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maybe not my favorite, but an interesting one. My GF had to go to the bathroom so i accompany her to the john so as to not get lost. while i am waiting in line i hear this almost death metal yelling, but not from a stage. i wander around the other side of the johns to see this bouncer lookin guy screaming, crying, and throwing his shoulder into this atm machine. I couldnt make out exactly what he was saying but it was like "blood of my blood". he would start to kick the ATM and then strut around in circles while eying the machine with contempt, hit it again, and then crumple to the ground, crying at the ATM, only to get back up and do it again. this went on for like 20 minutes, and a large crowd has gathered by now. this guy is so big that he actually rocks the atm off the ground doing one of those linebacker football drills. 2 security guards who arent tiny guys themselves finally show up, and see the state that this guy is in, and DONT DO ANYTHING. even they were like WTF. this guy had to be on PCP or something. finally after the 3rd round of man vs ATM, these two super lot kids just walk over and give the guy a hug and he completely calms down, everyone claps, and they walk away. I dont even think the kids knew him.
Bonnaroo 2008, I consumed an abundance of cheap beer and we headed over to the Les Claypool set which was amazing. I quickly befriended a cute girl at the show. We noticed a passed out w00k on the ground and so we naturally began dancing around him & jumping over him like jackasses. The dancing was a cross between leap frog and what I would imagine an Indian rain dance would look like. A small crowd formed to watch our antics. However, after about 20 minutes of epically fun times, I passed out on the ground right next to the w00k. I can only assume that people proceeded to dance around me for good measure
My brother mixed up the water bottles filled with vodka or water and poured vodka in his eye! It was serious at the time, but I will always look back laughing!
lol...
similarly, i went in 2007 with a whole shitload of friends. it was one of my buddies birthdays, so for his birthday i filled a water bottle full of grey goose and gave it to him. thurs night i ate a brat from one of the vendors and woke up the next morning around 6 am sick as quack, went to the cooler, grabbed the first water bottle i saw, and bottoms up...i probably dont have to tell u the rest.
My brother mixed up the water bottles filled with vodka or water and poured vodka in his eye! It was serious at the time, but I will always look back laughing!
I guess this happens more than I thought. My friend Beth did this in 08.
We were walking to the music from camp and had a water bottle with raspberry vodka in it that we were all sipping from. Then we also had some water bottles with water in them. Well Beth grabbed the bottle and dumped some on her face because she was hot and thought some water would cool her down.
My brother mixed up the water bottles filled with vodka or water and poured vodka in his eye! It was serious at the time, but I will always look back laughing!
I guess this happens more than I thought. My friend Beth did this in 08.
We were walking to the music from camp and had a water bottle with raspberry vodka in it that we were all sipping from. Then we also had some water bottles with water in them. Well Beth grabbed the bottle and dumped some on her face because she was hot and thought some water would cool her down.
It was funny for us once we knew she was fine.
Hahaha this happened to my friend walter. Poured bacardi razz in his face and eyes. But unlike you guys, I laughed as soon as it happened. A bad friend, perhaps, but it was hilarious
Last year was my first roo. Left Houston, Tx around 6am on Wednesday. 17 hours later we are 30 miles outside Manchester and we get pulled over. Our car is fully searched and a dog is run through it. Luckly we didn't have anything on us so the inconvenience didn't end up ruining our trip. Later we met a couple from Canada who got to the farm quicker than we did.
Got into centaroo right when it opened on Thursday. Went up to one of the Ben and Jerrys tents and asked if they were open yet. This older gentleman said "We are now! And YOU are going to be the first one!" The guy who invented bonnaroo buzz scooped me a cup full of ice-cream and the older gentleman, who I soon found out was JERRY, handed it to me. Pretty sweet. Jerry was super nice.
Not necessarily my favourite story, but I love telling it.
Post by 10goldbees on Feb 26, 2011 16:30:46 GMT -5
for my first roo ('09) i went with three of my best friends and two people i barely knew. after waiting like 6 hours we got in, got all set up and just started kickin it at the campsite.
at that point i'd been through so much bullspit trying to get to roo and whatnot that i just needed to chill. this means no adventuring around centeroo or tent city or shakedown or whatever. there weren't any bands on at the time that i wanted to see so we all just kinda sat around drinking.
so by the time 9pm(ish) rolls around, i was really drunk and it was pouring rain. my 3 good friends didn't want to leave the site (they were waiting on the rest of the group to come meet up) but i really wanted to go see passion pit. so me and the one dude i didn't know ventured out into the maelstrom and got to see that INCREDIBLE passion pit set.
walking around centeroo before, during and after that set was absolutely amazing. it was like being on a strange, beautiful, alien planet where everybody was my best friend and they played great music. needless to say that was the "change-you" moment for me.
Post by Kenny Powers on Feb 26, 2011 21:27:51 GMT -5
My favorite Bonnaroo moment was the first time I went to the fountain in 2010 (my first Roo) after Manchester Orchestra. It was week after my high school graduation and two of my friends came with me. We were all just standing there under that great psychedelic cascade and it felt absolutely perfect being there. I felt like I was at home, surrounded by great people and incredible music. I ended up writing a paper on my Bonnaroo experience this past fall. Roo definitely made a huge impact on my life and now I can't wait until June!
Last year, my friend went with a separate group. I turned off my phone as soon as I got into Bonnaroo at about 9pm Thursday. My friend apparently didn't get in til like 2am, so we were camped on opposite sides. Before we even knew this though, I had set out on randomly finding my friend out of 80,000 people with no idea where he would be. After about 2 hours of walking to Centeroo and around camp, I had kinda given up and started walking towards my campsite. Then with my head down I hear ahead of me, "Yo Rob." I looked up and there he was. Apparently he had also been looking for hours and about to give up.
Post by arlenefavreau1 on Feb 27, 2011 15:46:52 GMT -5
I introduced Arlene to roo and the whole festival scene. So I made sure she had all kinds of intell via the boards. Well she had a great time I even gave her my spot on the rail during Perl Jam so she could could be on the big screen. And guess what yup you got it SHE made the vidieo my roo virgin made the vidieo. Oh yeah OUR FRIENDS know SHE made the vidieo and guess what they let ME know that she made the vidieo. Well this year I'm GONNA make that vidieo and oh yeah she will not (just dont tell her I said that)
Post by Chris Major on Feb 27, 2011 17:05:39 GMT -5
This thread gives me chills.
I moved to Chicago from Florida after high school, and pretty much lost contact with a lot of people and hadn't seen many of my old friends in years. I decided last year would be my triumphant return to Bonnaroo after a 5 year absence. On the drive down I was killing time on Facebook on my phone in the car. When I checked the news feed I realized that at least 15-20 people I grew up with were also en route to Bonnaroo. Holy crap.
After arriving, I set up camp, cracked a beer and packed some corn. Who pulls in to set up camp two rows over from us? None other than my old best friend from high school and 4 or 5 other guys I grew up with. A few hours later, I run into my old buddy Sergio who was in half my classes in elementary and middle school. He happened to be with about 5 cars full of guys and girls from back in the day that I hadn't seen in years. They happened to also be camped a stone's throw away from us. Nobody had a strong enough phone signal to reach the other but the magic that is Bonnaroo brought us all together. It was a giant, unplanned reunion of epic proportions.
I was in the most beautiful place I've ever known with some of the best people I've ever known. Everyone was a Roo-virgin aside from me. I just looked on at the group, smiling, knowing what memories were to come for all of them. As of that moment, my weekend was already perfect...and then the music started.
In 09 as we were heading to the farm, my hubby and I decided to stop for a 4am breakfast at a waffle house. when we walked thru the door, it looked like a tonado had just passed. Two older men were sitting at a table in the corner and the waitress was a mess...sweaty, hair all dishevled..looking extremely tired. Now we had been driving about 10 hours at this point and were a little punchy ourselves. We asked the waitress what had happend b/c the restaraunt was a complete mess...she sd a bunch of "hippies" had just passed thru and she had not had time to clean up. so we sat with our coffee and just took a break while she cleaned. At this point, one of the men ( extreemely large smelly and dirty with very few teeth) came to our table and asked us if we were going to "the Bone-er-row" ...huh?..."you know them music hippies at the Bone-er-row" .... it was very surreal and felt like we were in the twighlight zone and I kept waiting for Rod Sterling to show up! So all weekend we called Roo the Bone-er-row!
This year will be my first time going, though.
