On we go: IST & Hospitals

Final thoughts and great memories

Wow, what an amazing long weekend. I slept till 4:30 this afternoon. No lie. Now it all seems like a wacky dream. That's the magic of Boonaroo; you can feel like your in a musical other world for four days once a year. Of course, it may take a year for me to recover :-)

Wilco's show was terrific. Jeff Tweedy and Co. sounded sharp and they really seemed to be enjoying their musical chemistry. They focused on songs from their latest CD, Sky Blue Sky, but they also gave fine preformances of some of the group's past work. I really liked their Bonnaroo version of Handshake Drugs from A Ghost is Born.

Bonnaroo is a work in progress, and I thought the event to be very well organized and run. The staff at Music Allies, Inc. imporved the Media Compound's layout greatly and bent over backwards to help out all the DJs and press members that swarmed in and out of the area.

As for camping at Bonnaroo, that's always difficult, but a ton of fun if you can handle the close quarters and the heat. I froze several 2 liter bottles of water way before hand, and this turned out to be a great idea. My 2 coolers stayed cold and iced for 3 of the 4 days, and on Sunday I not only had icy cold water to drink, I used some of the water to pour over my head when the sun & dust got to be too much.

Yeah, I'll be ready to do it again next year. Wonder who will headline?

Back safe and wiped out!

I'm home. Yee dog! What an experience. It's 2:00 am and I really need a long shower and 8 hours of uninterrupted by bands playing until 6:30 am sleep, but I'll wrap up my thoughts on Bonnaroo 2007 tomorrow...er, later today.

Peace and love,
Marion

I have become Pigpen

Just saw Bob Weir and and Rat Dog. It's as close as I'll ever come to witnessing the DEAD, so I had to check it out. But the dust is unreal, and even die-hard fans were trying anything to find shelter from the Sun's powerful rays.

This will probably be my last post from Bonnaroo proper, but you never know. Wilco and the White Stripes are must sees, then I'll head back home with lots more photos and pictures of this amazing weekend of fun, sun, so much dust that I kick up a cloud like Pigpen from Charlie Brown when I walk by - but most of all, good times and GREAT MUSIC!!

And I didn't even have to flash my...

Back from my mid-afternoon wanderings and I just wandered by one of my favorite comedians and host of Comedy Central's Insomniac, Dave Attell. Wow, I got my picture taken with him and I didn't even have to flash my ta-tas! If you've watched his show, that seems to happen to him all the time.

I really didn't talk about The Flaming Lips in my last post. I couldn't hang with them to the bitter end, but I caught about half of thier show and it was fun. Lots of crowd interaction, including the fact that some people were given little lazers to point at the stage during their act. Also, large red and blue round ballon like things were wafting above the crowd. And the light show ROCKED!

I began this morning doing a little Bonnaroo shopping. Once I was out of cash, I watched The Slip put on a show at one of the smaller stages here at Bonnaroo. I like the way The Slip's Bard Barr made his acoustic guitar sound like a roaring Fender Strat one moment, and like a regular acoustic the next.

Then I was off to catch Mavis Staples. No way I was missing her, and I shot a video that I'm currently uploading for you; I'll add it in later when it's ready.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=marionpeabody

She was in fine voice, and really got the crowd (a nice mix of old and young) into her show. She seemed a bit tired to me when she was done; she left it all out for her fans. Mavis had everybody shouting "I'll Take You There" at full volume. He band was very tight, esp. her guitarist.

I also saw the last few songs of the John Butler Trio's set. That guy can can play a sweet guitar.

I hear Wolfmother starting up in the backgroud, so that's my cue to sign off for now!

Day four and there's so much more

That's me and Leo writer (and WFPK listener!) Mary Burton.

I am in such a good mood today, even though it is insanely hot outside. I was talking to a security guard this morning and we both agreed; we could stay here forever 'cause it's so amazing, but if we gotta walk/stand on these gravel roads one more day we'll just die.

God bless Sting for wearing a sleaveless shirt last night; so 1983. I put mine on this morning in his honor. God bless Stewart Copeland for looking like he should be my kid brother, even though he was "Born in the Fifties. And God bless Andy Summers for playing so well. God Bless The Police for taking me and 70,000 of their closest friends back to one of the best things growing up in the early eighties had to offer.

Got to run; want to catch The Slip in a few. Wilco later, and of course, the White Stripes.

Ben Harper and Ben & Jerry's - Sweet!

So I got distracted at the WHICH Stage by Franz Ferdinand. It's called Bonnaroo ADD; you plan on going to one show, but you end up watching another since it's so good. But I forced myself to see Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals. I was not disappointed. Soon after I started getting into their groove, Ben brought out John Paul Jones. I'm talking THE JOHN PAUL JONES as in LED ZEP. Oh My God! And they palyed a wickedly good version of Dazed and Confused. I actually started to cry when this was over. Maybe it was the dust. Maybe not. Then, I had some Cookies and Cream; Ben & Ben together. I'm speachless.