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this year, i left The Flaming Lips to ensure i wouldn't miss a note at the Sasha and Digweed set. By the time i made it to the tent, i was early and already spun. Good ol molly put me back in it, and midway through the set i ran into the best of the best kind folk. One of em was a chick and we really got to rappin. Midway through the chatting she insisted we go off to the side to blaze, and midway though the blaze, she asked me how old i was.
It took me several moments, and i didn't know!!
She caught me unprepared.
At that point, i was kind of like...just a number out there. I'd left everything at the entrance gate...bills, problems, and apparently personal info!
It blew my mind..
My answer was, "uhhhhh....i'm either 22, or 23...but i think 22."
turns out i was 23. Whoops. oh well.
So what's the crazies thing that's ever happened to you at the roo?!
this year, i left The Flaming Lips to ensure i wouldn't miss a note at the Sasha and Digweed set. By the time i made it to the tent, i was early and already spun. Good ol molly put me back in it, and midway through the set i ran into the best of the best kind folk. One of em was a chick and we really got to rappin. Midway through the chatting she insisted we go off to the side to blaze, and midway though the blaze, she asked me how old i was.
It took me several moments, and i didn't know!!
She caught me unprepared.
At that point, i was kind of like...just a number out there. I'd left everything at the entrance gate...bills, problems, and apparently personal info!
It blew my mind..
My answer was, "uhhhhh....i'm either 22, or 23...but i think 22."
turns out i was 23. Whoops. oh well.
So what's the crazies thing that's ever happened to you at the roo?!
-Ray
HAHA, at that point, i just say stuff like... "i'm 783..." and see what they say.
Post by roolacksreality on Sept 23, 2007 15:17:57 GMT -5
Some guy followed us back to our site. He asked if we had an extra 100 grand to throw his way and we said we left it back at the camp site. He later admitted to taking around a 1,000 mics.
Post by andrewinthea on Sept 23, 2007 16:12:21 GMT -5
I had a encounter with a cool ass dude. He came up to me before String cheese and said " I reminded him of himself at a younger age" I also found out that he was on alot of molly that he shared with me, when I told him how I got some weak stuff eariler that night. We talked and also found out he was from Stone mountain GA, were I was also from, this to me was very strange. Then we danced the first set and I said "I was heading to STS9 to catch some of their 2 set, and he should come along". We chilled their smoked afterwords and then got split up in the crowd. He said it was a flash back seeing me, and I felt like I new him or seen him before, and mabey this was myself in the furtue coming to show me what was to come. Buy the way iam stright, and we were just doing what people at roo do, meet new people. I know this experence was real but it felt like we were suppose to meet for some reason. Anyways him name was Jake something (the molly had kicked in buy this point) and if he is on this site, you should post a reply.
well, you ask me why i'm drunk all the time it levels my head and eases my mind i just walk along and stroll and sing i see better days and i do better things
Wow, just read your article- what an experience! I wonder if Manchester's hospital has had to be upgraded just because of that one weekend in June. Probably the rest of the year it's normal, then that weekend they must be slammed!
well, you ask me why i'm drunk all the time it levels my head and eases my mind i just walk along and stroll and sing i see better days and i do better things
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
Post by sinkfloridasink on Sept 29, 2007 17:22:12 GMT -5
stallion said:
sinkfloridasink said:
thanks, i'm sure he would appreciate that.
it was seriously surreal. i went to bonnaroo expecting it to be insane, and i was still completely surprised by the turnout...
That was pretty crazy story. Next year save the good stuff for the late nights. One question though. How did your friend puncture his lung?
yeah, i learned that. this year should be a lot better.
we're not exactly sure how he punctured it. we both took some doses and he went off for about 4 hours and i have no idea what he did. what we think did it was when he attacked a trash can...
so if anyone saw a confused guy attack a trash can inbetween Ben Harper and The Police, you saw my friend Wayne.
well, you ask me why i'm drunk all the time it levels my head and eases my mind i just walk along and stroll and sing i see better days and i do better things
Post by soundtribe_junkie on Sept 30, 2007 9:45:42 GMT -5
This is not so much what happened TO me as who and what I saw.....just very cool.
Did anyone see the guy at STS9 with the EQ on the front of his shirt? Thats the coolest thing I ve seen in a long time. It was actually bouncing along with the music....me, trippin' around in the grass and I look up and see him. He was HUGE and all dressed in a white suit with a white top hat on. He looked like the jolly green giant...only in white. But he had this fu manchu thing going on his face and he was just amazing to me. So I went up and told him he was beautiful and asked him if I could touch that EQ....and I did ....and it was great.....and he had his gf or wife sitting next to him standing (in jolly green giant fashion), and she was in this long white flowy dress, and wow, they made a picture kicking back ..........and I ran back around to watch the band I came to Bonnaroo to see.
man i just read your article sinkfloridasink...crazy stuff indeed. glad your buddy wayne is ok, and i wonder what that crazy guy at the end was yelling about.
Post by sinkfloridasink on Oct 4, 2007 18:37:05 GMT -5
bonnafan said:
man i just read your article sinkfloridasink...crazy stuff indeed. glad your buddy wayne is ok, and i wonder what that crazy guy at the end was yelling about.
oh yeah, i completely forgot about that haha - that's why I wrote it down!
by that point the weekend had been so weird, that we didn't even sweat it
well, you ask me why i'm drunk all the time it levels my head and eases my mind i just walk along and stroll and sing i see better days and i do better things
I can't take credit for this, it happened to one of my friends that was there with me. He got separated from us during the first night before the National set (we were actually about an hour early) and had probably the craziest night I've ever heard of anyone having (he took a quarter of nice shrooms at once).
It started when we were going through the arch. We all had just gotten through, and he had to take a piss, but didn't realize that there were urinals a mere hundred or so feet away, so he went back through the arch to find one. All was going well and he set back out to find us, until one of the helicopters went overhead. He said that this caused the shrooms to hit him all at once and he suddenly began going in to a crazy trip.
The first thing he remembers is stumbling through some place that he described (while still tripping) as "crack town." He said that he saw an entire marketplace consisting of grimy, witch-looking people throwing dead chickens in to cauldrons and with garlic cloves and the like adorning the shops. A sudden wave of paranoia hit in, and he hastily made his way out of the area.
By the time he remembered slowing down and not worrying about getting away from crack town anymore, he stumbled in to a tent and saw a burst of action: people running, getting tackled, etc. He was incredibly confused and half-shouted "what the f**k?" to one of the people scurrying around. The person responded by shouting at another person "what the f**k is right, this nuts is fucked up" and then got tackled by this person. It was at this time that he noticed that the people tackling everyone were police officers. My friend had walked in to a 26 pound marijuana bust that made the state news.
He does not know how he managed to get out of the scene without getting questioned or even talked to, but he did. He decided he wanted to find his way back to our camp site and began asking random people where he could find "pink floyd" (our camp site was in randall pink floyd), adding whenever someone told him pink floyd wasn't playing there "no, I live in pink floyd!" At this point he gave up trying to get back to the campsite. After wandering around some more and believing he was fucked up enough that someone was following him and trying to jack his bracelet, he ended up finding a show which we figured must have been Rodrigo y Gabriela and watched some people packing a bowl that asked him if he wanted to join them. He did, noticing that it tasted really weird, and then found out afterwards that it was topped with PCP.
The next thing he remembers is laying down as the others went up to watch the show and passing out for for a little bit (the show hadn't ended yet) and waking up drenched in sweat, freezing. He was so cold and fucked up at this point that he bagan offering people 60 dollars and two joints for a hoodie, but no one would take him up. He decided that he was again up to finding his way back to our campsite, and managed to find an information tent where he asked for directions. After about 5 minutes of walking, he was lost again and forgot the directions.
He finally had a good break though, and he offered a random person two joints and 20 dollars to help him get back. This guy was able to at long last get him back, and they smoked the joints on the way. After getting back and passing out on the ground, we all came back from David Cross five minutes after him.
The ironic thing about the entire night was that judging from his story we were pretty close to him on several occaisions during the night and we were even keeping our eyes out for him. We must have just missed him more than once.
Post by BrokenLight on Oct 7, 2007 21:23:42 GMT -5
here's how my bonnaroo 2007 went:
tool's music scared me because of the acid i was on, so i left after about 20 minutes, but i did hear the rest of their show, the worst is probably missing flaming lips and gov't mule, i've done acid around 20 times, mostly as a senior in high school and as a college freshman, i'm 26 now, this was my first time doing acid in about 7 years, so for me, there will be no more acid or shrooms, i'll just stick with weed and alcohol
Post by marshalldylan1 on Oct 8, 2007 0:33:46 GMT -5
On the first night, two guys came up to me and asked me if I had any "tweak." I of course told em no, and they talked to us for about 2 hours! One guy kept saying the most random nonsense. For instance, I would ask a question, and he would say "Yes, no, yes no, I have all the answers!"
He kept yelling "Nick at nite! Satellite!" over and over again. To this day, when I see my friend, I will yell nick at nite, and he will yell Satellite back at me.
They were nice people, just really crazy, i wish the meth heads would stay away from Bonnaroo.
Post by localweather on Oct 16, 2007 14:35:33 GMT -5
At Sasha + Digweed I was standing behind a group of people and I saw/heard this pretty girl asking for a light, but no one in the group had one. Being the on-the-spot guy that I am, I pulled out my lighter and reached over the heads of these people and lit it up right in front of the girl.
She started laughing then came around and gave me the biggest hug, I think she almost picked me up (I am 6'5" and 250 pounds). She then told me I had the most beautiful eyes...and after that I was hooked. I was just transfixed by her eyes and her face, I couldn't look away. She smiled and snapped her fingers in front of my face, evidently this brought me out of the trance and then she just kind of danced away...it was so awesome.
At Sasha + Digweed I was standing behind a group of people and I saw/heard this pretty girl asking for a light, but no one in the group had one. Being the on-the-spot guy that I am, I pulled out my lighter and reached over the heads of these people and lit it up right in front of the girl.
She started laughing then came around and gave me the biggest hug, I think she almost picked me up (I am 6'5" and 250 pounds). She then told me I had the most beautiful eyes...and after that I was hooked. I was just transfixed by her eyes and her face, I couldn't look away. She smiled and snapped her fingers in front of my face, evidently this brought me out of the trance and then she just kind of danced away...it was so awesome.
As we crested a hill in our 7 car caravan the traffic suddenly pulled into the shoulder. Because of the hill it was impossible to see that you had to stop so quickly, I made it into the shoulder (car 6) my cousin was coming up fast (car 7) and I was convinced he was going to hit me. I braced for impact he pulled back into the lane of the highway, as he did that 2 cars in the lane screeched to a hault. One camry hit another, right next to my driver side window. I was so close my car filled with smoked from their tires, it took me about 10 seconds to realize I hadn't been the one hit. totally insane made me on edge for about the first 24 hours of roo.
Post by masshysteria on Oct 22, 2007 16:40:45 GMT -5
To benrs: I think I remember seeing your friend outside of the Rodrigo y Gabriela set. He asked me and a friend the same thing but neither one of us was wearing a hoodie so we couldnt help him out to much. I think we gave him a water though. We were giving everyone that looked like they had too much corn fresh waters. It is quite amazing how much a lil water can help level out your head if you are in a bad state (the key word here is dehydration).
"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 StringerBell on Nov 28, 2007 4:39:50 GMT -5
I was at the Clutch concert the first night, and some red headed dude began to talk to me, I noticed his girlfriend, because she looked exactly like him.... They both had BRIGHT red hair, hers in pigtails, and his in long dreadlocks. Throughout the entire fucking show, this girl stared at me, even when I moved to get a better view of Clutch, this girls gaze followed me. Normally I would be fine with this, but I am 18 and this man and his girl looked to be about 24 or a bit older. That might not be very crazy, but I saw that girl more than I saw anyone at Bonnaroo. No matter where I went, what shows I watched, for some odd reason, there she was, the Bright red headed girl, staring me down.
Post by slorchiepoo on Nov 28, 2007 10:03:15 GMT -5
the thing that will always stick out in my mind is the people i was with @ bonnaroo 2006. i mean i could not have asked for a better group of people. you know sometimes you can be really good friends with someone but that doesn't make them a good bonnaroo buddy. some of us were good friends, some of us were just acquaintances but we had a BLAST.
there was a girl in our group, lindsey, who is a whiz on the guitar. we all walked around the campsite at like 4am on saturday morning singing songs about whatever we saw. we made up an STD song, too lol. and we saw a girl coming out of the port a potties and step in some goo, and we all started singing about having the swampfoot. we were laughing, all the campers we passed were laughing...it was a really great time.
a few hours later i'm lying in the tent trying to rest for a bit and i hear a man outside doing an acoustic version of radiohead's 'paranoid android'. it sounded JUST like thom yorke. it wasn't, but in my state of mind i pretended that it was and he was singing me a lullaby to sleep. god it was amazing.
Post by slorchiepoo on Nov 28, 2007 10:26:15 GMT -5
i also remember in 06 being in centeroo and looking for corn. we had a hard time coming by corn in 06...we ran out of our own pretty early. anyway, we were walking around close to some of the food vendors and i heard one of the vendors yelling "nugs for nips!! nugs for nips!!". my buddy and i walked up to them and i was like "so what's the deal...i show you nips and you give me nugs?" and he said yep. so i asked to see the corn (wanted to make sure they were worth it - and they WERE) so i flashed him for a good 5-10 seconds and got a nice sized piece of corn. worth every bit of it! =D
me and my buddy just got off our shift and we decided to roam the tents for some syd.we asked around and a group of kids stopped and pointed us into what seemed a totally random direction sayin "i think you can find it over...there..." for some reason,we took their advice and not even 2 seconds later we found our first syd of our first bonnaroo.about 3 hours later, after we finished off the last of our goodies, we were walkin through centeroo and we stumbled across those very kids who directed us in that seemingly "random" direction.i cant even remember how many times we thanked them