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Post by guitarhaze on Mar 28, 2004 21:37:38 GMT -5
hey... good question.... i haven't really thought about that except when i first heard it, what the hell does it mean? whatever it is, it's fun to say ;D
Post by PhinePhineMusic on Mar 28, 2004 22:44:22 GMT -5
I believe it's a combination:
Creole for "good times", and one of the DVDs explains that Dr. John's horn section was for many years called the Bonnaroo Horns...they're both given as "official" explanations on the DVD.
I picked up a vinyl copy of the Dr. John album "Destively Bonnaroo" just for the cover art/Bonnaroo connection. It turned out to be an amazing album! Dr. John backed by the Meters. The Superjam last year was amazing with Dr. John, Mike et al. If I remember correctly, I think there is a track called Destively Bonnaroo on the album and I was really waiting for them to play it. Although I didn't catch the whole set, they didn 't play it while I was there, but I'm surprised that this isn't a popular Bonnaroo cover.
I was wondering the same thing. I looked up destively and destive on dictionary.com and I don't think it's a word. Perhaps Faletti meant to spell another word?
Last Edit: Apr 1, 2004 17:01:20 GMT -5 by Lo - Back to Top
I had to go check the album cover to be sure but it is in fact called Destively Bonnaroo. I guess when the album was released nobody knew what Bonnaroo meant either!
Check out the album cover here, it's pretty slick:
I bought a copy of the album on ebay a month ago; still in the shrink wrap. I don't have a turntable anymore, but I'm looking forward to hearing the record eventually.
Bonnaroo comes from the whole New Orleans thing...I don't know if the proper description is to say it's Cajun or Creole or what...and desitively is really not a derivative of desitive, I don't think. It's just a word play on "definitely/positively," or put another way, absolutely. So "Desitively Bonnaroo" is just another way of saying "completely off the hook."
By the way, the Bonnaroo sticker I made for the first year simply said: "desitively bonnaroo," in lower case black font on white vinyl. Nobody had a freaking clue...
