Bonnaroo

I was going to go but I just sold my ticket a few days ago in order to go to a few biscuit shows and Camp Bisco V!! But then again I'm kicking myself for missing: Damian Marley, Phil Lesh and Friends, Oysterhead, Cypress Hill, Common, Blackalicious, Biscuits late-night, etc. But whatever you cant do every show and if I'm going to miss anything this summer its gunna be 'roo over lets say Waka!!

 

you can go for free if you volunteer to clean up the 2 fowling days.

 

that woulod be a good deal if there werent what...100,000 people going? well at least you would have that $400 to buy an ounce of some KILLER bud for it. but im thinkin of going to some smaller fest's that are a whole lot cheaper.

 

I was gonna go to Bonnaroo but changed my mind cuz I heard some bad things from friends that went. Instead I'm going to ACL festival, and the High Sierra.

 

it's funny how woodstock is still being romanticised. i know a few people that were there, and all they have to say is that it was too fucking muddy and there wasnt enough food and water around. they invited the world and it came, way more than they planned for, and it didnt go well from what i've heard and read. one of my teachers was there, and she's got woodstock live on vinyl and aside from jimi's revolutionary set, and santana and arlo guthrie, it's not even that great to listen to. i don't think the dead even appears on it, some licensing issue where rock scully didn't want to sign the right to use their image. he had good reason to, the wrong people were making money of that, people that used the image of haight-ashbury, and exploited the "california dreamin" shit.

people are always trying to make money of festivals. i don't have much to say about bonnaroo, i've never been, and i'm pretty sure the rumor about mtv buying the rights is crap. but the lineup does include a lot of bands that i wouldnt have expected to see in 03.

 

Woodstock was hell. The water supply was dosed with acid and people were sick as hell from dehydration because of it. No drinkable water in that hellish heat. Obviously not too many people on this board talked to people who actually attended it because if they did they wouldnt have such an idealized outlook on that festival. Either way I end up hitting so many clear channel venues when I tour that theres no way to advoid the mainstream music scene in its entirety however I dont feel the necessity of going to a corporate festival when I can just go to a smaller, homegrown fest. MTV exploits music and the prices of that festival (I'm not talking about just your ticket) are out the roof already. I can only imagine what they'd be like if MTV took it over.