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Sunset Junction 2011 Cancellation Sound-Off Wall

It finally happened after three decades – the 2011 street festival has been cancelled, and the official Sunset Junction website remains down at the time of this posting. Feel free to sound off here: favorite memories, favorite scandals, favorite ways to sneak in, favorite complaints, what you will miss or not miss. Giant sausages sizzling in the sun, that time Elliot Smith was too drunk to play, the time I stood on top of the ferris wheel console in order to see Sonic Youth. I’ll try to dig some of our better photos and write-ups out of the archive and add them to this wall as the day progresses.

A southern man don’t need him around, anyhow! Also, Watergate did not bother me. Remember Neil, not just any band becomes an honorary Lieutenant Colonel in the Alabama State Militia courtesy George Wallace. I guess since the show is cancelled let’s go drink some fuckin’ beers and run down some strangers in the alley.

Young elected to cancel the [Oct 30 Forum feat. Death Cab and Everest] performance rather than cross what IATSE told his representatives would be a picket line at his show. Young and his wife are honorary lifetime members of the IATSE.

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