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Post by mphsvoodoo on Jun 22, 2007 22:36:44 GMT -5
I had a blast at Bonnaroo, but the coolest Bonnaroo related thing just happened today at home! Me and the kids went up to Sonic to get some shakes this afternoon and we see this hippie kid with a Bonnaroo shirt walking down the street. So I hollar out Bonnaroo! and he comes over and we talk for awhile. He said he was hitching to NC, had come from Roo (we are about 4 hrs from Manchester). Anyway we leave and are driving home and I look at the kids and they are looking at me and next thing I knew we turned around and picked Hopper up, took him to the house, fed him, just hung out and talked. My son's friends are playing a gig tomorrow night and he is gonna play the bongos!! Bonnaroo, bringing folks together days after it is over...too cool. Long live the hippie vibe!!!!
Post by localweather on Jun 22, 2007 23:39:33 GMT -5
My favorite moment of the whole weekend was at Sasha+Digweed (which was in itself something awesome). This girl in front of me asked these two guys for a light. They couldn't produce, so I reached over their shoulders and lit the girl's smoke. She smiled this big smile and came over to me and said "Thank you so much! My name's Star, what's your name?" I told her, and she just gave me the biggest hug and then she says "you have beautiful eyes" and I tell you by this time I was completely lost in hers and she knew it. After a second, she snapped her fingers and I snapped out of it and she laughed and danced off into the crowd.
It was so good. I'll never forget that girl's face.
Post by doctorhitts on Jun 23, 2007 2:01:19 GMT -5
anybody recall seeing a 6 and a half foot tall cow saturday night during some of the police and all of the Flaming Lips? if so, that was me, and being that cow, having people come up to me and squeeze my udders or take a picture with me, that was my favorite 'Roo moment. for sure.
oh, and tea leaf green was AMAZING ... same with STS9 .. great acts
My favorite moment of the whole weekend was at Sasha+Digweed (which was in itself something awesome). This girl in front of me asked these two guys for a light. They couldn't produce, so I reached over their shoulders and lit the girl's smoke. She smiled this big smile and came over to me and said "Thank you so much! My name's Star, what's your name?" I told her, and she just gave me the biggest hug and then she says "you have beautiful eyes" and I tell you by this time I was completely lost in hers and she knew it. After a second, she snapped her fingers and I snapped out of it and she laughed and danced off into the crowd.
It was so good. I'll never forget that girl's face.
I had a blast at Bonnaroo, but the coolest Bonnaroo related thing just happened today at home! Me and the kids went up to Sonic to get some shakes this afternoon and we see this hippie kid with a Bonnaroo shirt walking down the street. So I hollar out Bonnaroo! and he comes over and we talk for awhile. He said he was hitching to NC, had come from Roo (we are about 4 hrs from Manchester). Anyway we leave and are driving home and I look at the kids and they are looking at me and next thing I knew we turned around and picked Hopper up, took him to the house, fed him, just hung out and talked. My son's friends are playing a gig tomorrow night and he is gonna play the bongos!! Bonnaroo, bringing folks together days after it is over...too cool. Long live the hippie vibe!!!!
Post by roolacksreality on Jun 23, 2007 13:04:45 GMT -5
Galactic late night. Everything about that show was amazing. One guest after another, the music kept building up to a peak, especially during the encore.
Post by ChiefPemperToadWigginsky on Jun 23, 2007 13:34:05 GMT -5
1-When Rod Y Gab were covering "wish you were here" and the entire crowd knew the lyrics and actually sounded great. 2-Handing out greenery to the hippies who were dancing intensely at random shows. 3-Playing the flute in the woods near BFE and watching folks stumble through trying to find the source, totally fun and met some awesome people.("Beware the sh!t-mines, fellow traveler") 4-John Butler's 9 minute guitar solo and message. 5-Flips show and all the laser pointers on the balloon. and the tripping dude behind me sounding like Beavis, "heheheheehe"
Post by masshysteria on Jun 23, 2007 13:37:06 GMT -5
"I smell petculli", "Overwhelmed as one would be, placed in my position" (that is such a good song for everyone at Bonnaroo), "HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY", I was in another world when this song came on. Tool owns my face still from this show...just beautiful.
20 minutes of Kashmir with Galactic and friends, I really hope I can find bootleg of this show, it was one of the shows of the festie.
Wish you were here with Rod y Gab, I had goosebumps the whole time they playd that song.
The entire Superjam, we had a great spot and they all brought it.
Ben Harper admiring the amount of smoke that cam from the crowd during Burn One Down, "That is quite possibly the biggest smoke cloud from crowd I have ever seen" or something to those lines Harper said.
Now knowing that I have a perma-smile the whole weekend from talking to one of our friends from camp last night. He stated that every time he saw me and my friend that it would put a smile on his face. That is a good feeling and I didnt even know I was doing it.
"That's the big thing about education. People can be book smart, but not really intelligent about anything else. A lot of times they just taking in all this information and regurgitate it. It's much more important to process it and personalize it. To apply it to your world, to your life. You have to walk the walk, or you can't really report about it honestly."
Post by trippindaisy on Jun 23, 2007 14:48:10 GMT -5
doctorhitts said:
anybody recall seeing a 6 and a half foot tall cow saturday night during some of the police and all of the Flaming Lips? if so, that was me, and being that cow, having people come up to me and squeeze my udders or take a picture with me, that was my favorite 'Roo moment. for sure.
oh, and tea leaf green was AMAZING ... same with STS9 .. great acts
anybody recall seeing a 6 and a half foot tall cow saturday night during some of the police and all of the Flaming Lips? if so, that was me, and being that cow, having people come up to me and squeeze my udders or take a picture with me, that was my favorite 'Roo moment. for sure.
oh, and tea leaf green was AMAZING ... same with STS9 .. great acts
So i deff think i saw u or was right next to you.. I was the dude who kept putting on the monkey mask that had the little party animal hat on it and right in front of me was a rabbit.. I swear man we had some crazy times at that flaming lipps show..
Post by doctorhitts on Jun 23, 2007 21:37:26 GMT -5
yea willrich1, that was def. me! i remember that monkey mask and the girl with the rabbit mask too ... what a great show, we were all amazed by so much of wayne's tomfoolery
The best had to be the Sunday night ridiculousness back at the tents. It's hard to describe the awesomeness, but basically it involved a girl that dropped acid and then got ditched by her friends, some random kid that played our ukelele and joined the circle of friends but never talked, and a super charming girl from Kentucky who had no ride home because all of her friends had already left, so the other half of our group decided to make a detour on the way back to Minnesota. The whole thing was just so fun and so Bonnaroo, you know?
Post by blazeaway54 on Jun 24, 2007 4:02:38 GMT -5
Tool announcing Tom Morello brought a few tears to my eyes. Leading up to the show I had convinced myself John Paul Jones would be coming out with No Quarter and then when he said Tom Morello instead I almost fell down. Good lord that was great.
i'm surprised i haven't heard anyone else mention this but it definitely stuck out in my mind as one of the most memorable.
so me and my group is heading into centeroo for tool and we're definitely running late and the line to get in by the ferris wheel is moving slow as hell, and i think i have heard some people say there was some woman in security checking -everything- which we saw too. but then as the crowd got more and more restless because we were all still outside, tool starts and we can hear them playing while we're barely moving and then everyone got REALLY pissed.
people are yelling all kinds of shit at the security guards, people in the middle are yelling to those in the back to push, its mayhem...some girl passes out in the middle and has to get rushed over to the sidelines for a medical team. a few people in my group make it through but some of us are still outside with the crowd as it continues to go downhill.
all of a sudden, i hear a clang and people start moving really fast on my right. i look over, and realize that the crowd has pushed down one of the gates and we're all madly running through the opening into centeroo, unchecked.
the memorable part is after i got through and had gone a bit past the checkpoints i turned around to see what was happening and i swear i didn't see a single security guard at any of the checkpoints... maybe they ran for cover when the crowd stampeded or something
Maybe I'll throw myself to the dogs, but my back's not to the wall Maybe I'll lay some bricks for the man, but the days just aren't that long So if I settle back and chill will I see far enough to feel the angel's dream? I thought it was the Story of the World!
Post by Jazzmaster on Jun 25, 2007 18:03:35 GMT -5
xiphoid420 said:
i'm surprised i haven't heard anyone else mention this but it definitely stuck out in my mind as one of the most memorable.
so me and my group is heading into centeroo for tool and we're definitely running late and the line to get in by the ferris wheel is moving slow as hell, and i think i have heard some people say there was some woman in security checking -everything- which we saw too. but then as the crowd got more and more restless because we were all still outside, tool starts and we can hear them playing while we're barely moving and then everyone got REALLY pissed.
people are yelling all kinds of nuts at the security guards, people in the middle are yelling to those in the back to push, its mayhem...some girl passes out in the middle and has to get rushed over to the sidelines for a medical team. a few people in my group make it through but some of us are still outside with the crowd as it continues to go downhill.
all of a sudden, i hear a clang and people start moving really fast on my right. i look over, and realize that the crowd has pushed down one of the gates and we're all madly running through the opening into centeroo, unchecked.
the memorable part is after i got through and had gone a bit past the checkpoints i turned around to see what was happening and i swear i didn't see a single security guard at any of the checkpoints... maybe they ran for cover when the crowd stampeded or something
Someone told me that story! They said they spread word through the people in line that they were going to rush the security, and apparently everyone participated and the plan worked. I wasn't sure if the story was true, but I guess it is.
My favorite moment may have been after Sasha & Digweed. Nobody wanted to go back to their camp sites, so they found a "tent" made of sheet metal and beat the Hell out of it. Man, that was good times!
Also, handing out the request to Sasha after the sun came up was very overwhelming.
getting on the ferris wheel first thing, so we'd actually do it, and having my first aerial view of the roo
jumping in the fountain for the first time ever in all the years I've been (i've always been squeamish before). but i was so hot and it felt soooo good. it was such a rush.
war pigs soundcheck at the lips. i got the impression that they were overwhelmed by how many people were already there and cheering for them, so they decided they had to do something, which was very cool.
also when they played "do you realize" and i had a moment of complete and utter pure joy
getting highly annoyed at a (obviously inebriated) guy at the stripes, moving away from him, discovering he and his girl have moved close to us again, then having him talk me into dancing with him during "we're going to be friends". it made me realize that i need to really be more open and forgiving than I am sometimes at shows (i tend to get annoyed at people who aren't paying complete attention to the performers at concerts)
wandering through centeroo and realizing all of a sudden that there's a parade of performers walking next to us, complete with a girl twirling fire and being so entranced that i had to follow it!
Post by oleander124 on Jun 26, 2007 9:29:28 GMT -5
My favorite moments were:
1. Waking up, getting ready for the day, and going into Centeroo to nap under the trees for a couple hours.
2. Meeting the guy next to us at the Police concert. He was so amazing and friendly. He offered us cookies and helped my bf enjoy the Police even more than he was. The guys on the other side of us were funny!!! Those group of people at the show made Bonnaroo for us.
3. Walking back to camp after a long a$$ day and seeing our campsite and being relieved I could go to sleep soon.
4. (don't smite me for this) Getting ready to head back home. I was ready for my home by Monday morning.
When Jon Butler played Ocean, it was the first time in my life that a live performance almost brought me to tears it was so good. I don't even know what else to say about that experience, I'm friggin speechless about it...
Hell. Yes. Karma for that! I also was brought to tears.
Besides my emotional moment at John Butler Trio, I had the time of my life at Widespread Panic. I hadn't ever even listened to Widespread Panic before, but it was the one show where I mustered enough energy to dance around with my boyfriend for about half the show. Of course, then we immediately aged like 40 years and couldn't stand how insanely loud it was... but everything about that moment in time was incredible. It was my last night of complete freedom and I felt it pulsing through my veins. I wish I had broken free from reality earlier in the weekend, but it was better late than never.
Post by oleander124 on Jun 27, 2007 9:20:30 GMT -5
Another funny moment (not my favorite, but still funny):
One morning we are walking towards Centeroo and we pass by the portopotties. Just as we walk by them I notice someone is playing "That Smell" by Skynyrd from their car.
Yes, I did smell that smell, and it was the smell of death, and it did surround me. ;D
Post by ejamesglend on Jun 27, 2007 10:13:47 GMT -5
doctorhitts said:
anybody recall seeing a 6 and a half foot tall cow saturday night during some of the police and all of the Flaming Lips? if so, that was me, and being that cow, having people come up to me and squeeze my udders or take a picture with me, that was my favorite 'Roo moment. for sure.
oh, and tea leaf green was AMAZING ... same with STS9 .. great acts
I saw you in the crowd before the flaming lips!! Sweet costume! ;D
"My greatest hope is to laugh as much as cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return" Maya Angelou
"We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth" Evan Esar
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought." Albert Szent-Gyorgi
Karma for mentioning me and for finally listening to some Panic
I swear I've made you listen to them before....
Nope.
I did, I know I did, you just don't remember it. It was the day last summer that we picked up Subway and went to the park and had a "picnic", but we only listened to a song or two. It still counts!