ReturnOfFa posted...
And right...there was mud in so many of the sets. NIN, Green Day...
That's because it was pouring rain earlier in the day, and the entire ground in front of the stage turned into a mud pit.
Primus got nailed on their stage because they unfortunately had a song called "My Name is Mud" - so of course people in the audience started flinging it at them.
What made the NIN set so awesome was the fact that the whole band basically just flung themselves into the mud and thrashed around a bit before their set, so they were covered in as much mud as everyone else. And then as the set went on it was still drizzling, so they sort of slowly turned back into soaking wet human beings as the mud washed off. It was a cool spectacle. Even if Trent Reznor apparently hated it after the fact.
With Green Day, it felt kind of lame, because they were on the next day, and it felt a bit like they'd heard about how people were referring to the Primus and NIN sets as being iconic, so they were trying to kind of cynically make themselves part of it.
I'd definitely say the NIN set was the highlight of the entire festival. They definitely upstaged Metallica, who went on after them. It was absolutely the one performance everybody was talking about afterwards.