In the Mufti of the Intersect Festival, Fu Fitrese came in with a mess

No longer produce Dave Grohl rockers, those who go on stage with a crazy run and need nothing but guitar, bass, drums and insane amounts of dark sex and charisma to pick up a perfect rock show. And also: Beck, Casey Masgrave and Anderson Puck at the Amazon Festival

In the Mufti of the Intersect Festival, Fu Fitrese came in with a mess

"I thought they were real boobs!", Dave Grohl turns to a bearded, bearded American guy, wearing a Santa Claus hat and matching shirt that features a realistic bare chest painting. The guy, who got the best spot on the Fu Fighters show, doesn't get confused and pulls out a big pre-made sign with a request: "Dave, I want to make a beer drinking contest with you." Grohl, a master at creating Wat de Pak moments during performances, invites Santa to the stage, pulls out two "course" beer cans, pokes a knife in the center and the two suck the bubbling liquid straight out of the perforated drain. "It's pretty refreshing to drink it that way," he admits to Santa, and they hug as long as two old friends. It was a rock 'n' roll moment pulled out of another era.

No longer produce Dave Grohl rockers, those who go on stage with a crazy run and need nothing but guitar, bass, drums and insane amounts of dark sex and charisma to pick up a perfect rock show. When you have that kind of energy, you don't need special pyrotechnics, video art or even too many big hits to hold a perfect evening that sends tens of thousands home with the best kind of headache.

In that sense, Poe Fighters was the least suited to lock in the InterSkette festival last weekend in Las Vegas - and maybe that's why the band's choice to sign the festival was so obvious. Amazon's huge AWS event purported to showcase a mix of technology and music, as a continuation of the huge conference Amazon holds in the city each year. According to the giant company, 65,000 people came to the city from 126 countries (bombastic claim even on an Amazon scale), and about half of them stayed in the city to participate in "InterSkette", which for two days presented dozens of artists from a variety of musical genres on three different stages simultaneously.

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The best kind of headache. Foo Fighterz at the Intersect Festival (Photo: Amit Slonim)

Foo Fighterz in Las Vegas, Dave Grohl (Photo: Amit Slonim, Surfer Pictures)

Given that this is the first time this festival has been held, it is a huge success, probably in the simple logistical level. The event was held in the fairground area on the outskirts of the old Circus Circus Hotel in the famous and noisy North Las Vegas Strip. The production neatly announced that there would be no parking for private cars, and so most of the crowd made their way to the event mainly on shared trips (Uber and Lyft), others arrived on public transport, or as the UAV took advantage of the dry autumn weather to walk one of the world's special streets.

Despite quite rigorous security checks, evidence of the tensions that the town of Mandalay Bay put in a few years ago, the entrances to the incident were swift. On the first day, the Deliners were Beck and Casey Masgrave, supposedly two names who are not supposed to stand on the same stage for an hour's difference but in practice it was a great success. Beck gave a tight version of his full show, which was shortened to an hour and a half of excellence without any filler. It began with "Loser," the hit that catapulted his long career and included touches for almost his entire career, including a debut for the excellent new "Unevantful Days". His excellent band manages to deliver the unique music to the stage perfectly, and even transcends the original versions, especially in an encore that was a kind of long string whose rhythm just kept growing.

Casey Masgrave who signed the first evening brought a purpose display, proving to be the biggest name today in the country scene (if anyone ever doubted it). 31-year-old Masgrave will probably no longer be Taylor Swift, and she doubts she wants to. Casey is a real cowgirl, one who likes to yell "eh" at a rodeo rhythm during performances to excite her audience. Masgrave is not trying to sell any show, she is not Beyoncé or Madonna. She does not change costumes during the show and maintains a conservative look of a neighbor. She surrounds herself with a big band, but the truth is that even if she came up alone with this acoustic guitar it was a deep and sweet performance. The only thing missing from the show is "All Is Found," the song that Casey contributed to the soundtrack of "Breaking the Ice 2," which could have made the show truly perfect.

The biggest name in the country scene. Casey Masgrave at the Intersect Festival (Photo: Zach Kamp)

Case Masgrave in Las Vegas (Photo: Zach Kamp, PR)

The most intriguing performance of the second day was not on the main stage ("The Supernova") but on the second stage on the big stage ("Infinity"). It was a three-dimensional performance by Flying Lotus. It sounded like a gimmick, and it did feel that way when dozens of flight attendants made their way through the crowd to see if everyone was given 3D glasses to watch the show in its entirety. But then the performance began and the music became secondary to the visual purpose. It was an almost mystical musical experience, on the brink of intimacy, and many preferred to give up the "little" show to make room for the big stage performances.

There, as mentioned, they were going to perform Poo Fighters, who for 25 years have managed not to stop performing together, as immortal band vocalist Dave Grohl put it. Even before them, Anderson Puck took the stage, giving a purposeful display of musical virtuosity. When he wanted to bounce the crowd with his unique groove, when he felt like taking off gear, he switched to classic rhythm and blues, and just before stepping onto the former "Nirvana" drummer he sat down on the drums and showed how to do it right.

Still, it was the Po Fighters who set the tone. Dave Grohl bursts onto the stage, literally, screaming some unclear syllables, and then straight bursts in a sequence of huge hits. "All My Life," "Learning To Fly," and "The Pretender" open the show as if Grohl and the friends didn't get the heck out of having to spend all the ammunition straight on opening the show, but no one seems to be moving.

Dirty display of rock. Foo Fighterz at the Intersect Festival (Photo: Amit Slonim)

Foo Fighterz in Las Vegas, Dave Grohl (Photo: Amit Slonim, Surfer Pictures)

The contrast between this all-so-invested and precise festival - with the huge stages, the Mufti arrangement and the innovative technological approach - and the gruhl and almost anachronistic analogue music and vocals, was just what it took to get the audience into the sky. The record in many ways was when drummer Taylor Hawkins changed places with Grohl, and the two performed Kevin and David Bowie's "Under Pressure" together. Undoubtedly, nobody was on stage in Las Vegas with the vocal abilities of Freddie Mercury or Bowie - not even close - but it didn't matter. I've never seen anyone enjoy playing drums more than Dave Grohl during this song, I've never seen anyone who just doesn't care that he sounds ridiculous when he tries to sound like Freddie Mercury in front of tens of thousands of ears. This is far from being the most beautiful performance of this big hit, but it was a dirty display of rock, as Rock should be. And it stood out for the better on the high-tech background of the festival.

It was the most raw and rugged rock n 'roll show that could be, in a shiny, clean, sometimes sparkly, clean sheath. A young American who was carried away with the music asked her partner to sing it on his shoulders so she could expose her breasts to the band. The guy streamed with her (he was Good Sport as the Americans call it), but then, just as she lifted her shirt, a polite but firm bouncer lit her up with a flashlight and asked her to come down because she was hiding the people behind her. She went down and apologized. Ironically, the classic “Sin City” infested with strip clubs and legal cannabis sale centers featured the least dirty festival there is. Lucky Dave Grohl was there to make some mess, or rather - make a mess.

Musical virtuosity. Anderson Puck at the Intersect Festival (Photo: Zach Kamp)

Anderson Puck in Las Vegas (Photo: Zach Kamp, PR)

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Just as every performance in Israel is accompanied by letters and petitions from the BDS, so is the Amazon event in Las Vegas accompanied by a big protest of "No Music For ICE" calling for boycotting all technology companies selling their services to government organizations that use them against human beings. Over 1,000 musicians (most of whom are unfamiliar) have signed the petition, calling on Amazon to cancel its contract with the U.S. Immigration Department - some have even downloaded their catalog from Amazon's streaming services. "We will continue to fight and protest until Amazon meets our demand - to cease providing human-used technology," the organization said. "Amazon's efforts to break through into the music market are part of the way to clear their brand of the wrongs they have ever done." ". In practice, no show was canceled and no artist referred to the petition during the festival.