Whether it's your first Bonnaroo or you’re a music festival veteran, we welcome you to Inforoo.
Here you'll find info about artists, rumors, camping tips, and the infamous Roo Clues. Have a look around then create an account and join in the fun. See you at Bonnaroo!!
As this is going to be my first roo, with years of dreaming leading up to it. I just wanted to make an official thread where first timers can thank all the people on this board who made us way more prepared than anybody else in our groups. Your advice has guided me well and I think I may actually be prepared. I hope I get a chance to meet all of the awesome people who help us all get geared up for roo. So thanks so much You're all more helpful than you know See you on the farm
Great idea, I wish I could name everyone that's helped me, so I just wanna say thanks to everyone. Friendly, helpful, loving creatures you are! If not for all you, my first roo would be unprepared and thanks to everyone I'm feeling ready. kudos!
Thanks to all the vets who have made me feel as prepared as possible for my firt Bonnaroo! This is a great forum community and I look forward to music chat throughout the year leading up to my second Bonnaroo!!
Thanks for creating this thread...I would like to publicly thank Quacker, Chrissy (greta8402) and Tony (crewfan) for everything they are doing to make our first Bonnaroo even better. A huge huge shoutout to Chrissy who is picking us from the airport in the wee hours of Thursday morning...Without her help, we'd have one more thing to worry over...See everyone at the brunch next week
The Thermals May 20th Sasquatch May 27-30 Bonnaroo June 9-12 Brett Dennen June 15 Tim McGraw June 17th My Morning Jacket June 28 Toby Keith Aug 16 DMB Caravan Sept 2-4
I love this thread! Last year was my first Bonnaroo. Although I'm definitely more of a lurker, I spent countless hours scouring inforoo in preparation. Thank the festie gods I did! Everything about your first Bonnaroo, or, large fest in general is overwhelming. My husband didn't join us until Friday afternoon last year, but I was talking to him when we first got in the GA line. He asked what it was like, and my answer was, "indescribable." Photos don't do it justice. The sheer numbers of people, the heat, the excited energy in the air. Priceless, massive, incredible. Thanks to inforoo, I had some idea of what to expect. I knew what BFE was, and I knew we'd probably end up there since we got in line Wed night. I knew that the move to tent only would probably be best for our group, and it totally was. I knew to bring ear plugs to sleep with, which, thanks to the lunar stage, ended up being the best pre-roo investment I made. I knew that a shade tent was essential, which honestly wouldn't have occurred to me without inforoo wisdom. Turned out that I was the only one of our large crew of first timers who bothered to do any research. Without inforoo, our group would have been quacked. In summation, I just wanna thank inforoo vets as a whole. Thanks to you guys, my first Roo was a smashing success. Although I'm sure we would've had a good time regardless, your advice helped us avoid many pitfalls, and spared us a lot of frustration. Imagine waiting in line for 8 hours without knowing that it was even a possibility! Anyway, thanks again. Can't wait for next week!
Thanks everyone. Going solo + my first time since all my friends bailed and didn't want to sell my wristband. Feel somewhat comfortable due to my lurkinz.
Post by pizzagod302 on Jun 1, 2011 21:55:09 GMT -5
As everyone else has said THANK YOU to everybody. I have been steadily reading these threads all day everyday for the past month and a half trying to consume all of knowledge I can fill my head with. I hope to make this our first of many memorable experiences that my gf of a year and I have together. I feel like I almost know what to expect....except for that fact that I always say "expect the unexpected"!!! With that being said Happy Roo to all, and to all a good night!!!
P.S. I'm on twitter @macjjh302 and plan to tweet our whole vacation beginning tuesday when we leave the east coast of Delaware and start our trek southwest!!
Awesome thread! This board saved me so much last year for my first Roo! I lurked like crazy and doing research before I began posting. But seriously, you guys are the best!! My Roo neighbors who were on their 3rd Bonnaroo last year were totally impressed with how prepared we were!
Yup Fridays for this thread as allowed. I also have a theorey on the lurking thing now. There is so much going on on this board all at once that it is hard for someone to chime in especially when some of us have been on here so long. I personally while hiving been to Bonnaroo since 2005 have not really started posting regularly except in the past 3 Bonnaroos. I first signed up in 2006 after learning about this board through the old skool defunct Krew Of Roo Board. If you are a lurker and read this please post! Just one to get it out of your system. I mean if you are reading this you know you flirted with the idea. Do it just once then you willbe back more and more frequently. It is an obsession after a while.
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 mapatterson on Jun 1, 2011 23:09:55 GMT -5
thanks everyone for all the help, i have been lurking these boards since feb and have gotten alot of awesome information to help make my first roo the best. again i can not thank all u vets enough
Yes! I can't thank you all enough. I feel SO prepared for my first roo!! A special shout out to fawnmart, who has gone above and beyond to make me feel really great about going! ;D
Post by grizzlepickle on Jun 2, 2011 12:16:44 GMT -5
In my past Roo's I owe everything that has allowed me to stay alive and in relative comfort on the farm to something somebody said somewhere on this board. Thanks to ALL of you and I can't wait to see ya'll next week!
Yea huge thanks to everyone.. Special mentions include yoderroo for his geniusness and excellent diagrams explaining pretty much anything you need him to explain (how to make camp showers, how the pump mechanism works for the fountain, etc etc) scrog, and all the other OG's who enthusiastically school us wookie-rookie-roobies!
In my past Roo's I owe everything that has allowed me to stay alive and in relative comfort on the farm to something somebody said somewhere on this board. Thanks to ALL of you and I can't wait to see ya'll next week!
Ditto! Although it's my third Roo I learn something new every year and without Inforoo I never would have made it back from my first. I would say I'm WAY behind on thanking all of the vets on this board so belated hearty thanks! We were all noobs at one time.
Yes! I can't thank you all enough. I feel SO prepared for my first roo!! A special shout out to fawnmart, who has gone above and beyond to make me feel really great about going! ;D
Blushing Ms. M.. We've all been the Noob and So appreciate the advice of the experienced. Echo of Quackers post.. Thank you to the vets!!
The only thing we can not prepare you for is the "From Stilletto's to Sanuks" life altering impact. (Have sooo got to write that book.. If only i was a writer. )
Post by mizvalentine on Jun 2, 2011 18:21:05 GMT -5
YES! Love this thread. This board is amazing.
Without you guys' advice I'd be a boiled lobster with blistered feet and bad clothes, staying in terrible places on the way there and back (thanks garageland and fawnmart!), sweltering without shade, losing my campsite, dehydrated and missing all the nighttime fun, paying $400 cuz I locked my only keys in the car, losing my stuff to marauding wolverines, drinking crap beer and getting my glass confiscated, tripping over guylines and fumbling in a dark sinister porto with no handywipes or TP, waking up to the sun in my face and wondering what the heck all these giant dead bugs are.
Thank you all for being so patient, so cool, and so giving of time and knowledge. Not to mention all the amazing charity efforts on here. And I can't wait to meet everybody at brunch!!
Of all the boards I'm associated with, Inforoo is always my favorite.
Although this will be my 8th Bonnaroo this will be my first in VIP. Muchas Gracias to all the VIP vets who have taken the time to explain to me the process. Can't wait to see you all again and I can't wait to meet some of you for the first time.
This is our fourth Bonnaroo and I STILL want to thank everyone. This board is proof of what we can do when we put all of our heads together and work for the common good. Let's keep the vibe going all the way to the farm.
Without you guys' advice I'd be a boiled lobster with blistered feet and bad clothes, staying in terrible places on the way there and back (thanks garageland and fawnmart!), sweltering without shade, losing my campsite, dehydrated and missing all the nighttime fun, paying $400 cuz I locked my only keys in the car, losing my stuff to marauding wolverines, drinking crap beer and getting my glass confiscated, tripping over guylines and fumbling in a dark sinister porto with no handywipes or TP, waking up to the sun in my face and wondering what the heck all these giant dead bugs are.
Thank you all for being so patient, so cool, and so giving of time and knowledge. Not to mention all the amazing charity efforts on here. And I can't wait to meet everybody at brunch!!