Criticism of The Schaeffer Eye Center Crawfish Boil

The Crawfish Boil is an annual two day event held normally on the first weekend in May. It’s in a field/parking lot outside of the BJCC in downtown Birmingham. The line-up this year was Fuel, Theory of a Deadman, Seether, Akon, and Alice in Chains on Friday. On Saturday the line-up was Rocket Summer, Jason Derulo, Jay Sean, the B-52s, Train, and the Goo Goo Dolls.
The first day we were in the VIP section and the view was great, much better in years past, being a very short person, it’s worth the extra money to get into the VIP, however, on Saturday I was in the general admission and I will say it was set up pretty well besides the people in the lawn chairs making a barrier behind the crowd. Anyway, all the bands that I saw were awesome; I saw all of Friday and came in the middle of the B-52s. The crowds were very impressive and really got into the music, I’ve been going for the past three years and I’ve never seen the crowd that big before. The only real complaint I have is that Seether should’ve played later instead of the same twilight show for the performance they consistently give. They were the only band that day to be called for an encore besides the headliner, Alice in Chains. During Seether it felt like the crowd just came together and was just enjoying the company of all the people who’d come to hear the same music they loved. I also have to say the DJ, Goofy White Kid, did a great job picking songs between bands, on another note, and can we get him for prom? But while I was there, I got to thinking, these guys had to start somewhere, at one point in time they all sucked because they were just learning to play or had just formed together. They had to work extremely hard to get to this point; Seether for example is a band from South Africa. I’m not saying that we can all be Alice in Chains some day, I’m saying that music is a lot of hard work and without support, no one would be a musician or an artist of any kind. It was one of the best music festivals I’ve ever been to, because I could really become a part of it. In the words of most of the bands, “Good night, Birmingham!”