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damn this thread took off. ebay has good prices. be sure to get the 8 inch braclets. they are cheaper and safer. and as for the bands i know some of them dont like them. after the first song last year umphreys said 'if you could not throw those at the stage that would be really great" and it was a huge glowsticlk war. if i got to a latenight there will be glow there. sts9 or not. its late night at roo. there is gonna be glowsticks. they have a choice to play or not play a venue where there is sure to be glowsticks and they decide to play it. they could do a bar show in oklahoma and not have to worry about. it. but they come to roo laatenight so tough luck is what i say about it.
but please dont throw them at the stage!!! whats the point!?!?! it bothers the band and takes them out of the air for the rest of the show. i for one am not that concerned about maynard or sts9's position on them. if they dont like glowsticks then dont do festival shows at night. and after reading about tool shows i think they will be happy that its glowsticks instead of the normal bottle throwing that seems to be such a problem at their shows.
ill have a few thousand and im hoping for a sci latenight!!
damn i forgot you were from oklahoma. i was trying to pick a state noone was from so i wouldnt offend any one by labelng them as non-glowstickers. sorry bout that. but if no good bands come then i guess the glowsticking is limited. do they glowstick for brooks and dunn??
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Maybe I'll throw myself to the dogs, but my back's not to the wall Maybe I'll lay some bricks for the man, but the days just aren't that long So if I settle back and chill will I see far enough to feel the angel's dream? I thought it was the Story of the World!
sometime when we are on the road this summer i think our caravan will have to stop by some weird show like that. just a bunch of dirty, tie died, wild eye longhairs showing up at toby keith with 5000 glowsticks!! some how i dont think it would go over big!!
damn i forgot you were from oklahoma. i was trying to pick a state noone was from so i wouldnt offend any one by labelng them as non-glowstickers. sorry bout that. but if no good bands come then i guess the glowsticking is limited. do they glowstick for brooks and dunn??
It's all good, man - I'm not easily offended.
I'm not into country music, so I don't know if anyone even tours through here, but, yeah, glowsticks would definitely cause some looks. Can you imagine if the tortillas started flying?
^ They'll last for a really long time if you keep them in a dark, climate-controlled placed......or so i've heard. Mine always do...and i've kept my leftovers until the next year , at least twice.
Dude your attitude sucks. There are a butt-ton of bands that you could throw a glowing cow through the air at. Yet you want to pick the one band that doesn't like it and say oh well that their problem. I am going to the sts9 show to see them tear a whole in the universe not to see you potentially ruin the music ON PURPOSE.
Seriously. I will throw thousands of glowsticks with you at the lips. But if you try to ruin my favorite bands show just to be a terd then you have the wrong spirit for bonnaroo.
Post by iridethecannibus on Mar 2, 2007 8:44:22 GMT -5
just to clarify, all the "glowsticks" that i have been referring to are the softish ones that come with connectors to make bracelets... i've gotten hit in the head with many of those and never been injured. Clearly, throwing anything at the band is a dumb idea. Throwing noninjuring, visually stimulating, fun, glowsticks (rings, the soft sticks, whatever doesn't hurt) into the crowd, i see no problem with. Yes, ebay is definately the cheapest place to get glowsticks, as I said before you can usually get around a thousand for 40 bucks, including shipping. THey last quite some time when you buy in bulk, the bracelet ones come 100 to a tube and are packaged to last. I bought mine in april of 04 and just found a tube of orange ones i had lost, and they still work fine.
Ok I don't think Dude was trying to ruin the show. His point is band's can't expect their no glow stick policy to be honored at a festival, let a lone the biggest in the county. If everybody here doesn't bring a single glowstick thats not gonna save the show. Thousands of other people are going to be throwing them even if you don't. He's not going to be the sole reason a glowstick war breaks out. It's all in good fun, just don't throw them at the band. It's unavoidable anyway. At every single show there is going to be at least one "that guy" who will throw them on stage.
Post by Homer J. Fong on Mar 2, 2007 9:31:08 GMT -5
Anyone else think the idea of pre-planned glowstick wars is kind of ridiculous? I mean, it was awesome when these things were spontaneously happening at Phish shows back in the late 90s...the one at the Went was awesome. But now it's just commonplace, like "oh, yup, here come the glowsticks, blah blah blah". Sometimes things are more fun when they are spontaneous.
Nope, at least I don't think it is ridiculous. Yes, some things are fun when they are spontaneous. But I could see thousands of glowsricks fly in the air to some incredible music a thousand times and it would never get old.
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
~ Thomas Merton ~
Post by Homer J. Fong on Mar 2, 2007 12:00:47 GMT -5
iridethecannibus said:
^^well put. Plus, is it ever really totally spontaneous? someone had to bring/buy all those tons of glowsticks.
Actually, the first time it started happening, it really was spontaneous. There wasn't a group of people, each with a thousand glow sticks/glow rings. It pretty much began with one person throwing it across the arena in the dark, followed by someone else repsonding, everyone else realizing how cool it looked, and anyone anywhere started throwing it. It wasn't like 500 being tossed up from the same spot like you see now, where people try to make it happen. It just happened, and that was what made it cool.
If you didnt witness it you probably cant understand.
Just like all the other concert things throught time. Just like crowd crawling, or moshing, or anything else.
Like I said a band like tha Flaming Lips will absolutely love it. Thats their thing, heavy visuals and all. But Sound Tribe hates them.
Its kind of a no brainer really. You have 100 bands. 1 of them doesnt want you to bring them or do it. Is it that important to yall to throw glowsticks at every single concert?
Maybe I'll throw myself to the dogs, but my back's not to the wall Maybe I'll lay some bricks for the man, but the days just aren't that long So if I settle back and chill will I see far enough to feel the angel's dream? I thought it was the Story of the World!
If everybody here doesn't bring a single glowstick thats not gonna save the show. Thousands of other people are going to be throwing them even if you don't. He's not going to be the sole reason a glowstick war breaks out.
At every single show there is going to be at least one "that guy" who will throw them on stage.
"It just happened, and that was what made it cool."
See, I think this is what gets more people going than anything else around here. That is just an opinion. I have never seen anything beside a "pre-planned" glow stick bonanza. I think it is pretty cool to see the box of a thousand explode into the sky then randomly tossed in the air. I think it is pretty cool random or not, and there must be quite a few that agree or you would not see it anymore. If your bored with it because it is "planned" don't pick any up and participate.
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
~ Thomas Merton ~
Post by Homer J. Fong on Mar 2, 2007 13:12:38 GMT -5
knoxville said:
and there must be quite a few that agree or you would not see it anymore.
Well, yeah. Of course lots of people like to see it. But that doesn't mean anything. That's like saying "lots of people like Nickelback, so that makes it ok", when we all know it's a crime against humanity.
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
~ Thomas Merton ~
