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"isn't Galactic like a shitty jam/funk band?"

that's kinda selling them short. i generally don't categorize them as a jam band, but i guess i can see where people would think that. they're also like acid jazz/fusion/a little bit of electronic here and there. they're big in the new orleans scene and have done a lot of stuff with hip hop artists. the cool thing about their shows is you never know who's gonna show up and do a song or two with them, or who they brought along for their show. bonnaroo wouldn't keep bringing them back year after year if they were just a shitty jam/funk band.

plus this is pretty much the best video ever



[Edited on June 4, 2010 at 8:00 PM. Reason : video]

6/4/2010 7:55:34 PM

I don't get it, at all.

That video.

6/5/2010 1:55:03 AM

haha there's really nothing to get. it's just ridiculous.

6/5/2010 9:59:22 AM

6/5/2010 11:01:20 AM

i wonder if the bonnaroo logo on the arch and the what stage will be different since they changed it this year? i hope not. i like the old logo better.

6/6/2010 9:00:00 PM

2 days till we leave!

6/7/2010 1:08:13 PM

so. fucking. pumped.

6/7/2010 2:24:06 PM

eh, i dunno - the closer it gets to time to leave the more i'm almost dreading going

6/7/2010 3:45:12 PM

^ haha why?

6/7/2010 4:21:11 PM

cuz it's going to be 100 degrees +?

6/8/2010 9:13:27 AM

if by 100 degrees plus you mean highs in the high 80s-low 90s with 30-40% chance of scattered thunderstorms every day, then yes.

6/8/2010 9:54:27 AM

ooh, that actually sounds nice. I was preparing for the worst.

6/8/2010 10:20:56 AM

it'll probably feel hotter than that out there, but i think the weekend overall was hotter 2 years ago when i went.

6/8/2010 10:25:33 AM

as long as its not dusty i could care less what the weather is

6/8/2010 11:50:56 AM

leaving in five hours or so ahhh.

hope my lens comes.

6/9/2010 4:08:47 AM

The XX was beautiful and great.

Edward Sharpe etc. were really fun.

Dr. Dog's the shit.

Steve Martin is the man.

The Gossip was pretty cool.

She & Him were cute, I guess.

TENACIOUS D

6/11/2010 10:55:38 PM

the question is:

DID YOU SEE COCO???

6/12/2010 4:14:25 AM

I saw him introduce Tenacious D and The Dead Weather.

The comedy tent line is super long always, eff that noise.

6/12/2010 9:30:03 PM

I was leaving the deadmau5 photo pit and someone gave me the wolf hand after seeing my hat. WHODUNIT?

6/13/2010 4:53:08 AM

anyone see me try to jump over that mud puddle heading towards the which stage area after jay-z and slip and fall flat on my back in front of hundreds of people?

6/14/2010 12:40:05 PM

^ maybe, i watched like 20 people do it that night,

and kings of leon put on one of the better shows ive seen, awesome pixies cover

and disco biscuits jesus christ

6/14/2010 1:24:28 PM

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"HOT AS FUCK"

6/14/2010 8:07:25 PM

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"^ maybe, i watched like 20 people do it that night, "

i was the only one who attempted it at the time, and i was wearing that "beat carolina" shirt from the USC football game last year, so idk if that helps or not.

6/14/2010 9:17:05 PM

^^^ that sunrise set they did was fuckin ridiculous. first time i have seen them

6/14/2010 10:33:52 PM

my friend found a pretty significant amount of molly in a bag on the ground when we sat down to watch disco biscuits for a little bit. someone at that festival must've been pissed when they realized they lost it.

6/14/2010 11:05:42 PM

missed disco biscuits

6/14/2010 11:23:12 PM

saw GWAR on saturday just long enough to get sprayed all over by blood and then see michael jackson fucking a space baby

6/14/2010 11:26:05 PM

i wrapped my camera in a poncho and shot them from the photo pit for 2 songs. got bloody as hell, camera survived.

when they stabbed the guy and blood sprayed from tubes going through his chest he legitimately aimed at me for 3 solid seconds.

6/14/2010 11:39:21 PM

^ haha. one guy said at the last show he went to some girl got sprayed a lot and took her top off so the guy spraying blood turned and aimed directly at her for a couple seconds

the best shows i saw were probably:

the entrance band
dr. dog
tenacious d
the black keys
the dead weather
jay-z (dude earned a TON of cool points for that show)
ween

i also really enjoyed what i saw of:

jeff beck
les claypool
galactic
lcd soundsystem (although galactic had a much better light show imo)
deadmau5
GWAR
damian marley and nas

6/15/2010 12:31:58 AM

stevie wonder may have been one of the best shows this year

6/15/2010 9:44:50 PM

^ Stevie killed it.

I wasn't let down by the John Fogerty show, but I have been hyped up about it for months.

I went in knowing nothing about the Damian Marley and Nas combo, at least as far as hearing any of the tunes before the show, but I was impressed.

I don't even really like Jay-Z that much, but that show was the tits.

Saw a lot of cool bands I wasn't familiar with, lots of shit to check out in the next few days.

6/15/2010 9:48:42 PM

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"^ Stevie killed it."

i stayed for the first 30 minutes of his show and then went back to our camp at tent only because we were so far back at his show and could still hear it really well at our tent. i was surprised at how good he sounded. definitely a great show from what i heard.

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"I wasn't let down by the John Fogerty show, but I have been hyped up about it for months."

3 of my friends went, but i opted out and decided to save a spot for them for ween. they were all pretty disappointed by it and left early.

NPR is streaming a bunch of soundboard quality shows recorded over the weekend. i didn't see very many of these, but i might check out some of the ones i missed later this week.

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

6/15/2010 10:05:22 PM

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"my friend found a pretty significant amount of molly in a bag on the ground when we sat down to watch disco biscuits"

perfect

6/15/2010 10:09:50 PM

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"3 of my friends went, but i opted out and decided to save a spot for them for ween. they were all pretty disappointed by it and left early."

I thought it was pretty good, but I'm a huge CCR fan and my parents were too and never saw him live.

I left Fogerty and saw the last hour of Ween, we went around to the right side of the stage and were only like 3 rows back, that side was pretty empty.

6/15/2010 10:19:29 PM

There were a TON of people selling Molly there. That and the purple Decepticons seemed to be the official psychedelic drugs of Bonnaroo 2010. I had a blast even though it was super hot. The Flaming Lips and LCD Soundsystem were definitely the highlights for me. That LCD crowd was easily the best crowd I've ever been a part of, and I've been to a decent amount of shows in my time. I was really, really glad the Lips played an hour-and-fifteen-minute set of their material first, that was perfect because I didn't care to see them cover DSOTM and high-tailed it over to the end of Bassnectar to get a good spot for LCD. We ended up front and center, I was about 10-20 feet from James Murphy. Other bands I was impressed with: Dr. Dog, Phoenix, the National, The Dead Weather, Jay-Z was cool for the vibe, Local Natives had a surprising amount of energy, Miike Snow and Neon Indian put on fantastic shows, shocked how many people were at Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, that was not bad, crowd at Deadmau5 ruled, Aziz Ansari did all new material and it was some of the funniest shit I've ever heard. Didn't enjoy as much: The Dodos and Here We Go Magic are good bands who aren't right for Bonnaroo, couldn't get into Ween even though all my friends loved it/them, Conan O' Brien was cool to be at but wasn't that funny really and was kinda awkward at times, we heard Michael Franti from our campsite and he sounded fucking awful, just kept saying the same shit over and over, only caught a few songs from the Kings of Leon and it seemed fun but corny, Caleb Followill's between-songs banter was really cheesy. Also, heard Wale was a huuuuuuuge douchebag. Missed GWAR, but heard that was pretty badass.

6/15/2010 11:48:19 PM

^ On the drug note, had at least 5 people stop by our RV selling chocolate shrooms. Was right up on the stage for Phoenix and it was a good show, although the beach balls and balloons got rediculous about 2 or 3 songs in. Saw Miike Snow Thursday and he was very good. We couldn't even get in to see Aziz or Conan due to the long ass lines trying to get into the theater on the early shows. I didn't even try on the late Aziz shows because there were bands playing I wanted to see. Franti wasn't that bad, but I wasn't really into his set we left about halfway through. KOL was pretty good I thought, and they did a pretty solid cover of the Pixies.

6/15/2010 11:55:09 PM

^^Ha, I probably unknowingly saw you from the LCD Soundsystem photo pit. although the photo pit for that show was super jam packed.

^come now, Miike Snow is a band, not a he.

AND THEY'RE SWEDISH, COME ON SWEDEN



Oh, and this was the first year I was not offered drugs even once.

I was surprised at how good phoenix was.

[Edited on June 16, 2010 at 12:09 AM. Reason : .]

6/16/2010 12:07:31 AM

i probably saw you assholes on the webcast



btw, if in the future and any of you guys break a leg and cant go, the webcasts are pretty tits

6/16/2010 12:09:46 AM

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"purple Decepticons"

hahahaha what the fuck is that? we had some girl come by our camp friday selling blow and moon rocks, which is apparently crystalized MDMA. you learn something new about drugs every time you go to bonnaroo. she also said she heard some rumor that FLips had canceled and roger waters was gonna do the wall instead

and my friend figured the bag of molly he found was worth probably $150-200. like i said, someone must have been pissed. haha and one guy in my group passed out early thursday night and woke up at 4am and did molly and raged at the silent disco til like 6 or something.

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"couldn't get into Ween even though all my friends loved it/them"

weird because one of my friends who was with me kind of likes ween but isn't a huge fan, and he was really impressed by their show. i've seen them 3 times now (more than any other band ), and that setlist was extremely solid. ween is definitely a unique band that you have to approach differently than any other group, but they're so fucking talented, and whenever they record a song and go after a particular genre of music, they do it extremely well. and gene was on point with all of his banter too

"a lot of bonnaroo this weekend. stevie wonder......ween"

i don't like it when he makes his voice all weird when he sings though, because the guy really does have a very good voice and should just save the bizarre shit for the vocal effects on their albums. dean whipped ass on guitar, as usual.

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"Caleb Followill's between-songs banter was really cheesy."

one of my friends who has seen KOL multiple times commented when caleb followill was introducing "trani" and said they don't play it that much that he has seen them play it at every show he's been to.

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"KOL was pretty good I thought, and they did a pretty solid cover of the Pixies."

heard that from my camp. i liked it too.



[Edited on June 16, 2010 at 12:20 AM. Reason : .]

6/16/2010 12:16:11 AM

I'll give KOL the cover of "Where Is My Mind." That was definitely pretty badass.

The purple decepticons were rolls that were going around shaped like the Transformers logo. A couple of my buddies ate them right before the Lips took the stage and loved them. Heard several other people raving about them throughout the weekend, too.

As far as Ween, like I said, everyone around me was into it and my buddies who've seen tem multiple times loved it, I just never got it with them. Their lyrics annoy the shit out of me (although I guess that's maybe kinda the point).

6/16/2010 5:05:07 PM

Here are some photos I took. Please excuse the horrid spelling errors made by my editor.

http://larecord.com/photos/2010/06/14/bonnaroo-2010-day-1/
http://larecord.com/photos/2010/06/15/bonnaroo-2010-day-2/
http://larecord.com/photos/2010/06/16/bonnaroo-2010-day-3/

6/16/2010 5:13:26 PM

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"Their lyrics annoy the shit out of me"

haha yeah. a lot of it's kind of tongue in cheek or just weird for the sake of being weird. those guys have done a ton of drugs over the years. they do have some legitimately good songs too though. you just kind of have to wade through the stupid shit to get to them. i thought their cover of "let's dance" was pretty good too.

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"Here are some photos I took. Please excuse the horrid spelling errors made by my editor."

some of these are pretty awesome. how'd you get access to the photo pit?

[Edited on June 16, 2010 at 5:36 PM. Reason : .]

6/16/2010 5:31:01 PM

photo pass, freelancing for some magazine.

Here's the shirt i wore at gwar:

6/16/2010 8:10:28 PM

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"N.C. man dies of heat-related illness at Bonnaroo News Alerts to your Email & Cell Phone Breaking News 7am Headlines Noon Headlines 4pm Headlines Video Alerts MANCHESTER, TENN. — Heat is being blamed for the death of a Wilmington man at the Bonnaroo music festival in Manchester, Tenn. David Matthew Sloan, 29, died after collapsing at a medical tent Sunday. Officials said his body temperature was 108 degrees. More details haven't been released. "

RIP
Hopefully he got to hear his fave band play live

6/17/2010 11:50:01 AM

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"btw, if in the future and any of you guys break a leg and cant go, the webcasts are pretty tits are offered drugs at bonnaroo, bring some back for me and i'll buy them"

6/17/2010 12:50:40 PM

^^ saw that the other day. i'm pretty sure he died early sunday morning, i.e. at night time when it was really nice and comfortable outside. dude was probably rolling or something. your core temperature just doesn't get that high otherwise.

6/17/2010 1:09:32 PM

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"Sloan was a member/manager of the Sloan River Project band and attended Bonnaroo every year. He was also a cookie baker and spent time living at home in Wilmington with his parents and in New Orleans"

wat

6/17/2010 1:17:49 PM

here's the shirt i was wearing at gwar. sweat kind of made the colors run. i wish it would've just all been red blood instead of that green shit too.





[Edited on June 17, 2010 at 1:32 PM. Reason : .]

6/17/2010 1:23:47 PM

^Shit, dude, were you wearing the Beat Carolina shirt at Ween on Sunday? If so, I'm 95% sure I saw you there. Were you right beside the soundboard area? I definitely remember seeing someone wearing a faux-bloody "Beat Carolina" shirt at Ween. I probably walked right by you when I went to get water. Weird. Also,

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"i'm pretty sure he died early sunday morning, i.e. at night time when it was really nice and comfortable outside. dude was probably rolling or something. your core temperature just doesn't get that high otherwise."

Dying of dehydration at Bonnaroo at night, when it's reasonably cool? Dude was definitely rolling. And LOL that he was a cookie baker that still lived with his parents and had a shitty band. Not to make light of his death, though, that definitely sucks. RIP.

On a side note, I heard from several people at the LCD show that Wayne Coyne and Aziz Ansari were chilling in the side-stage area. That's pretty badass.

[Edited on June 17, 2010 at 1:59 PM. Reason : .]

6/17/2010 1:56:57 PM

Quote :

"^Shit, dude, were you wearing the Beat Carolina shirt at Ween on Sunday? If so, I'm 95% sure I saw you there. Were you right beside the soundboard area? I definitely remember seeing someone wearing a faux-bloody "Beat Carolina" shirt at Ween. I probably walked right by you when I went to get water. Weird. Also,"

yep. that was me. i was directly to the right of the soundboard leaning against the rail. i had a blue and red bandana tied like a headband too.

6/17/2010 2:28:47 PM