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Post by cursedlono on Jan 30, 2011 13:09:58 GMT -5
So how do you do it? Is there some logical formula to engineering a schedule conflict. Is there no pattern how do you do it? Even I do not know my own formula for conflicts it is apparently so secret and so unpredictable. I hide that formula away the same way a person would lock up a repressed memory. I think it comes from the pain inherent in missing another 4 bands while you watch one. No strike that 4 bands a comedian a belly dancer etc. If there is a formula you have let us hear it. This should be more maddening then any other post ever put on here. I am not talking specific bands. I am talking about the whole festival in general especially those who have been multiple years like myself. You know whats up.
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
Post by Vw'ndeadchick on Jan 30, 2011 14:52:07 GMT -5
my formunla for cramming as much music into my weekend is usually to start with bands i want to see that i have not yet... which is always hard at any festival because i have my favs that are hard not to wander upto (keller, galactic, umm, and anything dead)
i usually split my day into thirds. head into the venue early and wander till midafternoon when i try to cram a break in and head back to camp. i dont usually eat during the day its to hot at the roo. we do a big breakfast and i freeze gallons of water into blocks of ice before i leave every year so we have cold coolers and cold water to drink as it melts.
afternoon set is usually the hottest of the day so i try to pick two stages to dance back an forth between which has been becoming more and more impossible at the roo every year. my suggestion would be take as much water and salt as possible, this is the part of the day when your dehydrating the quickest.
usually around sunset i make an attempt to get back to camp. every year up until the last we took basins and water to do bird baths, last year was our first with a privy and shower. ive never used a festival provided shower. we usually make food around this time agian as a group or for who ever makes it back and then change into clean dry clothes for the night and head in for headliners and late night. i usually also carry a long sleeve shirt at this time or anything else i might need cause im in the venue till easily 3-5am after this break.
its not much of a formula but its been working for the past 8 roos and other fests ive hit up
Before I go, I jot down a list of bands "I must see", "want to see", and "interested in seeing". I will basically aim at making all the must see ones, and miss the ones lower on the list because of schedule conflicts or bands people in your group really want to see and you go.
I agree you gotta take it easy for the day acts. You don't want over exert yourself and get sick. Also save up your energy for the night acts, they are always good.
As far as night acts go, good luck with that. There will always be 3 or 4 shows conflicting with each other. So just go with what sounds good.
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.
Even it wasn't actually applied to what he posted!
Yes it was not applied because I want to hear the formula each attendee has come up with kind of like in say Philosophy 110 IF NOT P THEN Q type stuff. In other owrds I want to hear how you come to dislike a band you might truly love in favor of another. For instance 09 love me some Ben Harper 07 BABY THE SUPERJAM TO DESTROY THEM ALL!!! Yet at the same time have been a huge NIN fan for awhile now since the early 90's. Balance that by the fact that say I have met Ben Harper twice seeing him play at the Ryman and add into the equation that I have got autogrphs both times from him and a picture with him on one of the occasions signing my boxed set of his first 3 CD's(the second time I got my "THERE WILL BE A LIGHT" vinyl signed by the entire band and Ben wrote out the lyrics to There Will Be A Light in a spiral inside the tambourine on the cover to add to my crimes). Multiply that by the fact that I had never seen the Relentless7. Figure into the equation that NIN was going on hiatus (and still is to my knowledge). = Hope I figured right and watched the NIN in 09 so that I can redeem myself in 11 if they play again. At one point during my shunning of THE BRUCE I had even walked over to Mr. Harpers TENT and walked right up to the rail at the front of the show. Said to myself NIN and walked right over to their rail. I felt like Anakin killing Padme'. Should I have devoted more time to someone who had gave time to me? Am I on the darkside now? He did sit and sign my stuff. Could I make up for it by going back this year. Is their a way to balance any negative karma I might have incurred? Am I beating a dead horse? Judge me my partners in crime or nocrime. Some of you might have done the same thing. Some of you might have taken the high road.
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
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 cursedlono on Jan 30, 2011 21:48:10 GMT -5
Groupies will never satisfy me. I want my encounter witht the plaster casters a very little known aspect of the music industry. But legendary!!! I think that would be platinumballinjustcutthecheckrollinoutoftrillvilleon24'sonaG6popniceinthilluminattiwithHOV status. Now I just need to go on a date with Mariah Carey where we buy funyuns with my foodstamps and sit on the curb out front of the grocery store and wash them down with quarter waters.
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
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
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
It is easier if you convert it all to metric time but there are a few issues.
The main problem of metric time lies in the units. The International System of Units has only developed prefixes regarding 10 units exponentially in both the multiple and submultiple directions. The first three multiples would be viable for use within a metric time system; they are 101 (decasecond = 10 seconds), 102 (hectosecond = 100 seconds; 1.666 minutes) and 103 (kilosecond = 1 000 seconds; 16.666 minutes) respectively. However, the fourth value in the SI Units is 106 (megasecond = 1 000 000 seconds; 16 666.666 minutes; 277.777 hours; 11.574 days). Followed by 109 (gigasecond = 1 000 000 000 seconds; 16 666 666.666 minutes; 277 777.777 hours; 11 574.074 days; 31.689 years); a relatively nonviable unit with which to measure human time/life. To make this system of prefixes work for metric time, standard units and prefixes would have to be developed for the 4th and 5th exponents to make metric time viable to human life. These would be: 104 seconds (10 000 seconds; 166.6 minutes; 2.777 hours) 105 seconds (100 000 seconds; 1 666.6 minutes; 27.77 hours; 1.157 days)
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