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Being a first-timer this last year, I have to say dust is pretty bad. I can't imagine mud being worse. We went camping for the first time since Roo last weekend. I opened my tent up and a whole lot of Tennessee blew out all over Iowa. EVERYTHING still had dust in the creases and corners. Not to mention the fact I was SO paranoid driving home with a dust covered car. The po-po had to have known where I had been.
Being a first-timer this last year, I have to say dust is pretty bad. I can't imagine mud being worse. We went camping for the first time since Roo last weekend. I opened my tent up and a whole lot of Tennessee blew out all over Iowa. EVERYTHING still had dust in the creases and corners. Not to mention the fact I was SO paranoid driving home with a dust covered car. The po-po had to have known where I had been.
eheheh... we drove from TN to northern OH with a van lathered in dust and "'roo" written through the dust on the back window. it felt nice to be riding absolutely clean and going the speed limit and having absolutely no reason for being pulled over!
and this was my first time... but I was sick with the Bonnaflu for WAY too long. dust gets my vote just because mud didn't cause so many people such an inconvenience after getting home
My husband votes mud...I think he wants to recreate some kind of "woodstock sliding in the mud" experience. I vote dust. Makes it easier to walk. Ankle deep mud for as far as you can walk can wear you out pretty quickly. Either way it's just part of the experience and you can't ruin bonnaroo with either!
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I think anyone who didn't vote for mud being worse probably didn't go to Bonnaroo in 2004. Mud Practically ruined the last 2 nights in 2004. Mud also ruined Coventry (Phish), though Trey helped.
Post by easymorningrebel on Aug 26, 2007 20:42:19 GMT -5
gougeaway said:
I think anyone who didn't vote for mud being worse probably didn't go to Bonnaroo in 2004. Mud Practically ruined the last 2 nights in 2004. Mud also ruined Coventry (Phish), though Trey helped.
I went in '04 so I know what you're talking about, but I still thought the heat and dust this year was worse. I guess the mud and dust are actually just byproducts of the real culprits---rain vs. drought.
I just look at it this way... Mud means its raining all the time, so you are probably huddled under an umbrella or wrapped up in a poncho. Rain is distracting during a show, it takes your mind off the show, and at some point you would just rather leave and get warm and dry than stand and watch a show in the rain all weekend. Mud is hard to walk through, it makes walking to the stages and campsites that much longer of a trek, and when you get there, you can't sit down b/c the ground is muddy. In 2004, We decided to take trash bags and use them to sit on. It wasn't fun huddling 6-8 people on a trash bag to wait for Primus to come out. You could always use a tarp to sit on, but if you lay a tarp out on the mud, than you probably aren't going to take that tarp anywhere else with you.
I would honestly take the dust at every Bonnaroo before I took mud. The dust was bad, but it wasn't unbearable to me. By the time the night rolled around the cool air helped lift alot of the dust out of the air. I actually watched it happen from my RV during the begginning of the Police Set. The dust cloud lifted and rose up and behind the stage during the police show. By the time the White Stripes took the stage on sunday, the Dust was at its worst, but I would contend it was a wholly better situation than when David Byrne rolled around in 2004. I sat under a tarp between David Byrne and Trey Anastasio, waiting for the rain to clear. I didn't want to move b/c the trail of mud back to my campground was so long, that I wouldn't have made the 2way trek in time.
I think people also have to remember that mud sticks to pretty much everything, and cars get stuck in mud. I helped a bunch of people become unstuck in 2004 to get out, and saw even more I didn't help. Alot of the porta-potties in 2004 didn't get cleaned b/c the trucks couldn't get to them to clean them out. Then they begin to overflow, and where does that refuse go? Well, into the mud of course.
I don't think dust is nearly as bad a problem as mud is for festivals. I honestly think mud flat out ruins a festival in pretty much every way imaginable, and having attended bonnaroo every year, to me clearly the worst year for bad conditions was 2004, not 2007.
Post by stallion pt. 2 on Aug 27, 2007 12:59:40 GMT -5
gougeaway said:
I don't think dust is nearly as bad a problem as mud is for festivals. I honestly think mud flat out ruins a festival in pretty much every way imaginable, and having attended bonnaroo every year, to me clearly the worst year for bad conditions was 2004, not 2007.
My sentiments exactly. I didn't miss a single show this year on account of dust. Thje rain in 2004 was another matter. I missed Material and pretty much everybody else I wanted to see on Sunday in 2004 b/c f the rain and Mud. You couldn't even get to the main stage from Centeroo b/c the area between the Which and What stages was a solid mass of churned, ankle-deep mud. The only way I got to hear David Byrne was from my camp. Fortunatly, camping-only that year was where VIP is now, so it still sounded pretty good and we could see the screens. Maybe it's b/c I'm from the desert and am used to lots of dust, but it didn't really phaze me this year at all.
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
yea, I missed <aterial too. We were headed over there and we realized we wouldn't make it through the connection to the which stage, so we just stayed at the main stage huddled under a tarp. Now they have a walkway through that section in case it ever does get that muddy again. 2004 was a big learning curve year for them. Drastic improvements were made in 2005 to cope with muddy conditions.
I'm totally with ya on this one Gouge. I was outvoted by 3-1 by my campmates in 04, who chose to leave sunday morning and then stay in a hotel in Murfreesboro.
Aside from learning never to go to a thing like Roo with them again, I learned that the mud can dampen spirits like little else. Still can't believe I missed David Byrne at BonnaFreakinRoo.
Still can't believe I missed David Byrne at BonnaFreakinRoo.
Yeah, I'm still trying to get over that. We left Sunday morning because we were left our clothes in the tent which didn't quite stand up to the rain. (Not our smartest move, but it was our first year and our first time camping anywhere!)
However, I'm still in the "dust was worse" category because this year we ended up missing pretty much everything because Jesus was so sick by Saturday morning that we just packed up and went home.
Post by stallion pt. 2 on Aug 27, 2007 22:21:42 GMT -5
hilari said:
snoochio said:
Still can't believe I missed David Byrne at BonnaFreakinRoo.
Yeah, I'm still trying to get over that. We left Sunday morning because we were left our clothes in the tent which didn't quite stand up to the rain. (Not our smartest move, but it was our first year and our first time camping anywhere!)
However, I'm still in the "dust was worse" category because this year we ended up missing pretty much everything because Jesus was so sick by Saturday morning that we just packed up and went home.
Roo 04 was my friend's first camping experience ever too, and she had about the same experience. she stuck it out til sunday though, but only because we flew in. She was happy to catch David Byrne. But she hasn't been back, and If that were my 1st camping and Roo experience, I may not have either.
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
04 was hell with all the mud so sucking in a little dust was nothing to the rain storm before Windwood and the other ones (or as some people call the now The Dead)
Post by easymorningrebel on Aug 28, 2007 22:41:47 GMT -5
so when does construction on the dome over the farm begin, so we can avoid this whole situation?? will it have a retractable roof?? and what are we going to call the accompanying bonnaroo baseball and football teams that play there?
Post by lordrockinhood on Aug 29, 2007 15:37:08 GMT -5
Well, since I just became a Mudbather, I guess I gotta go with um, MUD!!!!!!! ;D
(granted, it's a lot harder to stay clean, but based on my one muddy Woodstock '94 experience, it sure was a lot of fun slippin' and slidin' around, and for what it's worth, people are waaay more likely to walk around nekid in the mud than they are in the dust, always a good thing for the ole' rock festival atmosphere )
Post by easymorningrebel on Aug 29, 2007 15:52:54 GMT -5
lordrockinhood said:
Well, since I just became a Mudbather, I guess I gotta go with um, MUD!!!!!!! ;D
(granted, it's a lot harder to stay clean, but based on my one muddy Woodstock '94 experience, it sure was a lot of fun slippin' and slidin' around, and for what it's worth, people are waaay more likely to walk around nekid in the mud than they are in the dust, always a good thing for the ole' rock festival atmosphere )
but the question is which is worse!! that's why I think the answers here might not be too accurate.
Post by andrewinthea on Sept 23, 2007 15:05:00 GMT -5
DUST is way way way way worse. With mud you can make a mud castle, a mudball, take a mud bath, you get the point. With dust all you can do is try to were a bandana, bitch about how bad it is, and puke up black shit. This year was the worse dust I have ever seen at ROO. I have been in mud and rain, but mud is better cause it intertains you and make fun times for crazy peeps. ALSO IF YOU DROVE A CAR AROUND AT THR ROO AFTER YOU HAD ALREADY PARKED AND SET UP, SHAME ON YOU, AND I HOPE YOUR CAR OVERHEATED AND BROKE DOWN ON THE WAY HOME. IAM NOT JOKEING IF THIS DID HAPPEN TO YOU, THATS A FULL DOSE OF KARMA.