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I do. Every year I can think of something that happened involving a bonnaroo higher power whether it be dealing with band additions, epic shows at bonnaroo or dodging things that would prevent me from going.
Exmaples: Before '05 Bonnaroo me and my buddy were drinking and driving back from a party and were pulled over by a cop (we were clearly intoxicated) it also didnt help that we had an unopened 12pack of PBR in the back seat. But as we were getting pulled over my buddy sprays Axe body spray in his mouth (yea i know....gross) then somehow passed the field sobriety test, this whole time Im sitting in the passanger seat not being able to hear anything then the first thing i hear the cop say is "I have no reason to believe that you are intoxicated". He only made us pour out the entire 12pack and let us off without a ticket.
Before Bonnaroo '07 we were driving to murfesboro to meet up with friends before we head to the roo. On our way we were pulled over and had our car searched hardcore. We had some things in it that should have had us put in jail on the spot and miss all of bonnaroo. But SOMEHOW we convinced the cops that we had no idea what the items actually were and so he just wrote us a ticket for simple possession.
These are the 2 best examples that have made me tell my friends to just "THANK THE BONNAROO GODS"
i think its just the collective good vibes of the bonnaroo attendees floating around.
we got pulled over on the way to roo 06 literally 10 min after leaving my house for speeding asked me where I was heading off to in such a hurry, I replied "tennessee" he gave me a weird look and then told us to be on our way.
I'll bite. On the way to bonnaroo, maybe in maryland or pa, my car overheated from the 5 people and full trunk and roof bag. So we got off and it was smoking. I thought my car was dead and we were sol. I called my dad he said I could come home(3 hours) and get his truck, or just keep going. I kept going. Needless to say nothing else happened. That made me happy.
All of my friends were heading back to camp. I said I didn't want to go and had to solo for a few hours. If I had gone back I would have missed Les Claypool- favorite show of the weekend.
I guess I believe more in bonnaroo gods then any other gods...bahhh
Post by makisupamerican on Feb 18, 2009 14:13:26 GMT -5
In 07 my friends and I coming from various points around the country met up just outside Manchester the Wednesday before Roo, 5 cars in total. I handed out walkie talkies so we could communicate whilst driving. To our dismay the 9am line was endless, we drove south and never got to the end of the line, the lead car whipped a U-turn over the grass median and sped back north and we all followed suit. We were doomed for a 15 hour wait.... so it seemed. Near the wallmart exit a big rig 18 wheeler was turning off on a ramp that the police had blocked off, the cops began moving their vehicles and orange cones for the truck whose ass was blocking the enormous line and the right lane of the highway. The tail end of the line on the other side of the truck moved up, our lead car's walkie talkie yelled to the rest "over, over, now, get the fuck over" and 1,2,3,4,5 we snuggly pulled right, into the line. Laughter and hollars. As the cars behind us came into view when the truck rolled on, the drivers and passengers were none the wiser. We waited 2 hours from that moment to get on the farm. Smite me for cutting the line, karma for the Gods of Roo and the Gods of Serrindipity.
I told this on another thread right after bonnaroo last year. My wife has MS so we stay in the access area every year. Last year we decided to take advantage of the golfcart ride. One was supposed to take us to a special entrance to What Stage. The girl driving wasn't for sure the eexact drop off place so she drove all the way in the back then people started to direct us to finaleyy we were somewhere behind What and Which and the driver said she thought this was it.
It wasn't we were looking around and noticed it was really kind of nice then looked over and seen BB King talking to who I think was the accordion player for Gogol. Then walking right past us was Jack Johnson. We looked around and realized we were outside of the artist area and this maze of fences. We stood right at the gate of the artist area in this maze of fences at what was the central area. Artist were running around going to their stages, eating and talking to each other.
About then a worker came up and asked who we were. We told them the story and he said that has happened a couple of times this week.. A short time thee we were trying to get out the camera but not be noticed taking pictures-kinda of the fly on the wall thing.
Post by Jello Biafra on Feb 18, 2009 16:08:29 GMT -5
coming back from that bitch's show at 7 am. pissed. thinking that everyone would be asleep and unable to chill only to find everyone wide awake. Handing out beers and starting the party all over again.
coming back from that bitch's show at 7 am. pissed. thinking that everyone would be asleep and unable to chill only to find everyone wide awake. Handing out beers and starting the party all over again.
kinda hard to sleep when someone is BLASTING "gold digger" in the background
coming back from that bitch's show at 7 am. pissed. thinking that everyone would be asleep and unable to chill only to find everyone wide awake. Handing out beers and starting the party all over again.
kinda hard to sleep when someone is BLASTING "gold digger" in the background
Karma for that avatar. I just watched that DVD last night.
coming back from that bitch's show at 7 am. pissed. thinking that everyone would be asleep and unable to chill only to find everyone wide awake. Handing out beers and starting the party all over again.
Exmaples: Before '05 Bonnaroo me and my buddy were drinking and driving back from a party and were pulled over by a cop (we were clearly intoxicated) it also didnt help that we had an unopened 12pack of PBR in the back seat. But as we were getting pulled over my buddy sprays Axe body spray in his mouth (yea i know....gross) then somehow passed the field sobriety test, this whole time Im sitting in the passanger seat not being able to hear anything then the first thing i hear the cop say is "I have no reason to believe that you are intoxicated". He only made us pour out the entire 12pack and let us off without a ticket.
I don't believe in Bonnaroo Gods but I do believe it takes a complete moron to brag about drinking and driving.
"Awesome bro we didn't get caught! Now we can get back to endangering lives!" *high fives*
Last Edit: Feb 18, 2009 23:14:55 GMT -5 by beau - Back to Top
In 2006 I took my then girlfriend to my first, I think her third Bonnaroo for her birthday. She had always been a huge Phish fan. Saturday night after Radiohead we were both exhausted but I talked her into going to the superjam after Radiohead. Midnight came and flipped the calendar over to June 18th which was my girlfriend's birthday. A few notes into the superjam we realized Trey and Mike had taken the stage together. PERFECT birthday surprise. I am still convinced it is reason she decided to marry me. We were also in the camp when that freaky tornado appeared. GREAT YEAR!
My first year was in 07 we had a caravan of 3 cars or so. Car in front of us has a blow out a little ways into TN and the vehicle is ridin dirty if ya feel me. Cops show up we are all on the side of the road franticly trying to find the key to the spare so we can get on the road. I was talkin to Lucy in Sky and was on the verge of havin a bad one what with all that was going on. The cops were cool as hell,helped us out, and sent us on our merry way.
2/5- Papadosio 3/3- MUSE 3/12- John Mayer 3/19- The Werks 3/31- Passion Pit 4/18- Ben Folds 4/20- Against Me! 6/10- Bonnaroo 6/30- Eric Clapton and Roger Daltrey
I don't believe in Bonnaroo Gods but I do believe it takes a complete moron to brag about drinking and driving.
"Awesome bro we didn't get caught! Now we can get back to endangering lives!" *high fives*
+1
I know I'm known as a troll around here, but seriously, 2 days later I'm still pissed off that someone was on here bragging about drinking and driving. I'm amazed I still have a lower karma rating just for a couple stupid jokes I made when this guy's spouting seriously ignorant crap like that.
Post by ilovebonaroo on Feb 20, 2009 9:59:43 GMT -5
So in 08 there were two cars in my party. my car left about 2 hours AFTER the first car. We left from boston, they left ~new jersey. well as we are driving into the manchester area we heard of horrid traffic and were prepared for the worst. Well fortunately the Bonnaroo Gods were with us (and this is my first memory of actual roo interaction too ). Driving on the highway and all of a sudden a bit into the distance i see a sign that says "new bonnaroo exit" or something of the sorts. i say get in the right lane and about a minute before we pass it (we were suppose to go to another exit further down which was confirmed by the mass of cars ahead of us) we see the exit open up! So we head on the exit and to our extremely pleasant surprise there was just a line of cars on some manchester backroads that led DIRECTLY into the roo entrance. we waited no more than two hours to get in and this was ~2pm thursday remember those friends that left 2 hours before? well we ended up getting our camp set up at least 4 hours before they got in one of my best experiences, set the tone for the whole magical weekend.
beau, I really don't think he was bragging so much as telling a story. I think we have all been behind the wheel when we should not have been at some point. If that happened to me I would be thankful also, that is not to say I advocate drinking and driving and I didn't see him advocating it either.
I know he's not advocating it, I just hate when people talk about it without any sense of remorse, that's all.
Sure he's not saying "hey guyz you should totaly drink and drive it's awesom", but he also isn't saying he regrets doing it. He just says he's happy he didn't get caught. Drunk drivers should be locked up for attempted homicide, plain and simple. I wish more of you got caught.
Gotta say I agree with him--troll or not. Driving while intoxicated is not cool. Not at all. The Bonnaroo gods would not condone this sort of behavior. Bonnaroo gods want you and your friends safe and sound and around for next year.
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...
there ain't no place I'd rather be, Drink all day and rock all night My name is treetop And I'm higher than you'll ever be I'm married to my roots here Still I feel like I am free 6/11/09 -> 6/14/09: Bonnaroo
man whatever, I make a few dumb jokes and you guys call me a troll, I didn't do anything malicious, I was just out for a laugh. Making fun of Phish is hardly on the same level as drunk driving.
Sorry to anyone I offended with my dumb jokes. If there's one thing that's going to make me get serious it's this. If I was still trolling I'd be making more dumb comments about Phish. Drinking and driving is another story. I don't care if you got lucky and didn't hurt anyone, you're still scum if you take someone else's life into your hands just so you can have a good time.
For the record I AM going to Bonnaroo this year, and I'm really excited for an awesome lineup. My comments about the lineup sucking were purely to get a rise out of people, I'm happy as a clam about this lineup (even though admittedly I'm not a huge fan of Phish, the rest totally does it for me though).
anyway, to recap, yeah I troll, I probably still will because I think it's funny, but drunk driving isn't funny. Anyone who's lost someone to drunk driving will agree with me.
driving drunk is far more entertaining than trolling
Trolling is not good. This comment is also not good.
It's a very childish thing to say.
I realize this beau kid just wants to start trouble but don't fall into the trap. I've covered dozens of shredded human bodies after drunk driving accidents. I've seen small children bleed to death in the middle of the road. It is not funny.
It is damn sure not entertaining in the slightest.