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I'm no mod but I do know a few of the interactions. There is Matt's tree, which likely also lead to Bonnaroo removing the link to Inforoo from their website.
What's the story here? Just curious; I didn't know that Inforoo was ever officially affiliated with Bonnaroo.
A long term member who was a friend to many of us died in 2010. AC allotted some space for a memorial tree, and then Sanuk named a shoe after him so we all still wear that shoe. Past that AC has taken a pretty active interest in the board, at one point we were listed as the "official bonnaroo chat forum" or something on the main website. Also I believe the Capp dog himself has shown up to a event or two.
I never knew who Gary was but DJJD was Todd Steed and he certainly came to brunch with us.
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I handle logistics for a chemical company. I don't want to be bothered with people asking me if the weather is good enough to go outside without umbrella. Nothing wrong for me to answer it, but it is not my job. I want to concentrate on the things my company pays me to do. But if I get 100 questions like that every day my job won't be fun/easy anymore and my boss won't like it if my other work isn't being done anymore.
Get it?
Worst analogy ever? Not sure, but possibly.
An agent is DIRECTLY involved in booking his band. Therefore, asking an agent a question about his bands booking is in his job description. He can choose to answer these questions by fans, or he can decline, but is it is not unrelated to his job.
This is a terrible analogy.
All this is about is AC/SF is upset that we are finding out a lot of information before we are suppose too. Its not like anybody is stalking the agents are calling them, all anybody has did (as far as I know) is send emails. They don't want answer it then they can simply delete it. If they want to be nice but don't want to give up any info all they have to say is "We are not for sure at this point."
Out of the 15 or so we have in the "Confirmed, Quasi-Confirmed, Open for interpretation" I think like 4 has came from facebook and twitter. I wonder how many tweets and facebook post from people that have accounts on here have send. It rarely does any good. At least the lineup comes out in about a month.
We may have already lost Insider. And how did Matt's tree get us taken off Bonnaroo's website? I'm honestly lost on that one.
I saw no harm in asking agents for details. It was up to them to decide to tell us or not. But lines were crossed. People got pissed. We were asked to stop. Hell fire and brimstone was next. So we have asked that it be limited to personal contact with the acts. And honestly, that is the only confirmations we can trust at this point.
Edit. My Matt tree question has been answered. I can't keep up with you quackers on my iPad.
What's this relationship you speak of? I've been coming to this board since 2008, and haven't seen Bonnaroo do anything for the board, lol.
Did I miss news of a ticket giveaway or something? (seriously, did I?)
If you mean having their PR team ("Gary") come on here to give hints about clues, you are foolish to think that is them doing us a favour. It is them doing an excellent job of driving the marketing train.
Not trying to sound like an ass, but honestly, would could Bonnaroo do that would effect the board negatively? I really want to know, as I cannot think of anything.
I'm no mod but I do know a few of the interactions. There is Matt's tree, which likely also lead to Bonnaroo removing the link to Inforoo from their website.
A couple of the bigwigs from ACE went to the Moogfest brunch and teased some stuff and blow up Phi's ego to where he now thinks he is the second coming of insider.
There are various people who have inside connections and sometimes are able to get info, which is rarely made public.
Bonnaroo throws the mods a couple press passes
So basically there is no relationship, other than the mods getting some free passes.
That explains (and rightfully so) why the mods don't want to piss off ACE.
We haven't really had a year where agents respond and "troll" us and tell us to stop bugging them.
In all fairness.. That happened to me last year with Windish.. and I did tell you a few pages back that that had happened and recommended nobody bug them.. I am pretty sure that they probably got so fed up that they told AC/Superfly and this is a chickens coming home to roost situation.
We haven't really had a year where agents respond and "troll" us and tell us to stop bugging them.
In all fairness.. That happened to me last year with Windish.. and I did tell you a few pages back that that had happened and recommended nobody bug them.. I am pretty sure that they probably got so fed up that they told AC/Superfly and this is a chickens coming home to roost situation.
Wow I completely forgot about DJJD, he was a great guy. I used to PM with him frequently and basically SP/ACE got pissed at him for giving us too much. That year the clues got insanely hard was the year that DJJD wasn't really writing the clues anymore and SP/ACE took over. He never was a full time employee for them, he just did the RadioRoo thing on the side of his management and music careers
I'm no mod but I do know a few of the interactions. There is Matt's tree, which likely also lead to Bonnaroo removing the link to Inforoo from their website.
A couple of the bigwigs from ACE went to the Moogfest brunch and teased some stuff and blow up Phi's ego to where he now thinks he is the second coming of insider.
There are various people who have inside connections and sometimes are able to get info, which is rarely made public.
Bonnaroo throws the mods a couple press passes
So basically there is no relationship, other than the mods getting some free passes.
That explains (and rightfully so) why the mods don't want to piss off ACE.
Yeah I don't really think it works that way, and to openly have an antagonistic relationship with the powers that be at Bonnaroo seems like a bad idea anyway you look at it.
Wow I completely forgot about DJJD, he was a great guy. I used to PM with him frequently and basically SP/ACE got pissed at him for giving us too much. That year the clues got insanely hard was the year that DJJD wasn't really writing the clues anymore and SP/ACE took over. He never was a full time employee for them, he just did the RadioRoo thing on the side of his management and music careers
Ha, he was the reason why I first checked out twitter.
Wow I completely forgot about DJJD, he was a great guy. I used to PM with him frequently and basically SP/ACE got pissed at him for giving us too much. That year the clues got insanely hard was the year that DJJD wasn't really writing the clues anymore and SP/ACE took over. He never was a full time employee for them, he just did the RadioRoo thing on the side of his management and music careers
Yeah he is a nice guy, he went to high school with my mom, just for small world purposes. I mean he was the first one to tell me about 2009 Phish at the 2008 brunch, or at least he hinted very strongly it was going down.
I know I was just pointed out the various ways inforoo and SP/ACE have interacted.
Was more in response to Onion saying that the only thing we get is press passes from Bonnaroo. Wanted to clarify that it's not something unique to us.
I realized what you meant.
That only further signifies there is no relationship with the Official folks.
I was just curious why the board feels they need to tip-toe around certain issues at the fear of some sort of wrath from SP/ACE. I'm just curious as to what everyone thinks they will do. Cancel Christmas, err, I mean Roo?
If inforoo mods are going to bonnaroo as press/media, why don't we get any media? Take some pictures, write an article, justify your free ticket extra access. This site needs content anyway
If inforoo mods are going to bonnaroo as press/media, why don't we get any media? Take some pictures, write an article, justify your free ticket. This site needs content anyway
Every mod I have ever seen with a press pass has a private site and religiously does the artist interviews and then writes about it. Also a lot of the time the interviews get posted on here but it is the off season and nobody reads them.
Every mod I have ever seen with a press pass has a private site and religiously does the artist interviews and then writes about it. Also a lot of the time the interviews get posted on here but it is the off season and nobody reads them.
Really, I don't think so? I believe inforoo got two press passes this year and ITM and Gibran got them. ITM has Frankie's Gun but I don't believe any Roo stuff was posted on there.
What's this relationship you speak of? I've been coming to this board since 2008, and haven't seen Bonnaroo do anything for the board, lol.
Did I miss news of a ticket giveaway or something? (seriously, did I?)
If you mean having their PR team ("Gary") come on here to give hints about clues, you are foolish to think that is them doing us a favour. It is them doing an excellent job of driving the marketing train.
Not trying to sound like an ass, but honestly, would could Bonnaroo do that would effect the board negatively? I really want to know, as I cannot think of anything.
A couple of the bigwigs from ACE went to the Moogfest brunch and teased some stuff and blow up Phi's ego to where he now thinks he is the second coming of insider.
Every mod I have ever seen with a press pass has a private site and religiously does the artist interviews and then writes about it. Also a lot of the time the interviews get posted on here but it is the off season and nobody reads them.
Really, I don't think so? I believe inforoo got two press passes this year and ITM and Gibran got them. ITM has Frankie's Gun but I don't believe any Roo stuff was posted on there.
We got press passes for Inforoo only. I'm pretty sure that everyone picking up a press pass was also getting a wristband to enter the festival (as someone disputed). Maybe there are different types of press passes but I remember thinking that it wasn't anything special that Inforoo was getting entry to the fest and others weren't.
Every mod I have ever seen with a press pass has a private site and religiously does the artist interviews and then writes about it. Also a lot of the time the interviews get posted on here but it is the off season and nobody reads them.
Really, I don't think so? I believe inforoo got two press passes this year and ITM and Gibran got them. ITM has Frankie's Gun but I don't believe any Roo stuff was posted on there.
ITM and I rode in and camped together, and I promise you he did interviews all weekend. I have no idea about Gibran, but I only saw him for two seconds the whole time.
Getting a press pass isn't hard at all... My friend Reuben runs a blog and has gotten a press pass every year for the last 4 years. He interviews the smaller solar stage bands in the early afternoon then just does his thing with the rest of us.
Really, I don't think so? I believe inforoo got two press passes this year and ITM and Gibran got them. ITM has Frankie's Gun but I don't believe any Roo stuff was posted on there.
ITM and I rode in and camped together, and I promise you he did interviews all weekend. I have no idea about Gibran, but I only saw him for two seconds the whole time.
No I know I was just saying that neither of them had to do with private sites