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For those at the On The Bricks show, here's John's take from the official TMBG newsletter:

The weather cleared by Atlanta, but we ran into a different kind of
problem: feuding promoters. A local competing promoter (who will go nameless,
but is aligned with probably the only national promotions chain you might know
) was being a big spoiler- "cross-booking" free shows in the public space a
few directly across from the festival site all season in an overt effort to
rub out our less corporate production co. that presents the "On The Bricks"
summer festival each year. We found ourselves a few thousand feet from
another stage, playing at the exact same time as Popa Roach. This absurd
scenario was not an accident in long-term planning, but a planned conflict
created eight days before our event by a very evil dude. Fortunately Popa
Roach weren't as loud as we feared, and unfortunately for them, we weren't as
quiet as they assumed. I got word of a frightening but slightly comic story-
evidently their lead singer wound up yarfing on himself midsong, which sent a
silent shockwave through what had to be a deeply disturbed crowd. Possibly
because of this incident, their show ended a little early, which allowed us
to play a few quiet songs without the intrusive echoes of our unintended
competition.