A white person is a white person, an ignorant white person that reinforces all the stereotypes of the south is a “cracker.” Or a “honkey ass mother_” if you will. Just like white people always like to say that an ignorant black person is a N word. I only censor that for fear that the AJC might censor it. How does a gun get into an event like screen on the green? Atlanta has a crime problem, blacks and whites are both responsible for that, and it’s a problem related to poverty and upbringing, not race… blaming it on “BLACK PEOPLE” is not going to do one tiny bit of good. I like rap music. Lots of white people like rap music. I like music from all cultures, I have albums full of Thai pop music, assorted field recordings from the Middle East, East Asian countries, India, I have music from all over the planet. I would like a festival where all of these cultures are represented (no, I’m not saying Music Midtown should do this). Should Middle Eastern musicians be excluded from events because “people from the middle east blow up buildings”? Musicians that originate from communist/socialist countries shouldn’t be invited to concerts because it attracts a crowd that wants to redistribute wealth? When you live in a city that has the crime rate that we do, when you host a major event, you just have to take proper security measures to make sure that no guns, knives, etcetera make it into the event, and have security on hand to handle problems. Remember that big meatheaded white party that was the ’90s version of woodstock, where all those girls got raped and it was a disaster? That was white people ruining things, my friends. Whites can do it, too. Racism is, when you dig deeper and get to the bottom of it, what pushes minorities into poverty and eventually leads to crime which eventually reinforces those racist’s confidence in their racism. I’ve only been here a few months, and I live in a mixed-race neighborhood and I work in an industry where there are lots of very successful black people and everybody gets along, so I guess I haven’t really been aware of it until now… but the south is still too filled with hillbillies, frat boys/good ol’ boys, and tea partiers. The most frustratingly ignorant and somehow confident portions of the population. I bet you racists are all GOD FEARIN’ CHRISTIANS as well. Go die or something.

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Hey can we discuss actual music here? Stop the freaking race debates when we are talking about music in Atlanta. Man, I really miss the 90s in Atlanta.

First of all, music midtown has usually favored “white” music because they were not just drawing people from the center of Atlanta but neighboring regions too. At the time, Bonnaroo wasn’t there and was just starting out as MM was winding down. For bigger outdoor venues, the older R&B acts from the 60s and 70s play better as they are more accomplished at non-studio related performances. They used to showcase them in the oldies stage which got phased out as oldies radio was phased out of Atlanta. And old guys like Cooley probably didn’t have the networking required to draw in the more contemporary black acts. Even white pop was underrepresented.

As far as the white racists who troll AJC comment boards for anything local related, I would love to see AJC require registration for comments. And if you do not wish to be moderated, you need to provide a facebook identity or something similar. Let us see how brave you will be with your ignorant racist comments.

Best location for me was the one in front of the 10th avenue marta station. You got out of MARTA and just walked straight into the one of the MM entrances. More grass(no pun intended) than the other venues.
Once it moved downtown, a few blocks south, it wasn’t really close to any MARTA station. SO I just drove and parked in one of the unofficial lots and just bargained with the guy to give me a 3 day deal. Loaded up my car with water so I could go to my car during breaks and drink free water and relax.

It was also interesting to see how a band would suck one year and hten do well another year. Steve Miller band was a lot of fun one year, and then during a later year, they just went on and on and were kind of boring. MM pulled the plug just as other music fests around the country started to gain steam. You don’t think TN and Chicago enjoy the extra revenue vistors give for bonnaroo and Lollapallooza? And with bands hurting at the gate, you wonder why there wouldn’t be renewed interest by bands to discount their services for a music fest setup. MM served a mainstream niche.

Biggest trainwreck moments
1) Courtney Love meltdown as the final act of the 99x stage one year. I was right next to her as she came to the edge of the stage in a near blackout mode with her top hanging down and totally incoherent as bottles were being thrown in her direction.
2) Jessica Simpson feeling nervous and embarassed at her lack of talent: I was walking by and decided to check out the Simpson stage to see how bad she really was. Wow, she really delivered on that. She would pause awkwardly and giggle nervously. No wonder she doesnt do music that much anymore.
3) 40 year old women rockin out at the Def leppard stage who were probably at one time hot 19 year olds. These women looked like they were 60. A lot of mileage on their bodies, i guess. Not a pretty sight trying to see them relive their glory days.

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Terrible Lineup…would have been nice to see a little diversity in the music mixture…but this is terrible…just terrible…

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