Bonnaroo

[altoecko]

I went.

www.bonnaroo.com

[Kire]

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how much did it cost you?

[Red Dragon]

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From looking at that website....


8 Magical Mushrooms.

[Chad]

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Don't worry, there's a payment plan. I've always just though Bonnaroo was the biggest, overpriced crapstival. It was like $300 in 2005, I think. F that.

[IRC]

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But Metallica needs our monnies!

[DK]

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MANTALLICA all up in yo' ass.


Actually I'd have loved to seen that line up.

[altoecko]

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The entire trip cost me $290 that's the ticket($180), 4 days of music, meals all four days, a(singular) shower, gas for getting there, shrooms, weed, opium, acid+wine, drinks(non-alcoholic) intermittently, a cool ass poster signed by the original artist, a shirt, a sun hat, and TONS of little trinkets. Next year I'm going for free(not pay for ticket) by lobbying for an activist group I'm part of for one of the days. It was one of the best experiences of my life. Came back to find my computer was broken though, so I'll be gone for a while. Just found a lot of good music and got so many numbers of cool people it's ridiculous. I'd share who I went to go see, but most of you guys are pessimists and wouldn't care anyways. **** Metallica(just moshed a little and left, on too many happy drugs to appreciate it and not enough alcohol) and Kanye West(I left after waiting 30 minutes after the original show-time) though. Everything else I went to was great.

[Perversion]

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To age myself a bit, I remember paying no more than $35 a ticket (not including Ticketmaster service charges) for at least the first 2 (maybe 3) Lollapaloozas. I also got a free 2nd row pass for whichever one had the Pumpkins and Beastie Boys as headliners, even though I already had tix somewhere toward the back. If I remember correctly, I saw the first 3 of them, and never went after that. Lollapaloza is now in Grant Park here in Chicago every year (it does not travel anymore), but I still have no desire to go.

Also, I was under the impression that talking about drug use outside of the PG was a no-no...no offense, alto. I know Mora negged me and edited my post for doing so soon after I first got here.

Geez...was that REALLY 1991-1993?

[altoecko]

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Well, I'm sorry. But I DID do lot of drugs and the weekend would not have been as good without them. Bonnaroo cost so much because you're paying for a LOT of bands and a camping site with your ticket. If I had gone to see all the bands i saw hoping that $15 would be the price for each ticket(it wouldn't be at all) I'd have still paid upwards of $300. Bonnaroo is a great community experience and that's what I paid for.

[Magik]

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Hey, glad you had a good time, Alto.

I originally was going to go (this would have been my third year) but I couldn't fit it in to my calendar. Did you see !!!, Sigur Ros, or Animal Collective? Those are the three bands I would have been most stoked about. I heard My Morning Jacket played their best set ever according to my friend. Unfortunately, the headliners were the least spectacular artists there in my opinion.

I loved Bonnaroo the past two years, but not just because of the music, the atmosphere is really great if you know which networks to move within and if you have the right people with you. **** the heat, the fake cops, and the gypsy candy kids though. I'm not sure if I'll go to B-roo again, I'll probably hit up Voodoo or Langerado instead next year.

[Magik]

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Edit: Double post'd

[Perversion]

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If you get to Chi-town, there's always the Pitchfork music festival. And I would have LOVED to see Sigur Ros. I'm not sure if it's still going on, or if it's been commercialized, but alto, you might also want to poke around the internet and find some info on the Burning Man festival as well, as it would probably also fit the bill that you are describing.


And f***. Am I REALLY becoming the citizens' patrol?!?!? After looking at my posts for the past few days, it seems as if Owl may be right. Well, as long as it gives him another Perversion joke so he can lay off the usual ones, I'll keep my homemade badge shining bright.