Chewie Posted June 24, 2002 Report Share Posted June 24, 2002 or was it just an all star jam? anybody know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottieking Posted June 25, 2002 Report Share Posted June 25, 2002 yeah, anybody know? anybody there? No news anywhere!?!?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kung Posted June 25, 2002 Report Share Posted June 25, 2002 AAAAAaahhhh this lurking is killing me. What did they close out Bonnaroo with. I'm dying here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treyter Posted June 25, 2002 Report Share Posted June 25, 2002 i heard there was an allstar after phil, then trey closed out the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h Posted June 25, 2002 Report Share Posted June 25, 2002 yay, kungs back ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 26, 2002 Report Share Posted June 26, 2002 First set was nearly 2 hours. Set I: Push On Til the Day, Money Love and Change, Cayman Review, Mozambique, Sand> Drifting, Last Tube Set II: Night Speaks To A Woman, At the Gazebo, Mister Completely Encore: Wilson1 , Bathtub Gin1 , Alive Again 1 w/Trey on acoustic guitar Setlist Source: Phantasy Tour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backbacon Posted June 26, 2002 Report Share Posted June 26, 2002 Just got this form the Kimock list. Rather long review. ------------ hi there! just got back from a long trip to bonnaroo.....i thought all in all things went pretty well out there considering the amount of people and the swealtering heat. if your're not intrested delete now.... well, it was a ten hour drive for us and we arrived in manchester at around 6:30 a.m. thursday morning. it was a complete madhouse. if there was an empty space anywhere it was filled. the gates weren't open yet and there were only about 2 state troopers in the whole area. we got a call from our friends working the gate about 7:00 saying they were opening the gates. we got our car in the front of the line and headed to the site. still, no cops anywhere. then things just started gettting pretty crazy. everyone was just rushing madly down a pretty much one lane road to the site and finally (who thought anyone would say that!) and thankfully 3 more troopers showed up to start directing traffic. we managed to get in and to our campsite in about 15 minutes. that was the end of the law enforcement precense too. there weren't any cops inside the venue that i saw thank goodness. after that it was a complete traffic jam. traffic was backed up for about 30-45 miles on both lanes of the interstate until about friday evening i think. people waited anywhere from 6-12 hours to get in. cars were overheating everywhere and running out of gas, truckers were freaking out completely. apparently they had only opened one of the entrances in and we heard there were 3. people were paying locals to let them through on their adjoining lands and back roads. we ended up with a great camping spot with some shade and away from all the main campgrounds. nobody came around the area unless they were camped there so the port-a-potties stayed a little nicer (if that's what you want to call it) than the rest. it was HOT as HELL out there though. oh, and dustier than the dust bowl. there was no music that day and it quickly became all about just surviving the heat (i'm serious!). we had been up for almost 2 days straight so this was no easy task. finally the sun went down and we got some rest. well, friday was a scorcher as well. by this time the campgrounds were almost completely full and there were jsut massive amounts of people everywhere. i was actually so tired and sunburned from the previous day i only ended up checking out soulive and gov't mule. they were both good and dj logic sat in with gov't mule which was kind of intresting. there jsut wasn't much i wanted to see bad enought ot stand in the hot sun for hours on end yet. i decided to just rest up and slept thru panic and then went to the late nite tent to see keller williams with string cheese incident. the tent was almost completely full 3 hours before the show. here's where i think they made one major mistake. i really think they should have held these late night shows at the big stages. it was so unbelievably crowded and dusty under these tents that held like 3000 and there were atleast 3-5 times as many people outside the tents. they had karl denson over in the other tent and i think he was pretty crowded too. of course just about all 80,000 people wanted to go to the late nite shows but they jsut couldn't be accomodated. they had speakers outside the tent but i don't think you could really hear much. fortunately since we got there early we got a pretty close spot. however, there was absolutely no moving from there until you were ready to just go back to camp. you couldn't move. it was my first time to see keller williams and i thought he was great. the first set was going rather nicely and was really starting to come together well until they decided to take a set break an hour and 15 mintes into the set. big bummer! they were gone for what seemed like forever and when they did come back string cheese seemed to bring down the whole show. they just could not seem to bring back any momentum to the show whatsoever in my opinion. they went offstage for awhile and keller did his thing which is actually very, very good. i enjoyed him much more solo than with sci. he was laying down vocal, bass and guitar tracks and then playing more guitar over them and more vocals. it sounded good. but, then sci came back on and started dragging things down again. i finally left around 3:30 and karl denson was raging. he had some serious energy flowing in the other tent. the guy plays so many different styles of music! i headed back to my tent and could here the show crystal clear....... saturday.......let me say, there was NO sleeping in at bonnaroo. the sun was up and it was like 90 degrees EARLY. so, we jsut kinda got up and wandered into some shade with a blanket and tried to cat nap as long as possible. let me also say that coming across drugs was easier than finding water (which was readily available). just about every thing the webiste said not to do was going on.....i started out by seeing the del mc coury band. they are so good! they said it was about the biggest show they've ever played and they were absolutely loving it. the crowd was really into it too. it was a nice change of pace from some other bands that were there. after that i checked out colonel bruce for awhile. that guy has still got it going on! he was really enjoying the massive crowd too. then i saw a very promising band, particle. i REALLY like them alot. they have some really good guitar and bass work going on. they have a huge sound. they reminded me a bit of netwerk electric if any of you have seen them. i hope to see them again soon. they were about one of my favorite bands i saw there. then i checked out the disco biscuits too. they were pretty good but one of the speakers blew and it was pretty annoying. lots of people cleared out after that becuase the static and hum was terrible. i decided to nap during the first set of panic again but got up to go check out the second set. first off, the fact that this band headlined the festival for two nights was amazing to me. i did not enjoy them at all. i thought they would have sounded better in a garage somewhere or in a smoky hole-in-the-wall. excuse me panic fans i don't mean to offend......but how did this band get so popular? i left after a few songs and headed over to wait for moe's late nite show. moe. is just unbelievable!! those guys are so full of raw energy and just ready to ROCK! they had robert randolph (whew!) sit in with them for 20 or 30 minutes and they were doing some amazing guitar stuff. he had his pedal steel going places it may not have seen before. it was music to my ears. it was some of the best music i've ever heard and it just got better from there. after that it was mucical chairs....they had guys from the disco biscuits, michael kang and the drummer from sci, guys they never introduced and i couldn't recognize.....it was mad! they rocked on until about 5:30 a.m. it was by far the best show i saw at bonnaroo. by far......i also checked out galactic on a couple of bathroom breaks and they were raging! they had robert randolph setting in with them too and were just going off. sunday.....this was probably the biggest day of music for me. first i checked out robert randolph (didn't he dominate this list for awhile?). talk about someone who comes to put on a show! he is all over the stage and has really high energy. i was so surpised at how young he was. and he can PLAY! the man has real talent and can make the pedal steel SING. also, has a bass player that sings higher than a woman! i thought it was some soul sister at first but it was this guy and he was going off. i really enjoyed this very high energy show and hope i'll get to check him out again soon. i headed over to the main stage to see ween and managed to score a great spot on the rail where i stayed for the next 10 hours.....ween was good, they are crazy. quite the performers. their lyrics are funny especially if you have a pretty warped sense of humor. after that phil and friends played. i was very happy with my front row spot and was able to get some great shots of phil and bob together. they really seemed to be having a fantastic time playing together and after about 2 songs bob looked at phil and said "this is fun"! i kinda misssed warren's presence a bit though as he adds a bit of the hard rockin' element to it. but, i thought it was a good show and it was obvious the band was really, really enjoying playing to a crowd of that maganatude. then it was another dj set before trey came on. let me say to dj z-trip: mixing tool in between sets of phil and trey probably not the best idea. people were practicly cringing....then trey came on and he came to play! he's really got his big band in tip top shape. he directs his horn section like an orchesta. talk about someone having fun! i haven't seen trey that into it and that energetic in years. he was grinning ear to ear and was all over the stage. it was really sad that everyone around me was yelling "bring out phish"! can folks not move on? i mean he was playing some great licks and was obviously so damn happy you would think folks could just respond to that, but hey are stuck in the past i guess. i thought he put on a great show and i enjoyed it alot more that his tour last year. he came out for an encore by himself and played acoustic wilson (to which he changes some of the words to trey is wilson to show he still has his sense of humour)and then he played bathtub gin. after that he brought the whole band out and played one more tune and that was it for bonnaroo..... monday.....we packed it up and got in line to leave at 8:30 a.m. we moved about a half a mile in 7 hours. finally they opened up another gate (why the hell they waited so long is crazy) and we were out of there around 4:00 p.m. all in all it was alot of fun, everyone was on great behaviour considering the amount of drug ingestion, the crazy heat, and the even crazier traffic jams. i think the poduction company did well and bonnaroo part two looks promising. i might suggest alaska as a nice location for next year. god, anywhere cooler would be nice! sorry i never met up with any of you over the weekend! the heat really made you get your priorities straight....sorry for such a long review! have a good one!!! stacie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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