Wakarusa In Words: Friday! (Paw! Mates! Del! Built to Spill! Blackalicious! Flaming Lips! More!)

By GREG FRANKLIN

Wayne Coyne rolls over the crowd.

Day two of the festival, and I’m pretty amped. Given that yesterday’s lineup was cut short by Momz Nature, and that a good deal of us spent the evening watching storms rather than partying, it’s a good way to go into what is arguably the most exciting, diverse day of the festival. A good night’s sleep under my belt, I’m ready to take on the ridiculously muddy Clinton Lake fairgrounds.

I got to the grounds unfortunately late and missed all of the psych-pop freakouts of Star Death & White Dwarfs (who share bloodline with the Flaming Lips) and most of the Apollo Sunshine set. I walk up to the Sundown Stage just in time for the part in Apollo Sunshine’s set where White Flight/Roelofs made his cameo, which was somehow more appropriate this day and less heavy on the awkward acid-casualty-Jesus-hut-dwelling-yoga-instructor vibe of the day before. I think the band (sans Roelofs) might even be “too freaky” for the hippies. I am jealous of the city of Boston for getting to see take Apollo Sunshine for granted as a “local band”, and contemplate the local bands that I take for granted.