Back from Bonnaroo

too much nitrous. i would go to bed at night (morning? ) to the sounds of kids sucking balloons. it kind of disgusts me. the staff were dicks about umbrellas, even when it was pouring rain. but overall, they were pretty nice & helpful. i only saw the first set of the dead show-i had to go pass out. the water & cold and combination of recreational substances got to me, and it breaks my heart reading the setlist--box of rain & franklin's tower? *tear* did anyone see the couple hardcore humping on the ground at the end of the dave & friends show? possibly the funniest thing i saw during the entire festival. i hope everyone had fun-i have dreads now and a creepy sunburn. i'm so tired, too-we drove all the way from nashville to austin today, so i think i shall go to bed.

 

haha phishcourtney i had dreads too. man i even took pictures of them they were so crazy.

but anyway, the dead was definitely my highlight. they played sooooooo well! i was disappointed in dylan though. i guess his style has changed a hell of alot. i had to leave his set after about 6 songs because it was too depressing to listen. poor bob.

the trash was disgusting. they really need to put more trash bins out next year or something! most of the people that attended were really laid back but i was surprised to see people worried about how they looked. i KNOW after the first day i looked like hell and i didn't give a fuck. i don't see how people could have really cared that much about their appearance. haha.

i also didn't find acid anywhere! where the hell was it? there were some good mushrooms there though.

all in all i had a lovely time. the mud was nasty but oh well. i had fun walking barefoot through it.

oh yes and i met pink floyd aka live in a forest! it was crazy! i just randomly saw her walking through a crowd of people. sorry i missed you other kids. i went to the fountain a little late so i might have missed you there.

there's always next year!

 

all in all i wold say it was a great experience but i will probly stick to smaller festivals and gatherings next year.​

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and as for the drugs, i didnt talk to or see anyone i wold trust enuff to buy anything from. everyone on shakedown street looked shady as hell, i did see acid but not any i wolda dropped......................​

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we brought our own headies and stuck to em.​

 

my friend sent me with some money to buy some mdma....and i refused to buy it.....you never know what's in that crap.....and i think he should be buying that stuff from someone he knows and trusts.....i didn't feel bad buying nuggets or mushrooms....you can't fuck with that stuff too much.....

 

We were camped next to a guy who had a whole shitload of mushrooms he said he found growing near his house or in his backyard or something. He had so many! It was crazy. He just gave us a whole bunch for a peanut butter sandwich. They were great, too. We got lucky.

Did you see those black guys in the tie dye shirts walking around selling on the first day? We didn't buy anything from them, and I heard later that they were totally ripping everyone off....but they had like this bird call whistle thing, so they could find each other. It was funny.

 

those guys came to our camp....and i knew something was fishy about them....the dude was saying he had everything....so i was leery about that.....so....we did not buy anything from them

 

The guys next to us bought some shrooms from them, I think...they were so pissed....hehe. Those guys just looked really out of place....like D-12 meets The Dead or something....

 

the guy i bought some shrooms from had "eat me" written on his chest in permenant marker.....

the shrooms were amazingly good....

 

Hehe...


Did anyone else have to cut their hair when they got home because it got so fucked up? I had to take like two inches off....it got all crackly and pieces would fly everywhere when I brushed it or shook my head.

That's not as bad as last year, though, when I got really burned and half of my hair fell out. It's funny now...

 

This was my first 'roo, and i had the best time ever.
Over-View of My Time:
thursday we got some chocolates and tripped semi-lightly enough so when we were going to bed people were funny as hell talking in the tents next to us.
friday the sun was hell waking up in a hot ass tent, it was so hot we were practically basting int the sun all day cause we were so damn far away (We were in Shaggy if anyone was close to us knows), got some mushies that night, tripped pretty well, Dave sucked, we sat down the entire time while some rude college kids had no remorse for people and kept bumping into us, and we smoked with some really funny people who decided to sit with us in the middle of all the people
saturday talked to my brother who was shockingly there, it was really weird to know he was there, the afternoon rain was sooooooo wonderful, went to Galactic (sucked they were delayed so long), left for the Dead at 8:30 to find Steve Winwood STILL playing, started pouring rain, 2 friends left me and my friend caitlin to get warm clothes on and come back, me and caitlin sat in the rain with a soaking wet towel over our heads as soon as we got up to leave the dead came on, we were pissed so we decided to walk back instead and get changed and come back, we rolled that night (the rolls were actually pretty good out there made me grit my teeth a lot though), sat at our tent for the first set, but we could hear them jammin so we had to go, once we did it kicked ASS they were so awesome!, went to see Primus they also were badass, super sketchy visual thing going on, got back to the tent around 6 maybe? the sun was coming up and we crashed
sunday went and saw moe. they were awesome, ran into my brother's friends, they were all spazzin on me makin sure i was being careful (they are all about 6 years older than me so they have to be all worried), sat in a tent as it stormed, got some molly and rolled for trey, which i must say was a WASTE, i'm sorry but Trey sucked, what was with the intermission? and all the talking?, the fireworks were awesoem though, nice way to cover-up his aweful show, i think he's just a tad too commercial for me...

The security were a little bit of assholes on sunday, after it had rained we had chairs we were bringing in and they said we couldn't but we jacked them anyways, that's messed up...

All in all though, the good outweighed the bad, maybe it was just that you had to look past it, we finally did, you jsut had to have a system of how to walk through the mud. I had a great time and hope ya'll did too, hope everyone makes it out next year

 

I had to cut my hair the first year. Well actually I dreaded it because of Bonnaroo the first year. I had hair down to the middle of my butt. It got so ratty that I dreaded it up. I got very sick of the hair being pulled in every which direction that I cut them all out. This year I took a shower every day at bonnaroo and loaded up on the conditioner. I had no problems this year. The showers were soooo worth the money.

The reason for less acid this year is because there was just a big bust.
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This was my first roo and I had a fucking blast. I went with practically no money since I decided to miracle some one with my extra ticket. But karma was on my side since people were practically feeding me mushrooms. Day one was spent playing in the fountain and rocking out. Yonder put on a great show. How awsome were Sam Bush and Leftover?!?!?! I felt real bad for Bob Dylan...he was STRUGGLIN just to play the harmonica....I had to leave to catch cheese, it was really sad. I took a nice long nap during Dave so I could rock out during VB and UM. Can I just say the late night shows both nights fucking rocked! I was so busy rocking out to Primus I didnt even notice how miserable the ground was. Hell, Les was fucked up too! Gotta love that shit. Our campsite was back along the fence so we had no problems with bad toilet smells or mud and the noise from the main stage would carry up our hill so we had a real good atmosphere. My only complaint was that they didnt put anything over the mud. I quickly gave up my shoes for the cause after I bit it hard core in the mud. I looked rediculous and was pretty uncomfortable but that cant stop me from lovin the music. Did anyone see that punk band on Thursday night? The music sucked but they were fucking hillarious. They looked like the power rangers! I def didnt mind so many people there and look forward to roo next year. I was def glad I brought gallon jugs of my own water and hopefully they will be a bit more organized next year.

 

I was barefoot all three days...I'm barefoot 90% of the time, though...so it wasn't a really big deal. Except for once when I stepped on glass. I just janked it out, took a few deep breaths and kept on truckin'. It so funny how people react...they're like, "Oh my god! How can you walk on the gravel barefoot??? You must be insane!!"



Maybe I am. Maybe I am........

 

You are. You are......

 

Second time Roo attendee here. I must say that I enjoyed last year much better than this year. Here are some of my random thoughts:

- They defenitely should not have sold so many tickets. The land and the venues could not handle the crowd. There were not enough Port a potties or garbage facilities. The crowd left such a mess that it is going to take at least a week to get things picked up. A lot of the crowd did not even leave the campsites to listen to the music, they were there for the party. Don't get me wrong, I like to have a good time myself, but I would not pay the $140 to $200 for a ticket to party and act like an ass.

- The mud had to do with the crowd. If there wasn't so many people there wouldn't be so much mud. A simple way to fix this would be to plant grass from grass clippings in high traffic areas. Less crowd = less mud.

- Additional music tents were not needed. We have enough of a hard time seeing all the music, why make it harder?

- The nitrous tanks needed to disappear. Nitrous is there for a 10 minute head rush (Not to meniton it can make you brain dead). Think of all the money that could be spent on vendors instead of $5 for a nitrous balloon (buy some good headies, they last longer) .

- If you think of all the cash made on the event (100,000 tickets around $200 a piece = $20,000,000 + vendor fees + vendor kick back + merchandise - band fees = still a big profit) alot of improvements could have been made.

- They needed to have knowledgable people working for them. Traffic and guest services did not know how we would exit from Woodland Ave area. The gate checkers let some people take in spray bottles, chairs, and umbrellas while others didn't. They needed to be on the same page.

- Great music. Anyone who missed a late night show Saturday must not have been thinking.

- A lot of good people with a few bad ( My gf say a guy walking around with a heroin syringe in his arm)

- Trey's first set left much to be desired, but second set rocked.

- Great time, but think I will spend time at more smaller festivals.

 

This was my first bonnaroo, and while some parts sucked, there was enough good in there for me to say I had a rockin' time.

Thursday night I had been awake since 8 am the previous day so I was fairly exhausted. sat on the grass and chilled at papa gita? gino? gota? i can't remember. A random guy standing next to me looks down and hands me a pipe, which really started the weekend off for me. (mostly) everyone there was so nice. I'm not sure who the guy was but i think he was someone famous, he was staying at VIP and as we talked he seemed to know almost all the artists there on a personal level.

Yonder Mountain String Band, Galatic, Addison Groove Project, Dave, and The Superjam were my favourite shows. Sympathy for the Devil at galactic was one of my favourite moments. I also loved being able to pull out a bowl and smoke it whereever I was, with whoever was around. Also hacky sacking with all the cool people was great fun.

There were some bad times too. We waited forever for galatic, then afterwards we went to the dead. Ended up waiting there forever as well. We were soaking wet and freezing our asses off, having no ponchos and wearing only a thin wife beater. I finally couldn't take it anymore and had to head back to the campsite. Just as I reached home I heard them start playing (I was staying in 'Speedy Gonzalez') which pissed me off to no end. but it was nice to doze off to the sound of them playing. I also missed all the late night shows. having been out in the sun/rain all day I was just too exhausted, and though I wanted to stay up, ended up passing out both ngihts. Was robert Randolph good, anyone? Also the last night I got some bad mushrooms, and ended up tripping hard as trey conducted an ORCHESTRA?!? I couldn't figure that one out for the longest time. During the looooooong intermission the trip took a turn for the worse and i ended up puking in the mudd. cold, rain, and ankle deep trash covered mudd, does not make for happy tripping times. I ended up having to leave after 'devil went down to georgia' I just couldn't take it anymore.

all and all I'd say it was a good experience, and I'll definatley be there next year, though more prepared.

 

- They defenitely should not have sold so many tickets. The land and the venues could not handle the crowd. There were not enough Port a potties or garbage facilities. The crowd left such a mess that it is going to take at least a week to get things picked up. A lot of the crowd did not even leave the campsites to listen to the music, they were there for the party. Don't get me wrong, I like to have a good time myself, but I would not pay the $140 to $200 for a ticket to party and act like an ass.

- The nitrous tanks needed to disappear. Nitrous is there for a 10 minute head rush (Not to meniton it can make you brain dead). Think of all the money that could be spent on vendors instead of $5 for a nitrous balloon (buy some good headies, they last longer) .

Yeah the people that lived next to me they only left their campsite 2 times. Hey it's their fault they didn't go see music. and some people I understand why they didn't leave. They wanted to have a good time without people bothering them.
LoL at the Nitrous (hippie Crack) You can't stop the hippie crack it's always at the Dead shows... Some people just like cheap highs...

 

Last year we were camped right next to these guys from Jersey with a nitrous tank. It was so annoying....it was all we heard all day and all night, and there was this constant stream of 16 year olds just flocking to it like it was Jesus. This one kid got like five balloons and just leaned up against my friend's car for like half an hour with them....it was awful. I did one balloon, and it freaked the hell out of me.... I thought I could feel the veins in my head about to explode. So I quit.

 

My husband and i were just married a week before bonnaroo so this was our honeymoon and our first show so we were very excited. we drove 13 hours strait from PA. i had a good time even though i missed almost all of the bands. i underestimated the heat of the south and the distance of 700 acers. being five months pregnant, when the two were combined, i spent most of my time under our tarp sucking down water. i saw a few other pregnant girls walking around, i don't know how they did it. i tried to hang, i really did. friday my husband and i went to centaroo at 10am and walked around for a while but on the way back to the tent i almost passed out a few times. that was enough for me. i was lucky though because i could hear all of the music perfectly from our tent and the bathrooms next to us were clean the whole time.(i was suprised) my husband came back to the tent and we made love during dave matthews and i made it back to centaroo a few more times on saturday night. all in all i had a good time considering, and my husband had a blast. the only gripe i had was that they wouldn't let me take a chair into centaroo (i would have stayed longer if i could)

 

yeah they were very messed up about that, there were 4 people in our group, and we were all in the same line and the guy let 2 of my friends go in with their chairs but we couldn't take ours, so we set them down, but we were lucky because everytime we went in there it was jammed at the gates so we just went back and got them anyways, it's not like they could chase after you..