Awesome write-up Jaw. I kind of regret not making my fourth Roo-in-a-row. But my bank account doesn’t! Sounds like you did it up right and had a blast despite having a large crew, which can be difficult at times. Love the ear-cupping, the pic really sealed the deal.
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.
^damn man, you really didn’t see all that much. But you did catch some important stuff. Kind of like the first year i went, i didn’t see much at all due to not knowing what the hell i was doing.
I do remember all the Beatles fare in '05. I think i caught all those covers. And one of my neighbors this year pointed out all the Sabbath stuff so it was cool that other people picked up on it too. I only saw the Lips one i think but then again i can only think of a couple of Sabbath songs that i would actually recognize.
Yeah, I didn’t recognize the one Panic played. I don’t know much about Sabbath.
Holy Shit Jaw. My camp site is in your pics!!!
The pic with the girl standing on the FL van, ya the left side of the pic with the green sunshade and the orange tent… THAT’S MY TENT.
Look at my pics, there’s a view from the street.
are you fucking kidding me we parked right next to each other and didn’t know it??? You were part of that FL crew huh??
When is Phish coming back. I’m so tired of bland chicken!
^^That’s nuts!
damn man, are you for real?
are you the guy that asked me about Dante Culpepper because of my Dolphins hat?
And the world gets smaller and smaller…
So did the Lips soundcheck War Pigs and then Mule played it during their show?
I just looked at the picture, and if that tree on the right side of the picture is the tree I’m thinking of…we were very close to you as well! I was right beneath one of the power line poles.
Nice spot, brah!
^^Ooooh, you’re going to get the super cancer if you keep that up.
^^haha exactly.
the Bonnaroo workers were like “dude, we probably shouldn’t have these cars so close to the pole.”
other worker: “fuck it.”
::both laugh::
I laughed it off. As long as we didn’t fly a kite we’d be OK.
What is Bonnaroo without flying a kite?
get ready for a lame joke…
I was happy with remaining high as a kite myself for the whole weekend. Actual kites weren’t necessary.
^^^^^^^^ Yes Sir, twas me that asked about Daunte and the Dolphins. That’s so fucking weird, it just weirds me out.
Pretty freakin’ cool though we talked and didn’t realize it was each other.
Thank you mr. universe.
I played some Phil and Trey one late morning trying to get some conversations started cause I heard some one singing Free at your site.
^yes indeed!
only a few of us at my camp were Phishheads (myself, brother and brother’s girlfriend and the other guy). Twas for sure some of us. I remember hearing that one.
trippy.
^WOW!!! impromtu/unknown OKP meetup. nice work dudes.
hahaha!
I just remembered when Maynard from Tool was like,
“I bet you guys have been smokin’ marijuana, haven’t you?”
LOUD CHEERS
“Yeah, and I bet a lot of you have eaten LSD too, huh?”
cheers
“Well”
“You’re all under arrest.”
haha, i thought that was pretty funny.