From the coverage I was able to see of Bonnaroo '08, the highlight was festival regular My Morning Jacket. Besides serving up plenty of their own work in their three hour set, MMJ also did some very interesting covers...
Hot Fun, Sly & the Family Stone
Hit It and Quit It, Funkadelic
Tyrone, Erykah Badu
Cold Sweat, James Brown
Get Down On It, Kool & the Gang
Across 110th Street, Bobby Womack
Oh Sweet Nuthin, The Velvet Underground
Home Sweet Home, Motley Crue (featuring Zach Galifianakis in character as Little Orphan Annie)
One huge highlight, thankfully included in FuseTV's coverage, was Kirk Hammet of Metallica joining them for One Big Holiday to close out the first set (photo above).
Some other quick hits from the weekend -
Against Me! - Great band with a solid punk sound. Lots of angry vocals (which seemed weird at a hippy fest), but the crowd seemed to adjust.
Mastodon - Very heavy sound from a very good band. One I need to explore more deeply.
Yonder Mountain String Band - How can you not love a tight blue grass band that covers Ozzy's Crazy Train?
Ben Folds - Annoys me.
Broken Social Scene - Poster children for the hopeless jam band. PS - All your friends DO NOT get to play in the band.
Gogol Bordello - Gypsy punk rock, if you're into it. I wasn't.
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