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Post by neighborhooodcreep on Feb 3, 2009 18:51:47 GMT -5
I hope they keep it down but in a way I think there will be more conflicts this year that things will be more spread out... also I think a lot of Phish fans wont show up to NIN or Beastie Boys or Down so that's pretty cool. I like the 80,000 crowd
I think they could easily sell 100,000+, like they did in early years before the count got "official" for tax reasons. But I think they'll keep it around 80,000. It's a much more manageable number for everyone involved.
Personally I think the amount will be under 80K if not 70K.
My reasoning is this, unemployment at a all time high and more layoffs coming, auto sales at a 26 year low, consumer spending down, homes getting foreclosed, companies cutting 401K matches...
Not to be a downer, but times are not so good out there. Oh I voted 70K
Why do you think they are doing a payment program?
Personally I think the amount will be under 80K if not 70K.
My reasoning is this, unemployment at a all time high and more layoffs coming, auto sales at a 26 year low, consumer spending down, homes getting foreclosed, companies cutting 401K matches...
Not to be a downer, but times are not so good out there.
Totally agree. The Great Depression was the last time the economy was this bad. I'm starting to sound like a broken record.
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Post by amantesuena on Feb 4, 2009 14:31:39 GMT -5
the more the merrier, absolutely. but you really have to look at space issues. i think that if they could sell more tickets they would. but 10 or 20 thousand more people need places to park/camp too.
I hope they keep it down but in a way I think there will be more conflicts this year that things will be more spread out... also I think a lot of Phish fans wont show up to NIN or Beastie Boys or Down so that's pretty cool. I like the 80,000 crowd
The only one of those bands that doesn't interest me is Down.
You'd be surprised how vast a phish fan's taste in music is.
Watchin' a stretch of road, miles of light explode. Driftin' off a thing I'd never done before. Watchin' a crowd roll in. Out go the lights it begins. A feelin' in my bones I've never felt before...
i voted 80000 but i think it will be closer to 90000 as long as i get a ticket, i dont care... the more merrier
I personally do not agree with the more the merrier attitude. For me its no fun being crowded constantly and waiting an hour to enter centeroo. Please cap it at 80,000 for everyones sake. Thats plenty of cabbage for superfly/ac its like $20 million
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Post by candyflippedaround on Feb 4, 2009 18:18:03 GMT -5
im on the bigger the better side. i want to be at the biggest and best festival of the year, and i want it biiiiiig. there are countless small festivals but only a handful of large ones, and other than roth this one is the most ideal location (or big cypress but no one is using that venue this year?) IMO, so lets go all out
I think it will be about 90,000, maybe a little less. I know they said back in 2004 that they were going to cap attendance around the 80,000 mark, but after a less-than-stellar turn out last year, I'm sure they'll try to make up for it this year. And even though the economy is in the shi**er right now, I think Roo will sell out this year, since Phish is headlining.
im on the bigger the better side. i want to be at the biggest and best festival of the year, and i want it biiiiiig. there are countless small festivals but only a handful of large ones, and other than roth this one is the most ideal location (or big cypress but no one is using that venue this year?) IMO, so lets go all out
-5 you didnt say sasquatch (and for a small venue red rocks) ... yea i have posted this before but i have been to concerts that were 2+k up to 6k and it adds something different to a fest ... sort of like a city onto itself ... so it is ying and yang on super large festivals .. cr****
I really hope they cap it at a reasonable number. I went to Lolla last year (I know its different) and it was ridiculously crowded and it took away from the experience.
im on the bigger the better side. i want to be at the biggest and best festival of the year, and i want it biiiiiig. there are countless small festivals but only a handful of large ones, and other than roth this one is the most ideal location (or big cypress but no one is using that venue this year?) IMO, so lets go all out
-5 you didnt say sasquatch (and for a small venue red rocks) ... yea i have posted this before but i have been to concerts that were 2+k up to 6k and it adds something different to a fest ... sort of like a city onto itself ... so it is ying and yang on super large festivals .. cr****
yeah sorry i dont know every great venue in the country i wish i did. these just came to mind bc they held three big camping fest last year.
Personally I think the amount will be under 80K if not 70K.
My reasoning is this, unemployment at a all time high and more layoffs coming, auto sales at a 26 year low, consumer spending down, homes getting foreclosed, companies cutting 401K matches...
Not to be a downer, but times are not so good out there.
Totally agree. The Great Depression was the last time the economy was this bad. I'm starting to sound like a broken record.
The economy was worse then this in the late 70's and into the early 80's. This is nothing compared to the Great Depression. A statement like that is like saying that Saddam Hussein was a modern day Hitler. No he was a more modern Milosevic. The economy does suck, there is no doubt about that, and it is probably going to get worse. It will never be as bad as the Great Depression, or even close.
That said, I definitely don't want more then maybe 85,000. I don't want 'Roo to become a watered down experience that isn't as enjoyable because the crowds are too big.
--Eron
Last Edit: Feb 4, 2009 19:48:55 GMT -5 by eron - Back to Top
im on the bigger the better side. i want to be at the biggest and best festival of the year, and i want it biiiiiig. there are countless small festivals but only a handful of large ones, and other than roth this one is the most ideal location (or big cypress but no one is using that venue this year?) IMO, so lets go all out
Big Cypress is actually a nighmare of a location for promoter/planners. There are two Indian Tribes that hate each other that you have to negotiate with. The traffic has to pass through one tribes land to get to the camp group which is on another tribes land. There have been instances where the police have just closed the roads and not let people through. It is almost like planning a concert on the West Bank of Israel and having to figure out how people can fly in and get through the security and everything to the show.