Everyone wants to witness a piece of history—indie rock fans especially. There is no greater validation of love for a band than those simplest of words: I was there; I saw them live. With the 40th anniversary of Woodstock having come and gone, I’ve been looking to claim attendance at a world-changing event of my own.
Hollywood Forever Cemetery pins the number of attendees of their Bon Iver show at nearly 2,500, and because I was there I know they witnessed something heretofore unseen. The details seem absurd: thousands of warm bodies watching movies, drinking wine, and sleeping above ground in a cemetery for hours. But after the show, as the sun revealed the Santa Monica mountains and people shuffled sleepily off to their cars, the idea of a concert at 6 a.m. didn't seem so absurd anymore; It seemed like history.
Originally in Los Angeles Magazine (with plenty more great writing) at: http://www.lamag.com/do/blog.aspx?dt=09/29/2009
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