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Post by Bieber n Papplebon Roo 11 on Jun 16, 2010 11:43:59 GMT -5
First just like to say it was yet another awesome experience at Roo... Read a bunch of stories about beefed up security messing with people and that sucks if it happened to you but I can't say I encountered anything much different then the past few years...
Pretty much good vibes and time all weekend with the exception of the line waiting for Conan on friday which was MY WORST experience this year by far...
Got in line at 8 AM cuz they were giving out tickets for the show at 11 AM... We had a pretty good spot, maybe 200 people at most ahead of us... From 8 till 10:30 we just sat on a blanket and chilled with our very cool line neighbors watching the line build to crazy proportions... I'd say there were a good 4000+ people waiting which considering there is only 1700ish capacity in the comedy tent was not gonna fly...
Anyway right around 10:30 one brilliant security guard had the idea to slide the line over as it was wrapping around out of control... We watch this happen thinking nothing of it until the whole back of line who had just got there decide to just cut in front of everyone... I've never seen a bigger D-Bag move by such a large group of people at Bonnaroo... It was really PATHETIC... From 10:30 to 11:30 there were a ton of people yelling and pushing there way in to try and get tickets... It was horrible
My GF and I were close enough to the metal gates that we were still able to see the show from pretty good seats inside but many of the truthful people in line behind me were not so lucky... Once there were too many people in line based on capacity Bonnaroo should have just started giving out tickets to avoid anything like this...
That being said this was 5% Bonnaroo's fault and 95% the desperate D-bags willing to screw other people over rather then waiting in line... After being to this festival a few years now I couldn't believe how many people were willing to screw over people who had been waiting out in the sun for hours... I doubt too many of those who did cut read this but if so you should be ashamed of yourself
Sorry to bitch, Conan and the rest of Bonnaroo were WONDERFUL yet again but I had to get that off my chest
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Post by c234567892 on Jun 16, 2010 12:00:37 GMT -5
I was in the third row of barricades waiting for Conan Friday, got there at 645am, and it was ridiculous seeing all that happen. I'm glad you were able to still get in with all of that. It was an awesome show.
Post by tangerinetrees on Jun 16, 2010 16:55:33 GMT -5
forget this - LINE CUTTING ON I24 was so fucking shitty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cars and campers just cut right in front of vehicles. We waited 7 hours in line.
My neighbor in line for the Conan show on Saturday said they got in line at 8:30 on friday and didn't get tickets because of all the madness. There didn't seem to be any problems on saturday but I still think they should have handled the line differently.
forget this - LINE CUTTING ON I24 was so quacking Leno-y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cars and campers just cut right in front of vehicles. We waited 7 hours in line.
Post by crazykittensmile on Jun 16, 2010 18:15:26 GMT -5
This wasn't cool at all. Kdogg and I got in line just after 8 and experienced the same thing. Luckily we got in, but I imagine many people who should have also made it in did not.
Post by coldfrontin on Jun 16, 2010 20:28:32 GMT -5
i was there and it was lame. like 20 people at the end decided to start cutting and the entire mass followed. everyone was walking toward the front saying "wtf is happening?" i think 90% of people involved would have been happy to just keep the line.
after i got my ticket i was so bummed about the whole thing (also that we had to wait another 2 hours in line to guarantee entry) that i walked up and down the ticket line looking for someone who was there earlier to give my ticket to. i couldn't find anyone though, so i guess i wasn't technically a 'cutter' since everyone in front of me got one. the whole thing could have been avoided if they had just done FIRST COME FIRST SERVE. i asked the guy why they didn't do that starting at like 6am and he said "there would still be a line." sometimes bureaucracy trumps logic.
it was like 100 degrees in the tent but still a good time. anyone else notice wayne coyne come in for the encore?
i think we all know he should have been on a stage ala chris rock.
FACT.
and if anyone at Bonnaroo is watching, any big name comedians from now on REALLY should get some type of open stage, tent. Now that the comedians are a real draw this has to be handled, the insane lines cause ppl to miss a lot of shows due to lack of info. Can't imagine what'll happen if next year you get Demetri Martin or god help us if Colbert were to show (come on that's a dream come true)
forget this - LINE CUTTING ON I24 was so quacking Leno-y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cars and campers just cut right in front of vehicles. We waited 7 hours in line.
Post by waitingfornextyear on Jun 17, 2010 0:09:50 GMT -5
I too was involved in this mess and ended up not even attempting to wait in line after we lost our original place in line when the madness happened. I didn't realize that it was all triggered by a security guy's actions, we just thought that someone started cutting and a bunch of idiots followed. We were really upset because this was a must see going in, but after "watching"(listening to) the show at the Lunar Stage, I wasn't that upset. I was kind of disappointed in the show. This is the thing though. This was my third Bonnaroo and I have experienced this exact same thing at all three. From the line cutting to get in on Thursday to the bumrush of the pit for Pearl Jam, to Conan...it seems like the so called "Bonnaroo vibe" is nothing more than a load of bullshit. I won't let it stop me from doing something I love, but it doesn't do anything for my confidence in humanity, which is already at an all time low.
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I'm tossing this out there: if you are in _any_ line for more than 2 hours at Bonnaroo, you are in the wrong line or you got in the line in the wrong way.
Bonnaroo=EPIC FAIL with CoCo this year. What bullshit happened pissed me off so much. I loved my 'Roo experience, but havin' to miss Conan because they dramatically underestimated the amount of people who wanted to see this show is inexcusable to me. Extremely frustrated about it, but again, everythin' else about 'Roo this year was amazin'!
i was there and it was lame. like 20 people at the end decided to start cutting and the entire mass followed. everyone was walking toward the front saying "wtf is happening?" i think 90% of people involved would have been happy to just keep the line.
This. The mob may have ended up happening in the end anyway, but the catalyst for everything were the couple of jerks who initially got up and walked straight across the line and those that initially followed. I was baffled over what was going on but stupid heard mentality got the better of me. Once I crossed over with everyone I realized what had just happened and felt so shitty. If the line had stayed I would have gotten in, if I had held my spot I would have gotten in even earlier due to the moronic entrance change. *sigh*
forget this - LINE CUTTING ON I24 was so quacking Leno-y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cars and campers just cut right in front of vehicles. We waited 7 hours in line.
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We waited in line for three hours for the tickets then another hour and a half for the show. You would think that the staff would have been more organized and anticipated the problems when they saw the line forming before 8:00. after the show we where both dissapointed that we wasted so much time. really didn't think it was that good.
Bonnaroo=EPIC FAIL with CoCo this year. What bullhonkey happened pissed me off so much. I loved my 'Roo experience, but havin' to miss Conan because they dramatically underestimated the amount of people who wanted to see this show is inexcusable to me. Extremely frustrated about it, but again, everythin' else about 'Roo this year was amazin'!
I don't think they underestimated the number of people who wanted to see the show since they simulcast it. They underestimated how many people just had to get in the tent for the show. We went in around 9 just to check out the line and I guesstimated it to be around 2000 people already. The tent holds 1600. They should have started handing out tickets as soon as the line passed the capacity of the tent. I can't imagine how pissed off people were if they waited in line for hours and still didn't get in.
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The most cathartic moment of my weekend came on Saturday, heading from Weezer to Stevie Wonder.
I saw the guy with a yellow foam noodle with an American flag sticking out of it, and remembered him as one of the jerkstores who was behind me in line but wound up ahead of me. I couldn't help but catch up to him and have a few words. He was having a conversation with his friend, and I had absolutely no guilt about cutting him off. I said "I waited five hours in line for Conan yesterday, I remember seeing your noodle cutting in line ahead of me, and I just want to say Fuck you." His response was "Well, what are you gonna do?" I said "How about not be an asshole?" and walked away... he'd wasted enough of my time already. Even when confronted face-to-face with his douchebaggery, he showed zero remorse. I guess that's the embodiment of the problem right here.
Kitten & I waited for five hours in that line. We weren't even sure if we'd get in after the asshole stampede, and got seats about three rows from the back of the tent. We should have been on the first level, had things gone the way they ought to have.
The CoCo line Friday is second only to booking Kanye in terms of Bonnaroo fail. The organizers should be ashamed of themselves. I seriously hope someone lost their job over this - it would certainly be deserved.
Post by ellisintransit on Jun 17, 2010 16:22:52 GMT -5
Well, I can add to this. I had a damned perfect Bonnaroo too, so this is the only bad thing happened. My 7th Roo and only the second time I have gotten in line for a comedy show. We were within the first 500 or so people. A Comedy Tent person in a pink shirt, the one with crazy hair, started walking the line and we thought for sure he was counting people as the line had clearly grown past 1600 people. He got to us, and someone asked, "are you counting?", and he said, "No, just looking for people with VIP bracelets to tell them they don't have to wait."
10 minutes later the mindless herd attacked and we were left at the back of the pack so we left. DOUBLE BOGUS! Hahaha. The only other time I stood in line at the Comedy Tent was in '05, I can't remember for who, but the same thing happened. The line just disintegrated. Haha. Small quibble though. We got a few hours of sit-down and chill-out time. Still watched the show at the Lunar Stage. It was funny, but I was disappointed at the lack of musical guest after all the guests he's had out on the actual tour.
Yeah, my fiancee and I arrived at the line around 9:00 and were able to hold our place with the same group of people (especially a rather cool couple from VA) through the initial snaking of the line and then when we were told that the snaking was being moved over, we, a few people behind us and everyone ahead of us held that line as well. It was shortly after us that the line broke down and turned into a bum rush of the entrance. We wound up giving it a shot holding the line and people ahead of us in the original line all helped us out and we wound up being among the last to get tickets. It was definitely a very ugly situation but it worked out fairly well for us in the end.
Major props to kdogg for giving noodle guy a piece of your mind, too. He was very noticeable and we were talking about him before the line collapsed and of course noticed him snaking his way over when it did. Total jerk-off.
He got to us, and someone asked, "are you counting?", and he said, "No, just looking for people with VIP bracelets to tell them they don't have to wait."
that is news to all of us in VIP - one of which from camp inforoo spent the night outside the comedy tent waiting for a ticket...
Post by astrostrat89 on Jun 21, 2010 15:30:39 GMT -5
I got in line around 10ish and seeing how long the line was I had my doubts about getting in at that point and time. After things started moving some girl tried to cut in front of me. She was pulling the 'Dumb girl" gambit. "What's this line for?" "Is this for tickets?" "Do I need a ticket?" “Oh, I love you’re bathing suite” to the girl behind me. Eventually she realized I wasn't going to let her in front of me. But I think she also thought that it was too late and we weren't getting tickets anyway and wandered off. Good riddance.
This gets pretty good ...
As the ticket line got closer I saw were a sec guy had to fend off some guys trying to rush the maze. But as we get closer I felt like telling the people in front of me that they were lucky, and if asked why I would have told them with my luck I'll be the first guy out. Sure enough as they were only letting a few folks at a time into the maze, the ticket guy calls out "5 more!" and sure enough there were 5 ahead of me.
At this point I was "awe, rats!" when the sec guy said no more. I did move away from the line a bit and pulled out my schedule to see where I would go next. I hear "5 More!" from the ticket guy and I pleaded with the guy to let me get my place back. He said it's up the guys that were behind me. I pleaded once more "but, you said there were no more tickets?" and he was nice enough to let me go. It was a great feeling to get that pink piece of laminated paper in my hands and for the next 2 hours it was the most precious possession I had on me.
I went strait to the entrance line on the right side, at least I got to listen to Julia Nunes at the "This Tent" for a while. At one point another staffer was informing us that we weren't guaranteed a spot inside the comedy tent and may get moved to the cinema tent, right at that same time some guys were walking the line offering to buy tickets for $20. Without thinking about it I warned then what the staffer just told us about not being guaranteed a spot, so they went back up the line. The girls behind me decided to sell theirs off and I had to apologize that I just probably spoiled their sale, but there were cool about it. They realized I was just telling the truth. The guys came back and ended up buying those tickets.
Just as they started to let folks in yet another staffer dove up on a 4-wheeler and stated that everyone in this line was guaranteed a seat inside the tent. Man, my mood went up about 100x with that statement. As we moved closer I almost felt like holding up my ticket and yelling “$100!”, but not after this point. At least for me it was sooooo worth it, it was a great show and I know it’s sacrilege but I think it was the highlight of Bonnaroo 2010 for me. May have something to do with only a relative few folks getting in to see it, but it really was a great show.
He got to us, and someone asked, "are you counting?", and he said, "No, just looking for people with VIP bracelets to tell them they don't have to wait."
that is news to all of us in VIP - one of which from camp inforoo spent the night outside the comedy tent waiting for a ticket...
We where both in the main line and did VIP. Right before they started passing out tickets we noticed another line forming to the left of the tent and cattle line. Found out it was for vipers but didn't want to loose our place in line to find out. Didn't know they had a special line for us.
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Post by ChrisIronsArt on Jun 23, 2010 1:36:58 GMT -5
I think they should try a big comedian on the which stage, maybe closing out it for the day (before late night). I think it would have been a great move for conan to have had weezer's spot or franti's spot. Maybe he could have been between Stevie and JayZ