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A best of Minnesota music thread awhile back made me want to share this. Being a Red Dirt fan intrigued me as 1 show has now turned into 4 show residency that are all sold out to benefit NIL at OSU. Cross Canadian Ragweed reunion concert to benefit Oklahoma State athletics' NIL efforts

Then I saw Wisconsin could be in talks to do the same with Coldplay and other potential concerts.

UMN willing to do this and utilize it for similar purposes, believe they have held concerts there in the past? Who could we get to really make it worth it?
 



ottertail said:
A best of Minnesota music thread awhile back made me want to share this. Being a Red Dirt fan intrigued me as 1 show has now turned into 4 show residency that are all sold out to benefit NIL at OSU. Cross Canadian Ragweed reunion concert to benefit Oklahoma State athletics' NIL efforts

Then I saw Wisconsin could be in talks to do the same with Coldplay and other potential concerts.

UMN willing to do this and utilize it for similar purposes, believe they have held concerts there in the past? Who could we get to really make it worth it?
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What is red dirt (and I'm not talking about Mars soil)?
 



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What is red dirt (and I'm not talking about Mars soil)?
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Red Dirt an ambiguously defined Genre of Music based on the color of soil in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Once mostly only popular in that part of the country now mainstream thanks to the interwebs/social-media (and Zac Bryan). Most all the bands in the show went to college and/or got their start there (as did Garth Brooks and The All American Rejects).
 

Was hoping for more music fans to see the potential in Minneapolis and NIL but regardless a good update and background On CCR and OSU who capitalized well and wish one day Minnesota could ever be so lucky..:
 


ottertail said:
Red Dirt an ambiguously defined Genre of Music based on the color of soil in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Once mostly only popular in that part of the country now mainstream thanks to the interwebs/social-media (and Zac Bryan). Most all the bands in the show went to college and/or got their start there (as did Garth Brooks and The All American Rejects).
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"Red Dirt" is tough to define, but to me, you know it when you hear it. I'd call Red Dirt real contemporary country/folk/blues, as opposed to Nashville pop glam country. My daughter got me into that stuff the past few years (going to school in Central TX). Flatland Cavalry, Zach Bryan, Siverada fka Mike and the Moonpies, Turnpike Troubadours, Tyler Childress, etc. In my opinion, if you liked Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon and those guys more than their contemporary Nashville artists, you'd probably like the newer Red Dirt stuff more than pop country.
 






ottertail said:
Hope this link works but Cross canadian ragweed and friends are now doing Baylor NIL. Come on Minnesota who can we get?!?!?
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fmlizard said:
Why did the U stop booking major acts at the Bank? For a while it was a major A list concert venue - Beyonce, U2, Rolling Stones, Imagine Dragons, Kanye, One Direction, Nicki Minaj - and then it all stopped around 2018.


Did the opening of US Bank Stadium cause acts to shift there instead?
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I remember these shows, did partake in some of them while in attendance there). Was great fun and a good run, so why not revamp those while benefiting the players?

(Also us bank sucks for live music,,,)
 



I dunno. Are red dirt fans the same people that figure they'll get shot or carjacked if they go near Dinkytown, let alone anywhere in Minneapolis?
 

Panthadad2 said:
"Red Dirt" is tough to define, but to me, you know it when you hear it. I'd call Red Dirt real contemporary country/folk/blues, as opposed to Nashville pop glam country. My daughter got me into that stuff the past few years (going to school in Central TX). Flatland Cavalry, Zach Bryan, Siverada fka Mike and the Moonpies, Turnpike Troubadours, Tyler Childress, etc. In my opinion, if you liked Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon and those guys more than their contemporary Nashville artists, you'd probably like the newer Red Dirt stuff more than pop country.
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Red Clay Strays - you wont be disappointed.
 

FredCoxRocks said:
I dunno. Are red dirt fans the same people that figure they'll get shot or carjacked if they go near Dinkytown, let alone anywhere in Minneapolis?
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Doubtful, they are not the standard rural ‘nashville country’ music folks, the lyrics answer that.
But my point is why can’t we capitalize on NIL opportunities to do similar?
 

ottertail said:
Doubtful, they are not the standard rural ‘nashville country’ music folks, the lyrics answer that.
But my point is why can’t we capitalize on NIL opportunities to do similar?
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Yup...it only makes sense. I'm not one to just hand money directly to a kid to play a sport in college, but I would gladly pay money to see a good show where some of that money eventually trickles down to a college athlete.
Oh, and beer. I also spend money on beer that supports college athletes, too. Priorities.
 


ottertail said:
I can say it was one hell of a show and the entire town and college went all out making it a four day event filled festival that went very smooth. Something I imagine could only wish our U could repeat.

Link: Not official kinda clickbait article but looks like $4-5million raised for OSU’s NIL.

I attended day three and by then Mike Gundy may have had a few too many adult beverages and messed up the band name while introducing :oops:
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I think there would be a great turnout. Minnesotans live outdoor concerts and there have been some memorable ones starting (for me) with the August 1, 1978 Met Stadium concert with the Eagles, Steve Miller Band and Pablo Cruise. Officially 65,000 were there, but it felt like a lot more. Great music, rain and the smell of weed filled the ball park that day.

However, remembering how the Gophers operated concessions at a near loss when TCF Bank Stadium was brand new, doesn’t allow me to think the Gophs can earn $100 grand let alone a million or more.
 

Two things that OSU has that Minnesota doesn't:

1) A desire to compete in sports vs. downplay sports
2) An administration willing to take steps to put something like this together. The faculty would riot.

One thing that Minnesota has that OSU doesn't:

1) an AD that is as charismatic as drying paint with no vision, plan, spine, or voice.

Other than that, we could pull this off.

We could put together a huge festival of bands (well, some of these may not be performing anymore) and try to pull some of them out of retirement. We could have a big tent with a variety of genres.

Hell, we could have days that feature musicians in their different incarnations.

Bands that we could tap into in no real particular order, and no knowledge if some of these bands/members are even still alive:

Soul Asylum
Gear Daddies
Bob Mould could Reprise Husker Du, Sugar, and do his solo stuff
Trampled by Turtles
Matt and Dan Wilson, as their solo selves, Semisonic, resurrect Trip Shakespeare for an evening.
Paul Westerberg
The Suburbs and Chan Poling's latest with John Munson and Steve Roehm, The New Standards
The Jayhawks
Son Volt
Jonny Lang
The Rank Strangers
The Revolution (even without His Purple Majesty)
Peter Himmelman
Lorie Line
The Honeydogs
Har Mar Superstar
Johnny Clueless
The Curbfeelers
Sounds of Blackness
Boiled in Lead
Barb Cohen Solo, Barb Cohen & Little Lizard Brother Sun, Sister Moon, and Farm Accident?
Arcwelder

There are more, and some of these just date me (some came from my pile of ticket stubs from back in the day), but you get the idea that this could happen. And I'm sure there are analogous bands that hit the area on the regular that I don't know about because I'm old and don't live in the Twin Cities anymore.

With Coyle at the helm, I envision more Fyre Festival than Lallapolooza, but maybe the Dinkytown collective has someone with an actual clue that could pull this off?


I left out one —the Replacements. I genuinely believe the analogy that the Replacements were like Hennipen Ave—they started around Stinson and ended in a cemetery. Could it happen? Yes. I'm not sure you can do it without Stinson, however.
 

caliGopher said:
Two things that OSU has that Minnesota doesn't:

1) A desire to compete in sports vs. downplay sports
2) An administration willing to take steps to put something like this together. The faculty would riot.

One thing that Minnesota has that OSU doesn't:

1) an AD that is as charismatic as drying paint with no vision, plan, spine, or voice.

Other than that, we could pull this off.

We could put together a huge festival of bands (well, some of these may not be performing anymore) and try to pull some of them out of retirement. We could have a big tent with a variety of genres.

Hell, we could have days that feature musicians in their different incarnations.

Bands that we could tap into in no real particular order, and no knowledge if some of these bands/members are even still alive:

Soul Asylum
Gear Daddies
Bob Mould could Reprise Husker Du, Sugar, and do his solo stuff
Trampled by Turtles
Matt and Dan Wilson, as their solo selves, Semisonic, resurrect Trip Shakespeare for an evening.
Paul Westerberg
The Suburbs and Chan Poling's latest with John Munson and Steve Roehm, The New Standards
The Jayhawks
Son Volt
Jonny Lang
The Rank Strangers
The Revolution (even without His Purple Majesty)
Peter Himmelman
Lorie Line
The Honeydogs
Har Mar Superstar
Johnny Clueless
The Curbfeelers
Sounds of Blackness
Boiled in Lead
Barb Cohen Solo, Barb Cohen & Little Lizard Brother Sun, Sister Moon, and Farm Accident?
Arcwelder

There are more, and some of these just date me (some came from my pile of ticket stubs from back in the day), but you get the idea that this could happen. And I'm sure there are analogous bands that hit the area on the regular that I don't know about because I'm old and don't live in the Twin Cities anymore.

With Coyle at the helm, I envision more Fyre Festival than Lallapolooza, but maybe the Dinkytown collective has someone with an actual clue that could pull this off?


I left out one —the Replacements. I genuinely believe the analogy that the Replacements were like Hennipen Ave—they started around Stinson and ended in a cemetery. Could it happen? Yes. I'm not sure you can do it without Stinson, however.
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Flamin' Ohs, Suicide Commandos, Run Westy Run...
 

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