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Post by bootchmagoo on Feb 28, 2007 11:07:03 GMT -5
I go to the roo because I have found that I really enjoy taking a week to myself, with no responsibility towards others. I can, and do, "find myself" at every festival I have attended. In the whirlwind of everyday life, it seems that many of us, myself included, are forced to put on a facade. In many of our endeavors, we are being something we are not, just to pay the bills or to suffice others. Personally, this puts a great deal of stress on my soul. Bonnaroo(and Moe.Down, phish fests), serves as my vindication for that time. All of the energy I have repressed, all of the thoughts and attitudes I have held back, are no longer taboo. Honestly, it is not about the music for me. Sure having the tastiest acts present is a great vehicle to feel good and experience new music. But for me, somewhere between the great friends/people, the heady grooves and the recreational chemistry, my inner being is appeased enough to when I leave I can put that face back on and go back to "real" life......that is, until the next trip!
I go to the roo because I have found that I really enjoy taking a week to myself, with no responsibility towards others. I can, and do, "find myself" at every festival I have attended. In the whirlwind of everyday life, it seems that many of us, myself included, are forced to put on a facade. In many of our endeavors, we are being something we are not, just to pay the bills or to suffice others. Personally, this puts a great deal of stress on my soul. Bonnaroo(and Moe.Down, phish fests), serves as my vindication for that time. All of the energy I have repressed, all of the thoughts and attitudes I have held back, are no longer taboo. Honestly, it is not about the music for me. Sure having the tastiest acts present is a great vehicle to feel good and experience new music. But for me, somewhere between the great friends/people, the heady grooves and the recreational chemistry, my inner being is appeased enough to when I leave I can put that face back on and go back to "real" life......that is, until the next trip!
There you go!!! Very similar for me. At the roo, I get to be the "real me" rather than the "me for society" I have a wife and 2 kids and a full time career. I seldom get to be the real me during the rest of the year! Roo gives me that opportunity.
The music is a given, after all the intangibles that roo offers everyone, whatever those reasons may be, it still comes down to the music. All the other perks are just an added bonus!
I go to Roo because I love to people-watch...and it doesn't get any better than Bonnaroo for that. I like the atmosphere, and I like watching people do silly things that make me laugh all weekend.
It's rough at times, but I think it's pretty cool.
Post by bootchmagoo on Feb 28, 2007 13:12:26 GMT -5
dmbfanintn
~ you summed it up...no no need to be the "me for society" where people are not judging. I am in the same boat with the all-consuming career...no kids as of yet thankfully
Post by macaroniandtuna on Feb 28, 2007 18:35:18 GMT -5
joga said:
I go to Roo because I love to people-watch...and it doesn't get any better than Bonnaroo for that. I like the atmosphere, and I like watching people do silly things that make me laugh all weekend.
Haha...there's no place better than Bonnaroo for people-watching.
Post by happytrails on Feb 28, 2007 19:14:18 GMT -5
I am blessed to have been 4 years in a row with 2 guys I've known since before I could walk. We grew up in a leavittobeaver community in the 60's/ We went to HS together; discovered the wonders of nature together, saw our first concert together (Boston Foghat and the James gang 1976) etc etc. We all live in different parts of the country and are all busy with kids; careers etc. This is our annual event and there is nothing that could keep me from going! Its a true blessing to be able to relate on so many different levels and pick up our friendships as though we were never apart.
Of course we also go for the music and nothing gets in the way of that - Noon to 4 am!
Post by trippindaisy on Feb 28, 2007 19:39:32 GMT -5
macaroniandtuna said:
joga said:
I go to Roo because I love to people-watch...and it doesn't get any better than Bonnaroo for that. I like the atmosphere, and I like watching people do silly things that make me laugh all weekend.
Haha...there's no place better than Bonnaroo for people-watching.
Indeed one of my favorite past-times and SO much fun at Roo
Post by ziggyandthemonkeys on Mar 1, 2007 1:51:50 GMT -5
Everytime im flying somewhere and have to wait i just think how sometime id like to just come to the airport and people watch and not have the pain of traveling. Am yet to do it, maybe if i can recruit a partner i'll get to it.
I go so that the people around me can tolerate me for the rest of the year. And no I'm not fibbing on that one. My lady tells me that even though it sucks I'm gone that long I need it. It's my release. It's the ultimate stress break. I go because I love the music, because it's the first place on earth I would talk to total strangers. I go to unwind, to drink beer with my buddies, to meet all you roo addicts. To watch the people party too much on Thursday and be wiped out Friday. I go due to the fact that it's one of the too few places that execept people no matter what. Sure you might find a wook sleeping in your tent but you laugh about it. Sure you party so hard your feet hurt your lungs burn and your head feels like it's going to pop. Then you get up in a few hours and do it all over again.
My husband and I go for the musice of course. But it is the one time a year we have no kids, no cell phones, laptops etc. We escape. It is the most relaxing vacation we have. We still go to vacations..Europe etc. But this is truly our idea of a great vacation. The highlight of our year!!!!! Such a great atmosphere!!! We get to wake up every day excited about what the days holds and what band we will check out. How can you not walk around for 4 days without a huge smile at a place like 'Roo!!!! Hope Heaven is something like 'Roo. 5th year for us....2nd VIP.
I went for the first time last year to see Radiohead. Period. I'm returning because I met numerous people who aren't a thing like me, so outside of the farm, I wouldn't have the pleasure of getting to know a bit about them--for example, the two brothers who hadn't seen each other for a year or so because one lived in Michigan and the other in Georgia, they camped with us and sold us beer, the shakedown vendor from New Orleans who lost everything, but still goes from festival to festival to spread his brand of joy, or the bunch of college kids from New Jersey who were just starting their adult lives and helped me remember that time fondly. I'm returning because I saw about six bands in that weekend I was not familiar with before going, but which don't leave my personal playlists now for anything. I'm returning because B'roo nights are such a wonderful time--after the sun has been beating down on your head all day, the moment it dips beneath the trees, the sense of anticipation for what is in store in the dark is fantastic. I'm returning because I went with my best friend, and although we were best friends before, we shared an experience that brought us so much closer together--when you share B'roo with someone, there will always be a special bond. And finally, I'm returning because what better is there to do in the middle of June in the scorching Tennessee heat than wander around outside with a smile on your face for 96 hours or so? ;D
This will be my first year. Actually, I was supposed to go last year, but it wound up being too close to the due date of our son and I opted out. I remember rocking the baby one day not long after he was born and getting a phone call from my brother. All I heard was a wash of noise, but it was him calling during Les Claypool's show. Bastid. There was no way I was gonna' miss it this year.
I mainly want to go to reconnect with my friends and connect with a whole bunch of other people that are on the same wavelength as me. To get all together and dig the same music taste, party preferences and escape from my day to day for a week. Other people have said it and I agree, it's gonna' be a great vacation.
My 3 favorite things in life are music, camping, partying, and meeting new people. Combine that all in a bohemian carnival like atmosphere and voila! Pure bliss.
I'm going for a long weekend away from everything about day to day life that eats at me. it's four days in the middle of nowhere (relatively speaking, coming from someone who's lived in the city all their life). It's going to be me and one of my best friends seeing all the bands we've been wanting to see, but couldn't for whatever reason.
I guess I'm going for the overall experience, there's not one thing that draws me to 'Roo, it's everything about the festival that makes me want to go.
i've been wanting to go to roo since i graduated high school in 05 but wasn't able to that summer and I couldn't last summer either. Music for me is one of the only other things that i can completely lose myself in, other than that little something that involves birds and bees (or birds and birds/bees and bees, whatever floats your boat ) so if I can get away and do that for 4 days, well you can bet that I'll do it. I'm going this summer with some of my buddies from high school and meeting up with some friends from college and I can't wait for the experience. The idea of thousands of people coming together to get away for a bit and be free is exciting in itself. I can't wait to meet tons of new people and make some great memories. peace and lots of love to all of you!
Post by simplykimberly on Mar 7, 2007 8:16:46 GMT -5
bos1969 said:
For us - it is a vacation from work, kids, responsibility - it is 5 days for us where we do not have to worry about the bills, the house, the kids our parents - nothing at all excpet having a good time, listening to music, enjoying ourselves and our friends, meeting new friends, no schedules or timetables really - just wonder and watch people, listen to good music and enjoy the most unbelievable atmosphere there is in the whole world. I mean, come on, where else could you put 80,000 to 100,000 people on 700 acres and have virtually no violence, no bad attitudes, just a love for all and love for music?
So true. I've never been but I'm expecting an awesome "getaway" of sorts. And I'm anxiously waiting! We've never quite gotten away for more than a night and, even having not been there, all the things I've read and whatnot, there just seems to be such a positive vibe.
Post by CarpetFarmer on Mar 9, 2007 17:47:53 GMT -5
I sit in a cube 5 days a week typing away to earn the check that pays for my house where I keep alot of stuff I don't need. Its boring and unfullfilling, for a long weekend in june I realize I don't need all that stuff to have a good time.
Its nice to step out of the system(or your mind) for a weekend with some good folks. Some you have never met, some you only see during he event.
I lost my mom last year and she left me a little money (tiny, miniscule amount). I decided to take a trip with what she left me, and wanted to somehow incorporate music into wherever I went. I found bonnaroo and decided that was it. I could have gone a million places to see a million bands, but found it all in one place. It's what she would have wanted for me.
I'll be honest, lets just say that my main reason for going was not the music, but the fun, shakedown activities that are available.
Boy did was I wrong. I saw Cypress Hill, Beck, Radiohead, Ben Folds, discovered Les Claypool, danced in silence, bathed under a mushroom, made a sonic forest talk, got lost with friends everytime we went out, but always made new ones wherever I winded up. I got pictures taken with a bobbing Jerry Garcia head, heard my friends play at a garage for an audience, saw Christian fundamentalists attack Jim Morrision and all we did was walk by without the same hate they gave us.
I lost myself in the middle of the Radiohead crowd. It was just an ocean of people, I could see how I could have an anxiety attack if I was in the "real world".
This time, its all for the music and community. Its like an annual reunion with 80,000 friends and we rent a ferris wheel too.
Post by zachattack on Mar 12, 2007 16:18:16 GMT -5
because i : 1. have nothing else i would rather spend my money on. 2. It is the best way i can think of to completely get away from every thing that ache me. 3.Most diverse group of artists of my taste in one place.
Post by plasticjesus on Mar 14, 2007 5:33:33 GMT -5
dudewhersmyinforoo said:
i just like to be dirty and use porta potties.
for me its all about music and people! but really thats all fests. so for me roo is truly about the music. if there was a festival with a better lineup roo weekend id go there instead. but there isnt, so ill be rooin it up!
it dosent hurt that they have the best lights of any fest ive been to. lights are neat.
i feel the same way and they do have great lights.
Post by stonewall927 on Mar 29, 2007 12:26:08 GMT -5
I don't know when I stopped but I did. I stopped being me and started monitoring everything I did as if I was looking at myself as someone who disapproved. One might call it growing up sure but I don't think that's what it is. I think I just got so wrapped up in the things that I lost touch with what I really like. Every now and again I catch that spark, and for a short time I remember... I remember I have this giant's heart, my insatiable need for new experiences, my love of good music, and the that wonderful feeling I get when I meet some great new people. This will be my first Bonnaroo. I gotta say I am a little apprehensive. But I know that feeling is just the greedy-day-to-day-go-to-work-pay-the-bills-eat-hot-pocket-say-your-prayers-and-go-to-bed chain around my neck. It's choking the hell out of me. I can't wait to break it. Top of the roller coaster baby!
"It's the moment of truth It's the top of your youth The camera don't lie You might be screaming But there's a meaning In the laughter in your eyes It seems to be saying "Of coarse there will be fear" But this is why we stand in line Spend that time Make that climb To finally feel the other side And it's all down hill from here
We're gonna climb to the top of the roller coaster And look down the other side"