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  1. Stunning-Apple-1510 on

    As someone not in their 20s, I fully agree. I used to be able to party all night, catch 3 hours of sleep, wake up, eat a greasy burger and do it all again. Now being outside in the elements for hours without a soft place to land, hydrate, fuel, and rest sounds miserable. I’m too old!

  2. lasLAchicago on

    Hahaha I love this so much! What a delightful dad grump thing to say. I’m not a dad (or a man) but going to a music festival with a bunch of teens and twenty year olds sounds like torture to me, too.

  3. Hahahaha I love this. I’m a 34 YO mom of two little kids and you’d have to pay me a lot of money to consider going to coachella. It’s not Coachella’s fault I just don’t enjoy that environment at this stage of my life.

  4. frecklestwin on

    I’ve had a crush on him for a while, and it’s times like these where I’m forced to remember he is a 50-something year old lmao

  5. going back to Coachella in my 30s with my friends was the best. we just made our peace that we weren’t going to make it to every single artist, and just enjoyed the beer gardens and discovering some new artists.

  6. lol very very relatable.

    I used to love festivals when I was young but *even then* we absolutely found ways to chill in between sets and we also didn’t drive so that was never a hassle we could come and go.

    Taking the subway to go get a döner kebab at 3AM then coming back to the campsite is a particularly fond memory of mine.

    Still, I would NOT do that today I’m so old. With a CAR and traffic and 17 year olds to look after? You couldn’t pay me enough 

  7. IslandDrummer on

    Didn’t go this year but went last year. I’m in my mid-30s but had just as much fun as when I went in my early twenties. Just need to prioritize rest and food and minimize the boozing more than I used to. I imagine it would he exhausting going there with teenagers, but this is more of an Adam Scott problem than a Coachella problem. It’s probably the most well-run festival in the world.

  8. myghostflower on

    as someone that has been to coachella four times… bro is WAY off 😭😭😭

    there’s so much space to sit back and watch any set at any stage, heck during the strokes i WAS sitting down and watching them pretty close, like cmon man

  9. PistachioGal99 on

    I went to Coachella in 2004. Had a great time, but absolutely would not be able to enjoy myself in present day!!

  10. MusclyArmPaperboy on

    Yep, I loved my Coachella experience but was exhausted every night. So much walking, giant lineups for water, nowhere to chill. Don’t want to do it again.

  11. crackerfactorywheel on

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    I feel this real hard. I went to the Yacht Club festival in the Twin Cities and was delighted that they had blanket areas. My partner and I brought books and chilled in between sets. It was glorious.

  12. I have extremely flat feet and I won’t lie I was MISERABLE by days end . By the 3rd day my legs were throbbing

  13. MindlessFreedom5130 on

    I’m too old to sleep in a shitty Walmart tent and take baby wipe baths while eating maybe-poisonous vendor food. VIP is just a slightly more expensive shitty tent and showers that smell like piss. oh, and there’s the risk of weather cancelling literally the entire fest and trapping you in a swamp filled with shit and piss from flooded portapotties.

    festivals are for the young lmao.

  14. *Like*, this is written so weirdly.

    “We were there for like four days. Somehow we were there for four days”

  15. Yeah, my music festival days are over. I’d rather spend my money on tickets to one concert by an artist I love, have a good time for 2-ish hours, and be home by midnight.

  16. ItsTheExtreme on

    It’s not a “easy” festival. It was a lot even back in 2010. The payoff is usually worth the hurdles though.

  17. I used to manage a restaurant in LA back in 2010. He used to come in and was always miserable, demanding, and entitled. This was even before he was well known. To this day I can’t even watch anything he acts in because he was so awful to deal with.

  18. This is so funny to me because I too prefer to just go lay down somewhere when I’m not doing something

  19. urMOMSchesticles on

    They do that so you can pay an extra $500 for VIP to have a place to sit. 

  20. I thought this was a joke.

    “She convinced us to bring she and her…” HER and her friends.

    I’m also shocked that he went to see Justin Bieber. I’m just confused by Bieber as an entertainer overall.

    Also, are festivals known for places to lie down? I have only been to one-off concerts.

  21. Hefty-Comparison-801 on

    I always feel rich people’s problems deep down in my soul. Thanks for sharing, Adam. Hopefully things get better for you.

  22. This reinforces my thinking that if I ever went to one of these festivals again, I would go VIP or nothing. But that’s way too expensive so I guess I’m never going to one again. lol

  23. I’d put up with it for The Strokes, but just know every moment before and after their set id be in pure misery 😭 I’m 32 (not old, just have kids, adhd and some chronic pain issues) and I can’t keep up no mo’

  24. Been going to Coachella for 18 years, I love it with all of my heart. But I also completely understand his point lol. For a lot of people the juice is simply not worth the squeeze.
    BRB gotta nurse this persistent cough I’ve developed while I buy next year’s presale in a week lol.

  25. bicepstospare on

    Even when I was younger (I’m 36 now), going to a music festival never appealed to me. I want reliable access to a clean bathroom and a place to sit down! I already had Mohs surgery to remove a skin cancer on my forehead when I was 24, so just the sunscreen application involved would stress me out.

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