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Post by FuzzyWarbles on Feb 20, 2012 9:38:17 GMT -5
While gardenfresh's experience was awesome I enjoy the stories from people about moments in the midst of the crowd with their friends more. Some of them remind myself of great times I had almost forgotten.
While gardenfresh's experience was awesome I enjoy the stories from people about moments in the midst of the crowd with their friends more. Some of them remind myself of great times I had almost forgotten.
Ah I see, you're making me think
If we are talking specific Bonnaroo moments, I will never ever ever forget what it was like seeing those blue flashy leds dropped by the paratrooper in 2011. Consequently I loved the floating fire lamps in 2010 just as much. Both instances were out of the ordinary moments that made me think outside the box, go "huh?" for a split second, then when it sank in all I could do was enjoy the beauty. That to me was that "Bonnaroo feeling"
Right before phish started their first set in 2009, I went to go get a frozen lemonade (mmm) and found a man arguing with the vendor, asking him to watch this young girl, probably 10 or 11, who was with him. He told the guy how he was a roadie for the Beastie Boys and mix master mike asked him to watch his daughter but he just wanted to go have fun and how he'd give the vendor money to do this. SOOOO SKETCHY.
I was stone cold sober, so I know I didn't imagine this.
Post by shakedownsavvy on Feb 20, 2012 18:59:51 GMT -5
my buddy last year lost his wallet on the side of i-40 while he was in the ditch/bushes peeing and didn't realize it till we got almost to the back entrance (by bfe). he only had flip flops on and when he realized he lost it he took them off and ran barefoot all the way up to the back entrance and asked all of the cops on atv's to please give him a ride back to i-40 and none of them would. then the nice local that owns that house right as you walk into bfe gave him a ride on his golf car back to i-40 and dropped him off and sure as s**t he remembered a branch he had to jump over to get to the ditch to pee and he said his wallet was laying right by the branch with all of his money/id's still in it (over $600 cash). i guess it just flew out of his pants when he jumped the branch, so the moral of the story kids is leave your wallet in the car if you pee on the side of i-40. by the time he made it back we already had camp fully set up and he had the biggest blisters I've ever seen on his feet from running barefoot all that way back. quite entertaining i must say though.
Post by remixomawinden on Feb 20, 2012 21:37:28 GMT -5
As I was rocking out to Tool in '07, this guy bumped into me from behind, he proceeded to fall, grabbing my shorts on the way down. Next thing I saw was this super sweaty, high as a kite, 300+ pound dude laying on his back. Within seconds, there was a 10 ft radius of empty lawn around him so no one had to touch the dude. Keep in mind, I was close to the front of the crowd. That much room is terribly hard to get. The guy stands us, stares at the sky and starts twirling in circles.
I never did see the guy again after he left dancing around through the crowd. He still owes me a pair shorts.
Reading this story of someone's 2007 experience was instrumental in convincing me to attend Bonnaroo 2009 with two of my sons. (In 2010 and 2011 I brought my wife and all five kids, and the seven of us will be at 2012 also.) Anyway, it's a long but compelling read that captures the feeling of Bonnaroo very well:
Okay, wait I thought of a pretty good one. Can't believe I forgot this.
It was either before or during Eminem last year. I'll try to set up where it was for you: say you were standing close to the What stage. If you were heading back to the arch, you would come across a big white shade tent. We were pretty much just in front of that when the following happened:
Remember those asian-style lanterns that you light a candle in and then they fly away? (Whatever they're called) People were lighting them right by us. It was going on for a while, whenever someone would light one and release, as it ascended everyone around would go "Awwww.." or "Yay" and cheer. This is almost too good to describe in text. A lot of people around would (obviously) notice and keep an eye on the lantern. As someone lit one and released it, it probably went about 10 feet in the air, and started to descend. RIGHT TOWARDS A GUY THAT WAS SLEEPING. It was like a slow-motion "Noooooo" situation where everyone started screaming as if this guy was gonna be consumed by the flames. The people he was with obviously noticed and woke him up, he jumped up scared and got out of the way of the incredibly slow moving lantern. EVERYONE was laughing hysterically. Laughing now just thinking about it. One of those 30 second moments that you would treasure forever.
this story is my favorite. reason being i have a VERY similar story to the very T. same song, same "chemical", same place, same time. that was the night i fell in love with bonnaroo.
this story is my favorite. reason being i have a VERY similar story to the very T. same song, same "chemical", same place, same time. that was the night i fell in love with bonnaroo.
That makes me so happy to hear. Just the other day I was wondering to myself how many other people had their "first time" during that set like I did. I wish I could get all of us in one place to reflect on that experience. No matter how many "first time" stories I read, I can't help but think that there's hardly any environment/situation that could possibly beat those two hours in the What Stage field in June of 2010.
That will forever be the best Bonnaroo in my mind, and i'm alright with everything being downhill from there because most people dream of having half the experience we did.
this story is my favorite. reason being i have a VERY similar story to the very T. same song, same "chemical", same place, same time. that was the night i fell in love with bonnaroo.
R U sure you two weren't making out with each other instead of chicks? drugggs are bad Mmmmm kay lol
Which year was when the guy showed up a month before and camped out trying to get work, etc then ended up eating in? That was a good story.
I was actually thinking of that story when I read the title of this thread. I remember how everyone got so wrapped up in that story and then the guy showed up the next year and did the same thing. I think there was a dog involved too.
Probably not the best bonnaroo story ever, but I did possibly save 2 lives in '05. The first was a standard dehydration case during DMB. Pretty much plowed thru the center of the crowd with a lawn chair wrapped around my leg, carrying some poor unconscience girl I didn't even know. Scared the hell out of me until she came around.
The 2nd was alot funnier in retrospect. After the final show on Sunday, I get back to my campsite to find a random guy passed out in the bed of my truck. Why he picked my truck for his nap, I have no idea. I try to wake him but he wouldnt get up. I figured let him sleep a little longer while I pack up. But 20-30 mins go by and I finally get the drunkard up. He staggers around and tries to climb over the side. I stop him, and go to open the gate. As I am doing that I see him start to tumble over the side. With cat-like reflexes I'm able to get ahold of his shirt collar and yank his head up. He still landed really hard on his shoulder, but I have no doubt it would have been a concussion, broken neck, or worse if I wasn't there. The funniest part was the look of shock on his face after the fall. He looked at me as if I pushed him, when I really saved his ass. So long story short, as I'm trying to leave, he's standing in front of my truck pissing on himself (perhaps he thought he was pissing on my vehicle), and my neighbors are laughing their ass off. He never said a word during the whole incident
