BFD Blast From the Past + Create Your Dream BFD Line Up
Linkin Park Performs At The Staples Center (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Hey Bay Area Lovers, the BFD line up is out and tickets are go on sale this week. I’ve dug up the past line up posters and compared the last five BFDs. Check it out 
The First BFD happened in 1994 and had Beck, Green Day and The Pretenders. Here’s a recap of the awesome past five BFDs
2006:
AFI, The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand, HIM, Echo & The Bunnymen, Every Move A Picture, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, She Wants Revenge, The Sounds, Hard-Fi, Panic! At The Disco, Wolfmother, Thursday, Yellowcard, Anti-Flag, OK Go, Hush Sound
2007:
Bloc Party, Interpol, Queens of the Stone Age, Social Distortion, The Faint, The Bravery, Kaiser Chiefs, Silversun Pickups, Cold War Kids, Shiny Toy Guns, Sum 41, CSS, The Lovemakers,Street to Nowhere, Scissors for Lefty… The year I met Menace
2008:
Cypress Hill, Flogging Molly, The Kooks, Pennywise, Alkaline Trio, Everlast, Anti-Flag, MGMT, The Whigs, Ludo, Atreyu, Airborne Toxic Event, Moby, MSTRKRFT, Santogold, Steve Aoki, Lyrics Born, Mike Relm, Play Radio Play, DJ Omar
2009:
The Offspring, 311, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Dead Confederate, Crystal Castles, DJ AM, Mike Relm, Steve Aoki, Taking Back Sunday, Alkaline Trio, Rebelution, Audrye Sessions; MC Lars, Music For Animals, Wallpaper, Odawas, Dizzy Balloon, the Catholic Comb, Ambiance, Solid Stage Logic, and Fighting the Villain.
2010:
Sublime with Rome, Deftones, Hole, Silversun Pickups, Cage the Elephant, Spoon, The Gaslight Anthem, Against Me!, Flyleaf, The Temper Trap, The Dirty Heads, The Soft Pack, Violent Soho, Middle Class Rut, Matt & Kim, BT, Dan Black, Toxic Avenger, The Limousines, Golden Filter, Amplive, Dyloot, Dj Miles, DJ Omar
2011:
Linkin Park
Snoop Dogg
The Strokes
Cage the Elephant
Bad Religion
Neon Trees
The Airborne Toxic Event
Manchester Orchestra
Foster the People
Biffy Clyro
Middle Class Rut
Young the Giant
Awolnation
Wolfgang Gartner
Blaqk Audio
The Limousines
Innerpartysystem
Harvard Bass
RAC
The Tenderloins
Saint John
Party Ben
Jeffery Paradise
KidHack
Miles the DJ
Dan B
I Am Empire (San Jose)
Forrest Day (San Francisco)
K. Flay (San Francisco)
Beta State (San Jose)
Finish Ticket (Alameda)
The Relay Company (Los Altos)
Young Digerati (San Francisco)
Them Rude Boyz (San Jose)
If you could create your own BFD lineup which bands and artists would you add? Put your answer in a comment 
Jake
April 19, 2011 8:57 pm
Main Stage:
Foo Fighters
Pearl Jam
Rage Against The Machine
Beastie Boys
Pixies
2nd Stage:
Stone Temple Pilots
Weezer
Deftones
Bad Religion
Soundgarden
Incubus
Queens of The Stone Age
Cake
Now This would be a badass line-up! Let’s make it happen Live105!
meganholiday
April 19, 2011 9:26 pm
I like where your head’s at
Natasha
April 19, 2011 9:49 pm
Main Stage:
Muse
Taking Back Sunday
The Strokes
Silversun Pickups
2nd Stage:
Shiny Toy Guns
30 Seconds to Mars
Two Door Cinema Club
Mumford & Sons
The Kooks
Franz Ferdinand
Three Days Grace
Yelle
The Bravery
Subsonic Tent:
Moby
Mike Jordan
April 19, 2011 10:08 pm
My dream main stage would include: Foo Fighters, Blink 182, Sublime, and Bob Marley
Ryan
April 19, 2011 10:49 pm
too lazy to organize the stages, but her are some artists i would love to see:
deadmau5, kid cudi, hollywood undead, king fantastic, the killers, muse, pendulum, flobots, mcr, sleigh bells, red jumpsuit appartatus, weezer, rise against, girl talk, bloody beetroots, alien project, rusko, ratatat
Loui
April 20, 2011 11:27 am
Main Stage:
MUSE
The Strokes
Interpol
Vampire Weekend
Second Stage:
Mumford & Sons
Jimmy Eat World
Phoenix
Cage The Elephant
Flogging Molly
Cold War Kids
TRAVI$ BARKER w/ Mix Master Mike
Glasvegas
The Drums
Subsonic Tent:
DAFT PUNK
Pendelum
Moby
Fatboy Slim
Adam Freeland
Mike Relm
ATB
Bassnectar
The Limousines
DJ Miles
Dr. Philth
Local Bands:
Rogue Wave
Geographer
I Am Empire
Finish Ticket
Maldroid
Deerhoof
Veil Veil Vanish
A B & The Sea