Desert Trip, lovingly called Oldchella, featured two sets a day from the six most iconic rock legends still playing: Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Paul McCartney, Neil Young and Roger Waters. It was a weekend of magical moments that went beyond just the music, and we were there to witness it all.

The Food

Oldchella seems to be giving the other fests a run for their money — at least for the more affluent attendees. Aside from a large selection of ala carte vendors that ranged from a bar with rare whiskey tastings curated by The Houston Brothers (LA’s favorite bar owners) to brick oven pizzas from Full of Life Flatbread to a Craft Beer Barn to kettle corn bags, there were two higher end food options.

One was Outstanding in The Field ($225), a touring farm to table meal pop up that included four tables a day each run by celebrity chef collaborators creating four course meals with wine pairings and all you can drink cocktails. The other was an area called The Culinary Experience ($179 per day or $499 for the weekend), which featured dozens of restaurant and bars offering all you can eat food and drink. Come for the music, stay for the good eats.

The Photo Experience

You had to get to the fest early to avoid the long lines to get into The Photo Experience, but if you needed to wait it was well worth it.

From Elliot Landy’s shots of Bob Dylan trying out a new trampoline in his backyard to Lynn Goldsmith’s shots of Mick Jagger, you can’t help but feel touched as you take these glimpses into the public and private lives of the iconic musicians you will see on stage in the evenings to come.

BONUS: This was one of the few places you could get air conditioning and shade away from the 99 degree.

The Amazing Band T-Shirts Everyone Was Wearing

The mature crowd wasn’t wearing crop tops and flower crowns (except one older woman rocking flowers around her bun who had to be at least 65, but there’s always an outlier). From old school Floyd tour shirts bought in the ‘70s to avant garde Bowie sweaters, it was hard to ignore everyone’s love of music through the ages.

Bob Dylan Actually Trying

I have heard tell that Bob Dylan is terrible live. That you literally can’t understand a word he says. And although there was some gravel in his voice, it seemed like he was actually making an effort to impress.

After the first few songs of his set though, he had the screens stop showing his face and only played B Roll. Keeping himself in mystery, he was probably the weakest set of the weekend. That being said, it was Bob Dylan serenading us for an hour and a half. It’s hard to argue that wasn’t a heartfelt highlight of anyone’s weekend.

The Rolling Stones Covering The Beatles

The Rolling Stones may not have played “Paint It Black,” but Mick Jagger still impressed, sweating through outfit after outfit as he, Keith Richards, Ronnie Woods and Charlie Watts played such hits as “Gimme Shelter” and “Sympathy for The Devil,” as well as a high energy encore of “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” and “Satisfaction.” The biggest surprise of the evening, though, was when they did a wonderful cover of The Beatles’ “Come Together.”

Neil Young Shredding His Heart Out During Both His Set and Paul McCartney’s

It was great hearing Neil Young tell dad jokes about Trump. There was totally a collective holding back of a single tear as he played “Harvest Moon” and the screens cut to a shot of the moon. We also all partied our hearts out to “Rocking In The Free World,” but the best part of Neil Young’s set was hearing him shred again and again.

There was one point he even played a 20 minute version of “Down By The River.” Everyone bowed down to Young’s greatness. Even Paul McCartney, who during his set brought Young out to sing and play guitar on “A Day In The Life.”

Paul McCartney’s Iconic “Live and Let Die”

Aside from bringing Neil Young out, McCartney played a crowd pleasing set of Beatles and Wings hits as well as solo songs and his Rihanna/Kanye collaboration “FourFiveSeconds.”

He also peppered his set with stories from his youth, and dedicated songs to George Martin, George Harrison, John Lennon, his wife Nancy and his ex wife Linda. If you have ever seen McCartney live before, you know he goes all out for “Live and Let Die,” and Saturday was no different. The Wings song was filled with fireworks, pyrotechnics and McCartney just smashing away at the piano like there was no tomorrow.

The Who Singing “Baba O’Riley” aka “Teenage Wasteland”

The Who started 15 minutes late, which was the least tardy set of the weekend. Still, though, they were bonafide rock and roll.

Pete Townsend was making jokes about Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” being too long on the radio and Roger Daltrey was swinging his microphone around his head and body like he was a teenage punk.

The set seemed to inspire the most jumping and dancing in the pit of the weekend, as the screens cut to shots of people leaping against the barricade. The highlight of the set was the building of anticipation when “Baba O’Riley” started in with it’s electronic introduction until the entire crowd screamed the lyrics “Teenage wasteland!”

But None of that Compared to Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters

He was the best thing I saw at Desert Trip, and maybe the best concert I have seen in my life. When Sia performed her artistic video and dance filled performance at Coachella this year I was positive I could not see anything more artistically beautiful on those polo grounds, but Roger Waters proved me wrong.

Fully utilizing the panoramic LED screens behind him to project psychedelic visions of clocks, stars and other surrealist imagery, his set was the most visually stunning thing seen that weekend. Waters also used the multiple surround sound speakers throughout the field to create auditory soundscapes of helicopters, rioters, police sirens, dogs barking, clocks ticking and dozens of other awe inspiring sensory shifts. Roger Waters was accompanied by Lucius frontwomen Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, who showed off their pipes throughout, but complemented him perfectly on “Dark Side of The Moon.” Robbie Wyckoff sang David Gilmore’s parts beautifully, and all the musicians on stage truly impressed.

Aside from a visual nod to the Black Lives Matter movement with a quote “If You Are Not Angry You Are Not Paying Attention,” and a speech about ending the occupation in Palestine, Waters used a large part of his stage time to condemn Donald Trump. During the song “Pigs” he had a giant pig float throughout the crowd that said, “Ignorant/Lying/Sexist/Racist/Fuck Trump and His Wall.”

He closed out his initial set by projecting lasers into the crowd in the shape of a pyramid with a rainbow coming out of it, a la the Dark Side record cover. The finale for his encore was when two hands, which had spent the entire show apart, finally reached each other during “Comfortably Numb.” The two radiated pastels of celebration as fireworks were shot into the air. It was a show about how we are being torn apart by so much hate in the world and the awe inspiring hope that comes from unity, and it was absolutely breathtaking.