DCist: Click Click: The 2008 DC101 Chili Cook-Off

Roche is cool

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:22:45 -0500

Yikes! I think it is amazing all those bands played for only 20 bucks! Yes the PP lines were long, and the beer lines were long, but who cares if you were there with friends enjoying the music??? And it was a perfect day for that sort of thing-so come one! Nobody freakin' twisted your arm! Quit bitching! Also want to know what your definition of "modern rock" is. Bubble gum bullshit that all the stations play? Examples......oh yeah, and VA Beach is really a rockin' town! Make me laugh!

sordid

Tue, 13 May 2008 16:52:40 -0500

Why is anyone surprised at the bands that play. Go in your car and turn on DC101 and listen to the drivel they play...it's not modern at all. Now drive your car to Richmond, VA Beach, even dank OC and listen to the diverse and even modern music that they play. Radio in DC has always sucked...which is why talk is the preferred format in this area.

TripleE

Tue, 13 May 2008 16:10:05 -0500

No mention of Live? They alone were worth the price of admission, drunken rednecks and all. For the same price, I had the choice of metroing into the city and also enjoying chili outside on a nice day, or driving an hour to Baltimore on a Friday night. The rest of the bands, even though generally not what I give a rip about on the radio, put on decent shows as well (except Finger Eleven, but that was prime time to hit the port-o-johns and get some bottled water). For the most part, the rowdiness was what would be expected at a show like this, and well, that's part of the fun. There was a handful of douchebaggery, though, but overall it could have been worse. ~EEE~

JA

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:28:08 -0500

I'm pretty sure Buck Cherry was at Chili Cook-off last year with mind blowing songs about coke and crazy bitches. But I may have just been drunk. Btw, what noteworthy thing has Staind done in the last 8 years to be called modern?

rabo k

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:11:42 -0500

You'd think being the only game in town DC 101 would have some more pull to get better artists for such an event, a charity event especially. I mean Chevelle? Staind? Finger 11? It's like HFStival 1999 for christ sake.

Vaughan

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:07:30 -0500

Rukasu, I would venture to say recipe for apocalypse. Or NASCAR. I think the level of fumes was equivalent.

Rukasu

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:00:30 -0500

Shitty music and a bunch of drunk people with lots of chili in their stomachs being pushed around in a pit, sounds like a recipe for disaster

Vaughan

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:51:16 -0500

Ah, memories. The first event I went to in the District, about a week after moving here. I remember wondering if I had somehow entered a wormhole that had whisked me back to Alabama. Even though Silversun Pickups are from Alabama, the C.C. wasn't quite what I expected. There was a ton of chili, though. No surprises there.

registeringsucks

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:42:50 -0500

Seether and Staind? That's not modern rock, that's just crap. Maybe they should move the festival to Waldorf.

sordid

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:18:45 -0500

I had some friends who went and had to wait about an hour and a half to get in and then another 30 minutes once inside to get a beer. This is pretty ridiculous. Instead of the draught beer, they should just have plastic bottles to hand out rapidly. They left after they finished their first beers. I think they would benefit in moving this debacle to RFK.