Bonnaroo the name

[smokinup917]

Hi all. I was just curious about where the name bonnaroo came from and what it means? if any one knows please post it.

[guitarhaze]

hey... good question.... i haven't really thought about that except when i first heard it, what the hell does it mean? whatever it is, it's fun to say ;D

[Lilia]

I heard that it's a creole expression for "a good time."

[PhinePhineMusic]

I believe it's a combination:

Creole for "good times", and one of the DVDs explains that Dr. John's horn section was for many years called the Bonnaroo Horns...they're both given as "official" explanations on the DVD.

[ka mai]

I picked up a vinyl copy of the Dr. John album "Destively Bonnaroo" just for the cover art/Bonnaroo connection. It turned out to be an amazing album! Dr. John backed by the Meters. The Superjam last year was amazing with Dr. John, Mike et al. If I remember correctly, I think there is a track called Destively Bonnaroo on the album and I was really waiting for them to play it. Although I didn't catch the whole set, they didn 't play it while I was there, but I'm surprised that this isn't a popular Bonnaroo cover.

[Lilia]

Well as along as we're talking about weird words... Destively??

[Lo]

I was wondering the same thing. I looked up destively and destive on dictionary.com and I don't think it's a word. Perhaps Faletti meant to spell another word?

[ka mai]

I had to go check the album cover to be sure but it is in fact called Destively Bonnaroo. I guess when the album was released nobody knew what Bonnaroo meant either!

Check out the album cover here, it's pretty slick:

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[Lilia]

Not Destively---Des i tively.

desitive

\Des"i*tive\, a. Final; serving to complete; conclusive. [Obs.] ``Desitive propositions.'' --I. Watts.


Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.


desitive

\Des"i*tive\, n. (Logic) A proposition relating to or expressing an end or conclusion. [Obs.] --I. Watts.

[Hootdaddy]

I bought a copy of the album on ebay a month ago; still in the shrink wrap. I don't have a turntable anymore, but I'm looking forward to hearing the record eventually.

Bonnaroo comes from the whole New Orleans thing...I don't know if the proper description is to say it's Cajun or Creole or what...and desitively is really not a derivative of desitive, I don't think. It's just a word play on "definitely/positively," or put another way, absolutely. So "Desitively Bonnaroo" is just another way of saying "completely off the hook."

By the way, the Bonnaroo sticker I made for the first year simply said: "desitively bonnaroo," in lower case black font on white vinyl. Nobody had a freaking clue...