anyone up in this piece go to bonnaroo?

And nothing else?

Oh yeah, courtesy Idolator, help this guy.

Well, I'm going to rock. But the only thing I'm excited to see is Ornette's show.

i just saw john digweed eating a chicken salad in the artists hospitality area.

did you yell, "hope you get salmonella, fucko" ?

haha, no i ignored him.

sasha nowhere in sight.

just saw david cross at the batting cages and he was like "yeah, im heading to see this new band called the police...they're kinda funky"

shook d.a. pennebaker's hand. he seemed annoyed.

oic. yr all at the "ilx festival"

Actually we're all involved in polls.

shook d.a. pennebaker's hand. he seemed annoyed.

was he working or just rocking out? My boy J's fiancee used to work for him as an associate producer and editor.

also, did you happen to catch Charlie Louvin? he played an outdoor gig here recently and was on fire. you know, for a really old dude.

did not see charlie, wonder if he has played yet. i just watched uncle earl and they were great! they can all do everything. play everything, and yodel, and buck dance. they rule.

d.a. was showing monterey pop and talking about it, in a rumpled linen suit. asked "which of you films would you most want to stand for you?" he said "blow em all up."

haha awesome. We stayed at his daughter's house last weekend in LI for the bachelor party. My friend & his betrothed really want to do a doc about him. Dude has met EVERYONE and has roffle-licious stories about each.

dude, met john paul jones.

tom morello, lol.

aesop rock and el-p are actually currently jonesing for use of this mac. INDIE RAP IS WAVE OF THE 90S LOZERS

lily allen in drunk as a skunk shocker

roxy plzzzzz keep this thread going because i'm going to need it this weekend.

well today's update is that hot chip in a complete non-shocker are hogging EVERY FREE IPOD.

there was a sign up sheet for them and you had to write what band you were in beside your name and it was like
HOT CHIP
HOT CHIP
HOT CHIP
HOT CHIP
HOT CHIP
HOT CHIP
HOT CHIP

as if they need a fucking ipod, let alone all of the ipods. So they had me sign up anyway and were like "we'll email one to you." ?????

also,
?uestlove whining and having a baby fit over the free beer selection (puhLEEZE)
john paul jones scoring free $250 sunglasses
lewis black NEVER LEAVES THE ARTISTS HOSPITALITY BAR
david cross hanging out with the black keys drummer, apparently bffs
el-p hugs each sound man and crew member after a performance, very cute
aes-rizzle is actually extremely hot in pers, and like 9 feet tall (and hangs out at the Garnier Fructis stand?!?!)
dj shadow is mysterious! he disappears and then suddenly appears onstage! maybe it's just that no one knows what he actually looks like
tortoise are OLD. nonshocker. they have the guy from 90 Day Men playing with them now. i recognized him from this, and asked "where you in 90 day men?" and all the torti loled.
asked ziggy marley where he got his cigarettes and his entourage gasped

t00l were RIDICULOUS (in the best poss way), Maynard G. Krebs just made hippie jabs between every song, and bragged about being able to use soap in his air conditioned trailer. everyone cheered anyway, 90,000 people. why do hippies like t00l? it's such sinister sounding stuff. my friend chris says they just call that kind of thing "deep" or "heavy", and like to prove that they "can get into 'deep' stuff too."

and to my left i believe some "string cheese incidents" are playing guitar hero against each other ("cherry pie")

Many of my co-workers (<I>Relix</I> magazine staffers) are at that godforsaken thing. Feel free to pelt them with garbage.

i've seen them!!! they're in a plebian area

the two most humiliating moments so far, aside from the hot chip ipod embargo, were definitely my nothing band being forced to do a "signing" at a table directly next to tom fucking morello, who had a giant snaking line going throughout the entirety of bonnaroo. of course we had ONE DUDE (far more embarassing than zero dudes) covered in tenderhooks paraphernalia and getting autographs on it. everyone in line acted like he was completely insane (he probably is). Then the Newbury Comics staff actually had to kick us out to make way for Brazilian Girls.

The other embarassing thing is this: my friend (who is also in a nothing band) was like "hey, they're giving out free tents to artists! go get one!" so i walk over there and ask for a tent and they also have these really nice bags. i ask for just the bag and the girl is like "oh, someone from your band already claimed yours actually." untrue, she just didn't want to give one to such a non-fame. and then she was all "YOU CAN HAVE A FREE SPIN MAGAZINE THOUGH." humiliating

did i mention we have to camp next to Wolfmother? talk about pricks. we basically have a feud going at this point. the guy with ridiculous pants and hair (is that all/both of them?) makes fun of constantly, because we think we are a band, and he is also in a band and wears long pants, or something. he's retarded, and i hate him.

dave attell hittin up the free ice cream area a little much
spoon doing some kind of impromptu jam in the mess hall

Roxy if you don't make an article or book or something out of all this you are no longer my friend.

feist is cool, hangs out with plebes in plebe-ish areas (granted these are VIPlebes, though). she is wearing a giant white trucker hat and drinking a bud.

holy fucking shit jim jarmusch is here. he is floating around artist's hospitality, being impeccably cool, making kings of leon look like steve urquell.

urkel?

the dad from the same show, actually

jim jarmusch ate a brown cow from the ice cream van and then stood at the portapotties for half an hour

...looking cool

looking like a frosty delight!

last night my friend and i told john paul jones that he should stick to the mandolin and maybe he can make something of himself. he was visibly annoyed. my chum accused him of writing stairway, to which he denied responsibility. i complimented him on black dog, which he apparently did write, but his P.A. said "well, that wasn't very good either."

LOL

OH!

and JPJ was also complaining to his manager guy that he did not want to go see the police or even put in an appearance there, while the manager tried to coax him there.

also, lol @ pete yorn standing around artists hospitality hoping anyone recognizes him, ever.

you could see sting's DENTAL WORK frm the giant monitors on teh stage last night.

sasha and digweed played until 6 in the bloody morningand the crowd was such that they would scream when sasha lit a damned cigarette

Did he ever wind up producing any good records? (JPJ)

JPJ was also complaining to his manager guy that he did not want to go see the police or even put in an appearance there

Hero and god. (He was to have produced the Church's Gold Afternoon Fix, which would have been the greatest album ever or close to it.)

Pete Yorn. Truly the Steve Forbert of our age.

au contraire, i think this makes pete yorn the art alexakis of our age.

but roxy recognized him.

This is the greatest thread ever. NEED MORE. Plz, roxy!

yeah hey em did Ween play yet?

Ornette collapsed onstage mid-song, and no one knows yet if he is alright.

The idiotic members of the audience (most) clapped as he was carried offstage (as if something triumphant were happening). It was an affecting effective end of everything. The whole festival felt slammed shut for everyone sentient that was there.

Found this through google news:

Jazz legend Ornette Coleman suffered a medical emergency during his performance on the last night of Bonnaroo in the 'Something Else' Jazz Tent. Midway through a song, the innovative alto saxophonist collapsed on stage. According to his publicist, the incident is believed to be caused by heat exhaustion. Following the collapse, Coleman was alert alert and speaking, telling folks backstage that he wasn't suffering any symptoms prior to his performance. However, Coleman has been taken to a local hospital in Tennessee's Coffee County for further treatment.

Hopefully it's just as they say and he'll be ok.

Man, if there's anywhere I'd like to recover, it's Coffee County

i just got back. i saw roxy's band, they were good! (roxy's good on the vox and on the bass too.) i have no exciting backstage stories, since our backstage experience was confined to the guest areas. but as for the rest, it was mostly lots of fun except for seeing ornette collapse. he was playing a good strong set and a good number of the crowd seemed to be hanging in with him, like they got what he was doing, but then suddenly it was just...over. i'm really glad he's ok, but at the time it was really alarming. walking out of that tent through the dust clouds down to the big field where white stripes were playing felt sort of apocalyptic. of course after 4 days in the sun like that it's easy to feel apocalyptic.

what i could tell from the chatter, the big crowd-pleasers were rodrigo y gabriela, manu chao and tool. (why do hippies like tool? because of the lasers! awesome lasers.) the police sounded good, there was just the problem of having to look at the giant sting head on the jumbotron. his fundamental cheeseballness overwhelms even his best songs if you have to actually watch him sing them. lily allen was way better live than i expected, had a good tight band. the hold steady got people to pump fists at all the fist-pumping places in their big brucey songs. girl talk's set was great. (he was on before sasha/digweed; when he finished i went to bed.) the jazz tent was a nice touch, the cabaret tent too. i mean, it is what it is, a giant commercial enterprise and all, but there was a lot of good stuff.

You should have said hi!

Yeah, I heard a lot of good about Manu Chao, too.

I agree with you about Ornette's collapse. It did feel somehow apocalyptic. You couldn't (or at least I couldn't) help but feel "I'm possibly witnessing something very imporant", and then feel a slight guilt about that thought because there is a man on stage that is still possibly not okay.

Marc Ribot maintained a turtle face throughout the Ornette situation.

The collapse definitely ruined my date with Jarmusch.

this is all grebt obviously, but -

WHAT ABOUT SMOKIN DAVE??

they were transcendent!

and Ween?

i saw smokin dave twice, they were great (the second time by accident, and it was so hot at first i thought i was hallucinating them). i also ran into todd a couple times just wandering the grounds, he was having a good time. pretty much every time i turned a corner i ran into somebody or other from knoxville.

ween sounded pretty good from the distance i heard them at. the big ween fan at our campsite said it was one of the best of the many ween shows he's seen.

Roxy, if you don't mind me asking, what band are you in?

stephan urquell was the cool alter ego of steve urkel retard. so what you said makes no sense.

also nice shot at karl winslow. real tough target there.

tape store reread the post about autographs she said what band she in

they're also here, and are very good. i had lots of recommendations from knoxville friends to go see them, glad i did.

Ahhhh...I didn't realize that was her band! That's awesome. I've heard mp3s before...they're great!

Thanks brosephs!

Also, my friend "deeznuts"...I corrected myself immediately! And I'm not sure that comparing Karl Winslow to Kings of Leon is that much of a "cheap shot"!

Revive!

So, I'm heading to this thing this year. Anyone else?

For right now, I'm most excited about seeing the Bluegrass Allstars - Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Edgar Myer, Bryan Sutton and Luke Bulla. But I'm still working through the artist list.

I can't believe anyone would want to go to Bonnaroo with the lineup this year. I can't believe anyone would want to go to Bonnaroo any year. But ESPECIALLY this year.

I am mostly going for a chance to hang out with a bunch of friends from back east, and am somewhat disappointed by the lineup as a whole, but there are some promising entries.

Also - I like watching hippie chicks do the spinnies. Awesome.

didn't get to go this year, and my pals that played had 0 stories except "lol at metallica"

not that that's a story

REVIVE!!!!!

Anyone else going?

The Full Lineup.

I am pretty damn stoked, especially for The Tony Rice Unit, Del McCoury Band, and The David Grisman Quintet to get my acoustic jones fixed.

Also - Bruce, Snoop, wilco, Erykah Badu, and some group called Phish.

I will be dancing all weekend.

anyone know anything about any of these new addition little bands just announced?

American Princes
Belleville Outfit
Ben Solee
Black Lillies
BrakesBrakesBrakes
Cotton Jones
Dan Dyer
Dear and the Headlights
Dirty Guv'nahs
Dirty Sweet
Erin McCarley
Evan Watson
Everest
Fiction Family
Jedd Hughes
Jerry Hannan
Jessica Lea Mayfield
Jets Overhead
Joe Pug
Julia Nunes
Justin Townes Earle
Ki: Theory
Kuroma
Madi Diaz
Moonalice
Mt St Helens Vietnam Band
MyNameIsJohnMichael
Nikhil Korula Band
Outernational
Protomen
Phoenix
Roger Alan Wade
Russian Circles
Sons of Bill
Tangiers Blues Band
The Features
The Giraffes
The Heavy Pets
Those Darlins
Tobacco
Turbine
Vertigo
William Elliot Whitmore
Zee Avi

I know Tobacco and William Elliot Whitmore are awesome. Russian Circles is pretty aiiight too. Phoenix is overrated as all fuckin get out. Anyone have anything nice to say about these bands?

anyone in this piece go to bonnaroo?

anyone in this piece listening to the on demand shows?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127088792

Margaret Cho + GWAR: http://twitpic.com/1wf4ys

gwar apparently led an onstage call-and-response chant that went "Margaret Cho/Is a Ho." i didn't see it because i was busy sleeping that night. i can do a couple late nights in a row, which i did thursday and friday, but by the third one it just gets impossible. i stayed up for jay-z, but that was as far as i could make it.

StanM: thanking u for that link, good sir

So this could either be good or a total mess.

We’re ecstatic to announce a historic night of hip-hop, funk and R&B with a brand new SuperJam featuring Wu-Tang Clan founder and musical visionary The RZA who will perform along with Schoolboy Q, Earl Sweatshirt and Solange backed by funk supergroup Lettuce featuring DJ Jazzy Jeff and Chad Hugo of the Neptunes.

The other superjam sounds like a good time -- Jim James, John Oates, Zigaboo Modeliste, Larry Graham, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Cyro Baptista.

anyone up in this piece go to bonnaroo?

Exactly one of these bands went somewhere after playing Bonnaroo 2009...

Yeah, Those Darlins went right in my regular listening rotation.

I like Those Darlins.

Bon Sollee, Black Lillies and Justin Townes Earle have all done pretty well for themselves. I stumbled across Elizabeth Cook on one of those little showcase stages a few years ago, that was cool.