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Really it was. They rarely left the campsite. They started beer pong at 8am. They said they came primarily to see DMB (and a few others). And they were frat boys, I know because I talked to them when I offered them left over breakfast I made each morning. They only loved me for my breakfast burritos.
They had a kick azz campsite, two ez-ups, nice huge tents, cots, a super nice Weber fold-up grill. The couldn't pack it all in the same way they did to get there, so they left the ez-ups.
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
I don't ever leave without picking up a ground score of some sort. Not that I need the stuff but I'm always able to find good abandoned things on Monday morning. Poeple leave everything from corn to whole campsites. Such a waste...
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
Post by julieagulia on Dec 30, 2010 0:48:13 GMT -5
My friend got a unicorn thrown at her while walking to centeroo by someone on a golf cart A few hours later she was in a porto and found a cat and a hat in thurr and she snatched it!
All I found was a nice beaded bracelet smashed in the ground Monday morning, I'm still wearing it :]
My friend got a kernel of corn thrown at her while walking to centeroo by someone on a golf cart A few hours later she was in a porto and found a no no word and a more corn in thurr and she snatched it!
All I found was a nice beaded bracelet smashed in the ground Monday morning, I'm still wearing it :]
Jewelry is always a pleasant find. Watch those forbidden words
My friend got a kernel of corn thrown at her while walking to centeroo by someone on a golf cart A few hours later she was in a porto and found a no no word and a more corn in thurr and she snatched it!
All I found was a nice beaded bracelet smashed in the ground Monday morning, I'm still wearing it :]
Jewelry is always a pleasant find. Watch those forbidden words
i found a poster (Burlesque) that someone dropped in 2008, in the karaoke tent. I sat there with it for 2 hours, and no body came back looking for it, so I took it and gave it to my sister (she went with me that year)
Post by Pokey Junior on Feb 5, 2012 4:30:51 GMT -5
last year was my 9th and my girlfriend's 1st bonnaroo. i told her about the magic of an empty stage area after a big show lets out. i was having a bad experience with a research chemical and was standing at bassnectar with my gal. we ended up leaving to go laugh at lil wayne and his fans. we decided to chill out over by the cinema tent until i was feeling better. during shpongle we started walking over to which stage to look for my wristband that im sure i lost at primus. we found it really quickly and decided to look for money and pipes. thats mostly what you find.
she wasnt looking for an longer than 15 seconds before she reached down and pulled up at fat roll of what looked like mostly 20's. We scoured the left side (facing the stage) of the european style vip gate. within 30 minutes. we had more cigarettes, money, illegals, lighters, half used pieces of illegals, fans, cool light-ups, and phones to return than we could deal with. we took a good 30 minutes to get some over priced food with the new cash and returned phones at the gate. after pretty lights finished we looked through there, this, that, and the other tent. with our bags packed we went to the wristband replacement trailer and after telling the guy all the shit we found. i was walking away and found an additional 100$ bill in the dirt. i love this ṣhit. it kind of wastes time...but i always leave with more than i came with. this year i plan on getting all i can from the campgrounds themselves. people leave entire campgrounds of ṣhit for the taking. their being wasteful but i could care less. if it's free its me.
Insane story here...So this one I didn't discover until Labor Day weekend! (Phish in Denver to be exact!) So it was the night before heading to Denver, I went over to my parents house to borrow the fold up chairs I usually take to Bonnaroo. They are the low profile reclining kind with back pack straps and pocket on the backside. Now, I'd used these for 3 Bonnaroo's and never was aware of this pocket on the back (almost secret).
So I have everything at the door to load into my car, and i take one of the chairs and put it on (like a back pack) when i hear a thud behind me...I turn around and see a big sandwich bag thats packed tightly! Looking at it, I think, "kinda looks like pizza toppings!?" I quickly pick it up and under further inspection, I had an ounce (measured out smaller baggies inside) or portabella!!! I frantically stashed it back into the chair and load up my car at light speed! The insanity caused me to have to head back 2 different times from the end of the block for forgetting something!
Fast forward to the first day at our campsite in Denver, my friend and I get rid of them for insanely cheap in about 30min! Moral of the story, always check ALL pockets at your campsite!! Someone may decide to leave you a little gift!!
The vast majority of ground scores that happen at bonnaroo aren't allowed to be discussed on this forum
hahah amen. i stayed till about midday on monday (when they made us leave) and had about 3 abandoned chairs, a new pair of oakleys, a nalgene and a couple of zip-locks of "extra-curricular activities"
In 2010, I got two more of the Guide Books off the ground on Thursday night (when they supposedly RAN OUT. I still do not understand how they run out so quickly but that is another thread topic I suppose)
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in 2010, we were camped on the treeline in BFE...guys kept coming and going through the trees, selling all sorts of goods and services...friday night, bonaroo PD busted some guys coming onto the grounds, about 6 guys, and carted them off to the gates to boot them...the next morning, we found two trash bags of bootleg t-shirts stashed under our cars...
1-1-12 Bassnectar NYE SHOW! 1-21-12 G. Love and Special Sauce 3-1-12 Radiohead 3-9-12 Experience Hendrix 5-15-12 Jack White @ The Ryman 6-7-12 Bonnaroo 6-19-12 Roger Waters presents "THE WALL" 7-7-12 Ringo Starr's 72nd Birthday Party Extravaganza at the Ryman
Even though it's a pretty horrifying story, I still like to see this thread bumped so I can read this, my favorite post of all time.
Also, last year I found twenty bucks in a ditch near my camp. Seemed like it had been there for a while, so I didn't feel too bad. Bought some beer and Thai food with it before Bootsy Collins.
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My buddy, Dusty, ground scored a huge, multi-room tent before we left the VIP camping area one Monday four years ago. Whoever had left it left a sign, saying "Take me" on the tent, in addition to the tear down instructions. I guess he spent hours tearing it down by himself; I was already passed out.
Post by Delicious Meatball Sub on Feb 10, 2012 18:35:40 GMT -5
The opposite of a ground score, in 2004 during the 5+ mile walk into Coventry my ticket fell out of my pocket and I retraced at least two miles of my walk looking for it, carrying all my gear. Fortunately the whole thing was such a cluster I managed to just sneak in, but all-in-all the weekend completely sucked.
Post by shakedownsavvy on Feb 10, 2012 20:28:32 GMT -5
my buddy last year lost his wallet on the side of i-40 while he was in the ditch/bushes peeing and didn't realize it till we got almost to the back entrance (by bfe). he only had flip flops on and when he realized he lost it he took them off and ran barefoot all the way up to the back entrance and asked all of the cops on atv's to please give him a ride back to i-40 and none of them would. then the nice local that owns that house right as you walk into bfe gave him a ride on his golf car back to i-40 and dropped him off and sure as s**t he remembered a branch he had to jump over to get to the ditch to pee and he said his wallet was laying right by the branch with all of his money/id's still in it (over $600 cash). i guess it just flew out of his pants when he jumped the branch, so the moral of the story kids is leave your wallet in the car if you pee on the side of i-40. by the time he made it back we already had camp fully set up and he had the biggest blisters I've ever seen on his feet from running barefoot all that way back. quite entertaining i must say though.
I have a reverse ground score story. In 2010 on the way home we stopped at a gas station in Manchester. I left my entire wallet with $270 in the bathroom. About a month later, I get a package in the mail with my wallet and a check for $270 (she didn't want to mail the cash.) I wasn't all that concerned about the money because I figured it was gone, but was so glad to get my wallet back with my all my stuff in it including the "fun stuff" I had bought for home!
In 2006 I was walking around late at night and I look down on the ground and I found this AWESOME sock puppet. It looks a little like lamb chop, I named him after my cousin Charlie and he has been traveling around with me ever since.
Post by purplefuzzystuff on Feb 16, 2012 19:09:07 GMT -5
I've love the stuff I find after shows! Usually it's just lighters and maps or schedules, but every now and then you find cell phones (which I turn in although they are in such bad conditions there is probably no saving them), sunglasses, hats, lots of "unmentionables", jewelry(Usually one earring), etc.
The best time I have found is when I go in as soon as the gates open to Centeroo, I usually make my way to whatever tent I want a good spot at, I put my stuff down and then poke around in the sand.
If you get there too late the clean vibes people have already gone through and gotten everything.....Once they get there I usually help them. Looking for ground scores you see how truly messy/inconsiderate/lazy people are.
Post by EthnicallyCrimean98476 on Feb 18, 2012 0:06:29 GMT -5
Last year on Thursday I got split with my group going through the security lines. They, not in a proper state of mind, thought I left them behind and decided to go to The Other Stage where Sleigh Bells were slated to go on in about an hour. I eventually wandered to the tree right behind The Other Stage and did my best to scan the crowd for them (an impossible task).
I understandably did not pick them out of the masses and decided to head to This Stage to get a spot for Deerhunter. Dejected, I was trudging through the crowd of people sitting facing The Other Tent. About halfway through the crowd I literally ran over my best friend, who was laying on the ground staring at the sky. I immediately broke into indecipherable yells of joy. To this day, the sheer improbability of this blows me away. Miracles happen at Bonnaroo! haha