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Does anyone remember the sky?!?! The sky was friggin awesome all weekend, just huge puffy clouds with the sun rising or setting behind them combined with halucinogens, unreal man....
Post by ErrandWolfe on Apr 23, 2004 2:32:05 GMT -5
-the naked guy during the Funky Meaters set.
-bouncy mud
-Bela Fleck absolutly tweaked my mind, dissapointed i wont be able to get that feeling once again.
-Fireworks that didnt take off or went astray. many a time i felt like i was in a warzone with so many fireworks buzzing through the crowds. i remember one blew up in the fucking thick of the people during the dead show.
-While jamming at the Meters that night, my buddy and I had to go take a leak... when we got there, there was a crowd of people yelling and cheering. Next thing I know, this raver dude jumps on top of the row of Portopotties and runs across them!!! People that were in the johns got all freaked out and ran out of there like they were on fire. I'll never forget the one guy who started screaming and ran out of the john with his pants around his ankles and his johnson flapping in the breeze... only to get about 3 steps before falling on his face!!! It was Classic!!
-Bela Fleck stummimg "All you need is love" and 20,000 people singing along... this this gives me goosebumps
-The Meters and Warren Hayes covering Jimi Hendrix late night and then ending way too soon.
-Squirting people with waterguns who were walking by the car while waiting in line... having a war with the car behind us.
-All the people walking by saying "Doses, Rolls, Nugs" and the open trade of said contraban... I even heard one chick selling Peyote and Meculin...
I have sooooooo many great memories, but I'll try to narrow it down.
First year:
-14 hours of traffic! The people behind us kept having to wake us up to move our car. hehe -It got so windy at one point that I have pictures of peoples' tents flying around in the air, so bring some stakes! -The people with the life sized Yoda on the top of their car, too cute!!!
Second year:
-The "Bonnaroo Bar" near Camp Alabama Soup Bowl and Daniel Boone. Four or five crazy guys with a "bar" set up. One of the guys didn't leave the area the entire time, had on the same clothes the WHOLE time, and all he said was, "Get drunk and f**k yourself." And happy hour was at 7:00 a.m. Free shots for the ladies! -The naked guy wondering around in the mud during Particle. -Seeing some F**KED UP guy during the late afternoon on Sat. that was jerking around, throwing his arms up in weird positions, and flailing around like he had something wrong with his nervous system. He finally "came to" and walked off and EVERYONE around started clapping. It was sooooooooo funny. -The Flaming Lips set. It was awesome, and that Wizard of Oz thing they had going on was creepy. -Dancing around in the rain during Panic's set.
I'm soooooooooooooo extrememly excited! See y'all soon. Molly
2012 Wishlist: Radiohead Phish Daft Punk Ghostland Observatory Broken Social Scene Roger Waters Bell X1 Bonobo Chemical Brothers Fiona Apple Built to Spill Modest Mouse
The purple Octapus. The Waterbed mud Topless girl selling water
While waiting for James brown( and it was a wait) these two girls sitting on a blanket start making out in front of me. They ended up rolling around with each other and being very playful. Its good to see the love.
First year Getting in free b/c my mom worked a medical tent. Me and my friend went to the front gate told them our story. Kind lady then points out a hole in the fence for us to go through. Try to find moms to get wrist band. no help from the medical tent. they tell us to go to the back lot. get to a gate dude is like you can't get through with out yada yada. tell him story.. proceeds to let us through. We now find ourselves at the back stage area. try to get into the back stage won't let us. so we then find the way to the employee parking. tell them our story get a orange band, which turned out to be the color for medical and security personel. never had a problem getting through ever again, it was great. Second year getting there at like 2 in the morning on thursday. setting up my groups tents for the day and then just hanging back and watching all the peoeple come in. meeting part of the fluff family. My friend asked him if he was his uncle Syd and the guy was like stick out your tongue, then proceeded to shove like 3 hits on to his tongue with his nasty ass old man hands. yeah we were back in the soup bowl, yeah the walked sucked, but there is comfort in knowing that in order to take a shite all you had to do was walk into the corn field.
Coming out of the Neil Young show last year and people were really bottlenecking because of the bouncy/trippy mud. Someone started mooing like a cow, then bleating like a sheep, and oinking like a pig. Next thing you know about 500 people are laughing and sounding like a barnyard full of tuned in and turned on farm animals!!!
Dude, I swear that was me! i was amazed that all these stunned folks were trudging out of the Neil Young show(the highlight of my 'roo experience) like zombies or night of the living dead, and everytbody was dead quiet, it was freaky and so I started moooing! The guy next to me started laughing and he started moooing, my friends started mooing and then the whole barnyard thing started! It was hilarious!! But maybe we all just started at the same time...
Other memories: The late night shows -STS9 -Flaming lips-- what a hoot!
This guy who looked like fred flintstone wearing a piunk dress and sparkly high heels
Mud covered folks, body painted folks, girls with angel wings, fairy wings,
Our great neighbors, from alabama, kentucky, ohio
Partying in line on the way in
chocoshrooms, regular shrooms, the kindness of strangers, the brew tents..
I’ve got a Bonnaroo memory to share: last year was my first Bonnaroo and it just so happened that my birthday is June 15th, which fell on Sunday of last year’s Bonnaroo. Anyway, I was at the Flaming Lips show when they sang “Happy Birthday”! I was too far away to get up on stage but I wore a giant smile on my face for a about a week after that. ;D I never would have expected the Flaming Lips would be leading the whole crowd in “Happy Birthday” on my birthday. A moment I’ll never forget.
Post by kozmikbunny on May 16, 2004 2:38:15 GMT -5
mtnsummer05 said:
Ahhhh yes! I had forgotten about the bouncy mud - cant wait to get back...
Jenn
Holy sh1t the bouncy mud was so insane 'specially on the boomers!!
as paul said.. running into Liz Phair, seeing Polyphonic Spree and The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players all in a couple hours last year was the sh1t and the Flaming Lips.. *bites lip (Wayne is a fricking Genious) 2 hrs of bliss, and front row Keller, and MMW, STS9 d**n too much
1st year.. the joy of becoming part of a shared experience.. first ever, blowout festival.. thinking "Roses are Free" was a Phish song and telling a Ween fan during their set, "I didn't know Ween covered Phish!" also MOE's set (holy sh1t) dancing my face off all night, walking down the traffic jam line with a Pistons '89 '90 red and blue thrift store shirt on.. and having people all weekend call me out "i saw you walking up and down the line blah blah pistons shirt etc etc" it was sweet.. and a chick during the Keller Williams Inncident as i was walking along she wanted to take a picture with me and give me a sucker.. sometimes its the little things that make my day.. too many memories.. many many exciting journies to be had by all.. can't wait to see ya'll there (look for the ears)
Organized religion destroys who we are by inhibiting our actions... by inhibiting our decisions, out of... out of fear of some... some intangible parent figure who... who shakes a finger at us from thousands of years ago and says... and says, "Do it - Do it and I'll fu(kin' spank you."
Organized religion destroys who we are by inhibiting our actions... by inhibiting our decisions, out of... out of fear of some... some intangible parent figure who... who shakes a finger at us from thousands of years ago and says... and says, "Do it - Do it and I'll fu(kin' spank you."
Thought I would revive this thread for anyone new to the board and to add my favorite memories from '04 to my previous post:
-Wilco becoming my favorite band right before my eyes. The sun was beating down on me demanding that I find some shade and have a seat, and the music kept saying "stay out front and center for one more song". Eventually there was a compromise.
-Scrapping my plan to scurry around catching ten different bands in two hours and sprawling out in the middle of the main lawn for moe. and David Byrne's entire sets.
David Byrne: ....maybe it doesn't matter to talk to a crowd this size. Bonnaroo '04 crowd: (makes crowd noise) David Byrne: No? I should keep talking? Crowd: huge cheer David Byrne: OK.....Well there's not much more to say about this song...but maybe later.....as the opportunity arises....there'll be more conversation. 1-2-3-4.
After the next song: Byrne: This is a song about...globalization... possibly,maybe...Americanization as its known in many other parts of the world. It's sort of about an Indonesian man who has a brain disorder and has hopes of being a Vegas lounge singer.
The leaves seen through my window-pane Remind me that it's time to move my life again November sun is felt by none A chilly breeze has blown my thoughts to what's to come A cup of warm coffee, some vitamin C A bowl for the cat, a bowl for the dog, a bowl for me
Post by SanityIsOvrRated on Mar 2, 2005 14:24:52 GMT -5
WAYYY too many memories from last year's bonnaroo. One of my favorites was during the super uber late Primus set...
My 3 best friends and I were all shroomin', wearing our pajamas, and standing in 6 inches of mud/sand/water. We kept lauging uncontrollably and throwing glowsticks at people, and we got a picture with one guy who had 50 fake eyeballs on his head. And someone took a picture of us "being scary dragons" to his friend...
i know all of that makes no sense at all, but it was fabulous
okay, after the Dead when everyone was filing out of the main stage and back to their campsites....heading right down Shakedown..wall to wall people heading out...shoulder to shoulder, everyone moving like one big organism...like the life-blood of ROO flowing...not much noise, everyone tired from being rained on and dancing in the mud..up ahead the crowd of people part around and reform behind some brother sitting in the middle of the stream smokin a bowl...right in the middle of thousands of moving people there is this stationary Buddah-like man sitting cross-legged, seemingly oblivious to the mass of people surrounding him and shifting slightly to avoid trampling him...all anyone could do was look down and smile, and wish they had thought of doing that....
one more...Shakedown Street...Natty brother peddling Shrooms RIGHT NEXT TO a mounted police officer.... I wish I had my camera at that moment!!
Post by loungefly18 on Apr 14, 2006 19:06:33 GMT -5
Ot would have to definitly be the first recognition of the actual festival...the dark of 4:00 am pulling up to check point. not the good one but certainly the first i can recall when asked
Post by loungefly18 on Apr 14, 2006 19:17:25 GMT -5
oh, feeling beat to death by the sun and"other things" sunday afternoon in '05 to wonder over to see MMJ, my favorite band, not 10ft. from the stage while all those freaky puppets walk on stage...niceness!
Post by futurecowboy on Apr 16, 2006 22:24:28 GMT -5
-Herbie cracking up at Superjam '05 -Mosh pit for Peelander-Z '04, including a guy doing the chicken dance -Arcade DJ playing Ghostbusters in '04 -Sonic Forest post-KDTU Sat. nite '05 -Bo Bice w/ Trey '05 (hilarity)
Took me a bit to read through this thread. *snicker* So many memories, I think I'll just concur with the rest for now. This will be my second Roo this year, so in July, after I have had time to recouperate, I'll post my most vivid. Yay!! for the crimson sky and puffy dancing clouds, they must come every year, lol.
how can you bring it down to just one? cant. the vivid orange and black sky, seeing funnel looking clouds off somewheres else, being happy its only raining.
sitting back in the camping only area at my site drinking some beers, meeting neighbors from indiana and montana while listening to some panic '05.
feeling the tick filled hard surprisingly still tall grass the first day setting up camp.
I think anyone who saw the Steve Winwood show of 04 should vote for that one. Shows were delayed b/c of thunderstorms. The storm was still pretty strong and Steve came out playing 'Can't Find My Way Home' as the sun was setting. Crazy purple and orange colors, lightning cracking in the sky, psychedelia abounded. Incredibly vivid.
The Gourds playing Gin and Juice bluegrass style, then breaking out into Just the Good Ole Boys right in the middle. It was awesome, especially since I walked into that set half way through and just sat down to finish up some chinese food. Wasn't expecting that great performance.
Post by hipwookster on Apr 21, 2006 13:59:20 GMT -5
My favorite, although unpleasant, memory was when my car broke down and I hitched a ride on the tow truck guy's motorcycle. And he didn't have any helmets for us to wear yet he insisted on taking backroads at 70mph while drinking a Code Red Mountain DEW. The best was when we got pulled over by the Manchester Sherrif dept. Jesus that was some scary shit!
Molly
