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Post by sparklybecca on Jun 20, 2006 11:36:00 GMT -5
danbird said:
Man....I didn't get locked into a port-a-pottie or see one spontaniously combust, but I did have an amazing time.
MMJ, was just unbelievable. Had a great spot and I saw all 3 hours and 10 mins of it. Went straight to my top 5 shows of all time, and best show I've seen at a Bonnaroo. That was until Sat. for Radiohead.
Radiohead. The glowsticks were amazing. It was perfect. I can still see Thom dodging and juking them and throwing them back. Oh man instant smile, whenever I think of that.
Late night Saturday. WTF!!??!! I was seriously out of my head. Superjam comes on and the place goes nuts. I was sooooo freakin tired, but I couldn't stop walking around. There was so much going on, and everywhere I went it was f*cking nuts. The Art of Such and Such was the craziest sh!t I've ever seen. The one section looked like the gates of hell. No seriously, it was. Pure insanity all around. I wandered over to the Dumpstafunk/ Dr. John action. What were those floats? Were they dragons? I dunno, it was a crazy party over there though. Then I stumbled across Garage DeLuxe at the Troo Music Lounge. Man they had that place f*cking lit up!!! Crazy. Then back to Superjam where I laid on my towel and watched a tree dance to the music. Awesome. I stayed in Centeroo that whole day and night. From 12noon until 3am. When I decided to go back, I f*ckin booked it. Shakedown was crazy, and I bought a water off of God, at least he looked like God. Long white beard. Some dude was sitting in the road right by the church with his eyes rolled back in his head, so I started running. Crazy crazy night. Fell asleep at 5am.
Sunday. I head out of Deadboy to go to the bathroom and I run into Mr. Malkmus(which is what I called him). I shook his hand told him how much I was looking forward to his set. I couldn't believe I actually came up with words to say to him, cause he literally came into my view instantaniously and I caught him, it was like a knee jerk reaction. I probably scared him.
Over all, I had a much better time then in 04. It was unbelievable from the begining till the end.
hahaha, sounds like you had *the time* dude. I love hearing stuff like this ;D
Post by checkeredpast on Jun 20, 2006 13:00:01 GMT -5
preludejive said:
checkeredpast said:
My scariest moment...I got locked inside a portajohn for close to three hours! The honkey donkeyg lock stuck.
What the....?!
You can't be serious, 3 hours?
Totally serious and the worst part was, i only had the phone # of one other person at roo and they weren't picking up at all. i called about 50 times!!! argh I was banging on the door and yelling the whole time too and people were knocking back at me from the other side of the door. It was HELL...
Post by yourfellowrooer on Jun 20, 2006 15:59:23 GMT -5
soulfetish said:
Theres a lot to cover, but if anyone remembers water balloons being lobbed about at Bela and Matisyahu, that was the doing of myself and my friend.
After lobbing about 20 balloons at the Bela crowd, we went to the second stage, where he tried to nail Matisyahu in the face with a balloon. He missed by about a yard.
I was at Matisyahu and was getting tired so i decided to sit down and right as i did a waterballoon landed right in fron of me. It would have hit me right in the back of the head. Haha i wish it hit me.
i was right up front at the wood bros and one of those big ass beachballs almostr took my head off. everyone moved away and i was looking at them and it hit me and only me directly in the head. it was weird how much force a beachball could have.
at the soalr stage thing that was on shaledown there was a band called something like giant panda gorilla funk unit. or something. anyyas it was a huge nitrous party. when the horsies showed up to break up the nitrous one of them grabbed a dude with a balloon by the shirt and tried to take it. the dude pulled away and tried to take it all in at once so they couldnt take it. well he fished out hard and was flopping around on the ground. but he held on to his balloon. some dude yelled out "hes still got his balloon" and the crowd went nuts. we cheered that guy for like 5 minutes. it was awesome
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2. Getting to the very front of the Mike Doughty show and falling even more in love with his music than I thought ever possible.
3. Rocking my socks off to Gomez
Hey I was up front for Doughty too- how did I miss you? (I snagged a Doughty setlist though- bonus!)
Damn you! I guess I was like 4 people back so maybe that's why I missed you!! Did you score a guitar pick too??? I was so sad I didn't get one How much $$ do you want for the setlist?
Post by antelopeboy on Jun 20, 2006 17:35:58 GMT -5
so many stories dont know where to begin, but heres definatly the two best. Our neighbor was introduced to LSD this past weekend and went to go see bisco and umphreys, as he is tripping his face off, some dude throws a $400 canon camera around his neck, grabs him by the arm and snuck him back stage. He walked around for a bit taking pictures and proceeded to walk into John the Barber and then Marc Brownstein of the Disco Biscuits. They take him on to their tour bus and smoke him out, give him some rolls, and send him on his way. He stumbled back to his campsite at 10:30 am the next morning still holding the camera, rolling his face off, and shows us the pictures.
Alright so sunday, the same kid wakes up and decides hes gonna give out free gravity bong hits all day, he burns through all his herb in a matter of an hour so he goes and buys more. In response the free grav hits, some guy comes to our campsite with a vial of pure lsd and proceeded to dose the same kid with 3 drops for free, by the way the guy was tripping so hard he couldnt speak without stuttering. As this kid is heavily into his trip, he comes over to our ez-up, starts housing this bag of jerky we had and goes "Guys, I'm gonna take $500 out of my bank account, right? and I'm going to turn it all into 1's, ok? and in the middle of phil lesh, i'm just gonna stand up and throw it all up!!!!!" and unleashes the most evil cackle i've ever heard. As the time comes for phil lesh, he also thinks it would be a great idea to take the grav hes made into Centeroo and give out more free grav hits. Low and behold, he gets a gravity bong into centeroo, gives out free grav hits, runs out of weed, tries to take 500 out of the atm, only gets 80, gets 40 in ones, buys 40 bucks worth of herb, give out more free grav hits and comes back to the campsite, with a steamroller some one had givin him for free , and proceeds to yell "IF ITS FREE WE CAN ALL HAVE IT, CAUSES ITS FREEE!!!!!"
Post by TheFudgeFactory on Jun 20, 2006 18:41:05 GMT -5
another one...
When I was watching oysterhead from the VIP bleachers, I heard some girl screaming. When I looked down, I saw some girl who obviously was having a bad trip being held down by her boyfriend. It wasn't before long that a handful of security and a handful of medics showed up. They eventually strapped her down on one of those stretcher type boards and put her on the golf cart. One second later her feet and hands were loose and she was trying to escape. So while this huge medic/security lady held her hands down, another medic shot her up with a sedative and they eventually calmed her down enough to take to the medical tent.
What happens if my tee shot lands on a bird's back and he carries it out of bounds but then is attacked by a larger bird who grabs the ball and drops it in the hole? Is that still a hole in one? 'Cause that's how I'm gonna play it.
My favorite story happened after Radiohead. All my friends had passed out and two of my neighbors were still up. We all decided to go to SuperJam and made our shroomed out walk to Centeroo. Once there we see people dressed as Shake (from Aqua Teen), Santa, Uncle Sam, Scooby Doo (also saw him at moe), one guy wrapped in Caution tape, one guy naked in a clear pancho, and soooo many other weird things. After SuperJam some Clean Vibes people were trying to make their way through the hoards of sleeping people with their cart. This one CV girl is yelling at a CV guy because he wants to wake up this passed out wook. They ended up getting a group of kids to move and went around him.
Next thing I know some kid is on one of the portapottis drumming the crap out of it. My neighbors left me around this point and I walked to the fountain to people watch more. There I meet a kid from Jersey and we decided to walk around. We visited pretty much everything that was open in Centeroo and settled in the field with Sasha playing near dawn. This guy was walking around in front of us, but he was falling asleep and then stumbling then waking up and stumbling again. Finally he got close to us and we told him to sit down for a bit. The first words out of his mouth were "You guys wanna smoke?" and shows us a bowl he's had in his hand the whole time. After falling asleep twice while packing the guy realized he doesnt have a lighter and we ask the passer-bys. One guy stops and reveals he too is holding a bowl and also a lighter! The new guy asks how long we've all known each other. After telling him we've only known each other roughly 4 hours (20 mins for the sleeping guy) he simply says "That's Bonnaroo for you".
After we were done everyone just walked their own ways.
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man your mention of costumes reminds me. there was this dude all done up like the king form the bk commercials. her was freaking me out pretty hard. that stupid mask is fuc.king freaky!
Post by karmicpayback on Jun 20, 2006 19:56:35 GMT -5
amberp said:
My favorite story happened after Radiohead. All my friends had passed out and two of my neighbors were still up. We all decided to go to SuperJam and made our shroomed out walk to Centeroo. Once there we see people dressed as Shake (from Aqua Teen), Santa, Uncle Sam, Scooby Doo (also saw him at moe), one guy wrapped in Caution tape, one guy naked in a clear pancho, and soooo many other weird things. After SuperJam some Clean Vibes people were trying to make their way through the hoards of sleeping people with their cart. This one CV girl is yelling at a CV guy because he wants to wake up this passed out wook. They ended up getting a group of kids to move and went around him.
I saw that guy wrapped in caution tape sitting with some other guy dressed as the bumblebee girl from the Blind Melon music video. I also saw someone dressed as Elvis at Dr John's set and the guy next to me who's tripping out majorly asks me "Dude, is that Elvis?" and I say, "Yeah it looks like it" and he goes "Oh my god! should I ask for his autograph?"
Also, we woke up at 5am Monday morning to catch our flight and while we were taking down the tent I saw some guy with a trumpet being followed by another person with a guitar and like 1 or 2 other guys all walking in a line around the campsite playing music. It was a pretty cool way to end Bonnaroo.
Ok so this one didn't happen at Bonnaroo, but on our way there. We stopped at a Waffle House in Tenn. somewhere, at 3am on Thursday morning. We sit down and order. This other guy, who must have been a local, comes in with a box of knives and starts handing them out to everyone. Like these are serious knives, serated and the whole nine. We asked the waitress what the deal was, and she said, "Oh he comes in here, every so often, with a box of knives, and gives em out."
When I was watching oysterhead from the VIP bleachers, I heard some girl screaming. When I looked down, I saw some girl who obviously was having a bad trip being held down by her boyfriend. It wasn't before long that a handful of security and a handful of medics showed up. They eventually strapped her down on one of those stretcher type boards and put her on the golf cart. One second later her feet and hands were loose and she was trying to escape. So while this huge medic/security lady held her hands down, another medic shot her up with a sedative and they eventually calmed her down enough to take to the medical tent.
That was terrible. I was this close to jumping down from the VIP bleachers to school those guys on how to handle someone who is having a bad trip... THE WRONG THING TO DO IS RESTRAIN HER... jesus... a change of scenery, an orange, and some headphones with some Dead or something and she'd have been good to go. They haul her boyfriend away and proceed to torture the poor girl... that was very, very painful to watch. Poor girl... I hope she didn't blow a gasket.
so im at rusted root, standing next to this guy taping a show (big elaborate thing with a 20 foot mic tripod). this guy in a tiedye dead shirt is in front of me trying to mack on these way underage girls. turns out they won a radio contest and were all in for free. he shows them his wristband and tells them he go it for 20 bucks (it was a patched together from clippings from other wristbands).
so as i said, i was next to this taper guy. there are big beachballs (a few feet wide) being bounced around. one gets close to the mic stand and i grab the stand and wack the ball (hey, i dont want to see anyone get wacked by this thing). so the dead-shirt guy, who is getting nowhere with this girls, turns to me and says "is this a legal or illegal taping" and i respond "im not really sure". he responds with "well, are you doing this for the bands benefits or for your own?" I sort of look at him a second and say "me? - im not fucking taping this dude!" he walked away...
later i was thinking, what a total ass for even asking the question when he didnt even really buy a goddamn ticket!
Damn you! I guess I was like 4 people back so maybe that's why I missed you!! Did you score a guitar pick too??? I was so sad I didn't get one How much $$ do you want for the setlist?
I missed a pick by like an inch. And I was the ONLY one up there asking for a setlist; anyone else standing up there afterwards would have gotten one.
Post by imsmokedout on Jun 20, 2006 23:53:56 GMT -5
one of my favorites was the girl in our camp site running around at like 3 in the morning yealling "i love mushrooms!!" over and over again..and my favorite part (this may sound a little mean) was thursday night me and two of my friends were at dios malos and they had both just eaten an 1/8 of mushrooms..so at the end of the show we decide to go back to the tent...well my friends are followin me and after about 10 mins of walkin me and my friend realize weve lost our other friend...well we wait for a minute and realize theres no way well find him so we go back to the tent thinkin that he will show up..well he didnt...and some random girl calls us at 5 oclock in the morning and says.."yea you need to come get your friend because hes lost and he has no shoes (he most have lost em) hes cold and tired and hungry and hes been up all night walkin around aimlessly"...well we find out that hes in camp 8..so we walk around lost for a while tryin to find him..and then i remember the ballon above our camp site that had "8" on it...so we walk about 45 mins back to our camp and realize that thats "pod 8" and not "camp 8" so we find camp 8 on the map and walk there and circle the place for about 30 mins..and finally we give up and go back to our site and find our friend lost and fucked up with no shoes just sittin on the ground near our camp...god i laughed the rest of the trip about that...
hey man, I was at pod 8..camp Dr. Peter Venkman....and my friend woke up to find his backpack w/ his car keys in it missing and in place of it was a backpack, deodorant, a frisbee, a shirt or 2, and a frisbee...this wasn't his stuff was it? Sucked my friend had to wait like 3 hours for the locksmith person to come.
My two friends and I were in camp Happy Gilmore (woo Tent Only!). I had the nasty habit of taking an hour or two nap out in the sun everyday and now I have the sunburns to prove it.
Our neighbors were a guy and a girl from New Foundland and they were extremely friendly people. On Sunday while I was sleeping outside our tent, the girl woke me up and asked if I was wearing suntan lotion. I had not applied any that morning, so I said no. She immediately went into her tent and got some for me! Not the craziest story ever, but I was impressed at how nice she was (and she was extremely cute, too!).
Friday or Saturday night, one of my friends and I are relaxing outside our tent and two or three guys walk by shouting "T-BOOOONE!!! HEY, T-BOOOONE!!!! BOOONAROOOO!!!! T-BOOOONE!!!". I guess they were looking for their friend named T-Bone....
Post by sketchybacon on Jun 21, 2006 3:35:34 GMT -5
Where to start... At phil lesh i was acatually sitting next to the free gravity bong guy and partook a few times. Seeing tortillas fly through the air at oysterhead Dancing with the Slim Jim at the Silent Disco "Discovering" the art of such and such fire garden while in the thick of my first acid trip, and being literally brought to tears (outside of the music i still think it was one of the coolest things there) Meeting this guy (the self proclaimed President of the United States of Bonnaroo) at my morning jacket (i took the picture the day after i met him the first time on same night as the my fire garden expirence, so i was still on another planet which made the encounter that much more awesome-er) hearing the people camped next to us singing from about 4am to 9am. They were pretty much repeating "I (pause) Love (pause) Music Music Music Music" untill the sun came up, then they were singing "The Sun (pause) The Sun (pause) The Sun is in my eyes!" Meeting random people from my town who i had never seen before Meeting random people from my town who i didnt think were going to bonnaroo And all the music of course, pretty much every show that i saw was outstanding especially on saturday.
PS. if anyone has pictures of the art of such and such, i would really really appreciate it if you posted them, i was a little too distracted to be bothered with posting at that point ;D
Did anyone see the crazy angry naked guy at Radiohead?
We were pretty far back (wanted some room to hang out). This naked guy at first seemed like he just wanted to dance and be crazy - but then he started smacking girls in the a$$, he took someone's bottle and just LAUNCHED it like a glow stick - he then tried to start fights with a bunch of people. A couple of guys took swings at him - but he was tripping pretty hard and wouldn't go down. There was a pretty big circle that he cleared out - everyone moved and was afraid to be near him. Finally security came and tackled him linebacker style - the entire section of people near us cheered as they took him away. My boyfriend went to the bathroom not long after and apparently security had him 4 guys pinning him down with just his bare a$$ cheeks sticking out.
Post by ronburgandy? on Jun 21, 2006 14:06:42 GMT -5
there was a guy in between beck and radiohead who was so f'd up he though he was a bird. he kept flapping his arms like he was flying. it was the funniest thing ever. he fell into some people then just got up and started "flying" again.
ill post pics soon..please tell me somebeody else saw this guy.
Post by antelopeboy on Jun 21, 2006 14:27:19 GMT -5
foudray747 said:
another one...
When I was watching oysterhead from the VIP bleachers, I heard some girl screaming. When I looked down, I saw some girl who obviously was having a bad trip being held down by her boyfriend. It wasn't before long that a handful of security and a handful of medics showed up. They eventually strapped her down on one of those stretcher type boards and put her on the golf cart. One second later her feet and hands were loose and she was trying to escape. So while this huge medic/security lady held her hands down, another medic shot her up with a sedative and they eventually calmed her down enough to take to the medical tent.
i saw this too, but he was holding her down cause she saw a security guard and ran up to him and started hugging him and wouldnt let go, so her boyfriend ripped her off of him and tried to calm her down so security wouldnt get her, but unfortunatly 2 seconds later shes strapped to a strecher and out of there
Post by goodvedderbest on Jun 21, 2006 14:45:15 GMT -5
ronburgandy said:
there was a guy in between beck and radiohead who was so f'd up he though he was a bird. he kept flapping his arms like he was flying. it was the funniest thing ever. he fell into some people then just got up and started "flying" again.
ill post pics soon..please tell me somebeody else saw this guy.
I saw him as well, pretty crazy. My friends said they saw him around 1 or 2 and he was doing the same thing. I can't believe he didn't collapse! He had a camelback, but it had probably run dry a long time before you saw him. People were offering water, and were going to pour a bit over his head to cool him down, but he kind of freaked out every time. Must have been trippin' his ballz off! He couldn't have felt good the next morning...that was one hell of a workout.
Post by ronburgandy? on Jun 21, 2006 14:54:02 GMT -5
goodvedderbest said:
ronburgandy said:
there was a guy in between beck and radiohead who was so f'd up he though he was a bird. he kept flapping his arms like he was flying. it was the funniest thing ever. he fell into some people then just got up and started "flying" again.
ill post pics soon..please tell me somebeody else saw this guy.
I saw him as well, pretty crazy. My friends said they saw him around 1 or 2 and he was doing the same thing. I can't believe he didn't collapse! He had a camelback, but it had probably run dry a long time before you saw him. People were offering water, and were going to pour a bit over his head to cool him down, but he kind of freaked out every time. Must have been trippin' his ballz off! He couldn't have felt good the next morning...that was one hell of a workout.
his facial expressions had me crying i was laughing so hard.
I wasn't there, but I head that the dude that pissed on his wallet and phone was pretty funny.
I know that me and my friends retold this story to the inforoo crowd about 10 times (blame it on short term memory loss) but this really was one of the highlights of my weekend. Essentially, at Tom Petty, guy tripping pigs out on chinese then passes out for a while. When he wakes, he stands up and starts putting his hand in his pants. He spun in a circle (thankfully, he stopped when he was facing away from me) and proceeded to take a piss. My friend Jay, kept yelling at him, "dude you are pissing on your cell phone." Messed up guy looks at my friend like he's crazy and proceeds to continue urinating on his money as well as his phone. Afterwards, messed up guy picks up said money and cell and wipes the urine off on his tshirt and stumbles away like that was nothing out of the ordinary. One piss dollar was left behind that people kept picking up until we gave them warnings about its condition. Funny, funny stuff.
Post by ronburgandy? on Jun 22, 2006 7:31:37 GMT -5
did anyone see the guy dancing on the garbage cans during seu jorge?..hilairous. he looked like trey. if trey would ever go shirtless with khaki shorts.