Is Bonnaroo a Second-Tier Fest Now?

it was cool that it basically became a free for all of people bringing in entire cases of beer and boxes of wine after that.

Last time I went to Calling, I spent the entire Sunday at one stage until the headliner.

The gaps in the action kinda suck, but they are also a good opportunity to hit the beer tent or get food or go to the bathroom and not really miss anything.


And considering the reviews, I'd like to amend my earlier schedule plan to PJ > Miguel > Big Grams (if still awake)

This is one of the memories I was referring to. Witnessing people with fucking 24 packs under their arms coming into Centeroo had me giggling for a while. Ran back to camp and grabbed everything I could carry to get back in after seeing that.

I had just dealt with a rainout just kidding festival situation a couple months before with way worse weather so I wasn't about to move.

I remember being really pissed Claypool was during LoG.

Would look a lot nicer without that.

god we over here still bitching about scheduling decisions for a festival that happened four years ago.

Tbf, we have no 2020 schedule to bitch about.

But yeah, we'd probably be doing this anyway.

nonsense, there is plenty to do around here. pretty sure there was some kind of animal battle draft not to long ago.

i didn't leave centeroo either, but i dropped some change at the beer tent, made friends with the dudes from Ole Shed (tullahoma, TN brewery) and when they kicked us out of there I sat in the Relix tent in the merch and drank pints from Ole Shed we smuggled in. the rain delay was better than most of the rest of the afternoon, tbh.

I'll jump on the 2016 train. I remember this being made worse because Syd's voice or The Internet's sound/mix was screwed up, but that Internet set was kinda of a let down for one of the highlights that day. Similarly, there were like 4 people at Steve Gunn and that was also a bummer. I waited with a good friend through Oh Wonder to get rail for Claypool Lennon Delirium and now totally regret leaving when the "storm" came, but we thought it was actually going to be a storm and were obedient and lost our spot. I also expected Pearl Jam to play for 3 hours or however long they wanted, and drunk Eddie seemed off his game; and then they only played two because of the storm. Idk. I really enjoyed Friday and Sunday that year, but Saturday was absolute trash and probably the first time I remember being bored/unhappy at a music festival.

2014 though. That was some shit. Just remember sprinting from Jack White to Frank and then ending up in the middle of the good good at Darkside and then somehow (with all phones dead) finding a good friend and saying why the hell not to Kaskade and eating donuts til sunrise. Damn, I miss Roo.

Oh yeah, and that Saturday superjam was trash.

I tried to get the energy up and get a mosh pit going when CLD started but it wasn't happening. Left about halfway through to see LoG play their hits. Saw some teeny bopper girl twerk sarcastically (?) to LoG, so that was funny.

Hot take: FYF was the best festival lineup of 2016.

You didn't have to yell.