PHISH AT ROOO

^well said gouge

Because, since 2002, the festival has continually grown in size, adding more and more names to the lineup each year and attracting a wider audience. It is no longer the relatively small fest it was in its first two or three years.

As the music festival market has made something of a comeback over the last few years, there is an ever increasing demand to compete. Coachella booked Prince and Roger Waters last year. Lollapalooza got Radiohead and Rage Against the Machine. Bonnaroo has had to keep up with these heavyweight names.

I have no doubt in my mind that a fest with two nights of Phish would sell out, and I also have no doubt that I'd have a good time there if Phish did play.

What I meant was that, in order for me to decide to go to Bonnaroo this year, and to spend all that money and do all that preparation, two nights of Phish and one night of someone else wouldn't be enough to get me to commit to going.

I don't mind having two nights of jam headliners. In fact, I think the festival should get back to its roots a bit, while still continuing to showcase the most popular, non-jam bands of more recent years. If they did Phish on Saturday and, let's say The Dead on Sunday, but with someone non-jammy on Friday, I would still go. I just like some variety when I go to a festival.

How can our opinions be wrong? ???

I'm fine with them playing two nights, but like I said before IN MY OPINION I'd rather they play ONE headline slot, and one super-long latenight slot. You Phish fans will get an extra couple hours of hearing them, and we non-Phish fans will get an extra "headliner" on the main stage one of the nights. I consider it win-win all around if they do things this way.


As for:

"There will be as much variety in the 2 shows Phish plays as you will get the entire weekend seeing many different bands"

I may not be well versed in the ways of Phish, but are you saying that Phish alone has the diversity of all the bands that could possibly be at 'Roo put together? Last year I checked out Sharon Jones, Against Me!, The Sword, Talib Kweli, Pearl Jam, Tiesto, and Alison Krauss to name a few... are you saying Phish alone will span this diversity? Because if so, then by all means bring on the Phish. I kind of doubt this could be possible however, so I'm going to assume you've gotten a bit fanatical. Anyway....

All we're trying to say is that we want diversity in our headliners. The beauty of Bonnaroo is that if you don't like something, there's usually something else to check out. I'm fine with ONE night being something I don't really care about, but forcing TWO nights of the same band headlining blows. That's why I want their second set to be latenight, at least that way I'll have something else to check out.


/before you smite me, please realize I didn't say anything negative about Phish, just that I personally don't want to see them twice.

^^^ thats wild

I have to argue this because I believe it:

You should like Phish more.

There it is... the elephant in the room. Why don't you like Phish? The Phish fests of the late 90's paved the way for the Bonnaroo experience. This alone is reason enough to give them 2 nights (though I'll certainly take a late night slot... I just think you should too). Outside of that, you should be excited with us! Most people who don't like Phish I find simply haven't heard a lot of it, and what they did hear was the wrong song in the wrong circumstances.

Do this for me: Obtain the album "Rift"... I don't care how. Listen to it with some nice headphones while you work out / sip a scotch, do whatever you do to wind down and give it a real shot. Then, whether you liked it or not, get the album "Junta" and listen to that. Then just go ahead and get the rest of them so that you can sing along with the rest of us come June.

Who does their choreography?

fuck i wasnt planning on going to roo now i have too

I think you may have misread what I wrote. I never said I DON'T like Phish, I just said I'd rather have ONE night of them headlining, and ONE night of them in a late night slot. I want diversity in my headliners, I don't think even my favorite band should be headlining two nights (in fact I'd feel bad for the people that didn't like that band if they had to endure two nights of the same thing). Don't get me wrong, I'd still see them, I'd just like the option to see something else during the second show if I choose to.



Yeah, I'm no music snob, I'll definitely listen to them more in preparation for 'Roo, thanks for the album recommendations. But I still stand by my statement that NO ONE should headline two nights. Sure WSP headlined twice in '05, but this is a very different fest than it was '05...

DIVERSITY BABAY

(seriously though, happy for you Phans that your wish seems to be coming true)

i feel sorry for ppl that would rather have bruce springsteen then phish.....custies, j/k..... kinnda, acutally im not kidding at all

Dont get my hopes up man

Even so, they don't need to take up 2 headlining slots when they could have more time on stage doing 1 headlining slot + 1 late night slot.

Phish Phans would get their night of glory at the main stage + a super long set the next night.

Non-Phish Phans would be exposed to Phish + have the option of whether or not they want to see them for a second time.

It's win-win.

Sat. Night Phish followed by Daft Punk on the main stage. Face melting extravaganza.

Jay-z into Phish followed by Daft Punk... I know id get some co-signs for that lineup