almost Wrote:
I considered myself Bonnarooed-out after going to the first three, but damn if this isn't right down the street (well, not literally) and it's got fucking Radiohead. Not to mention that I could always use another good acid trip or two.
wanna ride? I just drove back and forth the whole time last year. I could care less about camping with a bunch of dirty hippies and trustafarians and bankers and lawyers on vaca.
DayStar Wrote:
it's hardly a 'hippie festival' anymore.
they did sell beer there. so, i'm not sure what the 'sale of alcoholic beverages' message is about unless they're trying to curb the 'lotrats' from making a buck in the lot.
and...as for the heat in tennessee. i HATE heat. but i didn't find it really that miserable. yes. it was damn hot. but it was bearable. just don't forget your sunscreen and keep yourself hydrated.
pack for EVERY kind of imaginable weather. the year i went....it was super dry. rained a bit on sunday. then cooled off big time and cleared up. turned kind of cold. last year, i think.....rained the whole time and was a big mud pit. some of the walkways were even kind of impassable.
Not a hippie fest? Um, yeah it is. I know hippies and faux-hippies and they are 85% of the crowd. I've been in 2003 and 2005, and the crowd was exactly the same.
They DEFINITELY sell beer there. That No-Alchohol thing is meant for the "lotrats". Oh, and it's rained during the ENTIRE fest the past 3 years. Do the promoters not look at a fucking Farmer's Almanac?
The line-up his great this year. I'm actually pumped about the chance to see Bill Frisell, even though it's over terrible festival PA. The sound at festivals is a reason not to even bother with them IMO.
