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I like them but only if it's the little bracelet kind and not the big fat kind....they hurt.
we tend to agree. come by GlowStickWars.com. the thin glow bracelets are all we carry, and we donate 10% to support various music education programs for kids (via The Mockingbird Foundation). we're making the most of an arguably bad situation!
Oh wow, my bad in having an opinion that isn't yours. That definitely makes me an idiot, though.
I said that in response to your "bottom line", and my fun is not conditional upon watching people throw stuff at each other. But it is fun, and clearly a ton of people agree with me otherwise they wouldn't take part.
If you're complaining about getting hit by something that weighs less than a pound, than stay home because I hear it might rain at Roo, also.
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This is the first message board I've ever been on, the only reason I joined is because I love Bonnaroo and wanted to read and talk about it all year long.
Everybody throwing glowsticks AT B.o.B. last year during I'll be in the Sky was visually impressive. (he invited the crowd to do this.) unfortunately, he spent the rest of the show swatting and dodging them.
Post by themidnightrider on May 18, 2011 10:26:20 GMT -5
I don't know why anyone would care, I've never been a part of a glo-stick war but They look pretty cool from afar. And as far as it hurting, I was once kicked in the head upwards of 20 times at a smashing pumpkins concert, nothing could get worse than that and that is still the best show I've ever been to.
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If you're complaining about getting hit by something that weighs less than a pound, than stay home because I hear it might rain at Roo, also.
Breaking this out, I'm pretty sure getting hit with something that weighs anywhere near a pound would hurt like hell. For reference, a roll of quarters weighs about a half pound. I'd say anything solid over a quarter-pound is going to hurt like a bitch.
I did not know that. Than those things weigh considerably less than that. A rubbery wire that glows does not weigh the same as 40 quarters.
I don't know why anyone would care, I've never been a part of a glo-stick war but They look pretty cool from afar. And as far as it hurting, I was once kicked in the head upwards of 20 times at a smashing pumpkins concert, nothing could get worse than that and that is still the best show I've ever been to.
I don't know why anyone would care, I've never been a part of a glo-stick war but They look pretty cool from afar. And as far as it hurting, I was once kicked in the head upwards of 20 times at a smashing pumpkins concert, nothing could get worse than that and that is still the best show I've ever been to.
Did you attempt to pee on Billy?
No between billy's height and the stage height he was towering about 25 feet above me. Would have been impossible .
I think he was saying that he enjoyed the show AND the glowstick war was fun.
and I'm saying he's an idiot and Phish sucks.
woah woah woah. hold on a second here. you may not like glow stick wars, which is cool. but before you say Phish sucks, remember that Bonnaroo wouldn't exist without Phish. Bonnaroo was modeled off of the Phish festivals of the 90's and was basically created to fill the void during the first hiatus.
[ It had nothing to do with Phish, and certainly wasn't created to fill the void during Phish's hiatus, except that the festival promoters saw a good opportunity to take advantage of an already existing market infrastructure.
Superfly wasn't like "oh, Phish is finally gone, let's fill the void for all the wookies and trustafarians!" The festival was going to happen regardless, it just so happened to coincide with a time period two years after Phish called it quits, and therefore exploited that market, however unintentionally.
Let me put it this way: there might be no NFL this fall. If that's the case, people are opining that college football might see an increase in viewership. However, they're playing those college football games regardless - the increase in popularity from the NFL's absence would only be incidental.
That would be a good analogy guy except for one key fact: College Football has been around longer than Pro Football. And Bonnaroo's first year 2002, conveniently placed during the Hiatus which began in Sept 2000, right around the perfect time to begin planning a summer of 2002 festival. You have to be pretty dense to think that the two have no relation.
Superfly had been promoting things in/around Jazzfest for years when they decided to do Bonnaroo. Festivals existed before, and during, Phish that had nothing to do with them. Every year people come on this board and get all fired up about how Bonnaroo wouldn't exist without Phish, we should all be grateful and listen to more crappy audience copies of a fat guy playing a vacuum and start replacing all our "f"s with "ph"s, but it doesn't make it any more true.
And honestly, even if Superfly had sat down in 2001 and said "you know what? Phish is awesome. Let's make a festival just like the ones they had! ALL HAIL PHISH!," it still wouldn't create any reason for the attendees of Bonnaroo to give Phish any more deference than their own personal preference and taste demanded.
What Im saying is that the Phish Festivals of the 90's without a doubt provided the framework for the influx of North American festivals that have sprung up since Bonnaroo 02. Im not saying that phish had the only festivals in the US at the time (which the mostly did anyway), but it without was the major model superfly used when designing bonnaroo. you are acting like the two arent related, which anyone can see that they are. and frankly, i could give two shits if you dont like Phish, but you have to give them credit for what they accomplsihed with their festivals and give them credit for showing that american festivals can be run in manners other than woodstock 94.
Superfly had been promoting things in/around Jazzfest for years when they decided to do Bonnaroo. Festivals existed before, and during, Phish that had nothing to do with them. Every year people come on this board and get all fired up about how Bonnaroo wouldn't exist without Phish, we should all be grateful and listen to more crappy audience copies of a fat guy playing a vacuum and start replacing all our "f"s with "ph"s, but it doesn't make it any more true.
And honestly, even if Superfly had sat down in 2001 and said "you know what? Phish is awesome. Let's make a festival just like the ones they had! ALL HAIL PHISH!," it still wouldn't create any reason for the attendees of Bonnaroo to give Phish any more deference than their own personal preference and taste demanded.
What Im saying is that the Phish Festivals of the 90's without a doubt provided the framework for the influx of North American festivals that have sprung up since Bonnaroo 02.
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