"I need a minute to get my head straight
"Just to hit it before it's too late
"Innocent, considering my middle name is 'Shake My Body'
"Take a seat it's glittering, I shimmy and I shake my body."
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I cannot say I have a fucking clue as to what the fuck I am drinking. To be clear, my wine knowledge starts and ends with Sideways (book). So, I attend events knowing one thing and one thing alone: No fucking merlot. No merlot!
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Wine Amplified Festival (multiple iterations)
They got bigger -- moved to the MGM Resorts Village -- and no longer offer unlimited imbibing. Cue the Price Is Right® losing horn: https://youtu.be/1ytCEuuW2_A.
They do now feature more popular marque acts though.
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Winter Wine Bash (2010)
A smaller show with OK Go headlining inside Rok Vegas (NY, NY). I am not even sure if Rok Vegas even still exists. (Doesn't matter.) They had meat and cheese and a lot of drunk assholes. It was such an amazing time ....
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Vino Maximus (2010)
An even smaller show with JET, Crash Kings, and Imagine Dragons (playing to a crowd of fifteen or so) at The Garden of the Gods (Caesar's Palace). An aside: The Garden of Gods is such a better venue that that piece of shit overused Foxtail Pool Club in every imaginable way. I digress.
Fascinating experience in retrospect to witness every one (besides the few Firebreathers in attendance) ignore ID because they had no idea who they were (no radio play) and they had more important things to do like for instance drink in excess and fall into the fenced off pool.
If there was meat and cheese, I did not find it. I did find some fucking Merlot. It sucked!
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Rating: Three-stars, "A-OK."