I mean, I still vape pot and stuff. All of that enables us to carry on working together. I think they're into it. Tolletts latest acts of derring-do include expanding the 2012 edition of Coachella from one three-day weekend, starting today, to two consecutive weekends (with the same talent lineup for both). The last one was pure art. Paul Tollett at site of Coachella in 2004 "In His Arms" originally surfaced on 2021's The Marfa Tapes, a casual recording Lambert made with Jack Ingram and Jon Randall in Marfa, Texas a tiny arts enclave in the middle of the west Texas high desert. This years edition of Stagecoach, which has been expanded from two to three days, sold out in January, a record. Hello, Coachella! he had greeted the first weekends crowd. The Godfather of Soul coined the phrase and style of playing known as "on the one," where the first downbeat is emphasized, instead of the typical second and fourth beats in pop, soul and other styles. "Bitter Taste," from his last EP, Although Idol and Stevens split in the late '80s the skilled guitarist fronted Steve Stevens & The Atomic Playboys, and collaborated with Michael Jackson, Rick Ocasek, Vince Neil, and Harold Faltermeyer (on the GRAMMY-winning "Top Gun Anthem") their common history and shared musical bond has been undeniable. I really learned a lot [about] recording music and being in a group and even writing songs. So a lot of things like that were wake up calls. I know what it's like. I wanted to be honest [with attendees] that everywhere they turned, it wasnt going to be on lockdown, because its not anymore anywhere. Paul Tollett, the president and CEO of Goldenvoice, produces the immensely successful Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. G-funk continues to influence Los Angeles hip-hop, with innovative artists like Dam-Funk and Channel Tres bringing the funk and G-funk, into electro territory. -- A Tennessee couple has been charged in the death of their 11-month-old daughter, who authorities say died after being left in a hot car. Tollett and his team took action, creating the brand-new Every One program to fight assault and harassment. Below them were seven lines of artist and band names. [Laughs]. Before that, it was Twitter, and before that it was Facebook. Like almost no other festival in the world, Coachella is held in such high esteem by fans that simply attending it gives each attendee immediate bragging rights. Most of the younger people were much farther back, where the tickets were only $199those sold out last. When Maren Morris found herself uninspired and dealing with writer's block, she went back to what inspired her to move to Nashville nearly a decade ago and out came "Circles Around This Town," the lead single from her 2022 album Humble Quest. Shaver, an outlaw country pioneer who passed in 2020 at 81 years old, never had any hits of his own during his lifetime. Paul Tollett is an American music promoter. Its not like the desert., We crunched through the crusty snow covering the parks western lawn. "They still love music, more than ever probably," Tollett suggests of those who've stopped coming. Get our L.A. The guys a walking actuarial table., Coachella and Napster launched in the same year, 1999. So theres a way to cut your losses up front. The Latin GRAMMYs may have just honored the genre's trailblazers in Las Vegas on Nov. 17, but the celebration will continue at the upcoming 65th GRAMMY Awards ceremony in February. Usually, they hate each other by now. and this new stuff? Well, I suppose, if anything, is that you can come to terms with your life, you can keep a hold of it. We waited a year, Generation X. "HEARTFIRST" is Ballerini's third GRAMMY nod, but first in the Best Country Solo Performance category. Hes got a wacky sense of humor. Twentieth-century precursors to Coachella were civilized affairsBob Dylans plugging in his electric guitar, in 1965 at Newport Folk, counted as a major disturbance. And they were saying, we knew punk rock happened but just didn't know any of the details. [4], Goldenvoice was acquired by AEG in March 2001; by then it was one of the most prominent promoters of rock and punk shows in the United States. But in addition to that, we want to have something specific to this. The whole topic is too new for us to have any comment right now, said Tollett, who also declined to comment on how buying the property will affect the festivals future plans. It means you feel confident there will be plenty of music youll like, and things that will surprise you that youll really like. His latest release is Cage, the second in a trilogy of annual four-song EPs. The same requirements were announced for Coachellas country music sister event, Stagecoach, beginning this Friday. We were still breaking barriers. Twenty years ago, alternative artists grew slower, he continued. Everyone was laughing.. ArtistDirect didnt last long. Years ago, Id write things for myself that put me on this path, so that maybe in 2022 I could sing something like "Cage" and be owning this territory and really having a good time. The release is closely scrutinized on social media. Then when I came to America, it was a flow, really. I remember him being much more introverted. This week, GRAMMY.com spoke with Billy Idol about his latest EP, Cage, and continuing to rock through decades of changing tastes. Glastonbury is legendary for the muddy fields produced by Britains so-called summertime. How Paul Tollett wrangles the biggest artists in the world into performing in the California desert. I was offended, Tollett said of the headline, while we were having lunch in Palm Springs the day the news broke. Promoters tuned in to the capitalist trip, and the Magic Mountain Music Festival, at Mt. We started realizing we're probably going to have an impasse production-wise.". The futures definitely open-ended, Tollett says. At one point, we were very drug addicted in the '80s. Rage was replaced by Harry Styles, the English pop star whom Tollett had seen perform for the first time this year. The band name is a nod to funk legend, , from the "Le freak, c'est chi" exclamation in Chic's legendary tune "Le Freak. the Weeknd] and Sal called and said, What do you need? recalls Tollett. Country music icon Willie Nelson is no stranger to the GRAMMYs, and this year he aims to add to his collection of 10 gramophones. Tastes evolve, generations of fans come and go. A couple bands let us slide, he said. Privacy Policy, Photo: Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images, Now in its 20th year, the desert festival has boomed into one of music's most significant annual events. Photograph by Olivier Mirguet / Agence VU / Redux. Goldenvoice tries to release the Coachella poster as close as possible to New Years Day. The mountains on both sides of the valley were visible through the clear side panels in the spotless white canvas, their peaks turning purple as the sun went down and showtime approached. Chicago, Austin, and New Orleans all have better festivals. Was there any one moment in your life that made you really thought, I have to not let this weigh me down anymore. It would be easier if there was a magic formula. ", When Maren Morris found herself uninspired and dealing with writer's block, she went back to what inspired her to move to Nashville nearly a decade ago and out came "Circles Around This Town," the lead single from her 2022 album, Written in one of her first in-person songwriting sessions since the pandemic, Morris has called "Circles Around This Town" her. When Goldenvoice got an exclusive on the Hollywood Palladium, a big Art Deco venue in a seedy part of L.A., Tollett quit Cal Poly Pomona to work full time. That was one of the reasons to work with someone like Sam Hollander [for the song "Rita Hayworth"] on The Roadside. With someone like Steve Stevens, and then back in the day Keith Forsey producing [Before that] Generation X actually did move around inside punk rock. Some of the content on this site expresses viewpoints and opinions that are not those of the Recording Academy and its Affiliates. It was all about how relationships can free you and add a lot to your life. , details a 1990 motorcycle accident that nearly claimed a leg, and how becoming a father steered him to reject hard drugs. , is a sunny, playful French disco journey. Which is so stupid. I could see whatever we needed to do, we could nail it. delivered a soulful performance on the rootsy ballad "In His Arms," an arrangement as sparing as the windswept west Texas highlands where she co-wrote the song. You may opt-out by clicking here. Still, I didnt start looking for a backup until we got the call Beyonc was positively postponing, he said. He loved it. Idol discusses his musical journey, his desire to constantly move forward, and the strong connection that he shares with Stevens. And hes got an immensely great sense of humor. I always got your back when you need me.. On "Electrify" originally released in 2016 on Fat Beats Records and reissued in 2021 by MoFunk Shiro Schwarz's vocals playfully contrast each other, floating over an insistent, upbeat bassline and an '80s throwback electro-funk rhythm with synth flourishes. d.j.s, DJ Snake and Martin Garrix, and the hip-hop m.c. There are 10 professionals named "Paul Tollett", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. We struggled through the next year. Tollett sold his house, where he lived with his wife (they divorced in 2001) and daughter. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. The genre-blending jubilation continues with the Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album category. Make that for fans of indie-rock, punk, hip-hop, freak-folk, dubstep and all manner of electronic dance music. In the 1980s, electro-funk was born when artists like Afrika Bambaataa, Man Parrish, and Egyptian Lover began making futuristic beats with the Roland TR-808 drum machine often with robotic vocals distorted through a talk box. Obviously, "Running From The Ghost" is about addiction, all the stuff that you went through, and in "Cage" youre talking about freeing yourself from a lot of personal shackles. Even in our time, rock was a mass phenomenon at outdoor festivals before the indoor market kicked in. 2, Bad Bunny's Un Verano Sin Ti, Daddy Yankee's LEGENDADDY, Farruko's La 167, and Maluma's The Love & Sex Tape. Hed better say, No fucking way. Anything short of that. Never thought about a Desert Trip. , and I don't think they understood that. Because it hardly ever rains here (the property is irrigated by underground aquifers), its not mud, the curse of Eastern festivals, but heat that Tollett has to worry about. The London outfit was birthed by friends Ned Franc and Jon Moody in the early 2010s, when they were living together and throwing parties in North London's warehouse scene. has the biggest festival, in Coachella; Live Nation owns the next four biggestBonnaroo, Summerfest, Lollapalooza, and Austin City Limits. They wanted to go with Dua Lipa, they wanted to go with the modern, young acts, and I don't think they realized that that song was resonating with her fans. I came back kind of mellow and the Harry thing worked out. One of the agents, Joel Zimmerman, of W.M.E., was so intent on getting favorable placement for his client, Martin Garrix, a twenty-year-old Dutch E.D.M. In the tradition of Shania Twain, Faith Hill and Carrie Underwood, Kelsea Ballerini represents Nashville's sunnier side and her single "HEARTFIRST" is a slice of bright, uptempo, confectionary country-pop for the ages. Weve had three years to prep for this show and doors opened 20 minutes late, he says with a laugh. Brown's 1965 classic, "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag," became one of the first funk hits, and has been. Tollett, an engineer at heart, thrives on solving the kinds of problems that bringing close to a hundred thousand people, about a third of them campers, to the desert for three days can generate. Here's how its leader copes with its challenges and keeps Coachella growing Nate Hertweck | GRAMMYs / Jan 14, 2019 - 05:10 pm Music festivals are king in 2019. In a U-T San Diego interview last year, Tollett sounded intrigued by the idea of expanding the musical menu in Indio. Assembling the right mix of Coachella-worthy headliners after two years of COVID-19-related chaos was just one element of uncertainty facing Tollett. The following January, the Human Be-In attracted as many as thirty thousand people to Golden Gate Park, some with flowers in their hair, inspiring John Phillips to write the song that sent many more that way. Things were slow. "This one was harder on me than usual," says Tollett, following two years of lineup switches, cancellations and an unprecedented tidal wave of . Tollett was happy but clearly tired, more soft-spoken than ever. The Godfather of Soul coined the phrase and style of playing known as "on the one," where the first downbeat is emphasized, instead of the typical second and fourth beats in pop, soul and other styles. Then a friend gave Tollett a ticket to the Feb. 13 Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. 's bio fittingly describes their music as "a soul funk and cosmic disco sound." We felt it. No Doubt was the first band that played the Glass House, which became known for its all-ages rock and punk shows. With someone like Justice or New Order, you know theyre solid. The French techno group and the British New Wave band were two of the occupants of Sundays second line. He was supportive of me and taught me the value of a quality property and about the importance of the local community.. d.j. Salvation for Goldenvoice, and the festival, came when music industry visionary Marc Geiger -- a UC San Diego alum and the co-creator of the Lollapalooza festival -- stepped up with a three-year, $500,000 deal for his then-new company, ArtistDirect, to sponsor Coachella. But in the U.S., during the next fifteen years, the live business turned inward, to the giant rock tours of the eighties and nineties, as new arenas and amphitheatres were built to hold tens of thousands. This is the best one.. Instead of hard numbers, the d.j.s use social-media-based metrics to measure their popularity: Facebook friends, Twitter followers, YouTube views. A.E.G. PAUL TOLLETT, 52 President, Goldenvoice MELISSA ORMOND COO of festivals, AEG Presents Last Year's Rank: 40 CAN'T TOUCH THIS FESTIVAL: Coachella earned over $114.6 million in 2017 with more than. Goes Out newsletter, with the week's best events, to help you explore and experience our city. Leaving the Whos compound, Tollett reluctantly agreed to venture out onstage for a photographer before the show began. With Woodstock, the metaphorical trip proposed by the heads in San Francisco became reala sojourn in a communal paradise. Flore Benguigui's vocals are light and dreamy, yet commanding of your attention, while lyrics have a feminist touch. With each passing year, Coachella expands its musical palette. Its all kind of pop, in a way, and it goes up quickly because of SoundCloud. In the Best Latin Pop Album category, are. The lowest three lines were all the same size. advocacy group called Freedom for All Americans, which claimed that three of the charitable organizations to which Anschutz has given money are anti-L.G.B.T. In 2001, Goldenvoice was acquired from co-founders Rick Van Santen and Paul Tollett in an almost $7 million deal by Anschutz Entertainment Group, a massive company more commonly known as AEG . Maybe not completely, but certainly to where were enjoying what we do and excited about it. There are enough steel guitar licks to let you know you're listening to a country song, but the story and melody are universal. "We have security, of course, and all the normal things that you have at public assemblage events. It went big in England. Founders, understandably irked, countered with yet another event, the Meadows Music & Arts Festival, last October. Were going long on Marshmello., Tollett knew that he was showing his age by continuing to headline rock bands like Radiohead, when the kids would rather see the E.D.M. Be sure to press play on the Spotify playlist above, and check out GRAMMY.com's playlist on Apple Music, Amazon Music and Pandora. and you can hear all of the nominees in one playlist. Do you find its a challenge to reach people with new songs? Paul Tollett has been working as a President at Goldenvoice for 31 years. The allure of the musical paradise that Tollett has conjured in the desert helped him sell almost two hundred thousand tickets to last years Coachella, over two weekends, grossing ninety-five million dollars. So I took mine off, he says. In addition to curating the lineup, Tollett had booked the hundred and fifty acts himself, negotiating all the offers with agentsa six-month process. And hes got an immensely great sense of humor. Although Goldenvoice survived the loss, based in part on Tollett's history of "fair dealing with bands and venders", it was a struggle; Tollett sold his house and his car. The festival's expansion and real estate acquisition rank as Tollett's boldest moves since since 1999. We stood with our backs to Philip Johnsons New York State Pavilion, now the Queens Museum. Harry Styles performs at Coachella on April 15. Tollett addressed the issue directly and firmly in the interview. Then when I got into my solo career, that was the fun of it. So it crossed our minds: Is anyone going to come back?. In the '80s, he went on to a solo career combining rock, pop, and punk into a distinct sound that transformed him and his musical partner, guitarist Steve Stevens, into icons. Shes a really great person and she works at her singing I watched her rehearsing for the Super Bowl performance she gave. Dressed in his usual jeans and black Dodgers cap, he sat beneath a ceiling fan and was becoming increasingly horizontal by the moment, as if the weight of the last two years of coronavirus delays, cancellations and controversies hadnt yet lifted. That's the fun of music really, trying out these things and seeing if you can make them stick. Maybe people were put off by the higher prices, or perhaps the muddy fields of Bonnaroo, which swallowed my shoe seven years ago, look less inviting than they used to, thanks to Coachella. The Stones area included a forty-yard-long air-conditioned running track on which Jagger could sprint back and forth to warm up. I can do that now. That's the fun of music really, trying out these things and seeing if you can make them stick. I know what it's like. It could easily hold seventy-five thousand people, he pointed out. 2023 GRAMMY Nominations: See The Complete Nominees List. You have so much going on, I dont know how you do it, Armstrong said, leaning forward. I listen to new music by veteran artists and debate that with some people. In 2007, Goldenvoice debuted Stagecoach, a two-day country-music festival. Ultimately, Tollett believes, one great world-class New York festival will emerge from the current slate of second stringers. You want to do things that are true to you, and you don't just want to try and do things that you're seeing there in the charts today. Morris last won a GRAMMY for Best Country Solo Performance in 2017, when her song "My Church" earned the singer her first GRAMMY. "In His Arms" originally surfaced on 2021's. In a way, what was great about punk rock for me was it was very much a learning period. 1 song [in England] with "Satisfaction" in '77. I wanted them to have an event that had character and style, says Tollett, who always loved architecture and original art. He envisions a kind of Coachella East, a multiday urban event that would involve not just music but tech, art, fashion, and culinary leaders in New York, he explained. Theyve heard one or two songs, not enough to hire a babysitter and go see the band, but enough to walk a couple hundred feet to see them at a festival and become a huge fan.. Im really sorry to see what he's been going through just lately. chips embedded in the wristbands, along with copyproof holograms in the tickets, have eliminated that concern, for now. And they didn't even know what a punk rock group was. The 2018 festival drew an audience of approximately 250,000 people. I know festivals. I love and admire him. Brown's 1965 classic, "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag," became one of the first funk hits, and has been endlessly sampled and covered over the years, along with his other groovy tracks. But plenty of his songs were still heard, thanks to stars like. Thats really paramount. .. had had some trouble locating Anschutz, who was at the bottom of the Grand Canyon when the story went viral. He pointed to the second line, Saturday, where two popular E.D.M. So I thought. And thats where the idea to put on a festival came from. When the 2022 edition was finally announced in January, both weekends sold out their daily capacity of 125,000 at prices ranging from $449 for general admission to $1,119 for VIP but the long disruption led to abrupt changes at the top of the bill. You gotta do it! d.j.s, in particular, placement on the poster can determine their future asking price, not only in the United States but internationally. He began promoting college and garage bands with flyers as a chemical engineering major at Cal Poly Pomona. James Brown changed the sound of popular music when he found the power of the one and unleashed the funk with "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag." Musically, what is the synergy like with you guys during the past 10 years, doing. Goldenvoice cofounder Paul Tollet and Raymond Roker, the latter head of AEG Studios, were the film's executive producers. He earned another three nominations for 2023 bringing his career total to 56 including a Best Country Solo Performance nod for "Live Forever.". [John] Lydon, for instance, was never someone I ever saw acting out; he's more like that today. I tend to dissect failures meticulously, but Im never embarrassed by them or let them bog me down. "While currently, right now (my staff) are working on production plans, I'm finalizing the poster," Coachella founder and Goldenvoice CEO Paul Tollett said at the Billboard Live Music Summit. Which is a shame really because, with Andrew Watt producing, it's a hit song. In 2016, the year that Live Nation bought Bonnaroo, the festival sold 45,537 tickets, which was 28,156 fewer than it sold in 2015, when tickets were cheaper. Tollett has a knack for big statementsthis year he was leaning heavily on Beyonc, who was a deeper dive into pop for Coachellabut he also wants his first-time bookings, with an audience of only two hundred on Gobi, the smallest stage, to have the show of their lives. It was decided to pool their efforts into a special performance. In all, Live Nation currently has forty-four music festivals in North America and thirty-nine in Europe; A.E.G. Both Collins and Clinton remain active and funkin', and have offered their timeless grooves to collabs with younger artists, including, Today, funk lives in many places, with its heavy bass and syncopated grooves finding way into many nooks and crannies of music. Actually, Devo was as big as or bigger than the Pistols. View the profiles of professionals named "Paul Tollett" on LinkedIn. Meanwhile, last years Coachella festival sold-out all of its 75,000 three-day passes in record time, with another 80,000 or so fans failing in their quest to buy tickets. Bill Graham staged the show in the Longshoremans Hall, in January, 1966. Some of these Desert Tripsters had laid out blankets in front of the giant video monitors, which were delayed slightly, to allow time for the sound to travel the thousand feet or so from the stage. I was looking forward to that a lot. Thomas Rhett, Carrie Underwood and Luke Combs are the headliners. bought Goldenvoice in 2001, but Tollett kept Coachella, which he owned outright, separate. have established festive beachheads here. The film is a Goldenvoice. Devo had a No. An earlier version of this article misstated the city in which Lollapalooza was launched. To longtime music biz insiders, Golenvoices decision to acquire the property that abuts the festival site is a savvy move. 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