![]() ![]() But if you’re loosely qualifying Ohana as an actual rock festival - which it mostly has been, despite a healthy annual infusion of global music and folk-leaning artists - then Pink has some sort-of bona fides, not just the actual claim to being a rock star in the lyrics of “So What.” Lyrically, her blunt talk has always felt more rock than it has pop, per se, and something like “Who Knew” sounds like it’s going to turn into a Pearl Jam song before it turns into a Pink one. The sight of actual backing dancers may have been a first for an Ohana Fest this may be the first time there’s been a topless man on stage for a headlining set and it hasn’t been one of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Pink may not count as an adventuresome choice in all circles, but at a festival like Ohana, where pure pop hasn’t really figured in much in the previous five editions, she represented an outlier. ![]() Pink at day three of the 2022 Ohana Music Festival held at Doheny State Beach on Octoin Dana Point, California. (Either it’s a case of musicians sounding more alike as they get older, just like married couples are said to begin looking alike, or there was just something linguistic in the Florida water.) The greatest concentration of Petty, however, came in a Saturday afternoon set by Campbell’s Dirty Knobs, in which the former Heartbreakers guitarist assumed his longtime partner’s lead vocal duties on three songs - “Even the Losers,” “Runnin’ Down a Dream” and “Fault Lines.” As it turns out, Campbell sounds as much like Petty when he’s singing those oldies as he does in everyday speech. There was plenty more TP to go around during the three-day weekend, as on Sunday, the actual anniversary of the death, Grouplove contributed a cover of “Wildflowers” midway through its set, with co-lead singer Hannah Hooper holding up a sign with the simple quotation “You belong.” The previous night, Nicks had headlined, and instead of guitarist Waddy Wachtel taking the duet part on the Petty-penned “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” as he normally would on tour, Vedder stepped out as a surprise guest to join the sometimes-Fleetwood-Mac singer for the 1981 smash she and Petty shared. Eddie Vedder and Mike Campbell perform at day two of the 2022 Ohana Music Festival held at Doheny State Beach on Octoin Dana Point, California. ![]()
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