
That’s what I think.
Theivery Corporation could work too.
“ranger dave flies planes with his eyes closed.”
An appearance by blind pilot from Portland maybe? Perhaps they’ll park their bikes in SFBC bike valet.
ears are burning - The Flaming Lips
ask you for a light - The Matches
AM flexes - The Morning Benders
wishes this bird could fly - The Dodos
well-toned accident - The Polyphonic Spree
planetary wattage - The Mars Volta
pussycat Delilah - Tom Jones
mustache never moves, dancing on the inside - The Hold Steady
dirty with handcuffs - Kinky
old Chuck Norris movies - M.I.A.
awoke from a slumber to sunshine and morning dew - The Dead/Ratdog
sometimes be painful and illegitimate - Heartless Bastards
misses his St. Croix roots - Midnite
child of the 70’s - Cold War Kids
daydreaming of Chincoteague - Band of Horses
alive and well as a forecaster - The Dead Weather
show you how to march - The Walkmen
clean out his earwax - Q-Tip
having beers at the Park Chalet - Mermen
these bandits are gonna steal the show - Thievery Corporation
dodging the tucson tumbleweeds - Calexico
the creeping suspicion that things are not as they seem - Dave Matthews Band
drives an el camino in the west - Grandaddy
“Ranger Dave is daydreaming of Chincoteague” - Why?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alopecia_why.jpg
bandits: company of thieves
“Ranger Dave says hold onto your wallets folks, these bandits are gonna steal the show” - RX bandits?
“Ranger Dave’s ears are burning” = Flaming Lips?
maybe?