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Post by phishinalong on Jun 18, 2007 22:57:23 GMT -5
did anyone else see any artists roaming centeroo this year? I basically watched the yard dogs road show saturday night right next to michael kang from string cheese incident! Nobody seemed to notice who he was and I kept quiet as well. Crazy!
Post by tullabaloo on Jun 18, 2007 23:23:20 GMT -5
My friends and I saw Bret McKenzie from Flight of the Conchords at the Manu Chao show! He was wear a ridiiiculous little get-up consisting of a black and white gingham shirt and little green soffee shorts. He was just standing in the crowd dancing awkwardly with his girlfriend (?) who was all happy-go-lucky and prancing around next to him while he just grabbed her hips occasionally and sort of swayed slightly. Anyway, we were SO excited to see him, and he was less than enthused. He sort of turned around and looked at us and I said "Excuse me, are you the Hipopopotamus?" And he said "Yes, yes I am" (fantastic accent) reallly awkward and uncomfortably and I asked if we could be "really nerdy and take a picture" with him and we did and its officially The Most Awkward Thing in The World. The facial expressions for all parties are just choice. So great, hahaha. It would have been cool he was a little more animated but I've heard that comedians can be really shy about that stuff and we felt silly approaching him anyway and tried to be as nonchalant as possible but oooh well. The other (cuter) guy popped over for a second but he scurried off before we could see him. Though we saw him enough to note during their show the next day (when the sound was kind of crappy unfortunately) that he was wearing the same shirt. Bam!
edit: Becca--it was my first Roo but i noticed lots of guest bracelets/access passes. My friends and I joked that you could spot them a mile away with their clean, fresh looking hair and clothes, haha. Anyway I saw who looked noticably clean usually had some kind of credentials and that explained it.
Post by steveternal on Jun 18, 2007 23:49:08 GMT -5
I saw Bob Weir and some of his Ratdog mates (not really familiar with the band) backstage at Ornette Coleman digging into the craziness. I also spotted David Cross and Aziz Ansari getting into The Roots from the wings.
Post by hailboognish on Jun 18, 2007 23:54:34 GMT -5
We were sitting back during Gillian Welch's set - this was before John Paul Jones played, just relaxing off to the side. And all of a sudden about 10 feet away pulls up a golf cart with Ben Harper on it. He stood there, watched about 5-10 minutes and left.
There were def a ton of artists/comedians walking around the scene just like everyone else. It was cool to see that most of them wanted to blend in like the others. You could recognize a lot of them with the passes that they wore around their neck. It didn't say "artist" in big letters, but they were wearing them. There were three or four artists on stage dancing with us at Girl Talk, but I can't remember who they were.
We were right by the first sound/light tower thing for the Police. It was also where some special people got to sit. About 1/2 way through the show my husband leans up and says to me that the drummer from Ben Harper's band was standing right by us...I turned and sure enough he was there singing and dancing to the music. At one point my husband turned to him and told him they did a great job. Also saw Ben Harper over at the other tent on Friday during Gillian Welch.
i saw the guy who did most of the crazy design work for bonnaroo and the phish festivals. his name is slipping my mind right now, but he has a white beard and squinty eyes.
I saw Bob Weir and some of his Ratdog mates (not really familiar with the band) backstage at Ornette Coleman digging into the craziness. I also spotted David Cross and Aziz Ansari getting into The Roots from the wings.
Where were you at the Ornette Coleman set? Because Bob Weir was sort of in the back and to the side, so unless you were real close and had a good eye, you would have seen Bob Weir.
Saw David Cross and Co, Demetri Martin, and Steven Drozd from the Flaming Lips walking around. Saw Elijah Wood, Bob Weir, and that bass player from Wilco checking out other sets on the side of the stage.
i saw the guy who did most of the crazy design work for bonnaroo and the phish festivals. his name is slipping my mind right now, but he has a white beard and squinty eyes.
I believe his name is Russ Bennett and I saw him cruising through Centeroo on a golf cart this year too. I actually got to meet him in 2003 at the Galactic parade. Very cool cat.
I didn't make any possitive ID's in centeroo. But I did get to sit right in front of John Bell on my flight to Atlanta. Not surprisingly, he's a super nice guy, and actually seemed excited to be recognized.
Post by tattooturtle1474 on Jun 19, 2007 22:34:38 GMT -5
We didn't actually see any artists or celebrities, but I thought that this was funny. We were waiting for the White Stripes to play, just sitting there chillin out, when some dude walked up to these two guys sitting like 3 feet in front of us and asked them for an autograph. He thought that they were The Flight of the Concord's; who they looked nothing like. Anyway after he left they tripped out on it and my girlfriend and I thought that it was quite humerous as well. Just wanted to share. lol
Post by musicisthebest on Jun 19, 2007 23:33:45 GMT -5
Lewis Black was checking out The Police from the front row of those onstage guest bleachers.
I think Stephen Colbert was on the guest bleachers during the Decemberists, but I'm not positive (he had on a golf shirt & shades, looked a bit diff than on his show. But I think I saw the freaky ear...)
And I spoke with Bob Weir after his interview on Sunday.
I think Stephen Colbert was on the guest bleachers during the Decemberists, but I'm not positive (he had on a golf shirt & shades, looked a bit diff than on his show. But I think I saw the freaky ear...)
That would be sooooo cool if someone could find a pic and/or confirm this? I thought about him as his show was my only real exposure to them prior to catching their whole set at Roo. I really dug the show, so finding out if he was there would kind of complete the circle for me.
Ran into Brazilian Girls in Centeroo on Saturday night (in the middle by the vendors). Talked to them briefly. Seemed like they were just walking around, checking everything out.
Post by rooooooooooooo2007 on Jun 20, 2007 8:04:52 GMT -5
I met Aziz Ansari during Hot Chip. I got to shake his hand and remind him of his name and how awesome human giant is. I knew he was tryin to watch the show so I didnt bother him any longer.
P.S. Is it bad manners to bother people during a show their tryin to watch? i didnt think so since you will never get the chance to meet this person again. effin' a
i saw the guy who did most of the crazy design work for bonnaroo and the phish festivals. his name is slipping my mind right now, but he has a white beard and squinty eyes.
I believe his name is Russ Bennett and I saw him cruising through Centeroo on a golf cart this year too. I actually got to meet him in 2003 at the Galactic parade. Very cool cat.
Russ Bennett that's the ticket! thanks... that was driving me crazy yesterday.... i didn't even think to pop in the PHISH 'IT' dvd. i guess that would have been TOOOOO easy
