Jaw, of course, I’m not gonna slam you as an ignorant prick, (even though you are bwahahahahahahahah) but I have to disagree with about half of the Tool review. I think they are very musical. Dark, yes, but still very talented. The whole thing about their silhouettes is unique too, and I really think it adds to their weirdness. I think one of my buddies (who is so obsessed with tool he goes on tour with them and can point out the same setlist that they are playing with another date they played) said that they used to not even let themselves be seen. Which, could be a little egotistical, but still weird.
The jumbotron thing, well, that goes with it. That’s just tool. The drummer, i think, makes those crazy ass little videos, and I would do the same thing if someone in my band made crazy shit like that. I really dug the alex gray (check him out if you don’t know who he is!) backdrop that would be a dark blue, until lights would hit it and it would shine all kinds of crazy 3D colors. I was just drunk, and I felt like I was tripping my nuts off. Seriously. I do agree that they would be better indoors.
I’m really glad you enjoyed Cheese so much. It was really nice to go from Tool to that. That was the most glowsticks I’ve ever seen. I wanted to see the other shows that night, but I just couldn’t leave.
I hate that I missed the jazz club. I tried but it was too hard to get in. Wilbur and Suzanne (some of my old bonnaroo buds, Will’s been at every B-Roo) went and told me about it, and me being so into jazz, it made me really interested, but I still didn’t get to go. I also didn’t get to ride the fucking ferris wheel. Some cute girl was asking randomly on Saturday for a date on the wheel, but I was just too fucking tired. I felt like an ass when I got back to camp, but whatever, I couldn’t walk anymore. Other bad things that happened- I gave my friend some acid that kinda hit him a little hard, so he left centeroo and went to shakedown. He saw a kid running around and around, and then noticed four dready kids following him. All of a sudden he ran behind the vendors and started yelling, “HELP!!” My friend then saw the dreadies take the dude into a car and beat the shit out of him, saying “don’t ever fucking call us liars!” Now this is the crazy part, my friend is a very small dude, and he was on strong acid (stuff I’ve been sitting on since New Years, because it was the best I’ve ever eaten) and he opened the fucking door and started throwing these dudes off of him. Geez, I couldn’t imagine… Also, our cooler got stolen, with all our water and whiskey. Bastards. My neighbors weren’t very cool, and didn’t keep watch very well. They were always real asshole-ish towards us. But it was kinda fun yelling about it all night and blaming random folks all in good fun. “hey, give me my fuckin’ cooler back, asshole!” “Where’s my cooler” “I’ll steal your fuckin’ cooler, man!” I mean, bad shit always happens, you gotta keep a cool head about it. I was also VERY disappointed with the arch this year. It was crappy!! It didn’t even light up until Saturday. That, and the little spinny thing (John Bonham’s symbol) on top was gone. The paintjob was horrible too. I think that’s all of the bad shit I can remember, besides the dust sickness, and me almost passing out two nights in a row. Everything else was gooooooooood.
HAHA, I enjoyed the ear-cupping story!
Mule with JPJ was something I would have regretted missing. John Paul Jones is one of my oldest idols, so it made my weekend complete. Closest thing to Zeppelin I have ever and will ever get. No Quarter bitches!
Ratdog was the shit! Boy, those guys sure can jam. I think they went back into the very end of Slipknot! right before the Tower, which I thought was damn clever to say the least.
Panic was the absolute shit! Jimmy Herring…damn.
I think the lineup this year was FAR better than '06. Actually, '06 had the weakest lineup that I’ve ever been to, besides all of the Phish related acts (GRAB, Oysterhead, and Ramble Dove). I was disappointed with none 'o dem phish boys being there this year, but I have a feeling were not gonna be in a phish drought for tooooo much longer…
Don’t worry about MTV, Brady, that will NEVER happen. That’s the worst rumour I’ve ever heard, yet it goes on every year. Ashley Capps owns the property now, there’s nothing to worry about (as if there ever was).
You know, I noticed in '04, my first year, along with my friend Wilbur, that every year has a certain theme. I dunno if the artists all get together and plan it or what, but it happens every year. Now without looking at setlists, I’m gonna try to remember some of the themes.
'04- Zeppelin Theme Mule-No Quarter and In My Time of Dying tease, Trey-Black Dog, (and more that I can’t think of…)
'05- Beatles Theme Yonder-Dear Prudence, Bob-Dear Prudence, Panic- Come Together, Mule- the paul mccartney song that goes something like “The way you love me all the time”, and of course Trey doing half of Abbey Road.
'06- I can’t remember the theme last year for the life of me, but I know there definitely was one.
'07- Black Sabbath Theme Mule- Sweet Leaf and War Pigs, Flaming Lips-War Pigs, Panic- Faeries Wear Boots, someone else covered Sabbath, too.
I think it’s very interesting.
Was it me or were there fewer people there this year. We were real close to Centeroo, and had PLENTY of room in our campground
Regrets about not seeing (due to exhaustion/heat [I was kind of a puss this year for once]):
Hot Tuna
Keller (really pissed about that!)
North Mississippi Allstars
Ornette Coleman (I heard he collapsed onstage)
Ravi Coltrane
Ziggy Marley
Stephon Harris
Old Crow
Railroad Earth (I had been up all night friday night due to acid, didn’t actually sleep until about 6 PM on Saturday, and was just too tired to go, unfortunately)
Shows I caught:
-Tea Leaf Green (about 30 minutes, their sound SUCKED! WAY too much bass. I guess that wasnt’ their fault though. I like TLG but that bass was tooooo loud!)
-Manu Chao (about half an hour, it was very sweet)
-Tool (about an hour, very sweet)
-String Cheese Incident (full four hours, favorite show, rocked my socks, got real spun)
-Flaming Lips (about 15 minutes)
-Gov’t Mule (all of first set besides first song or two)
-Ratdog (full show, spun in the sun, very hot)
-Widespread (full show, spun again, awesome time)
Damn, that was probably the least amount of shows I’ve ever caught at Bonnaroo, and I was really close. One year I was in the very back and caught 14 shows. Hmmm.
Nice review and pics, JB.
