Over one weekend, revelers will have the chance to see The Rolling Stones, Roger Waters, Bob Dylan and his band, The Who, Paul McCartney and Neil Young with Promise of the Real.
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Nearly since their inceptions in 1999 and 2007, respectively, the Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals at the Empire Polo Club in Indio have drawn 20 percent of their annual audiences from San Diego County.
Desert Trip comes from the team behind Coachella and is indeed on the Coachella polo field site in Palm Springs, California. News of this has taken the music world by storm, calling it a “once in a lifetime” concert.
Two acts will perform full sets each night after sunset. The $1,599 ticket price also will apply to admission to a standing-room pit immediately in front of the stage.
Tickets go on sale May 9 at 10 a.m. PDT. Dylan will be 75 by show time, McCartney is 73, Waters 72 and the event’s youngest headliner (named, appropriately enough, Young) is 70. These are artists who flourished during the era of sex, drugs and rock n roll, producing the most wonderful music while simultaneously turning their bodies and minds into a test-tube of mind-altering drugs and ungodly amounts of alcohol.
“I can’t think of a concert as big as this one”, Jim Guerinot, a talent agent and former promoter, told the Los Angeles Times. In a deviation from Coachella and Stagecoach, single-day tickets will be available for purchase the next three days. They won’t be cheap-think $129 to $179 plus fees per person per day-but hey, nobody said this trip to the desert would be a bargain.
If it seems like the all-star classic-rock festival Desert Trip came together with a sense of urgency, that’s probably because there is a certain sense of urgency to the affair. If you add a shuttle ride the total is up to $224.
San Diego music fans unable to attend the three-day music fete in Indio have a few local alternatives.
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Other tiers of Desert Trip passes for the weekend include reserved floor passes, costing $699, $999 and $1,599.
