{"id":30542,"date":"2024-10-07T18:04:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T18:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-oct-7-2016-the-inaugural-desert-trip-festival-kicked-off-in-california\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T18:04:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T18:04:38","slug":"on-this-day-oct-7-2016-the-inaugural-desert-trip-festival-kicked-off-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-oct-7-2016-the-inaugural-desert-trip-festival-kicked-off-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Oct. 7, 2016: The inaugural Desert Trip festival kicked off in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-07\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Oct. 7, 2016 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The first-ever Desert Trip festival kicked off at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, the same location where the yearly Coachella Festival is held.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dubbed \u201cOldchella\u201d by the public, the six-day event was split over two weekends and included a lineup of\u00a0superstar\u00a0classic rock acts\u00a0like\u00a0<strong>The Rolling Stones<\/strong>, <strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong>, <strong>The Who<\/strong>, <strong>Bob Dylan<\/strong>, <strong>Neil Young<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0<strong>Roger Waters<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Stones and Dylan headlined the first night of each weekend, with Young and McCartney playing the Saturdays, and The Who and Waters closing both weekends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">McCartney&#8217;s set during the\u00a0second weekend featured two special guests:\u00a0<strong>Rihanna<\/strong>, who joined him for their collaboration &#8220;FourFiveSeconds,&#8221; and Young, who\u00a0<\/span>joined McCartney for &#8220;A Day In The Life,&#8221; \u201cWhy Don&#8217;t We Do It In The Road?&#8221; and a cover of <strong>John Lennon<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Give Peace A Chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Oct. 7, 2016 &#8230; The first-ever Desert Trip festival kicked off at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, the same location where the yearly Coachella Festival is held. Dubbed \u201cOldchella\u201d by the public, the six-day event was split over two weekends and included a lineup of\u00a0superstar\u00a0classic<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-oct-7-2016-the-inaugural-desert-trip-festival-kicked-off-in-california\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}