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So it turns out between buying a new car last year and the insane amounts of traveling I've done this year - I've blown through much of my savings account. I'm down to an uncomfortably low number, and the next few months aren't looking pretty either. I'm not broke, but will be close soon. Plus I need to save up for a new mattress set, plus Moog in October. And that's just short term planning, never mind adult realities.
Had a rather unpleasant discussion today with my girlfriend about all that, and not feeling too happy about having to make this decision: but I am gonna fly home after Forecastle rather than stay south and go to MikeD's Pool Party. I'm bummed on being able to miss the party, but I save about 1000 bucks doing it - and that will cover most of the cost of going to Moog. So in the long run, that makes the most sense - esp. since I see most y'all at Forecastle anyway.
I also have one extra ticket for the sold out Gaslight Anthem show at Mercy Lounge on July 18th. Mike, if you like the Gaslight Anthem - let that be my present for you. If no, then I'll sell it to whoever here for 25 bucks (what I paid for it.)
It's probably a wise idea to NOT go to Roo next year, just to save up more money. Bummer, but again - shit happens. Make my schedule for 2013 Mountain Jam, Newport Folk, and Moog. May and June are the busiest months at my work, so with the extra overtime and not bailing out on a week for Roo - I could be able to swing Pool Party 2013 as a next best thing for skipping Roo. It'd certainly be a lot cheaper for a weekend getaway.
So: come join me for LD's Birthday Bash on Sat. July 14th in Louisville KY. My Morning Jacket will headline at 9:30
I think we need a separate thread. Something Like "The This Is quacking Depressing Thread" (believe me I could contribute to that) separate from the GRRRRRRRRR Thread. There should be a difference between and . That being said everyone who's shared a personal tragedy in this thread I have nothing but a helpless feeling of "I pray things get better for you" you have all the empathy and compassion that I can give to you in your circumstances. I can't tell you they will, but I really do pray things get better for you.
I'm going to biznatch about my first world problems for a moment now.
I played a show tonight. I'm the drummer.
Dear Sound Guy,
The thing about playing drums is that they take a few, not many, but a few, less than 10, more like 7 or 8, minutes to set up. A drum kit is not like a guitar rig where you haul it on stage and plug in some chords between the head and the speaker cabinet. For every drum on my current 5 piece configuration (standard configuration for a 5 piece) there is a stand it's attached to. Same with the cymbals.
The thing about those stands and drums/cymbals attached to them is that they all fit into a configuration that the drummer is used to playing in order to pull off their bands songs. PLEASE DON'T START MICING MY shiz UNTIL I'M FINISHED SETTING IT UP.
Thanks!
Tonight the sound guy as soon as I put a drum on a stand would attach a mic to it. Totally oblivious to the rest of the kit's setup. For quacks sake he actually asked me to sound check the bass drum while I was still positioning the cymbals where they wouldn't feel weird as shiz to play on. Because I rushed everything we started the show with all my drums way closer and compact than I'm used to. This affected the performance, at least in my mind. And that sucks because playing a great sounding live show is what I live for.
I'm not a diva, I'm not Les Claypoo'ls character in Electric Apricot, but I like things to FEEL right. If anyone saw us for the first time tonight they would probably think it was a good show, but if they had seen us before they would have probably noticed the drummer seemed off.
Sound guys please, please mic the drummer after they finish setting up the kit.
Having gone to school for audio production, and living near Atlanta, I'd like to know where this place was... I ran live sound at a club for 2 years, and the sound guy should be more patient with everyone. He probably just wanted to get you guys started so he could go troll for some poon by the bar. Also, next time you play near/in ATL, if you'd like me to stop by and be "Your" sound guy, just let me know. I'll do it for a beer or two...
I don't wanna single this dude out. I met him pre-show and he was pretty cool but he was new. The girl who ran sound there before him skipped out for better opportunities less than 2 months ago. We were 2nd slot for a band who was having their album release party so us sounding shitty was probably a good thing for them . BUT if you can run sound Id be happy to have you give it a shot! You ran a wonderful octopus beer bong thing with like 6 arms at camp inforoo this year! It's not so much different!
I'm kinda drunk so if that last paragraph doesn't make much since...well I forgot what I was saying!!!
More like the pains of having a heart... It sucks when love is either unrequited or unaccepted. Patience and time are the keys to surviving both. It's enduring the interim that hurts so damn much.
~All the accumulated knowledge, experience, and suffering of mankind is inside you. You must build a huge bonfire within you. Then you will become an individual. There is no other way.
~~~U.G. Krishnamurti
"I don't know whose water this is, but I'm drinkin it so F you."~~~Dale
"He is a wook in sheep's clothing."~~~Popsicle Sarah
"You know the feeling when you're in too deep, and when you make it out, the taste - so sweet." ~~DMB
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Post by billypilgrim on Jul 4, 2012 13:30:37 GMT -5
This morning we had to put down our beloved pooch, Luna.
She was 14 and had a great life. But she's had some health problems recently (Cushing's disease and arthritis) and, Friday night, got the sh!t kicked out of her by a deer that came into our yard. She'd been in the hospital since and her kidneys were shutting down. So we said our goodbyes and stayed with her at the end. RIP Luna.
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.” ~Milan Kundera
Luna will always be on that hillside with you, only now in spirit. Sending you thoughts of love & comfort as you mourn the passing of your beautiful companion.
~All the accumulated knowledge, experience, and suffering of mankind is inside you. You must build a huge bonfire within you. Then you will become an individual. There is no other way.
~~~U.G. Krishnamurti
"I don't know whose water this is, but I'm drinkin it so F you."~~~Dale
"He is a wook in sheep's clothing."~~~Popsicle Sarah
"You know the feeling when you're in too deep, and when you make it out, the taste - so sweet." ~~DMB
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
I wish I could have one fukcing day where I feel like I've done something right. It seems for the past three weeks, I feel like all I have done is mess crap up, at work and in my personal life.
Post by LoveLuckLaughter on Jul 5, 2012 18:00:10 GMT -5
Hugs Julie.
I was just thinking to myself, most days I feel like I have been superimposed into the wrong life. And then every once in a while, I feel like I get to live in the life that was actually taylored for me. I wonder if other people feel that way too.
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
I was just thinking to myself, most days I feel like I have been superimposed into the wrong life. And then every once in a while, I feel like I get to live in the life that was actually taylored for me. I wonder if other people feel that way too.
To you too. And yes I feel that way. So often I feel like I'm outside of myself, looking at someone I don't know. (how cliche is that?!)